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Messages - Imagenomad
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« on: June 27, 2013, 23:50 »
OK, no images up yet but the groundwork's done.
MSG: Imagenomad
Website: Stockphotology
URL: stockphotology.com
Me: Mostly wildlife and nature at the moment but a fairly mixed bag including some home studio stuff like food, tools, that sort of thing. I plan to drastically increase my medical image portfolio (drugs and equipment at first) and will be doing some lifestyle/kid shots soon (Yay for next door's cute kids). I aim to be up to 1000 images by the end of summer and will get my first two or three hundred images up just as soon as my breathless little broadband connection will allow. I intend to be a bit more liberal with my post-processing for Symbio (but not too much - I know the risks). I do like some vintage/pastel looks for stock images though.
You: Some overlap of subject matter would be good and if some of your images tend toward a slightly more "arty" style, I wouldn't object.
Exciting times. Thanks to all involved - this is going to be one hell of a ride.
Russell
congratulations & welcome!
it's best to have some portfolio uploaded before merging into the network, so just remind us when you've uploaded and we'll get you started
steve
Thanks Steve.
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« on: June 27, 2013, 16:53 »
OK, no images up yet but the groundwork's done.
MSG: Imagenomad
Website: Stockphotology
URL: stockphotology.com
Me: Mostly wildlife and nature at the moment but a fairly mixed bag including some home studio stuff like food, tools, that sort of thing. I plan to drastically increase my medical image portfolio (drugs and equipment at first) and will be doing some lifestyle/kid shots soon (Yay for next door's cute kids). I aim to be up to 1000 images by the end of summer and will get my first two or three hundred images up just as soon as my breathless little broadband connection will allow. I intend to be a bit more liberal with my post-processing for Symbio (but not too much - I know the risks). I do like some vintage/pastel looks for stock images though.
You: Some overlap of subject matter would be good and if some of your images tend toward a slightly more "arty" style, I wouldn't object.
Exciting times. Thanks to all involved - this is going to be one hell of a ride.
Russell
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« on: June 27, 2013, 16:17 »
There are currently 41 sites listed on symbiostock.info. I've just set up mine. I'm hoping that I'm Symbio site 42 which would be, appropriately on this thread, a jolly good thing. I await a shooting down.
129
« on: June 27, 2013, 16:10 »
Ah well, that's what I did in the end. Deleted the old installation and reinstalled it in a new subdomain.
A bit of a brown trousers moment when I couldn't get back into my WP admin after changing the URL of the site in the WP settings from the subdomain to the new domain name. Fortunately, I managed to edit the functions.php file from my cPanel and re-establish the link.
So stockphotology.com is online. No images uploaded yet but hey, that's what weekends are for.
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« on: June 27, 2013, 12:21 »
Rather than moving everything, and since all I've done is install WP and the SY themes. Am I just better off deleting and starting again but installing from scratch into subdomain.domain.com?
And for Cascoly - does this the pointing to root mean that I'd have problems pointing my other domain name to the new subdomain?
131
« on: June 27, 2013, 11:59 »
Cool bananas. Thanks.
132
« on: June 27, 2013, 11:55 »
It hardly matters what keywords people use if contributers continue to spam and inspectors aren't correcting keywords.
I know it's considereed invidious to call out individuals, but look at the keywords and description of the 65 meerkats (one will do!) which turn up for 'monkey two baby'. And the entire port of the person who was anxious because he was uploading his entire 16,000 portfolio and wanted more than 999 uploads per week. His titles, keywords and descriptions seem to be plucked out of thin air, yet they're still flying in.
Meanwhile, Keywordzilla said that 'copy space' was not relevant to this image:
http://www.istockphoto.com/stock-photo-25422734-male-chaffinch-fringilla-coelebs-on-branch.php
Hmmm. Out of interest, I did the same "monkey two baby" search as you because my port contains quite a few simians. The first of any of my images appears on page 4 and it's a mother and baby orangutan. In other words two apes. I checked my keywords and "monkey" is nowhere to be found. I went into Admin to check iStock's controlled vocabulary and under "ape", it disambiguates to "ape" or "monkey" but "monkey" wasn't ticked. So iStock's search engine may be contributing to this as much as keyword spam or wrong keywords being applied by contribs. I didn't check any of the other images' keywords.
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« on: June 27, 2013, 11:09 »
Hi people
Just started on the SY path and have got so far but before I go any further, I want to move my WP/SY files away from the web root directory to a subdomain to which I'm going to point a domain name hosted with a different company.
Searching on here, it seems there were problems if WP/SY wasn't installed in the web root directory (back in March). Is this still the case or can I safely move them to a non-root directory on a subdomain?
Any thoughts?
Russell
134
« on: June 27, 2013, 05:57 »
Upload/submissions are shonky this morning.
FTP'd 10 files up. Went through the checking keywords/captions phase and did the "submit again" thing after they spotted my keyword "errors" to have a few bounce back with captions swopped and a few keywords mingled amongst the wrong images.
Something's wrong at Shutterstock Towers...
135
« on: June 26, 2013, 00:52 »
And it's still on iPlayer for those who can get it (by fair means or foul).
136
« on: June 25, 2013, 13:15 »
Scrub that. After a tip off from Tinny, I've gone with JustHost.
Wonder what I'll be doing for the next few days...
137
« on: June 25, 2013, 09:02 »
And I'm back in the game...
An ODD yesterday and a few subs today. Keep posting Ron, you're doing me good.
