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Messages - suwanneeredhead
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« on: May 17, 2008, 17:07 »
Yes theoretically people can get thrown in jail for selling fraudulent paintings... (IF they are caught)... but that's on a totally different scale than what we're talking about here... forging a painting is a much higher crime given the value of the painting... someone stealing digital files and representing them as their own, when the original artist cannot prove that this file is worth a lot of money, is just not worth going after!
You can be a pain in the ass and chase this person around forever, but to me its kind of a "choose your battles" situation... if you did not lose a whole boatload of money over the deal, then its not worth pursuing unless you have a bottomless financial supply and a very healthy sense of revenge!
Reality check!
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« on: May 17, 2008, 16:19 »
If he is selling other people photos as his own there must be legal action that can be taken on that front? Oh now that is funny!  Do you honestly believe you will receive any damages by taking legal action against someone like that? The only time its worth doing is when you are being ripped off for a very substantial sum of money... what with the legal fees and costs, and the very real impossibility of collecting your damages! I think Vika's approach is much better... just let them know you're watching them and know what they're doing, and it's likely that they will cease and desist without all that legal stuff. Go TinEye! Thanks for making my day with that funny comment!
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« on: May 17, 2008, 11:27 »
always good for a couple of payouts a month...accept the majority of my submissions. I've even purchased images from them that I couldn't find elsewhere.
ditto
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« on: May 03, 2008, 20:56 »
a little manners requires no effort at all.
 You're funny! For some people they'd rather have a root canal!
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« on: March 30, 2008, 18:55 »
If you dish out 1's, you will get them on your images. There are probably gangs going round dishing out 10's hoping people will reciprocate.
Y'all are funny! I agree with Sharpshot, whatever you dish out, it'll come back to you, just like in real life. And its NOT that bad, its great! Its fun and we are all enjoying doing it... if nothing else its a way to have fun with the tight-knit community we are. Its harmless, y'all! Why do people get all bent out of shape about it? Not going to join until its straightened out? That seems like a silly reason not to join if its a great site (it is) and its making money (it is).
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« on: March 29, 2008, 00:15 »
curious. i visited their site, and there is a menitoned of an enhanced contributor or something where the photographer gets paid a higher amount like 3 bucks min - 60 bucks..  Or were you talking about the program where they subcontract your work out to affiliate websites that are more midstock priced? Here's the discussion, it starts out angry like nobody realized this was going on, but then Dawn & Tim explain on page 2: http://www.bigstockphoto.com/bb/viewtopic.php?t=2699&highlight=crystalIts just another way they're trying to help us make money. And BTW I have a huge port on BigStock, they accept just about everything I submit when others don't, and I get a payout every couple of months with a small 300+-image port.
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« on: March 29, 2008, 00:03 »
I put my prices up at FP half March and as a "result", I got 3 sales since then. Odd... I raised mine up to double what they were at FP and have had 2 sales since then as well... so I'm not sure that is a direct correlation... Personally I'm trying to make more money with my images and am leaning toward the midstock sites to concentrate my efforts (although I must say that SS and IS are my top earners and no way am I going to stop what I'm doing there)... so I am going to favor higher prices on my own work. Perception of value is a critical concept here -- i am a graphic designer and my clients tend to be fine with spending $15-$30 for an image if they think its going to get them a better image -- people need to be shown and convinced that they need to pay a price for what we do since we aren't amateurs and there is a lot of skill, effort and overhead involved in this business. Just MY 2 cents...
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« on: March 28, 2008, 00:51 »
My very first stock site as well... hi Jorge
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« on: March 26, 2008, 11:49 »
MP scares me .. it feels like they are saying that I am responsible for the product at perhaps of .. their site .. and the buyer .. well they can zoom if they care .. and they should for 25 euros .. and my nightmare is that it seems if the buyer is taken aback after purchase MP would consider it is everybody's fault but their own ... This is really really amplified by the 25 euro price .... (I am not that brave at Featurepics).
