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Messages - epixx
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« on: December 18, 2008, 11:31 »
I've mailed support at Alamy. Things like this is bad for their reputation, and thus bad for other contributors as well.
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« on: December 18, 2008, 11:06 »
Their software engineers probably used to work for a casino before they joined IS. I'm sure it's supposed to be part of the excitement being a contributor there. Free entertainment. What more can you possibly ask for 
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« on: December 17, 2008, 09:35 »
With a portfolio of around 60k images, last time I checked, the only way they may sell is by very low price.
Scanstock is also in this situation - EUR1 sounded nice three years ago, now this is very cheap.
Regards,
Adelaide
Scanstock sells for 3-4 Euro. It's the commission that is 1 Euro. That is around 1.5 Dollars, and more than my average on most other agencies.
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« on: December 17, 2008, 01:19 »
I have been dropping like a rock in the weekly rankings. I expect my overall ranking will drop as well. Don't know why all of a sudden their buyers don't like my pics anymore?
Same here, and more than a third of my sales are one single image, out of a thousand. Actually, none of my last 300 sales were of images uploaded the last nine months.
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« on: December 17, 2008, 01:15 »
Sorry, Josh does refer to a "Crestock Team" in his signatures - my apologies.
Josh and his dog? No, there are more people there, but I don't know how many.
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« on: December 17, 2008, 01:09 »
I had increasing sales there until 2-3 months ago, with sales up to $50, but then, it suddenly stopped, totally. Zero, zero, zero, zero. Canstockphoto outsells them with a zillion percent 
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« on: December 16, 2008, 21:05 »
Their accounting department seems to be a division of their marketing department, and since the staff of the latter has been on vacation for the last six months, they are a bit slow 
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« on: December 12, 2008, 20:09 »
What's the difference between a view and a click? Also don't someone who would like to kill your images could only view others images a number of times and then the image would be dead in the search? It don't seem a good system to me. We have already seen this when it was calculated in the Istock best match.
A view is when you image appears in a search, but only in a page actually opened by the customer. A click (or a zoom, which is what Alamy calls it), is when a customer clicks your image to see the larger view and the description.
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« on: December 08, 2008, 00:50 »
The easiest way to get around it is to take another, vertical photo (photo 2), enlarge the canvas of that one to the size of you existing photo (photo 1), copy photo 1 into a new layer in photo 2 and delete the original layer of photo 2. I think that works.
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« on: December 04, 2008, 22:35 »
I think their rules are rather clear: If a property release would be needed for commercial use, it can only be sold as editorial, licensed, unless you have a release. In principle, that goes for most buildings, but in real life, it's not a problem for public property. When you click for no model and/or property release, it's the buyer's responsibility to use the image properly. Then of course, it's difficult to safeguard against fools and criminals, but that goes for most sides of life  I think postcards are considered editorial or art btw., so no release should be needed. Publishing postcards from cities would be prohibitively complicated if releases for anything and anybody in a photo was needed. A postcard isn't commercial in any other sense than the fact that it's sold, but so are newspapers and paintings.
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« on: December 04, 2008, 05:45 »
I'm currently uploading 80% RM and 20% micro. RM is slow, but getting a few hundred dollars for one sale certainly feels good Hopefully, my images will live longer this way.
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« on: December 01, 2008, 00:25 »
Interesting month this. Ups and downs are compared to November 2007:
SS 37%, up 15%
IS 17%, up 15%
DT 16%, up 20%
FT 9%, down 19%
BS 7%, up 195%
StockXpert 6%, up 49%
123 3%, up 109%
Scanstock 3%, up 1,000%
Total sales up 21% since November 2007 and up 2% since October 2008.
The increases for BS and Scanstock may seem exceptional, but truth is that both of them have been increasing consistently through the year. On the other hand, I'm totally losing grip on what's happening at FT. My sales are sinking, my position on the statistics are sinking and they reject almost anything I submit.
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« on: November 30, 2008, 21:30 »
They do that sometimes. Most of the time, they accept anything I send them, but once in a while, they refuse a whole batch, for all kinds of strange reasons.
I have more than 1,000 photos uploaded, and I'm out of subscriptions. The few sales I've had there have been ok, even a couple at 25 and 50 dollars, but now there hasn't been anything in over a month. If nothing happens within the end of this month, I'll probably stop uploading.
