Hello all,

I'm pretty new here, and I really enjoy this site.

Inspired by Leaf's 5-year comparison of sites, I thought we could all show our comparison of the top 6 (or whichever we're part of) each month as we could see the variance between people that way. I think one reason people don't necessarily show their graphs is because it is alot of annoying work - put the data into excel or w/e, graph, upload the graph, etc. But we could all just use google charts - all you need is your 6 numbers for the month (say, downloads), and then the charts are made automatically with you just putting them in the img link...

For example, my numbers (say, downloads, or income) for Jan'09 are 39 for IS, 5 for SS, 2 for DT, 0 for FT and 5 for SX. Then, all I do is type:
[ img ] chart.apis.google.com/chart?cht=bvs&chd=t:39,5,2,0,5&chs=200x200&chl=IS|SS|DT|FT|SX&chds=0,40 [ /img ]
(the 0,40 at the end of the address is just the   min,max   of the graph).



no pre-uploading or w/e necessary. So, with this simplicity in mind, can we all compare our top 6 monthly quickly for this month?

-just an idea
adijr

cool read!  nice to see the variety here...

so explain something to me...
If your yearly (total, say, instead of averaged as is being discussed) RPI is 10$ and you've been in the game about, say, 2 years, then your total RPI is, say, ~20$ (if the first year was similar).
Now, if it took you about 1 hour on average per image (fair? including camera time, photoshop time, uploading time, and multi-images etc?), and you had them all 100% accepted, that means that if you stop with microstock right now (for whatever reason) you'll have made an average of 20$/hour?

I'm not really a (good) microstock submitter, just playing learning photography/CGI and submitting only every now and then since September 09, and mostly for testing my (lack of) skills rather than money making. So I might be heavily wrong on this (?)
With a grand total of about 10 pictures at IS, I made about 200$ in 4 months... So i guess 20$ yearly RPI?
Other sites are not worth mentioning for me....

adijr

edit: P.S.
Here's a breakdown of my short earnings - maybe we could all do this sort of thing for the 'Top X'. (Google Charts)

Hello all,

I'm pretty new to this whole business and I'm trying to understand something:

How does one know what you can take a picture of in terms of technology (laptops, monitors, etc)? I would have assumed that most brand names have some sort of design copyright (e.g. apple) yet there's tons of images of the obvious brands (with the logo taken off, but still). eg:

http://www.istockphoto.com/file_closeup.php?id=8842226

How does one know...?

thanks
adi

p.s. should this be in the general microstock discussion? if so, feel free to move it...