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« on: January 16, 2012, 10:30 »
There has been a change - When I look at http://submit.depositphotos.com/seller_sales.php, the column with Witholding taxes has, indeed, been cleared. No more withheld taxes are shown. However: The withheld taxes have now been deducted from the "Before taxes" column, so they have not been added to the "Net Earned" column.
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« on: January 03, 2012, 14:38 »
The question is too complex to justify a simple "yes" or "no" answer. I do believe a strong brand will help you increase your success, but a brand is a part of the marketing efforts of your company or yourself. The marketing efforts of a company are in turm only a part of running a business. Having, or creating a strong brand by itself it is no guarantee to ensure success.
My vote goes to "yes", though. I do believe the brand I created for our assigned work (and everthing that goes with it, including (yet not limited to -) corporate identity, appearance, business approach and appearance) helps me target my prospects more effectively.
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« on: December 27, 2011, 16:30 »
Yup, Got the same card, nice gesture, I've returned the courtesy, and sent one back.
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« on: December 09, 2011, 09:49 »
Make sure you've upgraded to the latest software versions of photoshop and / or NX. That usually does the trick. A workaround is exporting the nef file to dng using Lightroom, but you'll need the latest version of Lr too. It's the ACR 6,4 or above version that matters.
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« on: November 28, 2011, 18:05 »
In our brief experience with Photodune, Image exclusivity via a separate account on Photodune could makes sense. We're seriously thinking about it, too. From the handful of sales per day we're averaging on Photodune, so far, the majority of the sold files have not sold elsewhere for years. It's too early to tell, but it sure looks promising.
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« on: November 06, 2011, 17:25 »
Best parts of the program for me:
1. PitchFest
2. Microstock Photograher's Lifestyle
3. Über Portfolio Review
And the rest was amazing too!
My top three: 1. Microstock Photographers lifestyle 2. Über Portfolio Review 3. Microstock workflow The parties where great too. A pity I had to catch my flight and miss the Fotolia Party tonight.
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« on: November 04, 2011, 09:30 »
Just taking mine out for its first spin.
It will take some time getting used to it, especially compared to a dslr, but it's good fun snapping with it.
I'll only know if the image quality is up to par for stock in a couple of days.
I'll keep you posted.
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« on: November 02, 2011, 09:24 »
I have something scheduled at 4:30 but before then I have the morning and early afternoon free. I'd be game to check something out. Are you staying at the hotel?
Yes, I am staying at the hotel. Meeting point: The front reception desk around 10am, and we'll see from there?
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« on: November 01, 2011, 13:54 »
I'll be arriving in Berlin on Friday morning 8 am. Planning to get a glimpse of Checkpoint Charlie, or something similar prior to the welcoming party. Anyone care to join in?
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« on: October 07, 2011, 02:50 »
iStock is trying to help make the sales grow and you find flaw with that, just like always you people hate everything IS.
The moment I read the Plain English version of this initiative I immediately thought, pity the people already contributing in that niche and whatever gets put forward to the crowd as an area to shoot is a list of things NOT to shoot.
Lets say that an agency, any micro stock agency with tens of thousands of active contributors, says that there is a perceived need for more Dogs On Rollerskates images.
A handful of folk are making a significant income from a niche that they have some access, expertise and knowledge in. Rather than contact them and give extra art direction and advice thousands of other folk spend a few moments looking at existing Dogs On Rollerskates images and then sally forth to produce Xeroxes of them, pose reluctant smiling cats masquerading as dogs without the correct safety gear, etc.
The market is flooded with Dogs On Rollerskates, some of the new ones may be better than the existing ones but most are no better or even worse, the search results make it harder to find the work of those who know enough to produce the realistic Dogs On Rollerskates vibe, their income falls significantly, a few extra peoples income will rise marginally, the agency will maybe sell more and at a better cut to themselves and thus make more profit but the supply of Dogs On Rollerskates images is devalued to the point that it becomes unprofitable to those who look at it as a business. Thus lies the fundamental flaw in "crowd sourcing".
