... and i got 12 Euros from the referrals alone today =)

//Suvakov

When taking the family/group shots start with all the guest (big group) and work your way down to the bride and grum. Its much easier to get all the guest to gather around, than to shot smaller groups, one at the time with members missing high and low.

I�ll help you ...

1. Click the "Chat" icon - 4:th from the left / upper left corner.
2. Now press my name
3. Our private chat is opened...
4. Im waiting for you to guide you through..

//Suvakov

Good notice, sharpshot.
Let us see what we can do about it and why its arranged that way.

Thanks!

Suvakov

For any Scandinavians that find it tempting to buy a camera from US, be prepared to ad 25% VAT when trying to pick up your package - and thats up front or you wont see your camera at all.
Unpleasant surprise to say the least.

//Suvakov

By the end of of next week (at the latest). The new improved watermark is due to be implemented
togheter with the new server that is scheduled Thusday 10/30.

dbvirago:

No - the interrupt is not scheduled in any way.
I personally became aware of the problem the night between Sun and Mon (GMT) and i informed our admin. Since then we have installed monitoring software and contacted the server service administrators and they are looking into the problems right now.
Will post when we have solved the problem.

Thank you for bringing the problems to my attention

Suvakov

I don't have anything against kits, but from my experience anything less than 500W will only make you disappointed. My colleague insists that even 500W is to little effect. And seriously, think about the fire hazard - add some hundred bucks and buy quality - a fire would be a tragedy.

My 5 cents

We tried that in Beta mode - over eight months ago but it only resulted in that almost nobody voted at all - and the few that voted only commented "Nice", "Good" and "Wow" (Not very helpfull!) Todays system is much better in every way and will be even more effective as the site grows.

Hopfully members will pick up and comment more  - and it is important that photographers lead the way and not overreacting if voted low by a individual or two. If voted low by many - maby it is important to reevaluate the image and maby delete it too, if constantly accumulating low ratings over time?

MP TIP of TODAY!
By constantly monitoring your portfolio adding good and deleting bad images your
over all status will rise and resulting in a higher starting index in opposite to members
that refuse to accept low scores and the majority opinion.

Trying to "check out the system" by mixing good with bad images or withholding your best images and first submitting inferior images below your normal standard will regrettably lower your startindex and your overall MP index for your whole portfolio.

We are nice guys but we are not kidding - we are no less serious about our business then you pros are about your images. Don't waste time bobbing the system - we do not accept it.

And for the members that insist of uploading low quality material we just lower their start index to zero sinking them to the bottom of the bin. Once submerged they will have a hard time surfacing again.


Best regards

I do not believe you ;-) Tell me about your bad experience, please.

madelaide:

Did i ever tell you that you can "block" users that you find non serious from rating your images?
That is so you as a individual can neutralize offenders of the User Agreement if you encounter them before the admins do or before the system reacts.
Just because we are refereed as "the democratic site" it does not mean that we let terrorist run around and attack our "citizens". Like all democracies we have defensive weapons too  ;-)

Best regards

Ahh Boowww - i just caught a glimse of the new upcoming pagewiew and layout... I just cant wait to see it in action.
It will be released including smaller preview, more powerful watermarks, and a easy to understand rate bar.... (oh yes - the rating is still there) ED (editorial mark), easier and faster registration and some more things....

Flemish:
"Although there have been numerous attempts over the decades to show Viking presence in United States, such as fanciful translations of mysterious stone carvings, or supposed European traits in some Native-American tribes, there has been no evidence accepted by the professional archaeological community" from Wikipedia.
Amerigo luck was that he made sure to record the discovery and return home to tell about it ;-)
The indians where named "indians" by the explorers because they thought that they have found a new route to India, when later discovered they did not  - the name of the locals stayed "indians" like a sticky thread ;-)

Oh - I'm i off topic now? In that case forgive me.

Best regards

If searching a image with search words like "Sunrise, sundown, sky, cloud" hits will certainly get high artistic ratings. It is in the words nature and it is usually the image the buyer want when typing these kind of search words. However im not so sure when searching for example a "banana"  that artistic bananas will get higher ratings than a well lit, plain isolated banana?
We hope to insert a chapter about the importance of salesability over artistic content in our upcomming "Crash course for Stock photographers". If you check tru some images on MP you will certainly find comments like "Nice picture but not very comercial" showing that numerous members have a "sales over artistic" aligment already - but i agree that MP must be very clear on this , now and in the future.