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Messages - pancaketom
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1651
« on: November 30, 2011, 16:55 »
I also think that TS only has a shadow of the content that SS has. I have over 2K on SS and under 50 that will get ported to TS (only 1 so far has actually been moved last time I checked). Even before IS started officially screwing contributors and I stopped submitting there IS had under half of my portfolio.
If SS went for exclusivity and tweaked search to favor it then they would be a totally different animal and I for one would not be happy about it. If they only changed the commission per sale then perhaps it would work better, but I don't see that they have any need to do it.
1652
« on: November 30, 2011, 10:45 »
You might all wanna go back to the drawingboard and try to get it right in-camera and from the very start. There are photo-schools and colleges, something called a Tripod, prevents camera shake, its a kind of three-legged thingy. Spending thousands of bucks on high-res cams, just to downsize to a point/shoot cam is not to recommend.
Take the rough with the smooth boys. Tisk, tisk, tisk.
Camera, tripod - Ah now I see, I was using my phone sellotaped to a table 
sellotape and table = genius. That should work a lot better than using gum to stick it to my dog
1653
« on: November 30, 2011, 10:18 »
I've opened an account and uploaded the ten files via FTP, however now I'm completely lost as to what you're meant to do with them, they all have a tick next to them but won't allow me to do anything else because I get an error saying they're not a .zip file. Any suggestions?
Also am I right in thinking there's no release folder and that you have to upload the releases with each future batch? If that's the case I won't be bothering.
This has got to be the most complicated upload system on any of the micros.
I had this same problem. I think for your application images (first 10 (or maybe first 5-10)) there is no bulk upload folder that I could see. I ended up zipping them and sending it that way. I didn't include any model released images in the first 10 because I didn't know how to deal w/ the MRs. I must say that PD has one of the weirdest and most un-intuitive upload schemes. I haven't tried any MR images yet. In fact after getting in I just uploaded a few to see how it worked and I have no idea if they have been accepted or not nor do I have any idea how I would go about finding them other than eventually seeing them in the image search. They really should take a look at any of the other sites (except IS) to see how one uploads/processes images.
1654
« on: November 29, 2011, 23:06 »
perhaps the IS sales are mostly migrating to TS - keeping it in the Getty family so to speak. If they really do port all the independent content there but not most of the exclusive that means high $ IS exclusive sales are being turned into low $ indy PP sales. YAY.
1655
« on: November 29, 2011, 22:52 »
Wal Mart is trying to claim ownership of the smiley face - they haven't fully succeeded yet, but I doubt anyone wants to face their lawyers. (in France some other guy owns the rights to it). http://www.commondreams.org/headlines06/0508-04.htm
1656
« on: November 29, 2011, 21:05 »
I don't think the level you are at effects your search placement, but SS has been taking off this year with a number of BMEs.
1657
« on: November 29, 2011, 11:03 »
Only a small fraction of my content will be forced into PP if/when they ever get around to it. I never volunteered anything for it. I don't really see that option on the poll.
1658
« on: November 28, 2011, 12:17 »
"There SHOULD NOT! be any room for diletants in todays stock-files. This is not a charity organization where some poor young photographer should be given chances, etc, this is a cut-throat business and all of us here in this forum are in serious competition with each other, no matter how friendly we, here, in postings, etc.
Stock photography is the same as anything else. You have to EARN your place, earn your position and rights, end of story. Thats what IS, forget all the time and right now you have rookie-files way up front in everyone of their searches. "
Well said Christian.
I have to disagree here a bit. It shouldn't be about someone earning their place. It should be about the image. If the image is good enough it should have a chance to go in front of the buyers. If they want it, it should sell. Now I can see why a site would prefer someone who consistently produces good selling images over someone who only rarely produces one and sends lots of losers too, but they should weed them out with upload limits based on rejections or a hard initial application, not by shooting down the few good images they might produce. In general I would say that the micro inspection process has a fairly high degree of chance and that images are screened too tightly on pixel peeping quality and that the search engine should help determine what ends up on the front page and if something doesn't sell after a year or 2 or 4 it can be culled. I also think that there is value for the collection in obscure subjects that might only rarely be searched for and bought - but if they aren't in the collection then the buyer goes looking elsewhere and maybe will stay there for the rest of their image needs too.
1659
« on: November 28, 2011, 01:35 »
Thanks for the answer.
