How long can it be before SS just starts signing their own photographers?  You pay an entry fee and get couple days of training on how to meet their "standards" and you're ready to spend all your time shooting the subjects they assign you.   Totally on commission of course so you get nothing unless it sells, but you get their "list" which has to be pure gold - an premium payment, like $1 instead of 25 cents.  Turnover will be high, but newbies will line up down the block.   It's all structured so that small entry fee means they make money on the 'training' seminar no matter what.  And hey you get a certificate for your wall that says "Professional Photographer".

Quite the facepalm for a big name publication like VF.   Who the heck are they hiring to do their covers?  First, a photographer who gets a bunch of top celebs and can't deliver a pose the editor likes; then a total hack by some bright kid with PS and, apparently, not enough time to to things right. 

I had no luck at all. I also tried LinkedIn with no success. If you find the secret of selling prints on FAA, please let me know - it has been a very "dry" period for me over there.

Steve

I have one boosted now that's about to get its 100th 'like'.   And not seeing any FAA hits on that photo at all.

Maybe we need to add some really explicit text about how cool it would be to have a framed print on your wall.

Yes but that thread is old.  Guess I could try to revive it.

I've been trying what steheap tried - boosting a post of a photo, with a target audience based on 'interests'.   Same results - lots of 'likes' from a weird assortment of people, a few hits on the actual FAA page, then... silence.    I think you might have to boost something for a long time, at considerable expense, to generate a sale. 

I just checked out my own 'interests' on FB - the things FB thinks I'm interested in, and would use to show me ads.  And those interests were 95% totally random nonsense - many of them things I'd certainly never clicked on even once.  So if that's the database FB is using, forget it, it's worthless. 

So FB is probably a waste of money.   

But, I don't give up easily.  There might be ways to target people who actually buy prints, but I don't yet know what it is.

Here's how the "partner sales" game would work in real estate.

I'm a real estate agent, you list your house with me, and agree that my commission will be 6%.  Later on you agree to increase your chance of a sale by participating in my "partner" plan: if the "partner" sells it, you also pay him 6% .   Now, I hand your listing over to another agent, he sells it, I do nothing, we both get 6%.

But hey,  it's "a sale you would otherwise not have gotten".   

AFAIK, just about everything having to do with 500px currently "hangs there going nowhere".

Not expecting any good news from this site from here on out. They should change the name from 500px to 5px.

Quote from: stockastic on December 15, 2017, 11:56

Some of you guys who think 'neutrality' represents a government takeover need to look up 'common carrier' and understand a concept that goes back quite a ways. 

Then imagine a world of privatized highways where everyone is charged a different rate and assigned different priveleges.  Wow, those convoys of triple-bottom Walmart trucks are allowed to go 10 mph faster than you and and itn the winter they might blow you right into the ditch as they pass.   Same with the employees of those big banks downtown, their employers ponied up to get them in on time.  Now here comes the bridge - you pull over and get in line, while suburbanites go ahead because they're getting a special promotion this month to increase market share.   Don't like it? Feel "free" to take the back roads.

That will happen when the technology allows.....there has been discussion in the UK about differential road pricing by time of day once the smart boxes in places only a matter of time......

And so easy once all vehicles are self-driving.  If you're not paying attention to the road, you won't even know you've just been stiffed.   It's becoming a 2-tiered world in so many ways. 

Basically if you love Comcast, or own a lot of their stock, you don't want net neutrality.  All those who love Comcast please raise your hands...

I don't think ISPs will favor partisan content, although that's a possible future (think "Subscribe now to FOX high speed internet and get the truth faster!").  What Comcast wants to do is extort money out of companies like Netflix, that sell content over the internet.   

Is it the actual law that will forbid internet providers to supply internet as they did up to now or they are changing the law/regulation to let them charge extra if they please?

The short answer is, nobody seems to know what will be allowed, which is exactly what the industry wants.  I suspect they'll be able to do pretty much whatever they want.

It won't happen all at once, though.   Comcast etc. won't run out and invest big sums in pay-to-play schemes right away because they know quite well that the Republicans may be out of power in a couple years and the Democrats will just reinstate neutrality.  That's the real problem with 51/49 politics - we run from one side of the boat to the other.  The game has become: find ways to do things that can't be easily undone, legally speaking.   It stinks.

This is exactly why i got out of IS and SS a year ago. This isn't even "stock" - we need a new name for it. And not a nice one.

Sales are expanding for the agency and sales at the same time are contracting for the supplier.

I'm not sure anyone is disputing that.  The agencies have essentially no unit cost of production for images they already have - so they can just continue cutting prices, which increases sales - while also cutting royalties, either outright or by the subterfuge of so-called 'subscriptions'.   The only fixed cost the agencies face is storage, which is a cost that declines over time.   Basically, they've got it made, it's a money machine for years to come.

I'll assume you mean 'menu item', not 'tab'.

In the "Thumbnails" window where I see and select photos, there's no "Image" menu item.  In the other (main?) window, which is empty, there's an Image menu, but no IPTC selection in it.

Are we talking about the same program?

But hey - we can let this go.  I just found a little gem of a program called PixiShot that does this in a simple and obvious way - see thumbnails, right-click copy, right-click paste. And it's free.