Well it might just be a matter of "buyer beware" because as discussed in a recent post that I put into the General discussion on the MP forum, they stated that they do not require model releases to be on file because the photographer is ultimately responsible for that, and they are right. Perhaps they are disengaging from the stranglehold that the other microstock agencies have on photographers with regard to taking responsibility for the quality of the image as well as the liability issues. Yes that is scary if the buyer doesn't realize they must be diligent with their selection process... but I am a graphic/web designer and I am VERY careful when I purchase an image, to make sure it looks good at 100% (unless I am using it as a blog-size image, then it doesn't really matter). I also am going through my port and labeling the image "Model Released" in the description so the buyer understands that I hold the release and they are not going to run into any liability with the image. This is just a new paradigm ... good or bad, but the industry always finds its own level and evens the playing field, so we'll see what happens... Just my two cents... Stacey
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« on: March 25, 2008, 14:11 »
Many of these buyers have commented on the fact that they find photos at MostPhotos that they do not find elsewhere.
They should employ reviewers then !!!!!!
NO... that's the point... reviewers tend to reject images that the buyers WANT... buyers are changing their paradigm to want shots that don't look too highly polished or overprocessed... reviewers are kind of stuck in that plastic-perfect "look" that the microstocks have long chased after. This is the good thing about MostPhotos! Buyers want to be able to look at images that did not go through that narrow funnel we know as the approval/rejection process at the microstocks. I am a graphic designer by trade and I know that my clients are wanting more edgy, realistic looking shots nowadays... and we have to give them what they want! Personally I like the MostPhotos' business model and am thrilled to see the industry moving toward pricing the images higher and letting US decide that should and should not be in our portfolios. I know, you say that's opening up a huge can of worms with bad photography and storage issues... but its a peer-policing rating system that I appreciate... its always fun to see a nasty, icky photograph get a negative rating which keeps it out of the search completely. Check it out before you make any kind of judgment about it.
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« on: March 18, 2008, 19:16 »
With the recent price increases in many sites, I'm going to raise my prices in FP. Me too! Congrats, Mark! Smart move! 
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« on: March 16, 2008, 15:32 »
Extremly fast for me in los angeles.
Extremely fast for me in Florida too, except last night, must have gotten bogged down or something. Just my two cents, I LIKE the web design, and I'm a web designer... I can appreciate the complexity of the design and love the functionality of it, especially the Global Chat and the Private Chat ( wink wink Mark)... I think this one has potential...
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« on: March 15, 2008, 20:09 »
CLASSIC! Thanks for sharing that!
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« on: March 15, 2008, 20:05 »
Congratulations, that's a heck of an accomplishment! - Stacey
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« on: February 25, 2008, 14:21 »
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« on: November 29, 2006, 22:54 »
My normal workflow is to make all my changes in TIF, then when I'm ready to submit, I batch process the TIFF files through Neat Image and save them as a JPG in Neat Image. Wow, you batch process with NeatImage? I find that applying NeatImage to an entire image really screws up the sharpness, i have to do it selectively in layers to only filter out noise in the parts of the image where there is noise! And each image needs different amounts of noise reduction! Wish list: D200 where I can shoot at ISO 100, my D70 only goes down to 200 (what were they thinking?). But I do agree that noise needs to be handled last... unless the occasion arises where the noise reduction dulls down the sharpness in a spot or two and then I have to go in and sharpen that area last. I agree, most operations on an image can increase noise, especially saturation.
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« on: November 29, 2006, 22:50 »
For me it was clunky, ugly interface, and the keywords got lost in the shuffle. It's bad enough having to only upload one at a time, but losing all your EXIF data in the transfer really stinks. I sure wish they would do the FTP thing but they refuse.
