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« on: April 09, 2009, 05:26 »
Take it as a challenge patw. Its frustrating for me as well if my images get rejected, but it helps me also to improve. Without the increasing standards of microstock I would not have learned and improved so much.
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« on: April 09, 2009, 02:58 »
I usually use Yuri Arcurs as a gauge on which of the sites is drawing in the highest incomes. According to this link, he makes much more on Fotolia than Shutterstock and his earnings on Fotolia have even surpassed his earnings on iStock for the second half of last year:
http://www.arcurs.com/microstock-agencies-an-overview-for-beginners
Anyway, it is good to hear that your experience between earnings on Shutterstock and Fotolia is similar to mine. Why though others are selling more on Fotolia than Shutterstock is a bit of a mystery to me.
Also, I noticed that Shutterstock has 6.5 million images online whereas Fotolia has only 5.5 million. So the argument that one site has more, and thus your images get seen less by photo buyers as a results, holds no water either it seems.
Do you think it has anything to do with key wording? I can't think of any other reason why Fotolia probably sells as many photos, if not more, than Shutterstock.
Shutterstock is very good with new images (with new contributors) It is hard to increase your monthly earnings, while on other sites most images are selling over a longer time period. Also you have to consider that Yuri has his price set at 4 Credits at Fotolia, because he has such a high ranking. So he gets four times as much/dl as the average contributor gets. In addition he also receives a higher commission because of his ranking (I guess around 10% higher than the average contributor). Then you have to consider that as a non-exclusive he is not able to keep up with uploading all his images to iStockphoto. So for us average microstockers who do not exceed with our production the upload limit at iStockphoto, I believe iStockphoto should generate the most earnings according to Yuri's statistics.
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« on: April 09, 2009, 02:39 »
I see, so I suppose I had no sales in March, thanks!
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« on: April 08, 2009, 16:31 »
Got my first payout already, from February, however did not got a sales report this month. Anybody else didn't get one? Is it because I had no sales or is it delayed?
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« on: April 08, 2009, 15:05 »
I agree with Larry. It's the easter bunny's fault. In scandinavian countries everything shuts down between 3. April - 14. April because we have to go skiing. It's mandatory. You get exiled if you don't go cross country skiing and live in cabins in the mountains without water and electricity for a week and a half every year.
So gaja are you exiled  Yes the week is pretty slow. Here in Germany most students have easter break, so I guess many people take off from work.
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« on: April 07, 2009, 16:19 »
Nice, thats almost a payout 
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« on: April 07, 2009, 11:37 »
The default sorting was changed as another part of our update, not because we got these hate and love threads (although we do care about them). The relevancy got tweaked in the meantime as usual. No matter the outcome, the revenue change shouldn't be dramatical for users with significant portfolios (>100 images, more relevant for hundreds). A contributor with just a couple images online may experience a dramatic change, we can't really do this properly unless a certain db. exposure is met.
Achilles,
As suggested in DT forum a while back, maybe you should try to limit the number of images from the same contributor appearing together. Sometimes we see 10-12 images of the same series in a page. By showing some only, if any of those attract the buyer, he will look further and will see the other images as similars. Or something like that, I think one needs variety when he looks for something, without having to browse dozens of pages.
I do not think that is the solution. Its not good for those who have a very specialized portfolio who are best on their subject. The best match 2.0 which iStock wants to implement should be the solution. But that seems not too easy to do
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« on: April 07, 2009, 02:45 »
Do you also think it's stupid not to have a bulk deactivation option so photographers disable files in revenge because they just received their first refusals? Without any concern given to other photographers who had to wait more because the pending line got bigger or that the agency reviewed their files for free?
I would not say stupid, but in this case you are not very contributor friendly Achilles. Why do contributors have to disable tedious every single file, because there are some "black sheeps" who want to delete their files for "revenge"? I would not want to do business which such a person who is so hateful to my agency anyway, why force him to stay a little longer? See my case, I do not want to leave DT, I think its a great agency, but I have some very old files which are now far below my and DT's current standard. I want to delete them, but it takes just so long navigate to them and then disable them. When you then want to disable the next file, you start from the beginning and have to navigate again back to the old files which are way back in your portfolio.
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« on: April 06, 2009, 15:59 »
It seems the Search engine changed again, for the worse... 
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« on: April 06, 2009, 15:31 »
Thats the problem, despite uploading I did not experience really growth in return, so I decided to not upload anymore since it almost does not make a difference.
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« on: April 06, 2009, 14:33 »
Since I live from microstock an image which I spent an hour on (shooting, post processing, keywording, uploading etc) should return at least $100. Half an hour $50 etc. Then its successful
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« on: April 06, 2009, 14:18 »
Congrats Holgs! No you do not get an e-mail when you get a sale.
