Any advice,  or just accept that's the way it is?

your guess is correct. but i do believe there's a third way. it's called stockfresh.  

Quote from: alina8528 on June 03, 2010, 00:01

I am on alamy as well, but I don't think there is a need for total switch over.  Pictures that you took which are very specific location, or copyright material, or newsworthy may sell better on alamy.  However talking about the micros.

Shutterstock is a no brainer.. submit to them
Istock.  They have good earnings but I find it fairly laboursome to submit too.  I still submit, but I grumble every time.  I also find the 20 image/day upload limit a pain.
Dreamstime- they have been good.  not as good of a $/picture/year as Istock or shutterstock (which are about the same) but I have good income from them
Bigstock, and Fotolia - they are about the same in earnings. Bigstock is a little easier to upload to I think, However Fotolia gives the .20 per accepted image which ads a fair bit.

I also submit everything to stockxpert and 123RF.  Stockxpert takes 0 work to submit to... it is just a matter of letting your ftp uloader fun, then click 1 button to submit the 200 images you just uploaded (if you have embeded keywords and titles)... very simple.  123 RF is almost as easy as they don't have any catagories.... so i find uploading to them is generally well worth my time, despite the low earnings there.

I don't submit to feature pics... I haven't heard of much action there.. but if you hear different, I would be interested in knowing.

Anyone notice the today's post?
 
"I also submit everything to stockxpert and 123RF.  Stockxpert takes 0 work to submit to... it is just a matter of letting your ftp uloader fun, then click 1 button to submit the 200 images you just uploaded (if you have embeded keywords and titles)... very simple...."

Talk about time warp...maybe he meant CanStock

he's actually reposting leaf's post from 2006. i think he's just trying to spam his south africa soccer link. (don't click) 

Let's look at the $ contributors would earn at SF, compared to what I've been earning at FT as a Silver contributor (obviously base level contributors make less, and higher level contributors more):

Size / SF / FT

0.1 MP / $0.50 / $0.31
0.5 MP / $1.00 / $0.93
2.0 MP / $1.50 / $1.55
6.0 MP / $2.50 / $2.17 or $2.48 (4MP or 8MP)
12. MP / $5.00 / $3.10 (but 15MP)

So it seems that SF pays more $ to contributors, yet buyers pay less? Sounds like win / win to me, if they can be successful.

hey, i was about to write a similar post.

If IS, now the dominant microstock co., were to offer these terms, they will probably wipe out the competition. however, they're kind of into developing their 'exclusive' brand to achieve these ends. it may be higher commission for their exclusives, but not cheaper for their buyers.

the fact that stockfresh is doing it on both ends means that they are willing to take a reduction to their own bottom line in order to promote a business model that can be very successful in the long  run.

i will never forget that as a newbie my first xl sale on stx netted me $5, only $3 at is and elsewhere and the same $5 for an el at ft.

No, if they have been approved they should show up in your port and be for sale. If they are not there, you might want to send an email to support.

thanx!

I'd never heard the name 'whitechild' before, but that, combined with the skinhead appearance, concerned me.

in that case, telly savalas must be the father of all skinheads. you have to admit, whitechild, i mean dreamframer is a dead ringer. 

never thought i'd contribute to gl, but now there's an incentive. even though the ipad is not a big market right now, it certainly has potential. it's great they've made it ipad compatible so you can download directly rather than go through the mac interface via the hub (a huge pain).

i don't know why but dt has really bounced back for me. it's almost 3x of april and only a few $ short of is performance this month. it seems dt and ft are picking up the slack for ss and is. this is when you really appreciate the freedom of not being exclusive.

Making a nice "working" collage is a skill on it's own - you have to think about the concept and matching colors and shapes, and so on. Most people just slap a bunch of images together and call it a collage. Maybe that's why some agencies don't want to accept them.

i've been thinking about making a collage too, so this is a timely topic. the more successful ones i've looked at are well designed in themselves. there's something about them that makes it look not only totally pulled together but highly creative in the placement of each photo, size and shape.

i also felt collages are a good way to use those shots where only a part of it is attractive or usable since it won't need as much 'real estate' on the collage itself.

i'm having my bme at dt...but that's starting from a fairly low benchmark. may is going to be double of april though.

for my nikon d700, i found the tamron 90mm 2.8 macro to be really versatile. it does macro, portraits, studio, tight landscapes. it's lightweight and fast. i also like the nikkor 50mm 1.8 (super fast), but obviously can't do macro as well.

however, i found the nikkor 200mm 2.8 vrII  to be the best all around lens for when i'm outside, trying to sneak up on animals (or even people), events, sports, etc. the picture quality is truly wonderful. it's only drawback is its heaviness and inability to shoot closer than 3 ft.

The Member Page displays a few of your latest submissions to the site, you aren't able to choose which ones at the moment. 

It is odd that yours would suddenly disappear-shoot an email over to [email protected] and I can probably sort it out.

well, compliments to the computer for choosing my best photos.  my port returned so i guess all's well.

or perhaps I still claim royalties through StockXpert and only have to use IS if I wanted to  upload new files to TS 

bingo!