The thing is that most countries have a law that you dont have to pay nothing if you earn it abroad and you were living abroad while working for certain amount of days in that year and payed taxes there ( In Croatia is something about more than 196 day yearly ) , and Im sure similar law stands in Bosnia so , Peter that's why most people don't have to pay nothing.

Even if that country doesn't have an agreement on avoiding double taxes with Croatia, here  you dont have to pay nothing , but you have to prove that you were absent more than 196 days in that year and that you payed your taxes there.

If you had work there for less than 196 days and agreement between 2 countries doesn't exist you will pay double taxes , in the same way RT wrote , 100$ earned , 30% tax payed abroad , you pay whatever % you pay in your country on the sum of 70$.

I think all ex YU countries don't have that agreement so if US charge us we would have to pay taxes once again in our countries on the amount that was left after paying firs tax in US , but I hope it wont happen.





Anyway , out of the theme , Im curious , if someone wants to share how much taxes you others have to pay in your countries on microstock income ?


In Croatia it something like this :


Lets say you got 1000$ on your bank account this month.

The law protects authors work so you pay your tax in the way that 30% of your income is nontaxable.

So you have 700$ on which you have to pay:

1) 25%  like main tax which is 175$

2) there is tax on tax you pay to the town you live in , that varies from county to county , but is 18% for me so I have to pay 18% on those 175$ of my main tax, and that's
 31,5$.

So that would be 1000 - 175 - 31,5 = 793,50$.

I would also have to give a piece of those 793$ to social insurance but you don't have to pay that cause that authors work law  protects copyrighted work from that share.


I guess its not that big share comparing with some other countries.

Bad thing is that you cant be compensated for your work expenses paying that way , but you would have to start a small business , but those morons told me
I would have to issue a bill for every image sold , and I would have to bother with ton of paperwork and stuff like that that I'm not yet ready to play with.





 




 

I don't know but SS earns me about 3X more then all sites together , and that's enough for me to like them best.

Not to speak about the fact that I find them most constant in what they ask for , the way they review and reject and accept , to make it short they have constant standards.

I just tried and no luck here

Same thing here

Ok , I had my first not so successful sensor cleanining today.

Anyway I haven't menage  to get rid of sensor dust , at least not all of it , I had three swabs attempts today  , and first time I had more than one attempt.


When I looked trough viewfinder I almost got heart attack  , there were hundreds of dark f.....s looking at me from inside.
I made few shoots , and they don't show on photos so I guess they are sitting on the mirror and prism combined , I have few spots on the sensor but I cant get rid of those too this time.

No way I can  blow them away , they are stacked for good and all I managed is to move around just few of them.


Time to visit Canon again , I know how much they will ask for the sensor , but I'm wondering , what about prism and mirror ?
I guess I could live with few spots that dont show on photos , but there is an army standing between me and the object.



Does someone have similar experiences with mirror or prism , and If so , I would appreciate an advice or information.


Thanks 

Isn't it easier to simply save the final image without EXIF data?  Can't PS do it?

Regards,
Adelaide

"Save for web" option  should do it

For crown stuff it good to use a bowl or whatever with thin water surface , 2-3 mm.

Anyway I used to get good results ( but burned) using a PS camera and its flash and few small lamps.


Recently I bought 2 300W strobes , but I have no experience with those.

Anyway I tried to shoot some waterdrops with those strobes yesterday , but the thing is I can shoot at 1/160 with them and my 5D and that is too slow me thinks.

So can anyone share some advice or solution for that or I need more equipment for faster shoots ?

Thanks

For me its gone over the edge.

Not so long ago I had more than 10 sales daily on week days and about 5 at weekends.

I had one or two sales in last 10 days , both bellow 0,30 , haven't reach payment last month first time in few years, and if that continues that way I wonder if I will reach it in Decembers
cause those 3$ that I miss look huge in such short time.

Featurepics is earning me at least hundred times more than IS at the moment , I will wait a month or two and if things don't change , I will stop loosing my time there.

Sorry , wrong topic

I think I know what it could be.

I guess one of your images size was under requirement , and the system recognized it immediately.

That happened to me on my first upload after passing the test.

If thats the case , and your other images pass , you will get a partial rejection and they will write you to upload that one image again but resized .

If that were 4 images for your test , you will probably get rejection , and they will tell you to resize that one  , and try again.

Im just guessing that but I think it about that.

 

An may I add that in my case its not accurate at all , cause it says 37 hours since the upload , and after 5 days still pending

Well , before making any new calculations , you may want to consider that this can happen again in the future.

I guess they build their pyramid structure , and they want to keep it  the same it looks at this stage.

I feel I will own someone money in about 2-3 months 

If exclusivity doesn't have nothing with this , then it must be that my images are 4 times less usefully for buyers than at this time
last year , and all the images approved from then must have no use at all. I'm not saying that , but the numbers are.