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Messages - Deyan Georgiev Photography
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« on: April 03, 2015, 03:49 »
I love this job, I love the photography and the freedom to do what i love. To me this is the best described in one Confucius quote: "Choose a job you love, and you will never have to work a day in your life." P.S. This is the best MSG post 
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« on: March 31, 2015, 04:17 »
A lot of conclusions, but when we can't see the portfolios on the every particular contributor who make this conclusions this mean nothing, or will not be objective. One thing is to say no ELs from portfolio 500 images and other thing is from portfolio 5-10K or 50K images.
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« on: March 28, 2015, 09:04 »
Congrats and personal respect to Ed Gately and Ralph Ventura, but to me much better indicator could be report of 100 photographers which got $181.50 each when we talk about sales there.
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« on: March 27, 2015, 13:30 »
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« on: March 27, 2015, 13:20 »
They're actually (aside from the one obvious one) Christmas lights poked through the blue velvet background. Takes quite a bit of time and duct tape.
Sounds interesting, may i see one of them Sean?
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« on: March 20, 2015, 14:10 »
I still am confused if OS did say: "we don't want microstockers!"? I thought they accept only high pros from RM/ macro world and close doors to micro roams...
Deyan, I find W61 in agencies often lately, maybe you'd like to give us some more light on it (like how to get, what they need, what is the offer) in other thread?  All I know they want exclusive files only.
I really don't know, may be when somebody show images which to impress them then they will take him. I'm new in W61 and for now what can i say is awesome people out there, I feel comfortable there and i believe on them!
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« on: March 20, 2015, 12:53 »
I'm very new in Westend61 and as you can see not too much images in my portfolio in Offset. It takes long time to have the idea about sales.
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« on: March 19, 2015, 00:18 »
I find so much unnecessary complexities in this site just on first look:
Cash out from every six months to every month according your rating
You have to pay for storage
Three kinds of prices
Provided amercement as if from a government agency "actual infringement of copyright, you will be fined $ 10,000 USD"...
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« on: March 13, 2015, 14:40 »
I have everyday sales there and no one refund.
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« on: March 12, 2015, 15:21 »
About Creative Market i can say only good words by my short experience of a couple of months. Everybody can place his own prices, so this is the real market where if you have no sales you should lower the prices and if still not the conclusion is that your production is not competitive. I have regular sales and i like it
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« on: March 07, 2015, 10:25 »
123RF beats Fotolia in my case, go figure! Shutterstock leads the pack of course.
I think I'm about done with this stock photography business. 4 years of getting it up the ass is enough for me, time to pull my pants back up and move on. I wanted more out of this (full-time for life) but that's impossible with the way these agencies operate.
Good luck though lads, you're gonna need it!
Don't let us stop you, please leave now, and MSG to. Good luck.
For me FT is 0% of SS 
Mine to +
Principally when somebody sale non exclusive images and say that "For me FT is 0%" he should not be proud of that, but to be worried that he lost money. It's not about the name Fotolia this is a principal question valid for every one of the top agencies.
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« on: March 04, 2015, 06:53 »
I have 7.5K images on sale there and I have regular sales. Yes, it's complicated process to upload in 500px, but it worth. Just make all low resolution images watermarked thru photoshop, than upload watermarked in 500px and high resolution in prime.500px.com
Are you actually selling "normal" stock images there? Or do you have such a large "fine art" portfolio?
Did someone damage your Google search? 
Deyan, you must admit it's hard to understand why in these days 500px can't offer watermark and resizing and makes us to do it handly, wasting time for something which is normal everywhere? It's annoying to prepare and upload images twice, do you hear that 500px!?!
My target is not the people who search free images and try to clean the small watermark from Prime in order to use the image. My target is the real clients who pay and use legal images. I'm not worried about stolen usage, just don't care Are you actually selling "normal" stock images there? Or do you have such a large "fine art" portfolio?
No, a big part of my images there are typical microstock(but not white isolated or some kind of simple microstock) and the other part are premium not exclusive macro content.
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« on: March 04, 2015, 05:00 »
I have account there but because of size and watermark stoppers i didn't take this seriously. Didn't upload images which could go there if they provide proper watermarking at least.
I have 7.5K images on sale there and I have regular sales. Yes, it's complicated process to upload in 500px, but it worth. Just make all low resolution images watermarked thru photoshop, than upload watermarked in 500px and high resolution in prime.500px.com
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« on: February 28, 2015, 03:49 »
Some of my best selling files at SS were rejected by FT. I think they never will be better than SS for contributors at least.
The opposite is also valid
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« on: February 27, 2015, 12:49 »
I think the most important is to give breath to Canva to build a good "stock face" with valuable selection which to attract more customers. I have no problem if they'll take just one image of my collection. This is their shop with their shelves and they are free to select what to put on sale there. Do not worry about rejections, if one image is rejected from one agency this image can be accepted in other agency, if this image is not accepted nowhere the problem is in this particular image. If one image have sales in Canva and then is removed from sale, because of the whole Canva's face and strategy not worry, because this will bring you more sales on your other images in Canva. Just to believe them. I hope with my English to succeed to explain what I mean Good luck to all!
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« on: February 11, 2015, 13:57 »
I can't respect Canva anymore!
Promoting free images is not what I expect from an agency where I try to sell my work!