Suppose, Dogs On Rollerscates was my niche. Due to crowd sourcing the existing stock collection is devalued, and the clients, who used to source their images from the agency, are no longer pleased with the content, due to flaws in safety gear, etc. Yet, their demand for those images remain the same, and they now approach me directly, and ask me to continue to shoot in my niche, now on a commission base. Ergo, my income increases, as well as I spread my risks. Markets localise again, and new opportunities arise. I pity the people, who fail to adapt to a changing market place. Yes, competition increases, but quite a few should've identified those niches themselves, without someone pointing them there. And whilst these same folks struggle gaining a basic understanding of their new theme, style and technique, others have already moved on, an history repeats itself once again. Plan - Do - Check - Act
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« on: October 04, 2011, 02:13 »
Hi Alex,
Thanks for the clarification. This works better for me, but I don't understand why it requires an extra page, and the captcha isn't on the login page itself.
Cheers
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« on: October 03, 2011, 17:58 »
I'm very much in line with Racephoto on this one. I think I'd add Isle of Arran alongside Talisker. Glenmorangie is a good introduction to malts.
The list of single malts on that awards website is pretty impressive. I haven't tried any of the Campbelltown malts (that's a gap that needs filling) but the (probably cheaper) versions of the Islay, Island and Speyside malts that I've glugged have all been spectacular. I really don't see how you can judge one against the other, though.
I've never met any whisky (with or without an "E") from outside the British Isles that was worth drinking. For cheap stuff that slides down easily both VAT69 and Jamieson sit well on my palate.
Right you are! have you tasted this really burnt Lagavolin? ( did I spell that right)? supposed to be really potent stuff.
burnt! Lagavulin is in my opinion superb.
Agreed. Lagavulin is one of the best, as is Laphroaig, IMHO. For blends, I'd go for Glen Talloch *sippin' a dram of Cragganmore
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« on: September 22, 2011, 16:53 »
[snip] did a search on "cityscape night" which returned just over 200 shots, the vast majority of which are anything but night. Most are barely dusk. Other sites are accepting them. Anyone else have any experience with night-time cityscapes?
When I do a search on "cityscape night" I get over 23.000 results... Did you use any other search options? I'd agree on the vast majority being dusk or dawn, though.
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« on: September 16, 2011, 07:38 »
As soon as you stop trying to find the reason behind FT's rejection notices, and accept some things in life will not make sense - ever, it becomes less of a frustration.
Fotolia is a "Fire and forget" site, with decent sales figures. For us they're justified in the top tier, and both sales and revenues iare increasing.
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« on: September 09, 2011, 03:12 »
With this attitude, don't expect to find much sympathy. How about: "sorry, it's not you, it's me", and quietly go your own way, off to other agents who irk you less? Without seeing the rejected samples, I have no clue what you're talking about.
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« on: September 02, 2011, 08:12 »
Just registered. See y'all in Berlin!
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« on: August 07, 2011, 15:36 »
FWIW: We've had a similar experience with DT a fwe years ago, when we had a photoshoot together with another photographer. Same models, same themes, same settings, but two different photographers, with two different accounts, and different photographer's names on the model releases.
DT doesn't condone virtually identical images in two different accounts, not even if those accounts belong to different photographers. At the time, DT's reason was that this would confuse buyers.
One of us had to remove the images in question, otherwise both our accounts would've been suspended.
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« on: June 05, 2011, 15:47 »
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« on: May 23, 2011, 08:11 »
Looks very interesting. Is there (or will there be) a version for Mac OSX?
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« on: May 19, 2011, 19:40 »
Possibly, because they haven't sold any, yet? They've only launced their partner program collection a few weeks ago, and Pond5 isn't the first place I would be looking at when in need of photos...
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« on: May 19, 2011, 19:27 »
So far, P+ works seems to work well for me. I opted in about half of my allotted spaces, using them for most of my best sellers, and the dl/day for those images have increased. On the grand total, this week has been roughly 20% better than the first two weeks of May, but iStock's stats are lagging again. Initial signs are positive, but it's too early to tell, I guess.
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« on: April 19, 2011, 13:34 »
Still waiting for March pay-outs, too. No word in their forums, either.
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« on: April 04, 2011, 16:36 »
Might want to double check (older pages, also) if the changes actually went through. I've tried this on several occasions, but nothing changed. I've sent a support ticket to DT about this a while ago, but gave up when they didn't address the issue I wrote them about.
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