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« on: November 03, 2019, 18:27 »
Thank you. After reading the various opinion I will try first with Depositphotos.
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« on: November 02, 2019, 15:17 »
Thank you for all of your answers. I think I will give a try for now to Depositphotos and Dreamstime. My only concern is about uploading process. Since I know very well that they could pay me at most a few beers, I would start to upload them only if the process is super fast (i.e. just upload them on their ftp).
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« on: November 02, 2019, 03:48 »
Hi all,
I'm in microstock from about three years. I do it just for fun and give me some side earnings. I upload only images from my travels.
At the moment I uploading to the 4 main agencies (Shutterstock, Adobe, Istock, Alamy) plus Eyeem. I'm considering to add another agency from the "low earners". I follow every month the very useful reports of Brasilnut and Steheap (congratulation for the work and insights to both of them!) and seems that Depositphots deliver some earning compared to other "low earners". Also, the minimum payout is $ 50, so maybe I can reach it in 1 year (I have ready to upload about 2.500 travel images already keyworded). I have considerd also 123RF and Dreamstime: 123RF has a super slow review process and from the reports seem to sell less than Deposit; Dreamstime seems similar to Deposit, but it has minimum payout of $ 100. So the choice could be between Deposit and Dreamstime: what do you think?
Thank you!
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« on: October 13, 2017, 00:54 »
Congratulation!  For sure the nice thing about images selled on RH is that you could found them on important journals, magazines, books ecc.
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« on: October 12, 2017, 01:11 »
you should know about September sales only "in the month following", that is November...
That's correct. Next month I should receive a sales report, considering that my total net earnings were above GBP 100 (which I assume they would be or I'll be depressed)
Good luck! But guess you might be depressed... I joined Robert Harding recently like you and got my first report after last quarter. Half of the sales were for less than 1GBP... Not even 1 big sale. But heard big sales take longer to report, so still have some faith  Oh sales report came by traditional post together with a check, need to contact them to change my payout method...
Well, sales for less than 1GBP are numbers of microstock. But at least in microstock you don't have to be exclusive. Also, if the minimum payout is GBP 100, could takes a very long way to reach it.
Anyway, it's strange because many pictures are selled on RH site in a price range for 70 to 590. Since the standard commission for contributors is 30%, you should at least earn 21. By maybe your sells are made by other agencies that marketed RH pictures (Alamy, Fotolia) and so there are other commissions...
I'm really looking to know about Brasilnut sales report... for sure I will not upload anything on RH to earn less than 1GBP!
Had 1 direct sale, rest was through distribution channels. Unfortunately some big distributors, like Getty, do whatever they want and can sell the same photo for a price starting from cents ending on hundreds/thousands... So far to be honest I do not see much difference in prices between premium agencies and microstock...
It could be useful if you can tell us some details about your sales: how many pictures you have on RH and how many sales. My point is to understand if it's really worth. Because, for example, if you have 150 pictures and 10 sales in a quarter (and many of them under 1GBP), well, I'm pretty sure that microstock is better. There isn't exclusivity and also payout threshold is easier to reach.
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« on: October 11, 2017, 14:25 »
you should know about September sales only "in the month following", that is November...
That's correct. Next month I should receive a sales report, considering that my total net earnings were above GBP 100 (which I assume they would be or I'll be depressed)
Good luck! But guess you might be depressed... I joined Robert Harding recently like you and got my first report after last quarter. Half of the sales were for less than 1GBP... Not even 1 big sale. But heard big sales take longer to report, so still have some faith Oh sales report came by traditional post together with a check, need to contact them to change my payout method...
Well, sales for less than 1GBP are numbers of microstock. But at least in microstock you don't have to be exclusive. Also, if the minimum payout is GBP 100, could takes a very long way to reach it. Anyway, it's strange because many pictures are selled on RH site in a price range for 70 to 590. Since the standard commission for contributors is 30%, you should at least earn 21. By maybe your sells are made by other agencies that marketed RH pictures (Alamy, Fotolia) and so there are other commissions... I'm really looking to know about Brasilnut sales report... for sure I will not upload anything on RH to earn less than 1GBP!
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« on: October 10, 2017, 16:36 »
You have reverse searched ALL you RH pictures with Google?
I have. Took me 1 hour only as I have 200 images on there compared to 4100 on SS.
I trust that RH's affiliates will report their earnings as they should. I have little to no control over those images, unfortunately. If I went direct to Getty to chase them they would be like "who the fk are you?"
Thank you... Let us know how will be sales reports in November, if it's all you expected or some "surprise"!
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« on: October 10, 2017, 16:19 »
you should know about September sales only "in the month following", that is November...
That's correct. Next month I should receive a sales report, considering that my total net earnings were above GBP 100 (which I assume they would be or I'll be depressed)
Yes, but you already know about the four sales in September... How is it possible, if you will receive sales report only in November? You have reverse searched ALL you RH pictures with Google? 
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« on: October 10, 2017, 16:03 »
In a previous post, you have mentioned about your pictures had 4 downloads so far "all in the past month". I assume that last month was September. You have quoted their image editor who says that "Sales reports are made quarterly, our periods are February-April, May-July, August-October and November-January and reports are sent out the month following". So how do you know about your September sales? If their report period is August-October, you should know about September sales only "in the month following", that is November... Or I miss something?
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« on: October 10, 2017, 14:43 »
Thank you Brasilnut!
I have another 2 questions about Robert Harding.
