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« on: October 21, 2009, 10:20 »
1 min  !!! that is very good. already the raw settings take longer, even in lightroom :-). but for the money one gets it is clear that wasting time is not a good idea.
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« on: October 21, 2009, 04:13 »
thank you! 
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« on: October 20, 2009, 12:50 »
yes....i was thinking the same before. thanks for all your tips, you are great people. i am improving my technique a lot here, that's the best about it all.
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« on: October 20, 2009, 07:21 »
I can't believe, my key photo was accepted at Dreamstime... they seem to have low isolation requirements....!
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« on: October 16, 2009, 10:28 »
wow so cool all the things i can learn here. :-)) i have to say i don't do all this primarily for the money... i like it and i found out it makes my photography improve. that's great!
thank you so much!
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« on: October 16, 2009, 10:17 »
Hello,
I just got a photo accepted in FT, and a few minutes later it was suddenly rejected (overabundant category). It was a landscape of a beautiful lake, no pictures of that place yet in Fotolia.....
Is that normal or should I contact them?
Simone
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« on: October 16, 2009, 07:12 »
thanks! :-))
hehe, no i won't post my terrible isolations. :-))))
the first isolation i did however even sold at DT! hah! :-))) but it took soooo long.
thanks for all your advice, you're a great group and website!
Simone
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« on: October 16, 2009, 06:07 »
great, i will try to put only the key :-). thanks for your page for the isolating technique! Simone 
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« on: October 16, 2009, 04:53 »
Hello ljupco,
thanks for your quick answer!
I guess you mean putting it in front of a suitable background that is already white?
The chain was actually hard to isolate...
Thanks!
Simone
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« on: October 16, 2009, 04:51 »
Hello,
I have joined the microstock world 2-3 weeks ago, and signed up with Fotolia and Dreamstime, and it has gone quite ok up to now.
I would like to extend to more agencies - but all the others of the Big 6 need to review some of your pictures for becoming a contributor.
I know that this is hard for Istock, but is it also that hard for StockXpert and 123RF? I would like to find out if I should wait a bit longer until I have become more familiar with the microstock world or if I can send them some decent photos and try.
Simone
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« on: October 16, 2009, 04:46 »
hahaha.... may i contribute my rank to make you guys feel very good? :-))) overall rank 53000 7 days rank 9360  well i just started 2 weeks ago or so. but i sold 3 files in FT and 2 in DT with about 13 online files in each of them, so that's already a happy result :-). Simone
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« on: October 16, 2009, 03:51 »
Hello, I have started with microstock shortly, and got 10-20 pictures online with Fotolia and Dreamstime and sold 6 (that's cool!). They liked mostly my landscapes, but now I'd like to put more stock oriented things... and here I am really bad at isolating them. I have this picture of an old key, I guess it's stock-oriented. It was rejected because of techincal problems at Fotolia (Dreamstime still in the queue), and I am sure it's because of my bad isolation skills, it is the second time I am doing that, and it took hours and hours and hours. How do you guys do that? I like the quick selection in cs4, and i use that onOne Mask plugin...but many times the quick mask is not doing what i want, and the onOne thing is also quite cumbersome... is there something better? Here is the photo. It was against a green background, and since the metal reflects the green got a bit tirening to isolate... http://simsisworld.at/public/key.jpg(please don't kill me immediately, i have never done this before.....) Simone
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« on: September 20, 2009, 11:20 »
Hello,
my keywords are not translated to other languages for a photo... is that normal? I am new to Dreamstime, how can I contact support to tell them about this?
Thank you!
S.
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« on: September 18, 2009, 22:20 »
Hello, I need your short help. Do you have a calibrated monitor? I just calibrated my monitor with Spyder express. I am shocked......... I need your help to say if what I see is true.... lol all the things turned very yellow, and blue turned into purple. For example in my coffee cup, is it really that horribly yellow? I mean....not beautifully yellow but TOO yellow? For me the blue glass border is purplish. Same in the tunnel picture, the walls are purplish that before were blue. The wine isn't so shocking, a bit too saturated and a bit too yellow. is it really like this or is my calibration wrong? I did it 4 times now...resetting all graphics card settings and windows settings. Does Photoshop CS4 load some Adobe Gamma or something like that that could trouble me here? Thank you so much! Simone Color test: MICROSTOCKGROUP FORUM IS GREAT
MICROSTOCKGROUP FORUM IS GREAT
MICROSTOCKGROUP FORUM IS GREATPS in this colortest (using red, blue, green) the blue is purple.......hmmmmmm..... In this page http://www.pacificnet.net/~johnr/calib.html the blue on the right side looks purple. I guess this is not normal. Did you experience such problems?
