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Messages - grsphoto
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« on: May 29, 2014, 08:06 »
poll reset... more levels added... Is this better?
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« on: May 29, 2014, 07:48 »
With all the bad deals happening and the outrage on MGS, I was wondering how much of the supplier market "we" ( readers and users of this forum) actually control.
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« on: May 25, 2014, 17:10 »
Thanks for the tip about Payoneer, I had no idea they existed.
Do the funds just stay "on the card" until withdrawal or is it easy to transfer to another bank account in other countries?
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« on: May 25, 2014, 15:00 »
Paypal is a great service, if you live in the US.
How do people who don't live in the US get their money into their pocket?
I am Canadian, living in Ecuador. In order to get funds I have to transfer Paypal to my Canadian Bank, and then withdraw from an ATM here. This involves many fees and lost money due to currency changes.
Is there somewhere online I can transfer to Western Union or some other service?
Thanks
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« on: May 22, 2014, 19:34 »
I submitted hundreds of isolated PNG format photos, since they indicated that was a preference. Also submitted some background JPEGs. So far I've sold 9 images, (since April) but they were all JPEGs . Curious.
I would guess the designers of the site assumed that their users would use it one way but users have a habit of not acting the way designers and coders expect.
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« on: May 18, 2014, 11:02 »
No rejections here. Well, a couple for model releases and 3d stuff.
I have also wondered if we all get the same reviewers or if the higher earners get the more experienced reviewers. I know if I was designing the system this is something I would build in....
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« on: May 09, 2014, 07:39 »
How does this work? I have clicked on all the links listed in this thread and I can not see any images just a
"Welcome to the future gallery of #############
Want to be notified as soon as my gallery is live?"
Do you have to be logged in to see images?
Glenn
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« on: April 28, 2014, 21:49 »
How do you know? You are just guessing.
No Ron.
When you upload images to your computer from your camera where do you think they go?
They get stored in your mainframe for later use no uploading or downloading because they become STORED.
You just click and open just as a reviewer does because where does the file go after it is uploaded to SS?
Right to one of their mainframes that stores the images just as we do on our computers then the reviewer has access to that mainframe (which we dont) where images are stored and all they do is open them the same as we do when we open one from our computer there is no lag time!
But the reviewers are not in New York ( or where ever the servers are) they are scattered around the world using the same internet ( or slower) then we might be. I thought about applying for a reviewer position just for the experience, but my internet is so slow I could not review enough in an hour to make it worthwhile
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« on: April 27, 2014, 16:59 »
Maybe my technique is better, or maybe I'm using better glass, but I hardly ever get focus rejections, and when I do, I can almost always see what the reviewer saw. Given how subjective the review process can be, I'm surprised I don't have more images rejected.
I shoot with a Nikon D800, and I reduce the images by 25% in each dimension (36 MP down to 19 MB). That's plenty of resolution for most any customer, and the file sizes are a lot more manageable. I check my images at 200%; I edit on a retina MacBook Pro, where individual pixels are so small that Photoshop CC won't show me image problems at 100%.
Maybe I'm just lucky, but I have a hard time believing that perfect images are being rejected for focus on a regular basis. Not at Shutterstock, at any rate.
Or maybe you don't get focus rejections because you downsize? Try submitting full size and see if you have a "problem" it would be a good experiment. I wonder if the problem is that the larger files take longer to load, so the "sharpness" doesn't appear until the image is fully loaded. Reviewers, in order to make money, have to cycle through as many images as they can. They don't wait for the image to fully load before rejecting....
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« on: April 16, 2014, 15:09 »
I was doing a commercial shoot/ television series and the model showed up with a new Tattoo.... a disney Character.... she was sent home.
This was 12 + years ago.....
That is a completely different case. The problem is not the tattoo, but the character depicted in it which is protected by copyright.
So if the artwork is created by Disney it has copyright, but if the artwork is created by someone else it doesn't have copyright?
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« on: April 16, 2014, 12:55 »
I was doing a commercial shoot/ television series and the model showed up with a new Tattoo.... a disney Character.... she was sent home.
This was 12 + years ago.....
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« on: April 11, 2014, 22:41 »
at the current direction it is going it is not sustainable.
From a first world perspective I think you are right...from a developing world perspective the future holds some hope. The original post was about a store expansion in the US... but we can think a lot about how the world economy is changing and how, instead of just competing with the photographer down the street or across town, you are competing with a person with a camera and a computer in all the developing nations of the world.
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« on: April 06, 2014, 08:15 »
Factory may have been a bad choice to describe the idea but several people working together may encompass the idea....
The location is in South America and the target market/niche would NOT be the saturated US/EE.
One of the designers I was talking to was complaining that it was difficult to find stock images of people that "looked like us"...
My thoughts ( rightly or wrongly) is to produce images that project regional characteristics.
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« on: April 05, 2014, 19:47 »
Hi
I have been approached by some people about setting up a photographic services company where one of several income streams would be from stock...
If you were to start a image factory from scratch what would you do? What pitfalls would you watch out for?
The location would be in the developing world where overhead is low, and where I like to live.
If this opportunity landed at your feet, what would you do? What are the steps you would take?
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« on: March 28, 2014, 11:46 »
grsphoto I think it's a relevant question. I thought about trying that myself once. It could probably give a few extra downloads to some images. But the question is - is it worth the time?
I think you should see all the time you use as an investment. And I believe that investing time in shooting new images will pay of much better than "micro-managing" your stock portfolio.
i agree. i was thinking of images that i will never be able to reproduce....
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« on: March 27, 2014, 13:37 »
Its a common refrain from all of the sites. "Thank you for joining X. Don't forget to link to us and send us traffic."
it is not for us...sellers. it is for buyers.
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« on: March 27, 2014, 11:05 »
I just noticed on the DT site that they have a wordpress plug-in for direct loading into blogs.
Is this new ( it may have been there for a long time I just didn't notice it)
Do you think this is a good idea?
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« on: March 27, 2014, 10:55 »
I am sure we all have images that, for some reason, just don't appear in searches.
What happens if we delete them, and then resubmit? Does this hurt or help?
As well, what about rekeywording? I have learned a bit and would like to change keywords. Is this easy to do on some sites or is it better to delete and then resubmit.
Any thoughts on this?
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« on: March 24, 2014, 11:42 »
I don't think we ever know which will be the 20%er.... It depends so much on the search engine placement and maybe some luck?
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« on: March 23, 2014, 22:24 »
<snip> Funny how 20% of images are producing 80% of my revenue? If only I could figure out how to shoot more of those 20% 
The 20- 80 rule is something that they teach in business schools...and you are right about trying to increase the 20% 
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« on: March 18, 2014, 08:39 »
I am still getting PP sales posted for January....
my sales volume is so small I track each one and one showed up for Jan 20th yesterday ( march 17th)
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« on: March 10, 2014, 11:54 »
I don't know much about this software...but does it work with Symbiostock sites?
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« on: March 04, 2014, 14:27 »
SS had a outage last week...it was a DDOS attack.
Now Istock.... maybe they are related?
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« on: March 04, 2014, 14:20 »
I came accross this TED talk...need to digest it but some interesting ideas... http://www.ted.com/talks/philip_evans_how_data_will_transform_business?A couple of questions came to mind. How will this effect Microstock...and is what we are seeing today parts of this.... Does an idea like Symbiostock really have a place in this? Thoughts?
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