I guess you can sell your work in Canva and to not offer your photos for free. It's up to you. Or I'm missing something?
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« on: February 08, 2015, 14:19 »
Maybe ask in their forums. But a smartphone Upload App that doesn't like images taken with smartphones is weird.
To me too. I hope this will have evaluation soon, it is not normal Shutterstock to lag behind in terms of mobile photography.
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« on: February 08, 2015, 09:00 »
no, the files that are on getty will also be available on eyeem. the files are exclusive to eyeem who then sends some of them to getty.
Are you sure? It was my understanding that the images are *not* exclusive in any way unless you have them sent to Getty.
Yes, that's how I read it: When you upload images to the EyeEm Market, they are not exclusive. If they get selected for the Getty collection and you accept, only then you accept them to be exclusive with EyeEm & Getty.
You see, you learn something new every day. But it still means I have to send them content that is new and isnt available elsewhere. because if it gets selected it is exclusive. But this would mean that the files they dont select for getty could go to other smartphone collections, like fotolia or shutterstock. Or maybe I process a second batch without smartphone filters to make them sellable elsewhere.
I upload firstly to Eyeem and after the Getty selection and my personal selection for Getty(I try to be a small quantity) I go to the second step and upload to Fotolia and the others. I became interested on the smart phone collection in Shutterstock. How it works? I've tried to upload several times mobile images to Shutterstock and all rejected due the technical problems(I use iPhone 6+) After that I ask them why and the response was to not use the Shutterstock mobile application for to upload mobile images, but to upload images "taken by a professional camera". I do not know to smile or to cry, I did not expect this kind of response from Shutterstock when they have upload option for images in their mobile app. Am I missing something?
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« on: February 08, 2015, 04:23 »
The future will show us more, but what I can say now is that I like Eyeem and it is so easy to upload.
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« on: February 08, 2015, 00:27 »
I received 11 dollars in the first month, 52 in the second,5 dollars in the third. From around 100 images over on getty in the eyeem collection there. around 80% got chosen for getty, but all files will be available in their own marketplace.
But the eyeem marketplace hasnt opened yet, so I have no idea what to expect, i dont even know what price points they will have.
So at the moment I am sending content which the normal agencies wouldnt take - files with very strong smartphone filters, files that have less than 3 mp etc...
My selection is not very systematic, it is a fun side project at this time.
I dont think any of the files I send have a chance of becoming bestsellers or will turn into high volume sales. If I thought they did I would send them elsewhere.
The app is extremely easy and fun to use, so if they do get their marketplace going I can see quite a bit of my work going to eyeem because the upload is easy. But they still have to prove they can sell from their own site and it will take most of the year to understand where eyeem is going and how much time and attention they should get.
Also at the moment they have a smaller group of photographers. Once their marketplace opens, i expect them to turn on the flood, but we will see, maybe they have a plan for that.
But they take all my overfiltered stuff that nobody else likes, which makes me happy.
Hi Jasmin, Are this sales from over filtered images, lightly filtered or without?
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« on: February 04, 2015, 13:23 »
I think we are just seeing the market forces at work. When the microstock agencies had 2 million images the global demand for cheap imagery was so unbelievably high that it was possible to invest, say 1200+ dollars in a shoot every week and make that back in 18 months or less and then enjoy everything else that came for a few years to come.
But now with around 40 million+ images and the endless copying from new people coming in, who of course first copy successful portfolios before they find their own niche, it is very hard to predict how long it will take to get your investment back.
So at this stage in the photo market smaller, exclusive collections where your files will not compete with millions of others, are becoming financially more interesting again and the customers are ready to pay more to save time. Basically they are paying for the quality of the editing.
With video the market is in a different stage, hardly any content (only 500 000 files with a model release on pond5), huge global demand. In a few years and when there are 30 million similar videos in the market I am sure it will again become more interesting to work with smaller,niche agencies and exclusive collections with good editing.
What is missing in the market overall is an attempt to crowdsource curation. You can see with pininterest how many people enjoy "collecting" images and creating galeries about all kinds subject matters, or trend themes etc...if this kind of curational talent could be brought to the micros this would help to subdivide the huge databases. And if there is a financial reward for the best curators, then you would slowly grow a group of superstar curators who know the collections really well and can throw together interesting mixed media galleries for any theme. Computers cannot replace people, even the best search systems cannot replace a human editor.
Until somebody figures out how to do that well and incorporate that into their stock agency, the market will fracture into many smaller collections with higher prices and a few superlarge stock houses that have hundreds of millions of files, but nobody can find anything easily.
So the next few years, smaller exclusive agencies will be very interesting until someone figures out how to handle an agency that gets 1 million new files from smartphones every week.
+1
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« on: January 29, 2015, 17:16 »
Regular sales, not bad, but from $100 sales receive approximately $70 after reductions and exchange of JPY to USD Recently cut commission from 50% to more than 22% according the ranking sistem: http://www.pixtastock.com/blog/contributor-rank/and one more new typical microstock step introducing subscriptions... Overall they sell
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« on: January 29, 2015, 00:23 »
On 500px Prime (prime.500px.com), you receive 70% of the net sale price on your photos. I agree with previous comments, it can take a while to make a sale Post your best work, make sure it's titled and keyworded well, and hopefully you'll see a sale soon. Good luck!
I can confirm that, I have regular sales there
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