hillarious. Newbies desperate to get enough sales to go exclusive are being held back.

LOBO -
"I'd hold off uploading or doing anything else on the site until notified the blank pages has been addressed. I will post something in the main forum with more information as soon as I can."

Just tried to get money transferred to paypal and guess what - a database error. It does not work

It takes time to lose customers and suppliers. Once done it is hard to undo.

When your favourite restaurant puts up prices you will still probably go there but are more open to looking elsewhere. The restaurant will however have increased profits immediately. When the suppliers are getting less of you than elsewhere they will favour others. Once again however the restaurant will have increased profits immediately. Once however you do start to lose customers and suppliers you are in trouble. Add to that a confused menu of dishes on offer and poor customer service?

Stock photography is no different. I am only a small player as a stock photographer but having taught business and published academic texts in management and marketing I love it as a classic case study. When I joined IS was number one. No doubt some marketing wannabe is talking about market segments with differentiated promotion and marketing mixes in order to fit a strategic plan. I wish they at least started with a Porter's five factor model or some other realistic marketing analysis before changing everything.

first is far too saturated and midtones a bit underexposed. Clouds are a too blue for wb and whole scenes lack contrast. All are post processing problems. WHy post the same in the critique forum at SS as well as here?

I am so so upset. I deleted a better version off my camera. I could have even added a person with a release.

came accross usage of my images that was linked to a wallpaper (computer backgrounds) site in LA.

http://www.desktopwallpaperhd.com/


It appears you can copy HD (television) size and use them. Then of course other groups use these images on the web perhaps without the knowledge that it is not legal. All up at 1920x1080 so why buy, just copy. This site is in LA, USA. Very little on the site to make contact. They are on FB and  appears they just give away wallpaper  (our images)??

It is serious however as the brand is being diluted. best match is lots of similar, mostly exclusive and often poor quality.

A simple version is - for monitors spyders etc measure the colour put out by the monitors at points. It compares that that it should be. eg is 125,125,125 of red green blue showing as grey? It then builds a profile for the graphics card to display it correctly. So if it appeared to green it tells the graphics cards to reduce green etc. All these calibrations are in the graphics card profiling so it knows how to display the correct colour. Likewise for printers a card has preset colours and these are compared to output and software adjustments are made. NManufacturers' ICC profiles know how to adjust to different gamuts and colour space. Individual differences between units require profiling with measurement tools. Sme paper ink combinations etc may require new profiles to be meausred.

Calibration by eye is near impossible . It may be that your monitor displays light grey a bit green and dark grey a bit red. All the adjustments are easiest to make via the graphics display card adjustment rather than trying to mess with the monitor.

put them up for critique at shutterstock and you will get the low down .

one thing always to remember is that if shooting in raw the settings on the back of the camera do not effect the file - only the way it displays on the back of the camera. Setting one strobe at a lower setting than the other can also at times create a slight difference in colour in the image one part to another.

PS. My day rate is cheap. I recently shot a pole dancer just for the stock rights to the images and I will even hold the reflectors for free on a Pirelli calender shoot.

To understand colour space is complex. Each sensor or device records colour according to a gamut ( Colours it pick up). A defined set of colours is a colour space. The monitor and software have to interpret the colours and display them to a visual match. If for example you shoot in raw there is no colour space, it is all colours the sensor can record. In the raw converter we then open as a colour space and the software makes the conversion to the colour space. To make matters worse monitors have a different gamut and cannot display all the files colours (eg prophoto rgb)

If you shoot in raw for example and open in prophoto rgb it all looks ok. Save it as a different colour space and the colour will be way off and clipped. In PS you need to "convert" to the colour not "assign" the colour. This is similar to other software that opens the file "thinking" it is one colour space when in fact it is something different.

You need to convert the file to colour space it can interpret/display. I would convert them to prophoto in PS correct any problems and then convert to sRGB for display.

DOwnload use? Download sell? Upload as a contributer?

Sort of hard to fight but it would be interesting to know where they got them. It should be noted that one is identified as Shutterstock stock as a big chunk. Scary.

http://thepiratebay.org/search/stock%20photography%20archive/0/99/0

must like the clouds. I have similar sales on Alamy. It is totally different type of client