I finally  got my hands on Lenovo 220x few days ago , I had to order it and wait few months for it cause its been sold out here before it reached the stores.

I can tell you only the best about it , but try to find some reviews on the net or find it in a store and try it yourself and you will see see what I am talking about. I dont know of a monitor  at the market that can compare with it for that price , not even close , only thing i, t doesn't look to modern , but that doesn't bother me.

The price over here is about 600$ , but Im sure you can find it cheaper especially in the US.

Quote from: epixx on April 22, 2008, 07:25

I had a payout at FP yesterday. If I didn't have my portfolio there, I wouldn't had that payout. If they start flying, I have a healthy portfolio with increasing value, if they go down the drain, I've lost a few hours clicking on their website. No big deal.

You have 1268 pictures there and had a payout yesterday. So are you saying that's $100 (FP minimum payout) so far this month and you're earning about $150 per month there?

Sorry if I'm jumping in,  but FP minimal payout is 50$

I never use default settings , Just look at the photo and use it to your needs , use profile image option , and if you have suspitious areas add them manually in the profile. Sometimes is good to use few settings in few different layers for noise reduction , and use layer masks on them , cause you have different amounts of noise on different parts of your image so single profile might not work well.

There is some noise in the blues , and Its alway easier to take care of the noise in the sky like this than the cloudy sky , cause running clouds trough noise reduction you loose details on the cloud and get artifacts. The way to handle that is to use layer mask on the noise reduction layer.
I have new monitor and I didn't have the time to calibrate it properly ,  but I'm almost sure that there is too much magentas here so your snow is kind of reddish.

Well anyway hope you don't mint that i tried to fix it a bit , I run it trough noise reduction , changed white balance a bit , a added some sharpness only to the rocks.



 

And than again , Im certainly out ha ha .

Rejected again, , thats not what we are looking for reason.

Well those who are trying to pass it know the problem , they reject all backgrounds and more stock oriented stuff for thats not unique enough and we have plenty of that  reason , and advise you to try with more cartoonish stuff which requires some drawing , and then you get we dont need this kind of stuff.

If I got a rejection that this is not technically at their requirement level or something else I wouldn't care so much , but again the stupid reason ,we don't need that kind of illustrations at this time knowing that most of stock oriented vectors will be refused for we have enough of those.

I'm thinking of writing a mail to support , first time in 2 years , I never complained at any site about any rejection , but this time I would just like to get a more specific reason then their default one if I already have to wait 90 days till my next attempt.

Here is my second try. I gave more attention to the worm and the main fish , made completely new worm , gave some textures to the sand , shadow to the main fish...

Well I think sand looks better but I'm terrified to put 2 gradient textures on a gradient background without blending options and send that to IS reviewers.

Anyway here it is

I'm one image short to be approved there but the last 2 vector  illustrations I sent them were rejected , so if I fail this time I will probably wait for months.
Apparently they don't want background etc , so I made an underwater illustration and Im not sure I should try and submit it or not.

I would appreciate any thoughts or advices cause I'm into vectors just for few months now.

If someone with  more experience with  illustrations has a minute and would like to do me a favor and check the vector file more closely I would be great , just PM me.

Thanks 

Well Here is the image:


 

Yes you have to remove them all

Well 2 moments come instantly as a flashback at this topic.

I was saving for months for my first SLR 2 years ago.  Few days after I bought it I went to a friends boat and I was shooting lighthouses. Suddenly a speeding boat passed near us and huge wave was going in our direction. Our boat was missing a window just where I was standing and I put the camera quickly  inside the boat trough  that  missing window  to protect it from the wave. Unfortunately the wave that was coming also went in the boat trough that same window , a gave my camera a long cold bath. It was a compete damage so I had to buy new one. The lens survived , it was 70-200 f4 L and I highly recommend it 

Second stupidity was not so long ago , I was shooting my first wedding , everything was going great. They told it was going to be a pause after the ceremony so I can rest for an hour or so , so I put my batteries to charge and had a tea cause I caught a cold few days ago.

In a moment people jump on me to go and shoot a huge group photo with about 300 people at a city square.
I took my camera and run quickly , and there were 300 people standing on some stairs and waiting me for some time.

First thing I saw was my zoom lens that i forgot to change , I was all in panic , cause I couldn't push 1/5 of all those people in a shot. I run to take my wide lens and 5 minutes later when I come back people were going crazy standing there in a small rain. I turned my camera on , but , what , I forgot my all batteries , and If I go away again I risk that someone kill me in anger. So I did a set of shoots without batteries , people were smiling , changing places , and I was just pretending to shoot. I was just waiting the moment when someone will notice that my flash ain't  working , but no one did. In the middle time there were some kids with PS cameras shooting near me so I ask them If I can use their photos later , and I had some work in photoshop but it turned out well.

 

Hm , could be  they don't accept files larger than 25mp too , I know that they don't accept anything over 25mb for sure. 

Quote from: Lizard on April 01, 2008, 17:41

I only know that in my case  SS beats all of them together , and it beats them good.

Even per photo? You have about 4,800 photos on SS and only 572 on IS.

Why would I care for high earnings per photo on IS when I dont have a chance to upload most of my work there ? Only thing I care about is total income , and that pays the bills.

I started with stock 2 years ago , almost at the same time at SS and IS and the fact that I have about 10 times more images at SS its a result of IS policy.

IS gives me 2 times more per photo , but I have 10 times more photos at SS. IS is rejecting half of my work in 90% of the time is because that they do not find it suitable for stock.

I find it very interesting that DT wants edited images that are highly saturated, while IS wants images right out of the camera with no editing.

Yes , and when you search for landscape with most downloads you get this:

http://www.istockphoto.com/file_search.php?action=file&text=lanscape&oldtext=landscape&textDisambiguation=&oldTextDisambiguation=&majorterms=&fileTypeSizePrice=%5B%7B%22type%22%3A%22Image%22%2C%22size%22%3A%22All%22%2C%22priceOption%22%3A%221%22%7D%2C%7B%22type%22%3A%22Illustration+%5BVector%5D%22%2C%22size%22%3A%22Vector+Image%22%2C%22priceOption%22%3A%22None%22%7D%2C%7B%22type%22%3A%22Video%22%2C%22size%22%3A%22None%22%2C%22priceOption%22%3A1%7D%2C%7B%22type%22%3A%22Flash%22%2C%22size%22%3A%22Flash+Document%22%2C%22priceOption%22%3A%22None%22%7D%5D&showPeople=0&printAvailable=0&exclusiveArtists=0&extendedLicense=&illustrationLimit=Exactly&flashLimit=Exactly&showDeactivatedFiles=&membername=&userID=&lightboxID=&downloaderID=&approverID=&clearanceBin=&color=&copySpace=&orientation=7&minWidth=0&minHeight=0&showTitle=&showContributor=&showFileNumber=1&showDownload=1&enableLoupe=1&order=Downloads&perPage=&within=4


Every single one strait from the camera