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Messages - Kone
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« on: July 02, 2010, 21:18 »
Hello everyone, I recently started photography. About 2 months ago. I have found out about Stock Photography this week and it made me quite interested by it.
Wow! You've wasted a whole month and 29 days!
I'd suggest spending a bit more time just shooting and enjoying and learning about your new toy before stepping into the business of stock.
I have to admit that sjlocke is right. Learn as much as you can about your gear and photography in general before you start sock photography. I'm not saying that you're not a good photographer, but stock photography is specific and you have to do a lot of research. Someone above suggested that you check the first 4 on the right side of the screan, which is good advice for a start. See what they sell and where you fit in. I wish you good luck, and have lots of fun. 
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« on: July 02, 2010, 06:58 »
Pozdrav, ja sam Goran iz Rijeke
Dobro dosao
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« on: July 01, 2010, 21:59 »
Hi Nodixal and welcome!
I am from Toronto too.
Elvinstar is right, so is Sharply_Done but in another thread. You need to do some research first.
You have some very good images but nobody will know if they will sell or not. If I knew that, I will be rich by now.
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« on: June 30, 2010, 15:41 »
Congrats on the sale. Wish you many more.
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« on: June 28, 2010, 13:34 »
@ PowerDroid
So look at my example, I had over 5000 images on DT and I deleted more than 2500, so my RPI went through the roof. That happened because I deleted the images that had no sales. But that doesn't mean anything to my income, I did not collect any more money than before and I am not going to. Actually, this may even hurt my income in the long run. But as I said, my RPI is now very high.
Lisa, gostwyck and sjlocke are right.
So it is good to know your RPI to compare past earnings to current ones. However, my monthly income is the only thing I look at. If you track your hours and monthly income, that will tell you how much you are making per hour. But again, the next month will be totally different and you can't use this to predict your future income.
You mentioned that RPI tells you to stop uploading to some agencies, I don't need the RPI to tell me that, if I see no income, I will quit that agency on my own. So this is very simple, without spending days, or even months, to calculate your RPI accurately.
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« on: June 28, 2010, 08:28 »
On the flip side, wouldn't it be extremely interesting to know that after a significant amount of time, your RPI held steady at a constant number? That's a valuable piece of information! It gives you some confidence that unless significant factors change, you can increase your output and your revenue will increase at a constant rate. This has been true for me after nearly two years in microstock, so it is encouraging and helpful for me to track it.
Nope. I imagine that most of us who don't bother with RPI can simply see that dividing one number into another doesn't actually tell you anything. When you've been doing this for a while longer you will probably come to the same conclusion.
Monthly earnings is all that really matters and you will soon find that the most significant factor in earnings is the season. When you have a mature portfolio, say 4 years +, you'll almost certainly find your RPI will shoot up and down according to the season. If you are struggling to pay your mortgage one month what do you think your bank manager is going to be interested in? A nice spreadsheet showing the seasonal variation of earnings over each year ... or your RPI?
Funny, but true.
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« on: June 25, 2010, 20:21 »
For me this whole year has been a bit slow, but June is a bit better than the last two months. Only DT is down, but I stopped uploading there and I deleted around 2500 images.
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« on: June 25, 2010, 09:04 »
Best bet is to learn from all rejections and resubmit the same one from time to time in hopes of getting a better reviewer.
Personally I never resubmit the rejected image. If they don't like it...what is the point of resubmitting? Also if you want to learn from the rejection why do you resubmit the same one?
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« on: June 25, 2010, 08:55 »
This is a real problem on all agencies: I have the same issue with industrial pictures, brutalist/rationalist architecture, rainy days pictures... I came to the conclusion that microstock only wants positive, optimistic concepts and there's (almost) no room for the dark side which I like so much
You are 100% right. I came to the same conclusion before, but even if they approve such an image it doesn't sell. @UncleGene Things are normal for me.
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« on: June 24, 2010, 08:20 »
Dont understand where to look on iStock site to see this???
What ThingStoka has with original iStock???
As I understand stuff from ex StockXpert are on Thing.
Aaa I dig it out I manually disabling 2 year images from iStock for prostitution on Thing, so I dont have images thru iStock on ThingStoka 
Mamu im jbm anyhow
puke
I don't understand what is your question, maybe this will help Look at: "Stats" for general amount or "My uploads" and go to "Partner program".
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« on: June 23, 2010, 21:05 »
I mean that when I cheched first time this morning at 7 o' clock (GMT) there were only a few dollars and I was a bit disappointed. Then I checked again and again and one hour later the total amount finally stabilised - and it's pretty good indeed.
I respect those who chose not to join the partner programme since $.25 is too low, each of us must draw a line and $.25 is the limit for me as well. But I joined and I'm not missing StockXpert at all: the amount earned now through the IS+TS partnership is almost the same, even if I have much less pictures now on TS.
I also noted that a lot of pictures which were not selling much on IS (such as simple backgrounds and textures) are having a second chance now on TS. I may sound a bit optimistic but credits and subs are possibly complementary and not competing completely.
Maybe that is why your IS earnings are down...
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« on: June 23, 2010, 18:54 »
Great video.
Hey, how come, you are not an amateur anymore?
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« on: June 18, 2010, 17:20 »
Yes, you as photographer, have to sign model release as well.
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« on: June 16, 2010, 19:04 »
I will side with the "get good glass" group.
Even when I was shooting crop cameras I mostly got full frame lenses. I would hate to build up a bunch of lenses that end up limiting which camera I can get to use them with.
When I got the 5D (and now the 5DII) I didn't have to bother upgrading lenses.