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« on: September 18, 2009, 18:30 »
Hello,
I am new to Dreamstime. I wonder if there is a way to order the keywords according to importance? For me they always remain in alphabetic order. Probably that is normal, but I wasn't sure, I wanted to ask. :-)
And what does that keyword cloud represent? what does it mean if some words are bigger? I have pictures with 0 views with big and small keywords, obviously it can't be the words they used to search for finding my pictures?
Thank you!
S.
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« on: September 18, 2009, 13:50 »
Hello! :-) I found out that in dreamstime you get better descriptions of your rejections. You guys were totally right! For the wine glass they said: - Image is out of focus or too much of the subject is out of focus (DOF too shallow or DOF not justified) / Image is shaken. Use a faster speed or a tripod. Please check the files at 100% zoom before submitting them. - Poor lighting setup, poor contrast or incorrect exposure. Coffee cup: - Image is out of focus or too much of the subject is out of focus (DOF too shallow or DOF not justified) / Image is shaken. Use a faster speed or a tripod. Please check the files at 100% zoom before submitting them. Tunnel: - Poor lighting setup, poor contrast or incorrect exposure. It's things I sometimes don't even see, there is a lot to learn! :-) They accepted other things, so i don't feel bad now ;-))). At dreamstime they accepted one that was rejected in Fotolia and vice versa. I will stay with those two and see what will happen. What do you suggest to improve my photography? How did you learn? Thank you so much! I'm really happy about this, I can learn a lot here. S.
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« on: September 16, 2009, 15:18 »
Dear Tom,
thanks for the nice advice. It is really good what to say. I read quite a bit before, and I am not the person jumping like this into things, so I feel confident. I will give it a try. If it doesn't work it's fine. I might have lost some time of work on photos, but you know, I like this a lot, so I'd probably even do it without submitting there (maybe with less perfection and in different ways, but anyway).
I am just trying, I have no idea if I am good enough, but I also think it is a great opportunity to get better, because we're forced to bring our shots to perfection. :-) Momentarily the money is not the highest importance for me. Yes, it's great, but I have a great passion for taking photos. The only not so funny thing about it is all the stuff about releases. It makes everything so complicated and I don't feel like walking up to somebody I don't know asking if he/she wants to sign something. I don't know...
Thank you very much for everything!
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« on: September 16, 2009, 13:34 »
Oh thanks! Reading this I conclude that for both pictures I'd need model releases. Right?
What about the logo on a railway?
And Times Square?
Thank you so much! :-))
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« on: September 16, 2009, 11:24 »
Hello,
I am new to microstock... and totally confused about all the model and property release things. I hope I don't post into the wrong section, but I found no section for this...
So at first, when exactly do you need a model release? I have two examples of photos below where you don't see the person's face, hence...no model release? Even if the person is the main subject of the photo? (I won't actually use those, they're just snapshots of my friends ;-)), just as an example)
And then what makes me much more confused are all the property releases..... I mean I can never be sure to be alright if I don't go into each of the buildings of my pictures and ask... For example I took a picture of the Alaska railway. Is it protected, do I have to remove their logo from the train, etc etc...... :-(
I also took a good picture of New York Times Square. But with all the logos....brand names, etc. Can I upload it?? Even if I remove them all (which is practically impossible), that would not be Times Square then...
Thank you so much for your answers!
S.
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« on: September 16, 2009, 11:00 »
Oh, I am really sorry  . I promised I searched, but it didn't come up. Thank you so much! :-)
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« on: September 15, 2009, 23:04 »
Hello,
I am new to Fotolia... and I can't figure out what are the symbols below the photos. The first two I guess are Views and Downloads, but the third?
Thank you very much!
S.
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« on: September 15, 2009, 19:15 »
Thank you thank you thank you!!
You guys are so great, what a nice forum. :-)
Only one more question: Do you sharpen your pictures?
I will take care of all the suggestions! What a great way to learn photography.
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« on: September 15, 2009, 17:11 »
Hello!
Thank you so much for your answer. So I probably have a problem with two things: 1) Colour balance and 2) softness. 1) I think is because I like colourful images, and also because my monitor is not calibrated well (will do that soon).... and 2) well I also like that softness. I took these pictures on purpose with a f1.8 lens.
But most of the stock images are soooo vibrant and blue and red and whatever...it seems they're really photoshopped!
And should I submit sharpened pictures? Who knows.....
Thank you for everything :-)))
S.
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« on: September 15, 2009, 16:15 »
Hello!
I have signed up for microstock a few days ago. (Fotolia for the moment). I got one picture accepted (hooray!), three rejected, and a few more under revision.
Their email doesn't say very clearly what might be wrong, it says technical problems, and it might be any of noise, blurriness, etc.
That's why I would like to show you my first trials and ask you for an opinion. If I shoot in RAW and do not sharpen at all, will they consider it blurry? I deliberately left it unsharpened, because they suggest so. And how much noise is too much? If I look at 100% and see a vague impression of noise, is that already too much?
Thank you so much!
S.
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