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Messages - gillian vann
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« on: April 08, 2012, 20:41 »
Across the board  . IS is the only one doing business as usual. For now...
Yes, it's Good Friday, Passover started last night at Midnight, so that covers much of the major religions.
Now it's time to say "sales have tanked big time" 
If only we could abolish religion we could make the designers buy our work at a nice, steady pace all year round.
It might hit the sales of Christmas and Easter images but I'm sure the retailers would find new reasons for things to need promoting.
I was thinking about that... Not sure what % of the overall stock market is US customers versus the rest of the world. anyone know? There are many countries that haven't shut down for the long weekend.
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« on: April 08, 2012, 20:35 »
[/quote] wasnt I clear?? [/quote] um, nope. There was a bit of a grammar fail in your sentence.  I worked out what you meant but that's only because I knew the answer already. The OP may not have.
1353
« on: April 08, 2012, 20:29 »
Thanks for the reply, Alex!
I'll wait and see what happens. Hopefully, they want all three!!! 
Cheers
Phil
lol reminds me of a line from My Blue Heaven.... "but why do you need 25 copies? [of a book] ~ "in case I want to read it more than once"
1354
« on: April 08, 2012, 02:06 »
The real bummer is having to upload a MR every time, instead of being able to link it to a bunch of images with a simple click.
1355
« on: April 08, 2012, 02:03 »
"female poses with various animals, aborigines and around hotel area"
It's not hard.
Last time I looked, Cape town was in South Africa, not Australia.
Aborigines is a term that refers to indigenous people, no matter what clump of ground they live on.
true, but not many do use that term as our lot seem to have adopted it (ok, we forced it on them). you wouldn't use it a search term for any other country... would you?
1356
« on: April 08, 2012, 01:59 »
just came along and read this, now you've removed the image I'm super curious.
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« on: April 06, 2012, 21:11 »
#1 "When you're ready to buy a new camera, that's when it will be time for a new camera."
velocicarpo my question is why would you switch from Canon to Nikon when you have (I'm guessing) a supply of Canon accessories and lenses already. Is the D800 that advanced or that much better for some reason, that you will divorce your Canon family and go for the new attractive sexy Nikon that just came into your life? LOL
agree! why switch brands? Happy to welcome you into the Nikon family of course  but why would you switch? I don't want to upgrade to the D800 cos the battery is different and I'd have to buy 3 more batteries too *yes I have a phobia of dead batteries, and yes, I'm that tight I baulk at the extra $100 for new batteries, on top of a new body cost* and doesn't it also only take the new CF cards? the hassle of new accessories is enough of a turn off at this stage. $450 for the genuine grip?!!! ouchie. clearly I'm not ready to upgrade!! happy to be in that space.
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« on: April 06, 2012, 20:33 »
thank you for making this. I've been using Yuri's (but it adds a lot of unrelated words too, and I've been getting a big of rejection from IS over it); keen to try this out. (you really should ask everyone for a small donation for your time)
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« on: April 06, 2012, 20:28 »
^^Why do you even bother then? I don't anymore and I had sales that were actually decent for a mid tier agency (meaning pathetic really)
honestly, I don't bother anymore, cos now I'd run into the situation that if I did make a sale how long would it take to get to the minimum payout?
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« on: April 06, 2012, 18:36 »
We've all got different business/personal costs so it's probably hard to quantify. It depends on whether we're here as f/t or part-timers too? I have a real photography business (with a studio + rent to pay) so stock is something I do as a by product, not my main focus.
I always see my images as "owing" me a certain amount before they are in profit. Usually if I do a job that's underpaying I take a few stock images and expect those images to pick up the difference (eventually). My daughter's trip to the optometrist cost me @$250, so those 6 images "owe" me that much just to break even. Same with travel photos, I always see them as "owing" me a certain % of the trip costs.
Those images you literally snap in a 2 seconds whilst out for coffee with friends, they owe me nothing (or maybe $4 for the coffee!) and are often my favourites cos they are in the profit zone from day one. Ditto for images that I've already been paid for, they've earned their keep already.
So after they've paid me back I still want my images to give me $100 profit. Or if they just pay the rent I'd be happy! That's probably my future goal for my stock.
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« on: April 06, 2012, 17:59 »
on the plus side, these are great days to get out and photograph with less people around... you could hit the streets and shoot with few interruptions. Yesterday (Good Friday is already over for us) I was driving through what is normally my local bustling cafe precinct and I wouldn't have been surprised to see tumbleweeds rolling down the street lol. Kicked myself that I'd wasted the day lolling about the house. Weather is absolutely perfect here too.
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« on: April 02, 2012, 05:19 »
I voted photodune purely on the basis of one image that's part of set
submitted to 10
accepted by 9
sold on 6
Photodune accepted the others but declined this one, which is the best seller. They are just odd like that. And given I make 0 income from them, I find it just irritating they are so picky! lol. They also have the worst upload process. just painful.
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« on: April 02, 2012, 04:34 »
I had a great month as a newbie. BME Shutterstock outdownloaded but iStock gave better $return. Unfortunately I was busy doing other paid photographic work and haven't yielded a lot of stock images from those jobs, so I'll be curious to see if my tiny port can sustain current earnings.
