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1776
« on: September 22, 2011, 13:03 »
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They say that I should not submit the same images again but why not ? I submitted them before and they got passed so I would be stupid not too. If I submit a whole new load of images it's a new lottery. One was rejected this time that was passed the time before so it isn't foolproof.
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I think the acception/rejection is really pretty arbitrary with borderline pics. If you submit the pics again there is a very good chance that accepted pics will be rejected. This makes them look bad, so they suggest you don't do it. Agree w/ the 3 D suggestion above. Also go with bright colors and light images and don't do shallow depth of field. - and of course make sure your captions and other stuff is spot on. I had one of my initial 10 rejected because of a problem w/ the model release. Luckily 7 others were accepted.
1777
« on: September 21, 2011, 15:51 »
A lot of profiles say 'very experienced' but when you look at the port they look stiff or only have one expression.
Yes, but if that expression is "blue steel" then you have a superstar on your hands 
Forget "Blue Steel", I'm looking for "Magnum"
1778
« on: September 20, 2011, 12:51 »
Electronics are the one thing I am continually surprised by the advances in technology and the dropping of prices. With 2 MB Ram you couldn't even open a P&S pic.
Long live Moore's Law.
1779
« on: September 20, 2011, 10:27 »
I have no confidence in the future of microstock, so I might as well make as much as I can now.
Sadly, I have come to pretty much the same conclusion. I've joined a bunch of smaller sites I wouldn't have bothered with a year or two ago as part of a strategy to maximize my earnings on my existing portfolio.
It's all well and good for us to plan ahead and do what we can to support (and even police) the industry for the long term, but developments in the last year have me questioning whether there is a long term for microstock - at least from the contributor perspective.
I've narrowed the focus down to SS, and my confidence in that one company. I have zero confidence in istock, and very little in most other companies. I'm optimistic about companies like StockFresh, but realistically my confidence in them is slipping. So really it just comes down to SS for me. I'm opting to stay with istock and let my stuff into the PP, as long as it doesn't impact my earnings at SS. I make the majority of my microstock earnings with SS, and doing what I can to keep that going is the priority. Which could eventually mean that if ThinkStock manages to pick up and become a real threat to SS, my images will no longer be at istock or TS.
But for now, I'm betting that ThinkStock won't be a threat to SS, even with all this new independent content, and SS will remain the top player. As long as my SS earnings remain steady, I'm staying where I am for now.
I'm not sure what the future of microstock is, but if it does indeed start to fall apart, I'd rather ride out the sinking ship with SS than anyone else. At some point that may mean bailing on istock and some others. But we're not there just yet.
If at some point Thinkstock sales go up and SS sales go down, will you be willing to abandon the significant % that TS and IS represent to stick with a sinking SS ship? (unlikely SS would totally go away, but if IS customers get moved to TS and they market heavily they could take some of SS's customers too.
1780
« on: September 19, 2011, 12:37 »
I think the default when they don't know where the download is from is offshore west africa. (or maybe the account has multiple locations or something). Otherwise there is a huge ad shop in the Canary Islands. It is interesting to see where the sales are from, but I am not sure what to do with the info.
1781
« on: September 17, 2011, 19:18 »
What they said above.
I recently started sending more images since they lowered the size requirement and I got a few sales. Hopefully that will result in more sales in the future, as I don't have many there yet. I think all my micro sites are beating them (not to mention the 250$ payout limit). The sales I have had have been pretty random (and for fairly small amounts) Less than EL sales would bring me in most cases.
Maybe I should put up more of my random non-released people travel shots - who knows.
The keywording is pretty tedious compared to most micros.
I have only had one image rejected for reasons other than the upload was corrupted or the file was too small. Reviews are usually just a few days.
1782
« on: September 16, 2011, 18:57 »
not a big fish but...
reg 68.3%
OD 15.3
EL 10.7
vid 05.5
I am guessing that people that started at the beginning with a big port might have a lower OD %. EL sales seem somewhat random to me, but I sure like them when I get them.
1783
« on: September 14, 2011, 13:31 »
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You guys make this so simple and black and white. Maybe you didn't read the situation. I had removed all but ONE IMAGE from Dreamstime. They refused to consider removing it so I could move on. They made me wait THREE MONTHS to remove that image, so I could go exclusive elsewhere. During that time, they made no sales of the image, they made no money on it, it made no practical difference to them AT ALL. It is unreasonable, belligerant, uncooperative and spiteful behavior. You support that behavior? Weird. Their behavior was pointless and destructive. You like that? Weird.
I wonder if you could have set it to sell the rights for 1$ and bought it yourself (or paid someone to buy it).
1784
« on: September 14, 2011, 13:24 »
You're welcome everyone!!!!
Now I've managed to increase your revenue at printbusinesscards and at stockfresh because I kicked up a big enough fuss about it.. at my expense. While having noone here stand beside me but insulting me in the process.
I hope you've all learnt that if ONE person can change things, imagine what you can do united... but you won't learn because most people here lack principles and like to play it safe... which will burn you in the end anyway.
Not one of you would ever have the decency to thank me but you know what... you're welcome anyway.
Toodles!
Signed, anonymouspsuedonymous 
Nice work, now get cracking on IS and FT.
1785
« on: September 14, 2011, 09:35 »
A year ago I stopped uploading new images there. Now I've picked the images I'll keep on there and I put them into p+ (if they weren't already) - a mix of decent sellers that didn't get accepted or never really sold much at other sites and smaller images and old crappy ones. As the 28th approaches I'll start removing the rest. I'll be sorry to lose all the work that it took to get them up and the shrinking income I still get there, but I am sick of their heavy handed approach and greedy ways. I have no reason to believe that things will get any better there, so I am going to make this move. I wish everyone would do the same, as it would make Getty and the others take notice, but I can understand why people don't.
