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Veer / Re: Veer Reseller API
« on: May 26, 2011, 01:59 »
The more partner agencys VEER works with, the more I want an opt-out-function as well!

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Somebody I know said they have made a couple thousand doing designs(illustrations) on snapfish, I haven't followed up on the details yet though.


That is something different. HP has a "publisher program" where designer can upload greeting cards and the like to use for customers:
http://support.snapfish.com/app/answers/detail/a_id/2076

There is no "entrance fee", the designer can set the prices themselves and the like.

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General - Stock Video / What fps sells best?
« on: May 10, 2011, 03:31 »
Hello,

usually I save my footage clips for agencies from my Canon 5D Mark II as

1920 x 1080 pixel (Full HD)
25fps
no sound
MotionJPEG B
.mov Container

Now I've read at some blogs that they recommend either PhotoJPG instead of Motion JPG for footage and another frame rate, usually 29,97fps.

So I am wondering:
What frame rate sells best? And why?

Thanks in advance,
Robert

254
Finally,

I whished long for this, now it happened:

Shutterstock implemented a function that shows the keywords that led to a download for each image.

You find the function in the new "Image Gallery Stats" in their "Shutterstock Darkroom".

I wrote a blog post about it in German:
http://www.alltageinesfotoproduzenten.de/2011/04/28/shutterstock-verraet-endlich-die-suchbegriffe-der-bildkaeufer/

Here is the automated english Google translation:
http://translate.google.com/translate?hl=de&sl=auto&tl=en&u=http://www.alltageinesfotoproduzenten.de/2011/04/28/shutterstock-verraet-endlich-die-suchbegriffe-der-bildkaeufer/&twu=1

What do you think of the function? Any helpful observations made?

256
I just sent feedback to TinEye asking for a statement and a way of improving their service to make it harder to steal images.

You can do so too: http://www.tineye.com/getintouch

257
Nach einem Jahr ist die erste Auflage meines Buches "Stockfotografie" vergriffen und jetzt ist die zweite, erweiterte und aktualisierte Neuauflage erhltlich:
http://www.alltageinesfotoproduzenten.de/2011/02/17/dicker-besser-farbiger-erweiterte-neuauflage-vom-buch-stockfotografie-ist-da/

Viel Spa beim Lesen,
Robert

258
@zenpix: I know for sure that when you delete files manually from your Fotolia account BEFORE they enter the review process (turning yellow), it does NOT affect your acceptance ratio...

259
Shutterstock.com / Re: Are my income projections correct?
« on: November 19, 2010, 04:18 »
No, this is not acurate, as many have stated.

Try to measure your MPM value as Yuri Arcurs explains here:
http://www.arcurs.com/advanced-stock-photography-termology-for-photographers

That will take the short half time at Shutterstock into account.

Bye,
Robert

260
Hm, somehow the version 0.28 doesn't work for me.

It keeps on "wait" for days now, though I watched the spider complete all three tables (25-a-day, EL, On-Demand).

My total stats keep looking like this:


No flash or javascript blockers in use on the shutterstock and the polish site...

Any ideas what could be wrong?

Thanks in advance,
Robert

261
Adobe Stock / Re: EL price change at Fotolia?
« on: November 18, 2010, 03:45 »
I feel like we will loose many sales just because the XS prices from Yuri Arcurs' images have dropped from 4 to 3 credits and thus get sold more often... :-)

262
@Alexey: This looks nice, especially the function to view only images of a certain date range or image number range. That is helpful stuff and I'd be willing to pay 5$ to use it - if I could use it as a Firefox plugin...

264
It seems it has happened now: Shutterstock has a new contributor site layout:
http://submit.shutterstock.com/forum/abt94780.html


Do you plan on wokring that into your Greasemonkey script? Would be great.

Thanks, Robert

265
This is totally great. Sure, Shutterstock should have done it themself, but as long as they don't, thank you very much for this.

One question: What does the number on the top right next to the "Refresh" word stand for? I mean on the LEFT side of "Refresh", I know that the number on the right is the minutes the tool should update stats.


And why is the refresh button blinking?

Thanks,
Robert

266
I had the same problem, my images show up on Thinkstock even month after opting out.

So I sent this mail to customer support:

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"Hello, I have found several of my images distributed over Thinkstock in the "Hemera" Collection. For example item number ___________ (Titel "_______________"). For these images I have opted out from Thinkstock at iStockphoto several month ago, but since they are not even in the "istockphoto" Collection I wonder how they got in the "Hemera" Collection. As far as I know I did not deliver these images to another Getty Images related agency. Please explain to me where the images came from. You can call me at _________________ Thanks a lot in advance, Robert"

This is the answer I received:

Quote
"Hi Robert,

Its taken a few days to figure out whats going on but heres the result:

The auto-mated connector between iStockphoto and the partner sites is still down. We have added this contributor's files to our weekly pull list, which is sent on Thursdays. It generally takes a couple of days for the images to actually be removed once the list is received on Getty's side.

So it looks like we have found your images and arranged to have them removed from Hemera.

Best wishes,"

So let's see if they really will disappear in a few days.

Bye, Robert

267
Sorry, just noticed: If this isn't the right category, please push to the appropriate forum category. Thanks.

268
Hello,

I would love to know what are the best Apps for iPhone, iPad, Android etc.?
I mean ONLY stock photography related ones.

I know of "Easy Release" and some similar ones. But which ones help you doing your stock photography work?

Thanks in advance,
Robert

269
iStockPhoto.com / Re: So what are we all going to do?
« on: September 15, 2010, 08:50 »
What to do?

Simple: I stopped uploading new images to istcockphoto.

270
I am not saying that there are reasons that forbid offering people images with an Extended Licence.

It is just that there are more possibilites of trouble than with a normal licence. And I don't have a problem with strange licencing patterns when it concerns images with still lifes, but when I have a model complaing too, I don't need that...

Robert

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 @Luis:

whereever possible I try to deactive Extended Licenses because I feel that they are priced too low at many microstock agencies. Combined with the fact that I mostly do people shoots the risk of finding an image in use where me or the model wouldn't like the deal is higher. I can live well without ELs... :-)

P.S. I already had your blog in my RSS reader...

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I hope the abbreviation I used correctly ? FT IS SS DT ? Thank you.

Yes, all your abbreviations were correct.

273
@neotakezo:

The reason I have exclusive files at FT is that there were two workshops held by Fotolia that I did attend where the final images had to be uploaded exclusivly to FT. The images from the first workshop seld quite well, so I wanted to test if exclusivity had something to do with it and went exclusive with some other image series, who perfom good as well.

274
No, Affiliate earnings are not included and are not significant anyway.
But Fotolia is the only agency where I have a significant amount of exclusive images (over 500), that are sold for at least twice the money than non-exclusive images, so that might be the reason for higher earnings there.

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Hello,

I have posted my earnings, my portfolio size and other numbers from my last year in microstock at the big agencies istockphoto, Fotolia, Dreamstime, Shutterstock and 123rf.

The post is in German, here is the Google Translation:
http://translate.google.com/translate?hl=de&sl=auto&tl=en&u=http://www.alltageinesfotoproduzenten.de/2010/07/21/zwei-jahre-microstock-mein-zahlen-und-erfahrungen/&twu=1

The original German version can be found here:
http://www.alltageinesfotoproduzenten.de/2010/07/21/zwei-jahre-microstock-mein-zahlen-und-erfahrungen/

Do these numbers compare to yours?

Have fun reading.

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