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« on: April 05, 2009, 09:12 »
I have no problem to say when I was wrong. I think it's a good personal characteristic. The guy wanted just our honest opinion. But I also think some things could be said in a nicer way. Imagine you and him sitting together in a restaurant talking about his photos. I am sure you would criticize his photos in other way. You would probably say: "Oh...maybe you could crop this image a bit different, so this monkey is not in the center" instead of "The third and fourth look like zoo snapshots"
Whitechild, cudos to you. Admitting wrong is a great characteristic trait. You are right we have to tell people in a kind way what they can do different. While I am sure he has some good ability to shoot images, and these images are not bad at all, they are not the kind of images which earn you back what you invested in time and effort to shoot, keyword, submit and categorize them no matter how you crop them. I myself fell victim to shoot whatever you find and try to sell it as stock. It simply is not worth your time and effort, the time of the reviewer and the time of the buyer to search trough all that stuff. I am gradually starting deleting this kind of images. (Admitted many are much worse then the once in this thread). So I do agree with the others. Don't take it personally, but accept it as a challenge donding.
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« on: April 02, 2009, 01:23 »
* a polar bear chasing/eating a penguin in the wild
I think I can do that 
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« on: April 01, 2009, 16:22 »
Welcome afs, good to hear the opinion from such an experienced Alamy contributor as you!
I would be very interested to have a look at you portfolio, would that be possible? I am interested what sells on Alamy, thats why I ask. You can send me a PM, if you wish. Thanks!
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« on: April 01, 2009, 10:28 »
I doubt they will die, they have I believe not that bad a reputation. I think their support (for buyers) is great. Talked with one very friendly person of customer support. They are far better than the start-ups you are comparing them. They are very established in Germany as far as I can tell.
For contributors you may have some points its not the most user friendly site. Also the reduced commission from 50% to 30% if you have the image at a cheaper agency is not very loved by contributors. In contributor relations they can improve a lot.
But there are people who do very very well with them. My more or less "educated" guess is that there are some top photographers who earn several thousand Euros/month with them. Currently I am not doing that well with them, although a lot of my images are up in the search result. But I had pretty good months at PM beating some of the major microstock agencies in earnings. I doubt that the problem is with the keywording. But I in general notice that it seems that you need the typical high quality people images, lifestyle, business images to be successful on this agency. Most of the average microstock contributors might have a harder time there.
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« on: April 01, 2009, 09:29 »
IS 28 %
SS 25%
FT 22%
DT 15% BME
StockXpert 7.8%
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« on: April 01, 2009, 04:34 »
1. when did you started with microstock? Late 2005
2. how experienced in photography were you when started with MS? I could focus and press the shutter.
3. is photography your only source of revenue? If so, how much of your income is microstock earnings? Yes it is. Microstock ~80%.
4. are you working alone? If not, how many employees? 100 % alone for microstock. 80% alone for other photography related work.
5. how many photos on week do you upload? 5 . Sometimes more sometimes less.
6. on how many sites do you have your portfolio?~15
7. do you upload to macrostock? If so, how much of your stock photography earnings are coming from macro? Alamy, ~ 4%
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« on: April 01, 2009, 02:40 »
New BME for me. I just checked, my images are now much better represented but I did not notice an very noticeable increase of downloads this past week or two. While I am of course biased I do think it seems to be a much better search result than before, at least with the topics I am familiar with.
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« on: March 28, 2009, 14:29 »
 Thats one of my most recent designs. Do not know yet if it sells..
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« on: March 28, 2009, 14:26 »
Shot in my home in Belgium, with my brother-in-law and my niece.
Not a best-seller, but really FUN to do!
lol thats a really cool design!! 
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« on: March 28, 2009, 05:18 »
Send you a PM
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« on: March 28, 2009, 04:21 »
I got the a4-wide yesterday.
My intuos 3 had some scratches on the surface so I had a good excuse
I really like the design and the white oled display. Being lefthanded, I was a bit worried about the mini usb connexion but there is a slide to switch between top and bottom. It does take a bit of getting used to though, my hand keeps going to the side where the buttons used to be.
What are you doing with your intous 3?
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« on: March 27, 2009, 13:09 »
I picked SA because I am also interested in taking some nature, wildlife shots.
Riddle: Is Leaf going to SA because he is getting a fab new lens, or is Leaf getting a fab new lens because he is going to SA?
Leaf is maybe getting a fab new lens because leaf is maybe going to Svalbard
The LEAF must remember to include some very warm clothings in the svalbard budget.. Never been there, but my guess is that it could be quite chilly there at night LOOL
And don't forget the gun!
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« on: March 27, 2009, 02:35 »
I joined Alamy only a few weeks ago and have 16 images online. Right now I have 6 zooms in the last 30 days. I guess it means one a sale is possible in the near future I thought that their statistics updates once every day, including the sales. It takes longer sometimes?
Yes it takes longer in fact, I just had a sale reported today. But the sale occured in Februray.
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