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« on: April 30, 2018, 07:26 »
Has anyone ever seen a large format framed print from FAA? I'm thinking of buying one.. for convenience.. and as a test. Would like to get a quality review before ordering.
Yes, I had them print a B&W image of mine at 24" x 19.25". It was excellent. However, how good the print is will depend on how good the scanning is, so you need to evaluate that. It will vary from artist to artist. My print wasn't framed, though.
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« on: April 30, 2018, 07:21 »
Finally got my first sale on FAA today...this is after 1 year!
You're charging just $20 for a 20x30 inch print? My price for that size is $120. I reckon that if people want "fine art" print for their wall it's a one-off purchase that they won't balk at paying a reasonable sum for. So on the rare occasion that I get a sale I want it to be for a reasonable sum.
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« on: April 09, 2018, 02:26 »
I'm getting file transfer errors and files simply disappearing after upload on the main SS uploader (I'm on the "bridge to bigstock" programme, which may or may not be involved.)
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« on: April 08, 2018, 15:23 »
I got one early on and then it died. It's odd and I'm wondering if it is another day when the sales reporting has gone wrong.
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« on: April 08, 2018, 11:28 »
Dear Getty,
Is kicking out one of your top producing photographers because he blew the whistle on you giving images away fair?
@jjneff: Which photographer and which event are you refering to?
It might be best not to name individuals unless they give permission.
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« on: April 06, 2018, 03:39 »
But with a 600 mm lens you can get shots that are simply impossible with 200 mm.  No way around it.
I've never used a 600mm. At $11,500 from B&H it's beyond anything I could reasonably justify. I suppose I could fake things a bit by upgrading from 20MP to 50MP and sticking with the 200mm lens.... That's a much cheaper way to get bigger. But then I could get 50MP and 600mm and have more than seven times my current magnification. Still, for the moment as I see it 600mm is strictly for the birds.... and the paparazzi. And I don't do either. I am tempted by the 100-400 MkII zoom, though. That could definitely come in handy and not just for distant objects.
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« on: April 06, 2018, 02:56 »
My dls for the first five days of the month are actually up 50% on March, but it's almost all small stuff.
It looks as if I may have benefitted from some search order change around the 25th of last month.
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« on: April 06, 2018, 02:50 »
Using primes and getting a new camera have very little to do with each other.
Well, you did say "or lens". It certainly sounds as if you should go for it. I really need to bookmark your response for use on my wife the next time I feel the urge to upgrade.
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« on: April 06, 2018, 02:36 »
Someone else's file has appeared in my pending uploads. This is not good.
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« on: April 06, 2018, 02:28 »
Their 2017 revenue was $25M so not sure if the top artists are earning 5x 2012 stats.
They won't be. The butter will have become more thinly spread as more people join up. Even so, the best of them might have increased sales significantly over the past six years. The fall-off in earnings between the best seller of all and the tenth best - or even the second-best - is probably huge.
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« on: April 06, 2018, 02:22 »
Perhaps not because of technical quality, but for me, a new camera or lens really gets my inspiration going = a lot of work done in a short period of time. Everything is fun with new gear. 
Totally agree
Even so, it seems unlikely that your surge in enthusiasm would generate enough additional material (that you wouldn't have shot anyway, with your old gear) to justify the cost of a new top-end camera. Not from microstock with its diminishing returns, anyway. Personally, I find that using gear that imposes severe limitations inspires me to think more deeply about what I'm doing. I was shooting with 105mm and 200mm manual focus primes yesterday and I got some very pleasing results precisely because I had to "zoom with my feet" and think carefully about depth of field, hyperfocal distance, shutter speeds, telephoto compression effects and how they all worked with what I was trying to achieve. The temptation when using the latest bells and whistles is to let the camera (or, at least, the Japanese technicians who programmed it) do the thinking for me and end up using it like a "point-and-shoot". That's my own fault, of course, but I suspect I'm far from being the only one who is inclined to be lazy.
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« on: April 04, 2018, 12:36 »
When customers choose Getty Images, they come not only because of the quality of our content, but because they know that it has been produced with the highest standards of legal, ethical and professional behavior.
We have always worked to create safe, inclusive and fair working environments and we expect that you will share our commitment to these standards in your business activities and relationships when working with us. It is part of the trust we have built with our customers and what our joint reputations are built on. Pass the sick-bag, Alice....
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« on: March 29, 2018, 07:24 »
I've been there for a few years and have made enough to cover the cost of membership for the foreseeable future. I went through the whole of 2016 without a sale, then made almost 300 with five sales last year. Nothing so far this year. I've got nearly 900 images there, including some medium and large format black-and-white film which sometimes sell, so it's a place where I can put some of my more experimental stuff.
Looking back, I see I made almost $600 in 2012, so that was pretty good.
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« on: March 28, 2018, 01:26 »
I've had a sudden surge in sales over the last few days. They are very welcome after weeks in the doldrums.
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« on: March 20, 2018, 04:07 »
lousy figures.