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« on: October 26, 2006, 08:47 »
I never complained about rejections but last days have been unusual for me at dreamstime. First i thought that a reviewer had a bad day , but bad days are becoming usual. I had about 80% acceptance till now , but they rejected about 45 of the last 50 i submitted , so my rejections are 90% at the moment. Am i getting that much worse ? Funny part is all the photos are few months old and it only coincidence that i submitted them now and i submitted that ones that were accepted then , same quality , same processing but backthen i had 80% acceptance now i have 90% rejections ....
Well , i will stop submitting for a while and see if things will get better
Amen to that... today I have my WHOLE batch rejected for the same stinkin' reason, "This is a very well covered subject in our data base, yada yada yada." These are some of the best images i have ever shot... and as I searched for "similar" images I never found any. I think somebody's TIRED and needing to have a NAP over there... but I must say even with the high rejection rate I have... they are still one of my two top performers (with SS).
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« on: October 25, 2006, 19:52 »
Last few times I've uploaded they were the VERY FIRST to come through with approvals... within 24 hours... and they never reject anything of mine... FP is my largest portfolio. And they sell better than Canstock, that's for sure... and LO, and Galastock (which is stuck, I've had 24 pics on the queue for over a month now).
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« on: October 13, 2006, 20:37 »
I had one removed at IS -- it was my daughter playing in the water and I suppose the reviewers, on second thought (a few weeks after they had accepted it) decided that her "look" was too appealing to pedophiles! They didn't want to be responsible for some perv using the image on a child porn site so they took it down. I appreciate their looking out for me... but the other sites that had accepted it have left it up... I'm actually thinking of removing it for that reason. Here it is:  What do y'all think, too appealing to perverts?
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« on: October 08, 2006, 21:56 »
Some people use a spreadsheet (I gave that up after my portfolio grew to over 100 images average), some people have a "main" images folder on their computer and have folders that say "SS" or "BS" or "IS" and they move them from one to the next as they upload them. I guess that could work, although I would just get confused, probably. I personally am very A.D.D. (and O.P.D., Obsessive Photography Disorder) and I just have a "new" folder from which I upload, and I just pop around from one to the next uploading everything I have that day. I know some sites have a low limit but in that case I make an "uploaded" folder (or "IS uploaded" for one that has the lower limit) and just finish it the next day (or week, in iStock's case).
But don't listen to me, I only upload probably 20-30 images a week. I know i'm a real slow producer... but I have so much other work to do, I can't concentrate on photography *YET*.
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« on: October 08, 2006, 21:34 »
THAT is too cute! Wow, what have we turned into, after enduring those kinds of comments about our own work. TRY to fit your square peg into our LITTLE ROUND HOLE! Narrow-minded is right! I guess we just have to accept the fact that microstock means "commercial," "plastic" (NO NOISE!) and "sellable." I am grateful to SS and BS for their acceptance of my more artistic shots... they don't sell as well but they're there for those who need them...
What I would give for photography to be what it was when some of those images were made. A pure art form.
S.
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« on: October 08, 2006, 21:15 »
Same here... I got a rejection that I want to check if its in the "can resubmit" category (for noise). I am sitting here ready to upload it and I can't even get in, the status bar goes about 3/4 across and gets stuck. Earlier I was able to delete a couple of images from the queue (SS bounced them for noise so I cleaned them up and resubmitted them) but it took all day!
So its not just you...
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« on: October 08, 2006, 17:31 »
Because you will always deal direct with clients when selling images through Photographers Direct, we are non-exclusive. This means we have no restrictions on photographers selling the same images through other agencies. The only exceptions are micropayment sites such as istockphoto, canstockphoto, shutterstock, dreamstime, bigstockphoto, crestock - we cannot represent photographers who market their images on these sites.
This is what REALLY got me thinkin about it.....
Thanks for pointing that out, i didn't see that... what a bunch of crap. Well I hope they hit the dirt fast... us microstock photographers are the BEST!! S.
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« on: October 06, 2006, 21:41 »
I haven't had any trouble with it today or yesterday. Maybe it is you... maybe it has to do with where you are.
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