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« on: November 10, 2008, 05:45 »
Very, very bad... this is the situation when one third of the month is already gone by.  SS is also performing very poorly, the only one keeping things rolling are DT and FT I'm seriously considering quitting stock photography, It's just not worth it anymore.
1352
« on: November 08, 2008, 10:38 »
iStock is DYING on me. I have a 1100-ish portfolio, and yesterday (friday) was the single worst day in three years, only one $0.25 download. I have always had more even on the weekends. This looks very, very bad.
1353
« on: November 06, 2008, 09:46 »
That diagram makes me both laugh and cry at the same time...  This month has started very badly on IS, it has ALWAYS been my top earner, but it's now 4th after DS, SX and FT... SS is 5th(!)
1354
« on: October 26, 2008, 13:17 »
[youtube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3d5IZK5xgjY[/youtube]
or
[youtube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=45eHfCQIf6w[/youtube]
1355
« on: October 23, 2008, 09:39 »
1356
« on: October 20, 2008, 04:39 »
This is most likely to be the worst month this year for me. October in 2007 was the BEST month that year... This sure doesn't look good...
1357
« on: October 17, 2008, 05:02 »
I can... but the site shows some very strange earnings...
Current earnings
$2219.50
Total earnings
$2398.00
I almost fell from my chair when I saw that I had over $2000 in earnings instead of the $50 or so...
The current earnings to me seems to be total earnings minus my first payment in 2006 (It shows up as "Last payment")
1358
« on: October 15, 2008, 05:05 »
The same problem seems to repeat itself, of the last maybe 10 times I have tried to log in only one has been a success.
Sorry to say, but with almost non-existing sales and this log in problem I'll stop uploading - It's just not worth the bother.
1359
« on: October 04, 2008, 08:03 »
Or maybe corbis took the money and ran.. 
What money? 
1360
« on: September 30, 2008, 05:30 »
A example of a photo is below, any idea how it is done ?
I have no idea, but it looks horrible. A much better idea would be to go out and photograph the real sun in different skies and daytimes and then combine those images with other photos.
1361
« on: September 27, 2008, 08:54 »
I had another picture of coffee beans rejected for the word Cappuccino. True there was no Cappuccino there..
You said it yourself... You should only keyword what is in the image, not in your head.
1362
« on: September 27, 2008, 04:20 »
Funny, this is my Best Month Ever at BigStock with $42 so far (with only 341 images online) Maybe I have gotten your sales?  Second best month was last month (august) and third best february 2008.
1363
« on: September 25, 2008, 04:59 »
7 years of happy amateur time
2 years of part-time
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=9 years
1364
« on: September 24, 2008, 09:12 »
Oh crap... I need to learn to read... I was already wondering how everything sounded so amazingly good... Luckily the removing of the stupid bank transfer fees and currency conversion fees will (almost?) make up for the lost 5%
1365
« on: September 24, 2008, 08:43 »
(I edited this to sound more pessimistic than before...): To summarize: - Alamy's percentage for direct sales and for distributor sales will rise by 5% - An end to bank transfer fees - No more cheque fees - No charges on foreign exchange fees for payments more info: http://www.alamy.com/Blog/contributor/archive/2008/09/24/3563.aspx
1366
« on: September 11, 2008, 16:27 »
1368
« on: September 08, 2008, 04:20 »
Let the dross settle to the bottom, and then sift it out. Get rid of it. More high quality imaging, less to crowd out searches. Or at least let it go to a sister company of some sort that sells them at lower prices with higher limit of uses.
This can easily be implemented by every photographer on a personal level: good and great images to macrostock, and the mediocre ones to microstock.
1369
« on: September 08, 2008, 04:16 »
[edit] PS: and if I decide to put my images on sale with RM license I can't sell them on different sites? right?
No. Photoshelter and Alamy (Licenced = "L") are non-exclusive.
1370
« on: September 08, 2008, 04:02 »
Alamy comissions generally tend to be no more than 40% after all the fees, so that photographer got $4000 for his image.
The istock photographer gets on average $1.00 per sale, so he earned $12,000 from that photo.
But after the alamy or photoshelter sale has been made, there is still market for 12,000 image sales left. Btw I like the photoshelter version much more, it has better colors (the face doesn't have weird green tint and the greens look more natural) and no stupid photoshopped gradient-sky. The hand is also the other way and does not look like a lump of meat. Please, don't dilute the midstock/macrostock market with microstock images, you have to decide the price point for each image. In the real world you can't get a $200,000 Mercedes anywhere at $200, and that's why someone wants a Mercedes. Try Alamy, but with different images, You'll find it rewarding if your images are good enough. You'll love the bigger sales without feeling yourself as a thief.
1371
« on: September 04, 2008, 12:40 »
I'm still of the assumption that eventually this business will be overstocked.
It already is. The RPI has dropped significantly and keeps dropping. I have already moved my efforts toward macrostock and niche photography. The micros are already full of isolated objects, handshakes and call center women. Other sort of content is either impossible to shoot with current RPI and other kinds of images does not sell on micros (or they will be rejected in the first place) I think we have gone a circle here... the wonders of microstock have vanished in the air... 
1372
« on: August 28, 2008, 09:30 »
1. Hasselblad H3DII-39MS SLR Digital Camera Kit with 80mm Lens
I'll rather have the H3DII-50 with more megapixels... And for the resolution a 4x5" scanning back would be nice too http://www.betterlight.com/fullRes_zoomifyLIST.htmlAnd then of course the boring EOS 1ds mk III
1373
« on: August 27, 2008, 06:02 »
What is this? I just checked my earnings and the total number of $ had gone down. When I looked at the earnings page some of the images had a red text saying "not downloaded yet" and they were withdrawn from the total sum.
Some of the images were sold already in 2007 and now they are taken away from me?
1374
« on: August 26, 2008, 02:48 »
My dvd adventure went well and most of my images turned up on their site. Only thing they emailed about was what I wanted to have as a default price and opt in/out for subs (you may set the default price on their site just to be sure)
1375
« on: August 25, 2008, 16:20 »
The easiest way to make this happen would be to move to a country with cheaper prices. There are some places in the world where you can live like a king with $2000/month. If the RPI (return per image) would have stayed at the year 2005 level I would propably already live from my stock photography. My dream is also to live only from stock, but that would require really hard work for a few years time. And with falling returns all the time, it would be a struggle. I'm already struggling with my 2000'ish images to get more revenue, I have to upload all the time just to keep my income at the same level. With three times more images I would have to upload three times more to keep up the earnings...
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