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Messages - MikLav
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« on: October 09, 2009, 09:08 »
Does question mean microstock only? Or Alamy, Getty, Corbis and other included?
BTW I am pretty much sure that around 70-80% of all microstock earnings are made by a group of just a few hundred photographers.
327
« on: October 08, 2009, 17:50 »
I only upload to iStock with DeepMeta for the last couple of years. It is so much easier and faster when I need to process 20 photos.
328
« on: October 06, 2009, 10:32 »
Having no single word/picture changed on their website for 3 years; and having nothing in the news I was sure they are already dead, even if the site still exists... I didn't bother uploading more than couple tens photos there; and in total I had 1 sale  I heard it was not bad at all for about 1 year 2-3 yrs back, and then everything died...
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« on: October 06, 2009, 09:18 »
I am able to login just to see that nothing has changed on the site for the last 3 years.
Are they really selling anything?
330
« on: October 05, 2009, 03:46 »
At the moment I only use retouching service, not a complete processing, and I am satisfied with the quality.
331
« on: October 03, 2009, 15:46 »
Jonathan - you sure it's "Janco Tech"? I can't seem to find it. Do you have a link to their site?
Thanks,
Elena.
Sorry I hope you don't mind if I respond though I am not Jonathan As it is already said it's jaincotech.com - I've been told that they only work with large volumes (like 200-400 photos a month or more) but I didn't try them myself.
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« on: October 02, 2009, 10:39 »
I started using retouching company from India since couple of weeks and so far I am happy with the result. That releases a lot of my time and is allowing me to produce more photos per month.
I still need to see how will it work on a longer term, but I look at it positively.
So far my production was less than 100 photos per month, so my short-term target is to get it to 100-150 photos per month.
333
« on: October 01, 2009, 16:49 »
Taking into account photo.com and JI sales going away from StockXpert sooner or later, BigStock could probably take place of StockXpert relatively soon. But I don't believe it could happen this calendar year.
334
« on: September 25, 2009, 10:12 »
No, paypal isn't terrible, but I think there must be a better way. All this exchange of american -> local currency and back again when I buy something in the states is costing too much.
Why not opening a bank account in the US then?
335
« on: September 23, 2009, 18:14 »
...and unselecting wrongly guessed categories is a huge pain (usually 2 out of 3)
...and too easy to submit images without releases attached
the principle resembles how it is done by Crestock, but BigStock made it much worse
336
« on: September 23, 2009, 13:09 »
no the latest version of BigStock upload is really horrible.
SS system isn't perfect but is much more time efficient.
337
« on: September 23, 2009, 11:57 »
The news is indeed big but I simply can't understand why SS has done that.
With both sites being non-exclusive I don't expect BigStock to add big (if any) value to SS collection.
Speaking about credit-based sales I can't believe that buying an existing established business and integrating it with the SS is any cheaper than to design a piece of interface at SS.
Customer base? But it must be several times smaller in BSB than what SS has...
So what's the catch?
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« on: September 16, 2009, 15:30 »
I signed up to the uk site just to have a look around, but the photographers test is still in German... perhaps I'll wait a while until they have ironed out the bugs. They do have the backing of Deutsche Telekom...
I did it in English Just tried to upload 10 photos. FTP went fine, keywords read correctly, categorizing and attaching releases is quite easy. Images got approved within a couple hours. Very soon they all got their first views - some got at least one, some got several. I have no idea about translation to German - and this is something not easy for me to test As everyone else here, I too wonder whether they will succeed. They are indeed not just "yet another microstock" because they are backed by such a giant as Deutsche Telekom. Not only have they thick pockets but also they control quite a few marketing channels. Let's see what will come out of that...
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« on: September 15, 2009, 09:29 »
...and they seem to accept non-German photographers which they didn't do when they first opened.
340
« on: September 15, 2009, 09:08 »
check out the kyword: kidnap!
LOL!
OMG!
Edit: from the same author:
http://www.fotolia.com/id/14970561
omg! lol
OMG! Not only I wonder how it got accepted, but even more interesting how it was sold 5 times! Or was it the author himself/friend?
341
« on: September 13, 2009, 17:25 »
Filezilla allows to make either one long queue for multiple destinations (which I always do); or you can do several in parallel if you have really thick uplink (by opening several instances of the program) and it's free http://filezilla-project.org/download.php
342
« on: September 12, 2009, 15:29 »
Personally I think they're an excellent agency who treat their contributors with respect and have always paid the highest % of commission compared to any other significant microstock agency.
+1 !
Seriously, when you compare Dreamstime to their competition they are head and shoulders above most in the way they treat contributors and run their agency.
I agree - I don't see anything to 'hate'.
343
« on: September 09, 2009, 09:43 »
I am not like others For me it's almost precisely 50/50 for US/non-US but I didn't upload in July/August and August was low - perhaps September will be different proportion.
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« on: September 06, 2009, 16:12 »
Although I've heard that some traditional stock agencies are very strict about releases and would require 2 for photo #1 I do clearly see the logic in this case:
photo#1 - the figure on the background isn't recognizable: no face, no complete figure, etc thus second release not needed (though I don't see why they reject if you have it)
photo#2 - although the person on foreground is blurred, in principle it might be recognizable (head contour, ear form, haircut) thus second release is needed
345
« on: September 01, 2009, 03:50 »
speaking about istock - no, their schedule doesn't work! My request is pending now for around 11 days - i.e. it's already 2 times iStock missed their promised Tuesday payout.
speaking about fotolia I was waiting for their last payment for about 2 weeks.
346
« on: August 25, 2009, 07:19 »
there are many sellers on the internet that claim to sell a legal copy for 50-70% of the normal price yet it is as illegal as $5 version - so yes there must be some owners selling 2nd hand copy but it's very tricky to distinguish them.
347
« on: August 19, 2009, 13:32 »
I tried several and I happily use Filezilla for the last ~1.5 years
348
« on: August 17, 2009, 01:46 »
yes I do use ffdshow for several years. It works
349
« on: August 16, 2009, 08:22 »
plenty of pictures from the event in the SS forum (starting from page 39) I made a short video about our meeting (1.5 minutes):
(note that you can watch it full size by double-clicking the video to get to youtube page and then by clicking HQ in the bottom right corner of the video)Hope you'll enjoy it
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« on: August 15, 2009, 14:02 »
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