1660
« on: November 27, 2011, 23:48 »
I slogged through the legal stuff over at PhotoDune and it still says 25% everywhere I saw a percentage for independents, When is this going to change? (or is it actually at 33% now but all of the text still just says 25%?
1661
« on: November 27, 2011, 19:36 »
I can picture the November sales tread now - everyone will be posting that they have no idea what their November sales are because the but still isn't fixed and the numbers are jumping all over the place and they haven't received their e-mail telling them what the adjusted amounts are for the timeframe with the lower commission rate.
the people who do that will be banned for not staying "on topic"
1662
« on: November 27, 2011, 09:35 »
It always annoyed me when they have some downtime and offer discounts because of it and it comes out of our percentage too.
1663
« on: November 26, 2011, 20:15 »
without seeing the books I am VERY skeptical of any claims that sites have to drop commissions to be sustainable - especially when they are dropping our % under 20%- except maybe to sustain their bonuses.
1664
« on: November 26, 2011, 15:42 »
Another note on the views and zooms at Alamy. I think that only certain registered buyers count towards these views and zooms - so it is technically possible to have a sale without any zooms or views (This could have changed or maybe I heard wrong).
for the last 2 years or so I seem to be at the ratio of 1 sale to 10 zooms to a bit under 1,000 views. I did get quite a bit more than 10 zooms before my first sale though, so there might be a big lag or maybe I was statistically unlucky at first.
1665
« on: November 25, 2011, 15:13 »
I went a few years w/o a sale, but I had under 100 images for that time. When they dropped their size limit I started pushing images there in my downtime. I have over 1,000 images there now and have had a few sales in the last year (more recently) - when/if they all clear I'll have enough for a payout. Sales seem to be a little random though - both in subject and return. At some point I'd like to send them some more editorial street type travel photos, but that is relatively low on my priority list.
Don't expect quick returns there, but one good sale can equal many months on one of the small tier sites.
1666
« on: November 23, 2011, 21:28 »
"Any Building Exterior that is famous for its architectural design and is a Main Focus of the Image"
I'm not so sure that the power plant is famous for its architectural design, but fair enough to put it in editorial.
1667
« on: November 23, 2011, 14:46 »
SS doesn't much care for cloudy weather lighting, so they will usually get rejected lighting or WB or whatever.
Also the first one looks pretty overprocessed to me, it just doesn't look natural at all. (not that that is a problem for many of the best sellers, but that is my take on it).
1668
« on: November 19, 2011, 21:44 »
Once is an accident, twice is a coincidence, three times is enemy action.
but people also say never attribute to malice what can be attributed to incompetence.
I must say that I am awfully glad I don't really have to worry about this much anymore and I'd be glad to see the buyers go to places that treat us better and keep things running better.
1669
« on: November 19, 2011, 21:33 »
I am guessing that the shorter the subs plan the more likely a subscriber is to download their full limit. The real money to be made on subs is when the buyers don't use them all. DT discovered that the short subs plans weren't making them enough money, so they dropped them.
1670
« on: November 17, 2011, 22:49 »
The higher commissions for level 3 and up images and the fact that subs move images up the levels are the only really good things about the DT subs program. I'd be sorry to see them be reduced or be removed completely. The <.35 subs there are also not good.
1671
« on: November 17, 2011, 22:09 »
As long as SS is happy to only make money hand over fist with 20-30% payout to contributors they can avoid making any evil changes. If they start losing market share to something like stinkstock or they get bought out then all bets are off. I agree if IS was still going it alone they could have continued w/o any of the unsustainable whining and commission cuts they have made.
1672
« on: November 16, 2011, 18:10 »
They announced that well over a year ago, but maybe haven't been enforcing it. There is an easy solution though.
1674
« on: November 16, 2011, 12:06 »
I wish they would just keep you from auto logging out every hour or so. Make a login last 24 hours, or at least 12.
1675
« on: November 14, 2011, 14:46 »
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My guess is that they will tie themselves up in knots with an even more complex system, either adapting or abandoning the existing RC targets, in a smoke-and-mirrors exercise designed to obfuscate and confuse.
This will probably be the first major announcement from Rebbecca too __ something for us all to look forward to perhaps.
I am predicting some sort of way that they can boost RC for their chosen people - double RC for Vetta or something like that. Whatever it is it will be pre-announced leading to a lot of speculation and then announced poorly - so nobody really knows what they said. Finally it will be explained and be underwhelming for most. - or maybe they will just admit the low sales and drop RC targets or keep the RC targets about where they are and grab a greater percentage of less for next year.
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