especially for the past  two months JI and Photos.com sales became more than my StockXpert sales in numbers so my overall income from StockXpert is in declining trend:(

nowadays I too  experience a significant decline of DLs at SS I don't know why it would be though  despite the fact that I have been uploading as usual-if not more-
It could be because of the current economical situations but I believe increasing competition among the contributes must have something to do with it too and I also believe on demand sales some kind of  affects  on subs sales at SS 

 

Thanks for posting this
no surprise I guess. SS, IS then StockXpert and now FT is in stock footage business I am sure DT will follow them too. let's see how they'll do


 

those who already own the camera should know this by now but Canon has released updated firmware for canon 5d mark ii to fix the black dot issue and banding problem. according to what I read , those who updated firmware to the latest version are happy with the result. new firmware can be downloaded here
http://web.canon.jp/imaging/eosd/firm-e/eos5dmk2/firmware.html
I haven't got the camera yet so I couldn't try myself:(

eta:oh well ,there are also some people who are not happy with the solution and they think canon brought white dots instead of the black one with the firmware upgrade and they believe it was the hardware causing the problem not the software  I don't know?

my sales have been significantly slow since  mid dec 2008 and it continues till now  as expected . I hope  sales will start to pick up  soon since the first week of jan is over. I would like to know how your experience  is  and expectations on when sale would get back to normal?

Cheers

Hi Moshun,
thank you very much  for your response. For the moment I am  an exclusive videographer to IS so I can't upload my work elsewhere as RF unless I give up exclusivity there. So,for the time being I will focus on my RF work then.
Thanks a lot.

santa bring my present today....  :-)

5D mk2

Tomorow is gona be a "Saturday Shutting Fever"

lucky you! congrats on you new gear!

Official Canon statement about the black dots and banding problems:
http://www.dpreview.com/news/0812/08121902canon5ddots.asp

Thanks CofkoCof for posting this.now we know they  admit the problem and working on it. I hope it'll be sorted out soon otherwise it'd be really big disappointment after all waiting and high expectations. Fingers crossed 

I use mpeg clip stream for final conversation and it works fine  it is freeware
http://www.squared5.com/

what about a mid solution? getting two flash heads and two small strobes for background isolation,which is what I do,and works fine for me.

overall it is going to be really bad month for me  and very likely to be the worst month of the year and since the holidays are about to arrive we can't expect much from the last two weeks(at least I don't)I hope things will be better from the second week of january...

You can't witness your own signature. Technically you need three people to sign the release. Photographer, model (or guardian) and witness. Some sites will let you be the photographer and the guardian of a minor but the witness must always be a different person.

thank you azurelaroux  for your response and suggestions.I appreciate it.may be my first post wasn't so clear as English is not my mother tongue  to be more precise yes the MR into question was signed by three persons,the photographer,one of the parents   and the other parent as the witness and the rejection reason I was given was that the parents can't be the witness.

but the point I am actually try to make here is that there is not much use dealing with so much paper work here like you mentioned above it is the photographer who should be worried about having a valid MR. this kind of rejections only cause delay of approval process (and it affected  my approval rate negatively which has certain impact on DT search engine)I can re-upload the files with a new MR but that is not the point here I just don't want to get ambiguous rejections because of  model releases. 

I sometimes get MR rejections from IS because the MR contains typed-in information (e.g. names, addresses, dates).

,ironically once I had a file rejected because the  MR was hand written and they didn't find it formal enough.....

unfortunately not for me:( I think this is going to be WME for me.