I have been requesting a payment the 14th...nothing has happend yet, is this normal?
It is ennoying that the delay given is not respected, if it is 15 days why do they not  write 15 days ? , I need this transfert to myself pay  someone waiting and I have been given myself the delay that is indicated at stockexpert....very ennnoying indeed....
jean

I've also been researching exclusivity at IS.

Most of the IS exclusivity threads indicate that new exclusives see a 25%-100% immediate increase in earnings due to higher commission, better search placement, higher upload limits, and faster reviews. A small percentage haven't seen any increase or saw a decline. What will you see? Who knows.

SS seems to like persistence. Sometimes it takes 3-4 tries to get in. They are my top earner, with IS as a close 2nd. But I've also noticied you need to keep feeding SS new stuff to maintain higher earnings otherwise they start to drop off a bit. If I stopped uploading to all sites for a month, I have no doubt IS would take over as my top earner.

I guess it comes down to risk vs reward. What do you risk by using one site over many?

better search placement?
I dont think so, the best match has to my opinion nothing to do with exclusivity at IS,, it is not the interest of the client. However nobody knows for sure of course....
As to become exclusive, I have been thinking doing t my self. IS has always been where I got the highest earnings (have about 2700 pictures there as well as ST, FT, DT), however they are very unconsistans, and the situtaion is changing very much, believe me or not over the last 6 weeeks, Fotolia is the best  to me ! and this has never happend before, there are oviously things changing in the business, I would be more cautious than ever before making such decision. But to be honest I regularely consider it , but so far it wounldt be a good business to me.
jean

I discovered recently

http://mp.photoshelter.com/index

a quite new traditional library (not micro) and have now started to submit there. I came to ask myself what best strategy for the submission as beside all the microstock I also contribute to Alamy.

Up to now I have been keeping some pictures for RM at alamy and all other for micro as RF. I also have send few of those as RF at alamy, but I was told this was probably a wrong strategy so I will probably not continue to sell the same pictures as RF at micro and in the same time alamy.

But my question now is should I send the same pictures for RM at alamy and photoshelter? I intend to do so unless there is a good reason not to do so.
Thanks for sharing any view on this topic,
jean

Thanks for the comments,  the watermarks are there now....it was much easier than I thought...by the way, the whole concept is from IFP3

http://www.ifp3.com/

which I can only recommand if you need to build such a site , easy, and simple , very effective and friendly help....

jean

With the contribution of few of you here I have launched
http://www.energypicturesonline.com/
a library dedicated to energy & environment.
I'm still in the launching phase, busy with expanding the library and finding client in the same time, which is not easy....
If you have relevant pictures and want to join the adventure, let me know what you have. Preferably bulk of 50 pictures minimum.  I'm presently interested in industrial use and especially of pictures taken inside industrial plants related or using energy.
I also need nice lightnings pictures...
have a look and if you can contribute, contact me at [email protected]

jean

yes it is I, use moneybooker also because they are more reactive, in case of question MB is always answering directly!

Well done Jan, I recognized your picture at once....jean

I like BigStock too, but they dont....if only they could send me the money I requested 20 days ago via moneybooker......
jean

I have requestes a payment 2 weeks ago via maoneybooker, but have still now news about any money transfert, Ask the adm at bigstock 2 days ago, but no answer  (they pretend to answer within 24 hours). Anyone else having such experience?
Thanks for sharing,
jean

thanks all for the feedback and mails

I have enough of stand alone windmills pictures  but I'm still looking for windmills farms- those with 100's or more of units).
Contact me if you have at least 30-40 high quality pictures covering one of several topics mentionned below.

best wishes,
jean


Industrial
- Energy plant (gas, coal, fuel oil, nuclear)
- LNG terminals
- Oil Refineries
- Energy utilisation in the industry (glass, cast iron etc...)
- Flames / combustion
- Pipelines
- Renewable (wind, PV, biogas, solar...)
etc.. ask if you are not sure

Thanks Bryan, for the link , funny that there is an american  EIA beside the IEA (International Energy Agency)....jean

I'm presently working at setting up a site targetting to sell to an industry I know and where I have a network. To fill a gap , I'm looking for pictures of largers industrial plants that relate to energy (solar furnaces, oil refineries, nuclear plants, wind mills farms, etc...).

I'm looking for few people having this sort of pictures and are willing to collaborate. If you have those pictures and are interested, send me a mail ([email protected])  with a possible link where I can see the pictures and what camera you have used for the shots.

If you have a doubt if your pictures are relevant send me a mail, I will tell.

In case the pictures are relevant, I will return to you and explain the project more in detail.

Please note that I do this beside my job and have (not yet!!) anyone that helps, therefore I will only be able to offer a collaboration to very few. So I'm only looking for those of you that can cover the sort of picture I need for the time. At this stage I will also need to close my request when I have got the pictures needed.

In adavnce thank you for your help and understanding

jean

I havent been submitting to Alamy for few months now, but as I had my first sale last month, I have decided to submit more soon again.
So far I have submitted in Tiff but I see now that they request JPG but still with  48MB minimum uncompressed file size.
Doest it mean one shall upsize the file so to have 48MB in Tiff and than save in jpg with lowest compression possible?
Thanks for any comfirmation of the above.
jean