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Newbie Discussion / Re: Recommendations for a newcomer

« on: February 23, 2009, 12:15 »

Disappointment today. Submitted my first 6 images to Dreamstime only for them all to be rejected!! Mainly because they have got lots of those already! This is turning out to be even harder than I thought.

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Newbie Discussion / Re: Recommendations for a newcomer

« on: February 21, 2009, 06:40 »

Quote from: sharply_done on February 20, 2009, 23:55

Quote from: wins75 on February 20, 2009, 14:03
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Incidentally there is a microstock book by Douglas Freer i saw on Amazon. I went to my local Borders bookshop but they did not have a copy so I could not browse through it and was wondering if anyone has this book and is it good? or worth getting?

An ultra-quick Google search shows he's been on DT for three years and has only 2600+ sales. He's been on IS for even longer and has barely managed 10k sales. Unless your aspirations are low, I don't think you will benefit much from his 'insights'.

I read that website you suggested thanks which is quite good.

With regards to Douglas Freer himself it doesn't matter to me how much he has sold in microstock because I am learning to get into these big sites just now. For someone new like myself I was just wondering if his book was any good and if it adds anything new not mentioned already on microstock tutorial websites so I could decide whether or not it was worth getting?

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Newbie Discussion / Re: Recommendations for a newcomer

« on: February 20, 2009, 14:03 »

Thanks for all your encouraging comments so far, i think as a newbie getting feedback from others as well makes things less frustrating and encourages one not to give up and keep persisting.
Incidentally there is a microstock book by Douglas Freer i saw on Amazon. I went to my local Borders bookshop but they did not have a copy so I could not browse through it and was wondering if anyone has this book and is it good? or worth getting?

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Newbie Discussion / Re: Recommendations for a newcomer

« on: February 17, 2009, 08:14 »

Finally submitted to bigstock and got some photos accepted. See how it goes. How difficult is it to submit at Dreamstime is it like shutterstock or istock?

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Newbie Discussion / Help with Istock registration

« on: February 16, 2009, 10:21 »

Keep getting "Error: File uploaded must be in .JPEG Format" whenever I try to upload my photo id. Yet the file i am uploading of my drivers license is in .jpg format so I dont understand why it is not letting me?

Anyone had similair problems and what did you do, or any ideas?

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Newbie Discussion / Re: Photo id for istock, ss, etc

« on: February 13, 2009, 17:49 »

Thanks for the good suggestion Adelaide, it helps.

Which govt photo id are most people tending to use?

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Newbie Discussion / Photo id for istock, ss, etc

« on: February 13, 2009, 17:01 »

Is it safe uploading government id onto sites that request it? I am trying to get my head around to doing this for istock. Is this a new thing? What do other newcomers think about this and those who has uploaded to join istock has there been any problems like identity theft etc?

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Newbie Discussion / Re: Recommendations for a newcomer

« on: February 13, 2009, 09:17 »

Quote from: FlemishDreams on February 12, 2009, 19:04

Quote from: wins75 on February 12, 2009, 08:05
I have got decent photos mainly landscape and travel that are rejected by fotolia.

Be serious. How can we judge when you even don't put a link here to what you've got?

Hi Flemish

Here's a weblink to a small gallery of mine (6 photos in it)
Comments welcome from yourself and everyone else. Where do you think is a good place that will accept such photos?
Suggestions very welcome

http://pa.photoshelter.com/usr-show/U0000svgnQeuMhV8

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General Stock Discussion / recommendations anyone

« on: February 12, 2009, 08:07 »

Can anyone recommend microstock sites for a newcomer bearing in mind it is inceasingly difficult to get acceptances in the big established ones like fotolia?
I have got decent photos mainly landscape and travel that are rejected by fotolia.

Thanks

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Newbie Discussion / Recommendations for a newcomer

« on: February 12, 2009, 08:05 »

Can anyone recommend microstock sites for a newcomer bearing in mind it is inceasingly difficult to get acceptances in the big established ones like fotolia?
I have got decent photos mainly landscape and travel that are rejected by fotolia.

Thanks