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Dreamstime.com / Re: Dreamstime now accepting digital releases
« on: November 12, 2012, 21:24 »
but of course not Top Model, which is what iStock recommended?
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Dreamstime.com / Re: Dreamstime now accepting digital releases« on: November 12, 2012, 21:24 »
but of course not Top Model, which is what iStock recommended?
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Shutterstock.com / Re: Interesting New Feature« on: November 12, 2012, 18:46 »I really don't want to mix SS up with my personal facebook and I don't have a "business" one that's separate. I do have Linked In and Twitter, but I've never seen any point in using them for business purposes (and I know every business on the planet thinks that this is the hot thing, but I'm not convinced you do anything but piss people offthank you for saying it, cos I too think you just annoy people. Lately I've been unliking Pages on fb cos I'm just annoyed at how often they post, and the content is drivel. Don't get me started on Twitter! and Pinterest is a dirty word, even though it's fast becoming the ItGirl of social media. I too have portfolio envy 1253
General Stock Discussion / Re: Lawsuit Against Us. Fair? Unfair? Need your advice« on: November 10, 2012, 20:55 »Interesting. On October 7th, 60 Minutes (American News Program) aired a feature about why eyeglasses are so expensive. Here is the news story... v interesting. and makes the idea of going to competitors laughable.... apparently there are none. 1254
General Stock Discussion / Re: Lawsuit Against Us. Fair? Unfair? Need your advice« on: November 10, 2012, 19:14 »
surely this is ridiculous. Every item of clothes - even generic Target clothing - worn by our models is recognisable to the original designer, right? same logic should prevail: don't wear our brand in your shoots, but of course it doesn't because it's ridiculous to ask our models to be naked.
whatever brand of glasswear your model wears is not recognisable to me, and yet I'm sure it's already imbedded in my mind as 'cool, beautiful, desirable' merely by seeing them on beautiful women in ads around the world. enough media attention could have a negative impact on the brand, and I love an earlier suggestion to contact their biggest competitor to exclusively use their glasswear in your future shoots. you are in a great position to be able to do that. 1255
Software - General / Re: How do you keep track of your microstock stats?« on: November 02, 2012, 17:01 »
that would be nice, but until I'm earning smile-worthy money I'm content with my coloured line graphs.
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Software - General / Re: How do you keep track of your microstock stats?« on: November 02, 2012, 04:19 »
I'm only a small contributor but a big excel nerd, so I have spreadsheets with image status (accepted, pending, rejected) as well as sale count per site (although it's not 100% accurate for every site), plus monthly sheets & graphs for uploads, downloads, earnings. Love a good, colour coded spreadsheet!
this is only my first real year of stock so I'll have to also add in another chart to compare previous years. I'll save that fun for the xmas hols. 1257
Dreamstime.com / Re: dreamstime image levels« on: November 01, 2012, 17:45 »
I've had a look and quite a few of my files sold as level 0 when they should have been level 1. I know it's only a couple of cents difference, so this time spent querying it with DT is totally not worth the few dollars they owe me ...
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General Stock Discussion / Re: Model Release App« on: November 01, 2012, 08:49 »
I did one the other day and had the model fill in her own details while i was driving and snapped her in my car, what could be more compliant? way more truthful than a fake signature, which any of us could do.
yes, i did see the witness spot and used that yesterday. still yet to upload, I've got other (paid) work to complete before dealing with that shoot. 1259
Dreamstime.com / dreamstime image levels« on: October 31, 2012, 23:24 »
I'm not entirely sure how this works?
I have an image that sold twice on the same day, so surely after the first sale it should have been bumped up into the next level? It started as level 1 (newer than 6 months, no sales) after the first sale shouldn't it move into Level 2 (orange) of 1-4 sales? i have another image that sold in this order: level 0 older than 6 months no sales, even though it was <one month old when it sold. then moved to level 1. then to level 2. then back to level 1. it's bad enough that half of my sales are sold using 2010 subscriptions (people hold credits for 2 years? and not just a handful, half of them?) but I'm finding this levels system hard to understand. 1260
General Stock Discussion / Re: Underwater photos camera« on: October 29, 2012, 07:22 »
too heavy to manage underwater?? I'd think the weight would help? I am coveting UW housing, looks like fun. I think I might see if I can rent one next time I'm on hols at the beach.
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General Stock Discussion / Re: Model Release App« on: October 29, 2012, 07:18 »
that's my question too. I bought it, quite like it as a tool for general photography work. (I do a lot of advertising shoots and we often use staff/customers as models, so I can quickly get releases just to cover me and the advertiser.)
iStock accepts it, but no idea yet if it'll work with others. there's no witness, is that a problem? I might use it for one of my shoots with my own kids as a test, so it's no biggie if it's rejected. 1262
Selling Stock Direct / Re: Today is a good day - Peopleimages.com is UP UP UP!« on: October 24, 2012, 05:54 »
or 2/1 .... that's a great fraction.
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Photo Critique / Re: SS port« on: October 10, 2012, 06:14 »
I see a style, or "theme". It's very much north american stuff.
