I tried to explain it with an example: http://miklav.blogspot.com/2010/06/photo-editing-how-to-reduce-artifacts.html
(I did write about it here in MSG too but can't easily find my post)

I do not see artifacts at 100% but I do easily see them at 400%.

I will repeat my question, which may be so simple-minded that no one thought it necessary to reply: why don't the really big stock producers sell their images directly, from their own sites?  It's obviously possible, and many buyers probably already know their names.  

When we met at CEPIC conference in Dublin a couple weeks ago Yuri Arcurs said he is preparing to launch direct sales from his own site. Andres said he has similar plans (seems to be less developed though than Yuri's)

Didn't Jonathan Ross recently launch his own site?  I think he accepts contributors too?
I wonder what his status is at those sites he contributes to?  Would supported sited dump Yuri if he started his own site?

Yes Jonathan did launch his own site, but that's a different story. He didn't setup a site to sell his own portfolio. He did setup a niche collection that specializes on human-impacted spaces without human in the picture; and he is open for other contributors. And his primary sales objective is to focus on non-exclusive multiple distribution channels rather than direct sales from his own site. Agencies like Corbis and others are to sell that collection.

I wonder how did it go today

BTW the forecast for Friday is good!

Hi Miklav,

Thanks!

Just a couple of suggestions on what to see in Dublin

Take the DART (commuter rail) along the coast, costs about �5 and it give a lovely view of the coast.
The Guinness Store House (which is a museum to Guinness) and you can pour (and drink) your own pint of Guinness, plus they have a fabulous rooftop bar.

What direction to take DART, and to what station? Would it be worth to get out of the train at any stops along the coast for some nice views?

I've got 4 Polylooks sales in May. Not too bad for the start, hope that will grow...

Paha_L and Mikhail, you'll have to excuse the in-jokes about swimming for reflectors.

I don't have problems with the jokes, but the date is a problem! I am really sorry I have to miss the event as I will arrive in the morning of the 8th
(no I can't re-schedule that)

Maybe it's not very polite to post things like this, but since it has 4 000 000 views I just have to share it with you. It made my day.  

I like this one better (and btw it got over 9 mln views by now):
[youtube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gg5_mlQOsUQ[/youtube]

I never had the whole batch rejected because of 1 image, I only had 1 (or 2 or 3) images rejected but the rest accepted.

However I never had any problems with the content of my pictures (like noise, spots or anything), it has always been my mistakes with sending a few undersized images in a batch - may be that's the reason they accept the rest.

I can upload through http... but one by one is an awesome pain!

I thought the same as you, so I switched on keep alive and 'tickle' for long period uploads, but even then, 7mb file takes less than a minute to ...erm ... almost complete

I did notice that it's an error native to IIS7 (can't seem to find anything similar on other FTP servers) but then again... don't really see a corbis site running on anything else

Yeah would be surprising if they used a non-Microsoft product

Any chance to upload via isyndica?

Don't know about your FTP client, would it be worth to try your luck with FileZilla? (Then we could at least verify whether the settings are the same everywhere)

BTW both 60k and 80-90k is very low if you have 8mb line (if you are talking download speed). I've got my ADSL updraded to VDSL recentely with upload speed around 1.5 Mbps (I mean real tested speed). The average upload speed to Veer is around 120 KB/s (used to be around 50KB/s when I had ADSL with 0.5Mbps upload)

Of the active contributors here, how many of you were exceeding 50% acceptance rates on an ongoing basis? Don't get me wrong, I think this is a good deal. I'm just wondering what the odds are of actually getting $1.40 per image accepted.

I only uploaded a portion of my portfolio before this campaign. I had 363 pics accepted and 61 rejected. 85% acceptance rate isn't bad at all...

I believe Michael said that few pages above - they ask us to set "discount" for all photos that are available on other microstock sites. "Standard" is for midstock and "premium" for macrostock pics not sold elsewhere on microstock.