I am there too. (just Nikon juser)
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« on: June 16, 2010, 08:55 »
^^ +1
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« on: June 15, 2010, 18:21 »
iStockphoto is getting some upgrades
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« on: June 15, 2010, 15:40 »
Lately, more and more people are talking about some big changes in the Microstock industry. "It is coming soon, a new Microstock style, giving your images for free?!?" If this is the case then I am done with Microstock.
No freebies. I don't give my images for free. I live from photography and why would I give it for free. Camera and photo equipment is expensive. I don't get that for free. Who is going to pay my time spent producing free images?
Microstock is big part of my income but if I quit Microstock I will have more (plenty) of time to do some other stuff (as a photographer). Currently, I spend 70% of my time on Microstock productions so if I use that time to advertise myself I think it will pay off.
"Microstock - Microprices. There is no money." - That is what I have been told by some of my friends who are photographers in 2005-2006 when I joined Microstock. But I found a way to make some money and after all of this, if agencies want me to give them my images for free, I will quit Microstock and close all of my accounts. No agencies give us anything for free (they make more money from our images then we do) so why should we give them free images. For exposure? If they do that, personally I think it will be the end of Microstock. Are they trying to go back to 2003 and start all over again?
Personally I think this is not going to happen, they can't ask us to give them files for free, they must have something smarter on the way. Right now we need some growth in income or most of the big guys will leave Microstock. If they leave, customers will leave too (those who are after quality). So somebody with something else will come up, maybe RM Microstock.
And also agencies are making big money on this business so why would they screw this all up? I am not worried too much right now, I'm just trying to say that I am not supporting a free-image type Microstock and I am not interested in that type of business at all.
I know some of you commented on this in the other thread but anyway feel free to say few words.
I am wondering what you think and what would you do if this is true. Free images?
Me? I am out!
Kone
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« on: June 14, 2010, 21:23 »
^^ +1
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« on: June 14, 2010, 12:50 »
When do you reckon the summer slowdown starts and for how long in your experience, approximately?
Cheers
Started at June last year, no idea when it is going to end.
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« on: June 14, 2010, 07:56 »
I used to do landscapes/landmarks and models but inspired by Kone's port, I started to shoot objects/body parts/concepts in lightbox the past week, with a more unusual touch, like this and this.
Hey, thanks FD 
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« on: June 13, 2010, 19:47 »
Yeah, not just Istock, everywhere is slow right now for me. I had more downloads last year at same time period, nevermind portfolio size.
I got lots of views on I stock but not many sales. As you said mostly old files are getting sales.
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« on: June 12, 2010, 14:16 »
I think some sites are changing toward more compelling pricing. Fotolia has tiered pricing. Istock has E+ and Vetta. It's a move in the right direction but is still RF.
Microstock started out as community snapshots from ametuers. Now it has a reasonable percentage of professional quality images. Prices and compensation need to reflect that. Maybe macro was too expensive to support the buyer market but micro is too cheap to support contributors. We need to reach a happy median and I think we're slowly getting there. But a magazine cover with a $25 RF micro image isn't quite there yet. I think one of the agencies will eventually introduce a simplfied Micro RM license and I'd bet Getty will push Istock into some type of model like that at some point.
I agree with this 100%. PS: Hey Paulie, nothing personal, but I like more your old profile photo, it is just more appealing for me.
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« on: June 10, 2010, 08:02 »
In the time you used to write your forum post you would have keyworded at least two images!
Just make yourself a big cup of strong coffee, put some nice music on the background and start keywordin'.
^^ +1
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« on: June 04, 2010, 16:50 »
Hi all, here's some fun stuff.
I decided to post quotes of some famous photographers and anonymous. Feel free to post any you may also remember.
These are some of my favourites:
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There is nothing worse than a brilliant image of a fuzzy concept. - Ansel Adams
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A good photograph is knowing where to stand. - Ansel Adams
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A photograph is not an accident it is a concept. - Ansel Adams
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Once photography enters your bloodstream, it's like a disease. - Anonymous
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Never show a customer two prints of different density. He will ask you to print a third with a density between the two. - Anonymous
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Learn from the mistakes of others, because you won't have time to make them all yourself. - Anonymous
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Photography was once described as painting with light. - Anonymous
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Photography is like golf, you never master it, but you can always get better. - Anonymous
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Most cameras and most lenses are better than most photographers. - Anonymous
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If you buy a flute, you own a flute. So why is it that when you buy a camera, you're a photographer? - Anonymous
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Photography is like a lemon, sour to some, but lemonade to others. - Anonymous
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The pictures you want tomorrow, you have to take today. - Anonymous
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Upgrade your knowledge before you upgrade your camera. - Anonymous
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My portraits are more about me than they are about the people I photograph. - Richard Avedon
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Lately I've been struck with how I really love what you can't see in a photograph. - Diane Arbus
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A snapshot steals life that it cannot return. A long exposure [creates] a form that never existed. - Dieter Appelt,
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Creativity is allowing yourself to make mistakes. Art is knowing which ones to keep. - Scott Adams
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Having and camera makes you no more a photographer than having a hammer and some nails makes you a carpenter. - Claude Adams
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Photography is not about cameras, gadgets and gismos. Photography is about photographers. A camera didn't make a great
picture any more than a typewriter wrote a great novel. - Peter Adams
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If it makes you laugh,
if it makes you cry,
if it rips out your heart,
that's a good picture. - Eddie Adams
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« on: June 01, 2010, 16:33 »
Yes, way down with DT and this is the first month in years that I did not make enough to cash out. I am short $4 this month.
All the other sites are about 15% down.
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