That blog post about "branding", whilst pushing a lot of buzz words, perhaps doesn't quite apply in our case as buyers search for what they need, rather than by contributor. sure, they may love your style, and tag you as a favourite, but they won't be loyal to you. They'll keep looking over your shoulder for other stuff. I may not be a big player in micro but I do have years of small business business and other experiences. 1264
Newbie Discussion / Re: Who downloads microstock images?« on: October 10, 2012, 05:19 »Who downloads microstock images? plus the people who want apples, flags and sunsets. 1265
General Stock Discussion / Re: Which sites did you gave up on?« on: September 26, 2012, 20:14 »
what happens to your earnings when you close your account? if you're under the payout do you get it, or do they pocket it?
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General Stock Discussion / Re: How to turn your copyright infringements into cash« on: September 26, 2012, 20:05 »
I've just made myself unpopular in a forum (of photographers!!!) for pointing out that google images aren't free.
"oh, I search for royalty free on google and use those", a number chimed in saying it was ok and there was no copyright on those found on Google. No one noticed the copyright warning, or they assumed it didn't apply. so then I had to further explain that RF doesn't mean "free to take from google". Just waiting for my warning to come from the mods. I was very polite but it was me V a bunch of soccer mums. *no offence to soccer mums who think they are photographers (ok, well, a LITTLE). disclaimer: Some of my besties are soccer mums.* 1267
General Stock Discussion / Re: Strange times« on: September 19, 2012, 05:51 »The good news is that I can make the one kids eat the dinner where I cannot make the MS Company take my pics lol! i can (and often do) threaten to withdraw my (mum) services. That seems to work. Not sure what threats I could use with the micros. 1268
General Photography Discussion / Re: Google Image search better than TinEye?« on: September 19, 2012, 05:41 »
is it just me, or when you're in google images the right click for tineye doesn't work?
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General Photography Discussion / Re: Google Image search better than TinEye?« on: September 19, 2012, 05:38 »I like very much this mass production of english abbreviations. Just imagine what spellings of letters can mean and thats it, even it is you own schizophrenia or whatever or from global village you are/me/whatever/any/it.if only they were allowable scrabble words! 1270
General Photography Discussion / Re: What is the best dslr camera you can get that isn't very expensive?« on: September 19, 2012, 05:37 »I sort of regret having Nikon because only Nikon lenses can be used.Nikon lenses are the reason many of us choose Nikon. 1271
General Stock Discussion / Re: How to turn your copyright infringements into cash« on: September 19, 2012, 05:33 »
ah yes, I do now see the "warning" although it could do with being in bold and that font size you've used to show us. Even those of us who are aware of such things didn't see the "warning". It's hardly a warning, and certainly not on the first page. That "warning" only shows up when you click an image.
The use of the word "may" is so iffy. I'd suggest they ALL are subject to copyright and you need to determine just what that means. Even if it's just someone's boring snapshots there is still copyright on those images. 1272
General Stock Discussion / Re: How to turn your copyright infringements into cash« on: September 18, 2012, 17:05 »
which is exactly what she said to me in her email this morning:
"I was unaware of the watermark issue and copyright/buying issue in using images from google, so I have learnt something important. " It seems Google, as the enabler, should really have a warning there, as surely we can also go after google? anyway, I offered her a very reasonable price (she's a school chaplain, too much bad karma in being greedy) and she has apologised and agreed to pay. I'm happy. 1273
General Stock Discussion / Re: How to turn your copyright infringements into cash« on: September 18, 2012, 06:20 »
thank you. that's my thought process too. no point scaring her off. let her know my image could have been purchased for something like $6, which is not much to avoid future embarrassment. Maybe try to turn her into a future customer for us all.
although I'll just take the straight $6 thanks, and not the pissy .68c comm i'd end up with... 1274
General Stock Discussion / Re: How to turn your copyright infringements into cash« on: September 18, 2012, 05:12 »
well today I had something funny happen. Was leaving a supermarket that isn't my local, it's near where my girls do music lessons (2 suburbs over). I spotted a flyer on a noticeboard and saw one of my images on it. I had a slight buzz to see it (although I must confess the first time I saw one of my images in use I was fantasising it would be on a bus or something:) and then upon closer inspection saw the watermark. What dumb luck that out of all the images of 2 girls on a stock sites this mother chose an image of a photographer who lives just round the corner... the usage of the image is a touch sensitive too: it's for a seminar of how images of young girls used in the media to sell things. The pic itself is very sweet so I'm staying calm - yes, they are my girls.
so now what? the seminar is promoting a nationally acclaimed author/speaker who should be mortified when she gets my email. the poor soccer mum who made the flyer clearly has no clue what she's done (why else would you use a watermarked image? there are plenty of unwatermarked ones on google). I'm quite keen to send a polite email explaining her infringement and including an invoice. How much for? any thoughts? 1275
iStockPhoto.com / Re: That's $2 for smallest file size and $10 for the largest« on: September 13, 2012, 17:46 »I think he was saying he wanted a coffee for 10c per cup total, not that he wanted a discount of 10c He wants Starbucks to sell coffee for less that what it costs (presumably) but then is upset that stock agencies are selling our stuff cheaply? *$2.85 for a coffee!! it's already cheap and he wants it cheaper. we pay $4 in Australia. (not Starbucks, good cafe coffee) |
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