1786
« on: September 13, 2011, 13:10 »
When playing in someone elses sandpit you play by their rules if you don't like it don't play!
Fair play to you for leaving but doubt that DT will either notice or give a....
Just like i don't giva a... about them nor will either notice their absence in my life. tought i would have fun at this stock thing, since i do photography for fun and not for living, but i will not tolerate bad policies and proceedures and no one will force me to be/have an online account and my images for 6 months without my permission! I too easy to became persona non grata at that place.
As said above - you gave them permission when you uploaded. Not that I am a particular fan of the 6 month lock in, but I did agree to it when I continued to upload new content after they implemented it. Nothing wrong with stopping when you disagree with what an agency does, but you do have to abide by your side of the agreement.
1787
« on: September 12, 2011, 22:45 »
10 and 10 for my last 20. It does seem to go in waves. My RPD so far this month is 2X what it was last month (lots of subs and level 0 small sales last month).
I wish all my subs were of level 0 images.
1788
« on: September 12, 2011, 12:41 »
pretty intelligent maybe, but not wise. Which I guess sums up a lot of my complaints w/ the Getty "family" these days.
I mean really, if you want a picture of a mountain lion, why would you search on "ice hockey player"?
1789
« on: September 12, 2011, 10:05 »
I would think that IS would want to block true teams from being exclusive - as a way to game the system. Both the old canister system but especially the RC one. Imagine if say 30 good exclusives teamed together - they would have lower upload limits each, but they would also probably hit the top tier for RC, something that IS can't really allow (it is "unsustainable" remember).
1790
« on: September 11, 2011, 20:23 »
But I agree with the praise for Sean. I've always liked the look of his work best. And as a one-man show he's without peer.
Absolutely. Plus he's uniquely helpful and approachable too. Geniuses aren't supposed to be like that. Top man!
and when IS pulls some BS he tells it like it is, even on their forum.
1791
« on: September 10, 2011, 12:01 »
I actually think that Getty might be happy to get IS to die- or at least wither away. As long as they can get the buyers to move either downstream or upstream or laterally. That way they can avoid paying those unsustainable ( >20%) royalties out. So first move IS content elsewhere and move wholly owned and crap to IS. When buyers complain suggest they go to one of the other Getty "family" sources. When sellers complain tell them to take it or leave. Eventually you might think you are submitting to IS, but more and more of your sales will be somewhere else with lower % and no RC.
1792
« on: September 07, 2011, 22:23 »
I immediately said I would leave completely. Now I am toying with the idea of leaving only the old dregs of my point and shoot days and removing all else. As other have noted, after making considerable stink on their forums over the years, if I close my account completely, I'll likely never get in again, if things ever turn around.
I haven't uploaded in more than a year at this point, and don't miss it. I went independent in January over the previous arguments -- I can't even remember what the straw was that broke my back -- and sales are so pitiful that now I can't be bothered to give a . I'm trying out some other sites, slowly, as I have time, but mostly I'm just enjoying photography and not shooting anything that looks like good stock to me. And it's making me happier.
What I won't miss, regardless of if my portfolio stays or goes, is the constant turmoil that iStock consistently brings to my life every September and January. The love affair is over. And like any good breakup, I hope only painful things for them in future.
That is the direction I am leaning - removing all the images that sell on other sites and leaving a few to keep the account open. I think I'll make them all p+ before I delete the others.
1793
« on: September 07, 2011, 16:28 »
I had a fairly high rejection rate lately too. They seem to no longer want backgrounds, which they used to almost always accept.
It is pretty demotivating to get a big batch stomped on. One advantage of being independent is that they will be available elsewhere at least.
Maybe in the future I'll figure out what the new standards are, but other than the backgrounds they seem somewhat random to me at the moment.
1794
« on: September 07, 2011, 14:27 »
Same here. Expect to get it the 15th or have it sent then or whatever. I had some issues w/ a Veer payment last year and they fixed it for me. I think it is just a rather unintuitive way of reporting things in this case.
1795
« on: September 07, 2011, 14:06 »
I thought that first one was a red carpet image from the opening of "ET".
Why are safari photos editorial? I could see maybe if they were in a zoo or wildlife park maybe. I could possibly see some value to that last one, but not why it would be editorial.
I did notice that they said that some files might not be scrutinized fully. I guess this is what they meant. Get ready to have your images buried by worthless crap from "upstream".
1796
« on: September 07, 2011, 10:11 »
just out of curiosity, are you an IS exclusive? what are they offering for Thinkstock downloads for flickr images?
edit duh - if you are thinking of sending to 8 micros you aren't exclusive.
1797
« on: September 06, 2011, 12:07 »
Well, there are no single plans now to ....
But you can see how they operate. Don't be surprised when this happens again with something else. I can see why sites would want to push wholly owned content though. If Getty can sell all of the Getty files on IS and all the IS files on Getty and PP sites, what % royalties do you think they will be paying out?
1798
« on: September 05, 2011, 13:13 »
My guess is that SS is trying to raise standards, but it is a tough thing to do. As usual it is a bit of luck of the draw with reviewers. Some reviewer might like your stuff, another won't.
here is one microstock fact:
An image that is accepted or rejected might have had the opposite treatment on a different day or a different reviewer.
That doesn't mean I don't still get upset when my images get rejected.
1799
« on: September 03, 2011, 15:54 »
I also noticed that someone's reply - to paraphrase as best I remember:
"you know the answers, you don't like the answers"
was deleted too.
1800
« on: September 03, 2011, 11:26 »
I never got the survey either, but you can bet I have some opinions for them now.
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