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« on: March 10, 2012, 08:02 »
I ignored the first couple of batches, effectively donating the images into DT's free section. My intention was to see whether it would increase paid image traffic. The answer is no. There was no visible increase in sales, however the now-free images got downloaded between 2 and 50 times each over the last two weeks.
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so what i learn from that is: buyers don't have standards when it comes to image quality, they are all about price.
and that is evident in the agencies dropping commissions to stay competitive.
the only one who truly suffers is the artist.
{buggar!}
1365
« on: February 27, 2012, 19:39 »
and how odd that after my post yesterday this morning all my accepted images were appearing in my port AND I had one sale through too. I should post here more often if it brings sales.
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« on: February 27, 2012, 00:27 »
i'm not a big earner, and this site is about my 4th, but I was wondering why i had zero sales over the past 4 months....
1367
« on: February 27, 2012, 00:25 »
aha! i've been wondering why I can't see the new additions to my portfolio. It took ages for them to be reviewed and I thought they were still in the review process as they haven't shown up, but it's been about 4 days now and the newer files still don't exist. hopefully it will be sorted out soon.
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« on: February 24, 2012, 07:31 »
about 3 hours ago i tried to log in, and went through about 10 log in screen with my security code (the one with the blurry words) being rejected.
Gave up and came back now. Have repeated the same actions at least a dozen times.
Frankly, I reckon a computer robot could beat their stupid blurry coded words quiz better than a human!!
1369
« on: February 23, 2012, 04:58 »
I can't see your image at 100%...but I'll give you my experience. I'm not sure what brand you shoot, but I shoot Canon and I own the 24-70 f/2.8L. That lens sucks...big time. It's great for editorial and reportage but for creative stock, it's the pits. I'm willing to bet that the "soft and lacking definition" is a result of the lens being soft in the corners. Take a look at the image at 100% and look at all four corners. Is it soft? Is it in focus?
I have an image submitted on the microstock agencies of a wind farm. I couldn't submit the image to the traditional agencies I work with because all four corners were soft. I cropped it to a smaller size and submitted it to the micros (that allow for smaller image sizes) and it has done very well.
That's my experience.
this will force a new habit for me. Often when I do final sharpening I take some off if the image has areas of shallow DOF, and usually that means the corners! shall pay more attention in the future. btw, I LOVE your image, it's the exact type of thing I love to shoot. I've got quite a few like that from my days at college shooting in b&w film and my teacher used to teasingly call me "house & garden", and then say "sorry, it's cute, but not commercial". *sigh* she'd easily get a job as a stock reviewer!
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« on: February 16, 2012, 07:48 »
some of us are heading into State Elections.... there's little room for any other news other than mud slinging and occasion dead celebrity
1371
« on: February 16, 2012, 05:00 »
Welcome to the funny farm, John. There are a few gems of information to be found but you must wade thru the pig stye to find that silk pig's ear purse.
that was delicately put, but I would agree. I've learned heaps here, but had to keep my hands off the keyboard a lot. Don't look for happy clappy sharing and singalongs, lol.
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« on: February 16, 2012, 04:58 »
Gear bags are a pain, I have 2 I use most one set up for weddings with extra stuff, safety pins, celebrity tape, mini hairspray and I jam my circle reflector in it when I take camera out - its a Crumpler, but it is black and sometimes if bag gets left in sun it gets so hot my celebrity tape melts....... wish they did big ones in a pale colour , anyway I have attached jewellery to it as my statement for being feminie. my stock bag is a sling over lowepro - which is smaller and everday it comes with me also as my hand bag - but I still haven't balanced everything in it and it occasionaly slips sort of, again that has a scarf often attached to it. Maybe we should design camera bags for women - theres a thought. oh and a bboring box shape cheapy for my back up camera for weddings which resides in boot of car.
there are about 4 good designers who do make women's camera bags. I too have a couple of crumpler bags and although they are much groovier than Lowepro they still scream "camera/electronic" gear. I'm thinking of getting myself a bag by Kelly Moore, just trying to choose a colour!
1373
« on: February 12, 2012, 03:55 »
If his posts are valuable to you then that's all that matters. My overall point is that his example of gathering income from any source available, including workshops, product tie-ins, etc is the way to look at making money as a photographer. There's a wider world than microstock is all I'm saying. Not everyone can teach a workshop, but image users are all around us.
This is similar to my thought stream. Most people who do microstock have other income streams. That in itself is an excellent attitude to running a business, so I am often confused to read so much negativity and spitefulness. I get it, you don't want newbies coming into your world. but that fear is part of everyone's world. The only way to conquer it is to be better (was his word "hustle"? lol). I often join photography forums only to discover, with dismay, that I don't like any of the people in those forums, they all need to go to a Tony Robbins seminar and get some happy. For such creativity and general awesomeness, a lot of photographers are just not nice people.
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« on: February 10, 2012, 18:42 »
yes I have to agree, the blown out sky is the thing that says "I shoot in Auto". I liked your arched doorway image, although that's just me, I love stuff like that. I find that type of image is not often accepted and doesn't sell well, although it's a lovely image for a travel story.
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« on: February 08, 2012, 02:40 »
great story, off to check out Prey.
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