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« on: November 30, 2008, 11:36 »
Same here 
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« on: November 20, 2008, 17:56 »
SS, IS and DT are still my top selling agencies, but this month, BS is not far behind, on a strong 4th position competing with FT. StockXpert is sinking like a stone for me
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« on: November 19, 2008, 10:11 »
I would ask myself: How much potential do they have as micro? Would RM be more interesting?
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« on: November 18, 2008, 11:09 »
It's now well over two months since Crestock became aware of the MB problem, and still no money. Can somebody from Crestock please explain why this is more difficult to solve for you than for others?
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« on: November 18, 2008, 11:04 »
Just had a payout from them in less than 48 hours. That must be some kind of record
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« on: November 18, 2008, 10:57 »
Not much going on there apparently. So far this month, they're in 8th spot for me, behind SS, IS, DT, FT, BS, 123 and Scanstock (!!!).
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« on: November 10, 2008, 08:36 »
Maybe I have to try to opt in too. StockXpert has been dying for me after they introduced photos.com. I'm getting a strong feeling that they are just killing it and using our portfolios to boost photos.com.
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« on: November 04, 2008, 08:23 »
Things take time. SV started more than a year ago, but only the last 2-3 months have given me significant sales there. If all contributors had deleted their portfolios, they wouldn't have gotten anywhere.
It will probably take 1-3 years for Yay to become a serious competitor as well. Deleting a portfolio before that is a waste of time.
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« on: November 01, 2008, 00:55 »
6th spot for me, and growing steadily. Will soon pass StockXpert.
223
« on: November 01, 2008, 00:50 »
I guess you have to ask yourself what you want to use your DSLR of choice for. Personally, I think the A900 with 24MP is overkill unless you plan on doing some harsh cropping or making alot of poster prints.
I bought the A350, which was 700 bucks body only at the time so I had extra cash to begin building a lens system.
So far I still have yet to purchase any Sony brand lenses since there are so many excellent quality and affordable legacy FF lenses available which work wonderfully on the A350. I also love the live view system of the A350 and find it quite freeing to be able to make images at angles and points of view that would otherwise be very difficult without a flip-out live view screen.
At 14.2MP, it's more than adequate for "XL" size on Istock and involves only a slight bit of upsizing if you submit to Alamy.
Just think of the extra 2,000 bucks you can spend on lenses as opposed to getting the A900.
It's always a question what you're going to use the camera for, and lenses vs expensive body is a dilemma. Still, you can't really compare the body, and particularly not the viewfinder, of the A350 with the A900. They are completely different animals. The only realistic alternative for me, within the Sony range, would be the A700, but then I use my cameras for a living. I would assume that an A900 would last at least twice as long as an A350. That also puts the price difference in another perspective. As for the 24 megapixels: when doing stock photography, there are never too many of them. With the A900, it's possible to crop for Alamy if needed, or reduce size if the image is too noisy or lacks detail.
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« on: November 01, 2008, 00:31 »
Her we go. Percentages compared to October last year:
SS 32%, 16% down
DT 16%, 1% up
IS 15%, 33% down
FT 12%, 67% up
StockXpert 8%, 32% up
BS 8%, 132% up
SV 4%, no sales last year
123 3%, 14% down
Scanstock 1%, 14% down
Crestock 1%, 55% up
Total: 0.5% up since last year, 4% down since September this year.
SS is continuing its downward trend, while BS shows impressive performance and SV is starting to give results. Sales during European business hours were mostly better than those during American hours, probably due to the financial crisis. I also assume the crisis lowered the total results for this month.
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« on: October 30, 2008, 19:31 »
The Alpha 900 seem to be a good camera, but after now the Canon 5D Mk II came out, I would prefer the 5d, it is cheaper and it seem to be an amazing camera. With canon you also have more choice in lenses I believe.
For the same price of the sony alpa 900 you get the 5d body + for example the new amazing Sigma 50 1.4 lens (which seems better than canons 1.4).
Or take the Canon 50D with a good prime like the 50 mm Sigma and add the 70-200L 2.8 Lens for approximately the same price as the alpha 900 body alone and with that you have excellent equipment.
It's not so much a question of the number of lenses, but if they can actually resolve the huge number of pixels of these cameras. dpreview's test of the 50D shows that this is becoming a problem. The Zeiss lenses for the Sony on the other hand, have apparently been designed with the A900 in mind. If I could afford to switch, I would have done that now. The A900 with Zeiss 24-70/2.8, Zeiss 135/1.8, Sony 70-300 G and a macro would cover what I need. The more photos I see from that camera, the more impressed I get.
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