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« on: March 19, 2018, 11:40 »
I'm getting an average number of sales there, but for very small amounts. Still, it wouldn't take many decent sales to get things back on track. Luck of the draw, I suppose.
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« on: March 19, 2018, 08:09 »
that's why there are literally thousand of producers from this country.
Lets not overlook the "fact" that Ukraine has the most "beautiful" women in the world. All too willing to be models for a fraction of the cost in London, Paris, Milan, etc
Source: http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2162181/Ukrainian-Swedish-women-named-worlds-best-looking.html
The Ukraine girls really knock me out, they leave the west behind, and Moscow girls make me sing and shout the Gerogia's always on my mind.....
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« on: March 01, 2018, 00:27 »
When will the stock sites start paying us in crypto?
Not while cryptocurrencies are ridiculously volatile.
As has been said before, volatility doesn't matter if it's just used as an international transfer method instead of PayPal. You don't have to keep the funds in crypto if you don't want to.
And if you're away from the computer for a day or two - doing something odd like taking photos, for example, instead of gambling or currency speculating - your month's payout could lose 30% of its value between being transferred and you converting it into a traditional currency. Or maybe the agency buy the crypto on a Friday but don't transfer it to you until the Monday, after its value has halved. But, as you say, the volatility doesn't matter because it is, after all, the ideal currency type for those for whom "the money isn't what makes you happy".
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« on: February 27, 2018, 03:39 »
It's now clear: So he "can criticise their findings and reasoning."
Clear only now? 
Hahaha, you got me. Ok but I figured it out. I inadvertently had my monitor upside down these last ten or so years and never noticed. My graph was flat on the bottom, not the top! There is no cap. Whew!
Something like this?
That graph doesn't make sense. Why would the quality of work and amount of work you are creating decline the more effort you put into producing it? It's nonsense.
I think it makes sense up to the point it flattens. The quality of work increases by say 50% the year you start along with the %age increase in port. Ten years in its much harder to increase quality as you are already much better so maybe 5% similarly size of port. When you add the factor of an exponential increase in competition that would explain a downturn.
That's not what the axes say they are representing. There are certainly diminishing returns in stock but it's not got much to do with the labels put on that graph. The key factors are age of files, number of files in your port and the number of files in total ... at least, those are some of the keys, just off the top of my head.
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« on: February 27, 2018, 00:48 »
It's now clear: So he "can criticise their findings and reasoning."
Clear only now?
Hahaha, you got me. Ok but I figured it out. I inadvertently had my monitor upside down these last ten or so years and never noticed. My graph was flat on the bottom, not the top! There is no cap. Whew!
Something like this?
That graph doesn't make sense. Why would the quality of work and amount of work you are creating decline the more effort you put into producing it? It's nonsense.
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« on: February 26, 2018, 06:51 »
Does the "cap" mean that I can expect a massive surge in sales over the next couple of days to bring me up to my official cap level for the month?
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« on: February 24, 2018, 14:45 »
It's not a hoax I saw it on PBS and read about this in National Geographic.
You did not see 'the supervolcano erupting right now' on PBS, and you did not read that 'the supervolcano is erupting right now' on National Geographic.
Now I see the right now part. Who knows what site he followed for that click bait? In case anyone wants to know the truth, the answer is no. https://www.volcanodiscovery.com/erupting_volcanoes.html North America is top center
Wow! 35 eruptions underway at the moment. I guess that's probably pretty normal but it's surprising.
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« on: February 23, 2018, 05:12 »
Selling death and destruction is standard behaviour for US and other Western governments of all political colours - the Liberals throw in hand-wringing while signing off the missiles, warplanes and guns, which is a bit sickening (OMG! They're using those bombs we sold them in a war! We can't believe it, how awful, that might be against the terms of the sale.)
Or do you mean Liberals use death and destruction to fear-monger for political ends? Getting votes by frightening people with the bogeyman of foreigners coming over the border to fill their kids up with drugs, rape their daughters, steal their wealth and force everyone to speak Spanish? I do remember some politician doing that.
Ah lets not just keep bashing the West.
The Russian made AK47 (and its Chinese copies) have killed more people than any other weapons system since the end of WWII.
Most developing nations are equipped with Russian and Chinese built weapons, tanks and planes.
And those countries are hardly bastions of liberalism are they
True enough, but we don't have any influence on them.
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« on: February 23, 2018, 00:36 »
Mis-post.
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« on: February 23, 2018, 00:34 »
Selling death and destruction is standard behaviour for US and other Western governments of all political colours - the Liberals throw in hand-wringing while signing off the missiles, warplanes and guns, which is a bit sickening (OMG! They're using those bombs we sold them in a war! We can't believe it, how awful, that might be against the terms of the sale.)
Or do you mean Liberals use death and destruction to fear-monger for political ends? Getting votes by frightening people with the bogeyman of foreigners coming over the border to fill their kids up with drugs, rape their daughters, steal their wealth and force everyone to speak Spanish? I do remember some politician doing that.
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