138
« on: June 25, 2013, 08:21 »
Hi people
Can I ask some advice please? I'm looking to go with a UK-based hosting company and for the same price, and offering the same features, I can either go with a cPanel solution or a Cloud solution.
I understand that it is easier to buy more webspace with the Cloud solution but will this still be enough for SY in the early stages?
The hosting company is TSOhost.com and I'm looking at the "Pro Hosting" level.
I've already got the domain names I'll be using, bought six months ago from a different registrar.
Thoughts?
139
« on: June 24, 2013, 12:01 »
An odd (no, not ODD) month for me. Long stretches of no sales after a couple of bonanza* months. I think they've tweaked the search algorithm again haven't they?
*Bonanza months for me are probably completely different to bonanza months for you.
140
« on: June 24, 2013, 05:09 »
Tinny - you've got a PM. Glenn - I'll cast my eyes over your site later. If you want me to contribute to PR stuff, I'd be delighted to. I think that a collaborative effort is needed on writing that sort of stuff so that all the bases are covered in terms of the messages we want to put out there. I'm surprised that nobody's bawled me out on my intentional punctuation error in the OP... 
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« on: June 23, 2013, 02:22 »
Hi guys I'm not yet part of SY but will be within the next month or two. Obviously, I look at your sites to get a feel for things and like what I see. Every one I've visited so far uses English for its text. Some of you could do with a proofreader and/or copywriter (no, not a copyrighter, a copywriter). Please excuse me if I appear to be unintentionally patronising or superior with what follows but I do see quite a few sites with errors of phrasing and grammar and occasional spelling mistakes in the text on home pages etc. Mostly, they're minor errors but, well, an error is an error and unfortunately, software grammar and spelling correction is unreliable. I suspect that this affects those whose first language is not English more than native English speakers but the latter are not immune. I don't know if it puts off buyers or visitors but it certainly wouldn't do any harm to be accurate. I'm speculating here but I do wonder if it has any effect on SEO too (I'm by no means an SEO expert though). So I'm offering to be a proofreader and copywriter for you. If you would like me to look over any text that you have on your Symbiostock home page or other pages, in the co-operative spirit of Symbiostock, I am happy to do so gratis/for free/nada at least for now. I will respect your confidentiality and be completely discreet about this. I have some other thoughts (including conditions, occasional charges and things I won't do) but I'll wait until I've had some responses to this post before I discuss those. As to my qualifications for doing this, I'm not a professional copywriter but English is my first language and I am a widely published author of scientific papers from my days in visual optics, physiology and cancer research. And I'm an unreconstructed grammar Nazi who bites his knuckles when he sees "their" instead of "they're" or "your" instead of "you're" So whaddya think? Russell PS Can you imagine how many times I proofread this post
142
« on: June 23, 2013, 01:14 »
Ooooooooaaaaaaargh. Hilarious. Good spot.
143
« on: June 17, 2013, 02:20 »
I hereby propose that Leaf should change the title of this section to "Top Tier - Big 3.5".
DoI: I've got a tiny port at iS but it's doing OK relative to its size because of the PP sales. RPI is just shy of $1 per year. But as soon as I make payout...
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« on: June 13, 2013, 06:11 »
It appears from the statement that it is already unlawful (in England and Wales, at least) to strip metadata and it becomes illegal (i.e. a criminal offence) if the image is passed off fraudulently.
It hasn't stopped the likes of Twitter, Facebook, Pinterest et al so far, mind. But then there's probably some obscure tick box with a quadruple negative condition in the T&Cs that we miss and don't check which gives them the right to use the image as they wish without metadata.
Perhaps if this is well publicised, they'll change their attitude.
But I doubt it.
Bar stewards.
145
« on: June 12, 2013, 12:27 »
Has anyone any experience with Symbio and TSOHost? I'd rather use a Brit hosting company and they have a good rep in general.
147
« on: June 10, 2013, 17:26 »
I'm not using SY yet but I plan to after a house move and dealing with a bunch of other stuff.
After reading Ron's Blog and looking at the umming and ah-ing in this thread over terminology, I'm just going to throw this out there. It's particularly appealing given terminology used elsewhere. Well to me, at least and also, I suspect to Ron given his comments elsewhere on MSG.
Anyhow, what about "Co-operative Licensing"?
Fits nicely with Leo's "Symbiotic" undercurrent (what else is symbiosis if not co-operation?) and implies fairness for both contributors and end users.
As for length of licences and stipulating usage, another idea may be to borrow from Creative Commons. So you could have different pricing for commercial vs non-commercial, sensitive use, derivatives, along with 1 year, 3 year, 5 year, or open-ended durations, all carrying an attribution requirement.
So anyone for a CL BY-NC-ND-1-Blogee? (I'm half joking; just an idea but it could be based on something like this).
Feel free to micturate on my french fries if you think I'm off beam.
148
« on: June 06, 2013, 15:27 »
I wish I was a scriptwriter. I'd have enough material in this place to script an Oscar winning film and a few sequels.
And I'd probably squeeze a prequel or two out too. Different angles with a vintage look and all that.
149
« on: June 06, 2013, 09:28 »
All part of the smoke and mirrors obfuscatory BS propagated by our beloved agencies.
150
« on: June 06, 2013, 09:26 »
So it changes depending on location? I am in South America so I get charged (much) more?
Where in South America? What's the local currency?
I am in Ecuador... the local currency is US$
Even if you did sell an image for $398.12, you'd still get only $0.20 commission. What pees me off is not the "from 0.14 per image" schtick on the homepage per se (well, it does but I knew what I was getting into with micro), it's the "from 0.14" for every {expletive deleted} image size.
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