1) In contributor site, I don't see any statistics. How do you know when you sell a picture? They send you an email?
2) Than there is question about RF a RM. When i sent the first 10 pictures to Harding, I choose the option "Either RM or RF". The 10 pictures they have accepted, are all marked as RF. What you suggest for the next submissions? As I said, I'm new in stock photography, but I understand that RM is a "more powerful" license than RF. Also, I see that an agency like Getty Images sell Robert Harding pictures, but mostly RM pictures. So maybe RM pictures in Robert Harding could have more visibility than RF, because they are marketed also in other agencies. What do you think about it?
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« on: October 09, 2017, 14:24 »
For me, that i produce a little number of pictures and only few of them are good, microstock remains the best choice.
I understand what you're saying but to me it sounds illogical.
It's the classic delayed gratification. Would you prefer to receive $1 now or $3 in a year's time? The same works with the Midstocks.
If you have few premium images, no problem...I would save up the batch until you have at least 10 and submit them to RH. They'll probably reject 80% of them anyway and then you can submit them to micros. This way you'll slowly be building up a premium collection. At least in my case it's the best of my best images which I can be proud of. If a potential client wants to see my work I can either send them to my website or link them to my RH account. I'd never link them to my SS portfolio.
Trust me. They're tough. I sent them a batch of 20 a few months ago and all of them were rejected for "lack of commercial value". RH also HATE similars as they'll just take one image from a batch of let's say 10 similars. I'm fine with the rejections, SS will accept them no problem.
If I'll submit these 20-30 good pictures to RH (and "unfortunately" I have already submit 7 of them in the first submission, thinking that RH has so high standards...) I'm pretty sure that they will never sell.
What makes you so sure? I've learned never to second guess how buyers think. Some of my least favourite images have sold regularly and ones that I love have rarely sold. We're here to provide a service: variety and quality.
I think I'll give a try to RH and see what happen. The pictures they will accept will be few (anyway I still very surprised that they accept all the 10 pictures of 1st submission...) and I can always ask to cancel my account, they can't prevent me to do it. A very nice thing about RH is that you don't have to do the keyword process. In agencies like Alamy is exhausting and so I don't submit pictures to them. It's not very clear to me how they pay. On SS an AS payment process are very smooth with Paypal. In the FAQ they write about "sales payment cheques", but I don't understand exactly what it means.
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« on: October 09, 2017, 12:59 »
Would be a mistake imo to put images that would be accepted on RH in SS, but each to their own.
https://contributors.robertharding.com/
The problem is this: as you know, RH required exclusivity, so I can't put images on RH AND SS or others. I know it well before sending the first submission, but I was pretty sure that they don't accept me, and anyway I took for granted that I will easily delete pictures. I'm on microstock only from 10 months, I'm know that I'm an average photographer and I'm even surprised that I sell travel pictures more or less steadily on SS and AS. I don't have many "quality" pictures and I prefer to keep them for SS or AS, where they will earn little, but at least they sell sometimes. I understand that RH is a macrostock agency and as you know very well from your experience, sells are very rare. So I think that my picture on RH will never sell and paradoxically are "wasted" compared to microstock, where instead they can sell although earning little. Just to make and example: last August I travelled to Scotland and now I have about 300-350 pictures that I can submit to SS or AS. I think the good ones are maybe 20 or 30. Others are average, but I will submit them anyway, because I see that also average pictures sometimes sells on SS or AS. However, the pictures that will sell most will be those 20-30 good ones. If I'll submit these 20-30 good pictures to RH (and "unfortunately" I have already submit 7 of them in the first submission, thinking that RH has so high standards...) I'm pretty sure that they will never sell. In the end, I think that RH and other macrostock agencies are good for "professional" photographers, who produce many many pictures, and can differentiate top pictures for macrostock and good (or average) pictures for microstock. For me, that i produce a little number of pictures and only few of them are good, microstock remains the best choice. I don't know if what I say it make sense!
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« on: October 09, 2017, 08:09 »
Hi all,
as I wrote in another post, I have submit some of my pictures to Robert Harding.
I must admit it was just test: I have read that they are very selective, so I tried to see if they accept my pictures.
Surprisingly, they accept all the 10 pictures of the first submission, but for me it could be a "problem".
Reading around, I understand it could be very difficult to sell pictures on Robert Harding, so I prefer to continue with microstock (Shutterstock ecc.). Since Robert Harding required exclusivity, I need to delete these 10 picture submitted (and accepted), but it seems not possibile. Unlike Shutterstock or other microstock agencies, I didn't found a sort of "image manager", where I can for example delete pictures of modify title, keyword etc. There is a screen where I can see my submission and images accepted, but I can't edit them.
Could someone help me?
Thank you!
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« on: October 07, 2017, 14:59 »
Thank you! PhotoShelter explanations is exactly what I was looking for!
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« on: October 07, 2017, 12:47 »
Hi all, I would like to try to seeling picture on Robertharding. In the guidelines, they required "jpg format ... be a minimum of 50mb uncompressed". How can I save "jpg format uncompressed"? On Lightroom, it seems not possibile, on Photoshop I didn't found anything about "jpg uncompressed" in the settings, there is only jpg and other settings, but nothing about "uncompressed". And anyway, when I export on Lightroom or Photoshop, jpg files are much smaller than 50mb. They can be at most around 20-25. Original raw files are around 24mb (I have a Sony A7 II)? Someone can help me? Thank you
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