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« on: February 20, 2013, 09:02 »
So I was happy that the holidays finally passed and my files began selling again. I had constant sales from the middle of January to last week. Last week was even the best week ever, I made more money in one week than in the last 2 months. And then, last Wednesday, everything died, and my sales were 0 until today.
I understand having weird fluctuations with a small portfolio, but having constant sales on ALL websites and then everything going to 0 on the same day on ALL websites? Isn't that too much of a coincidence? Is something special happening in Europe and US during this period? As far as I know there's no big holiday besides Valentine's Day, but people don't stop working during it, at least in my country.
Sorry if the question seems stupid but stuff like this really makes me lose my confidence. It's too weird that sales stopped on the same day everywhere, after weeks of daily sales.
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« on: February 20, 2013, 08:50 »
I uploaded my model releases and added them to each video with the "attach release" option. It shows up in the releases page that they were attached several times so I guess it was successful, but when I look at those videos it's still written "Model Released: No"
At first I thought the website might be slow or something, but more than a week passed and it's still the same. Am I doing something wrong?
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« on: February 17, 2013, 10:16 »
When I write a keyword and I click "suggest" the error "Can not find any matching keyword/. Try again with another keyword/keyphrase" appears. This happens no matter what I write in there, for any basic word that could cross your mind, so there isn't any problem with the words. Something suddenly happened to the application because it worked fine yesterday, but I'm sure I didn't do anything.
Anyone has any idea or has experienced this before?
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« on: February 14, 2013, 19:53 »
And I'm not talking about vectors, just pictures of alphabet shaped things. I have a few ideas and I want to know if it's worth the trouble. I checked Fotolia and saw that some fonts are selling, some not, but I'm more interested about Shutterstock, Dreamstime and other websites.
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« on: February 10, 2013, 09:33 »
Is there a way to change the price after the picture got accepted? I made some mistakes and can't find any way of changing it...
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« on: February 02, 2013, 17:37 »
I don't know what happened, but my sales on Fotolia were 0 in January, even after uploading more than 100 pictures! I used to sell at least a few pictures a week even when I had less than 50 pics online.
How Fotolia usually works? Which pictures have a tendency to sell better, old or new files? I want to know if I should stop hoping or not. Among those 100 pictures that I uploaded in January were some of my best ones...
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« on: January 22, 2013, 07:54 »
Shutterstock, Fotolia and Dreamstime are taking weeks to review my pictures. I know this is normal after the holidays, but I was wondering how long will it take until everything goes back to normal.
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« on: January 07, 2013, 18:35 »
I'm not 100% new as I've been posting questions for a while here, but I want to get to know the people on this forum a bit more, therefore I think you should know a bit about me too. So, I want to use this post to introduce myself and also to thank everyone for all the help. My name is Cristina and I'm from Romania ( yes, Dracula's country ). I'm 23 years old and I started liking photography since I was a small kid. I never put too much effort into it though, I just learned the basic stuff, bought a decent camera and was happy like that until last year, when I suddenly got some money from a scholarship. Then I remembered I read some things about stock photography maaaany years ago and thought I should buy a better camera and try to actually get some money out of my hobbies, as I'm just a poor poor student >.< So I bought a Canon EOS 550D and started reading everything related to stock photography. This was happening 3 months ago. In the past 3 months I managed to get accepted between 20 and 100 pictures on most sites ( except Istock ), got accepted by Shutterstock and made around 10 dollars  All these wouldn't have been possible without this forum, so I want to thank everyone from the bottom of my heart. So this is my short story. Nice to meet you all!
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« on: December 30, 2012, 21:47 »
I've seen several images of old pictures or old postcards on microstock websites, and I was happy there is a way to sell something like that, as I have a small collection of very old postcards. But then I found a topic on the Shutterstock forum where a member was asking if he can upload his old postcards collection. This was the admin's answer: You must OWN the copyright for every single thing you upload. There are some collectors out there who have wholesale bought copyrights from old images. They are uploading them - because they own the copyright. They found the estate that owns them, and purchased the rights.
If you don't own the copyright, you can't upload it.
We DO NOT accept public domain images.
Uploading public domain images - or any image for which you do not own the copyright for - will result in a permanent ban from Shutterstock. There are no exceptions. Now, I don't get it...why can you upload pictures of products and copyrighted trademarks and sell them as editorial, but you can't do the same thing with some very old and rare postcards? I'm really confused... Sorry if the question is stupid but I'm just a beginner trying to understand the big microstock world >.<
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« on: December 22, 2012, 15:57 »
I lived for an year in Japan and managed to shoot a lot of unique pictures, the problem is that I used a normal digital camera. The quality is not so bad, but a lot of noise is visible when viewed at 100%. I resized a few at the minimum acceptable size and managed to get around 5 of them accepted at Fotolia and Dreamstime, but I still have a lot of beautiful pictures, and it breaks my heart to just leave them die in some forgotten folder.
So today this came through my mind. What if I make some collages with them? Each picture would be small enough so the noise wouldn't be visible anymore, but the overall picture size and quality would be ok. The problem is, I don't know how well collages sell and I can't find much info about this ( only some very old topics >.< ). I'd be grateful to hear your opinions on this!
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« on: December 13, 2012, 16:40 »
Hey there! I got into microstock recently so I don't know what's normal for the holidays. Are the sales usually fewer in december? I just got accepted by Shutterstock and I want to upload my whole portofolio, but I'm afraid not many people will buy images now and I'll lose the "new pictures" advantage until January. What should I do?
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« on: December 03, 2012, 12:55 »
I sent my first 30 videos to Pond5 about a month ago and there's still no reply. I know that video reviews can last longer but...a month!? Is this normal for Pond5?
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« on: October 12, 2012, 05:37 »
Hello there!
I started microstock a while ago and I have around 50 images on Fotolia and Dreamstime ( will try to get accepted by istock and shutterstock soon too ). I know 50 images are not enough to jump to conclusions, but I can't help noticing I barely have a few sales once every few weeks. So I was wondering, how many pictures do you need to have online to start seeing some nice income? And by "nice income" I don't mean getting rich or getting a lot of money. I know most of the people who shoot microstock want to be able to live on this income, but I'm just a student who's doing this for fun and wouldn't mind some pocket money. Let's say, even 100$ every 2-3 months would be ok for me, at least until I finish university.
Is that possible without having thousand of images online?
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« on: October 04, 2012, 11:12 »
Hello!
I just got into microstock recently, but I'm confused about copyright laws and other rules. For example, I have a picture of a pretty road sign and I modified it in photoshop. I erased the original text and wrote some interesting text on the sign that might make it sell. Then I realized I'm confused about 2 things:
1. Can pictures like these get accepted? It's not a vector, it's just a modified picture with text on it.
2. I shouldn't be able to sell it if the font is not mine and can't find any way to buy it right? What do people who use fonts in their works usually do?
Sorry for the newbie questions >.<
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