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Messages - DonLand
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« on: November 17, 2013, 15:08 »
Reason why he was able to upload so many in such a short period of time is lack of judicious Titles, Descriptions and Keywords. They appear to be just batched with inappropriate keywords and a lack of words as far as title and descriptions are concerned.
I know when I upload to IS after any of the others I catch some misplaced keywords myself. That being said, once images are captioned etc. I can upload hundreds easily to other sites and it takes days to upload the same images to IS because of all the key wording and categories etc.
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« on: November 03, 2013, 13:14 »
And while I am on the subject, why when you want to erase some marks with either the brush or the clone does the mark still show despite all your efforts ?
Just ran into this myself with LR 5.2 with an image that was retouched in 5.0. I had to go back into the corrections and decrease the feather radius. Go figure.
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« on: October 31, 2013, 15:53 »
Make sure the clone copy area does not have a spot and finally the only other thing is the retouched area falls within the inner circle of the brush and not just the outer circle of the feather area.
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« on: October 31, 2013, 09:21 »
And while I am on the subject, why when you want to erase some marks with either the brush or the clone does the mark still show despite all your efforts ?
Increase the opacity to 100%
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« on: October 31, 2013, 09:08 »
If you have lens correction on it slows things down.
You can turn it off while using the brush and then turn it back on when your done.
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« on: September 03, 2013, 22:16 »
Just an update - both base and plugin should be ready for an update, fixing the collection and "symbiocard" issue.
The base theme will not update for me. I see the 2.6.5 update and it seems to go through the process but my base theme stays at 2.6.4 and continues to alert me there is a 2.6.5 update available. I have tried a couple of times with no luck.
+1
+1
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« on: September 03, 2013, 20:52 »
Getty's Photographer's choice is RM and RF. RM you get 10 free slots with signing and then they cost $50/slot. If an image sells within a year you get another free slot. Getty PC RM pays 35% for out of home and 40% for home territory.
Getty PC RF accepts up to 40 images per quarter for free. Royalties pay 20%.
You need to be approved to be able to submit.
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« on: September 03, 2013, 17:17 »
They normally offer the first 10 slots free. Years ago I had a problem with it when the RPI/year was over $400. A year ago I checked with 4 Getty photographers and they all averaged under $40 RPI/Year. So in that time the RPI is only 10% of what it was yet they still have not reduced the price to stay the same percentage.
Lets have some of Sheldon's fun with math....
For simplicity sake we'll avoid the "free" slots and fractions of percentages.
Lets say you spend $10k with Getty for 200 images.
Artist -$10,000 Getty +$10,000.
Artists RPI $40/Image/Year
Artists PC Commission is 35%
Getty sells image for $115
Getty Pays Artists 35% = $40
Getty Profit $115-$40= $75
Assuming you did good enough to get an RPI of $40,
Getty 200 images x $75 = $15,000 + your $10,000 payment = +$25,000
You 200 images x $40 = $8,000 - your $10,000 payment = -$2000
Of course this is assuming you did good with an RPI of $40 in this day and age.
So after 1 year you are out $2000 and Getty is up $25,000.
It's pretty obvious why Getty loves Photographers Choice.
There are other variables that can't be calculated, such as 2nd year sales and free slot placements, but even if you sold 20% of your images within a year you would only get 40 free slots.
Just seems a very difficult business proposition to swallow.
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« on: September 03, 2013, 16:50 »
I had files on Corbis through the Getty House program. I have no idea how big my individual royalty was, I was getting 20% from whatever getty made, at least this was my understanding of the contract. But if this is what they offer externally than it must have been very low as well.
Incredible! Who would be so stupid to accept such a deal?
Not sure but if you get 20% of what Getty receives, and if they split it 50/50 with Corbis then the breakdown would be 50% Corbis, 40% Getty, and 10% You!!! Fun and games!!!!
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« on: September 03, 2013, 12:55 »
Congrats!!! Glad to hear it!!!
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« on: August 31, 2013, 08:53 »
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« on: August 30, 2013, 18:36 »
Same here.
Yesterday... 18 sub, 5 ODD and 1 SOD
Today... 4 sub.
The ebb and flow of stock photography continues!
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« on: August 30, 2013, 12:03 »
Add me to the list of crash on opening with the 1.6 update! 
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« on: August 30, 2013, 10:59 »
Yep they finally fixed the photo one also.
What I don't quite understand (other than them skewing the percentages to maximize their profit with the loss of profit to the artists) is the redeemed credits of photo compared to illustrators.
Why do RC's start at higher levels for illustrators and continue that until the highest level where the photo level is just out of this world? The only thing I guess is they must have a number of photographers that are under the 1,200,000 and they do not want to pay the extra 5% to those photographers.
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« on: August 29, 2013, 19:35 »
I also have a vertical version on my site.
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« on: August 29, 2013, 18:12 »
Woohoo!!! from this corner too, Don. Very happy for you... and very impressed with that shot!
As somebody who does not "shoot" humans, and so doesn't have to bother with model releases, I'm chuckling a bit to myself that your beautiful image even needed a MR to begin with.
Really???!!! How on earth would anybody identify the girl in that shot? Or even know it was a girl?
If I had made that jump, I would know its me. If it was photoshopped or not, the agency doesnt know that. In this case, add a MR of your brother and you are sorted.
Totally Photoshopped, but I do have a MR for the girl, but w/o a witness. She would never mind and besides that she could never tell. The original was shot 8 years ago, looking up a small hill with a blue sky background and she was not in silhouette. The sunset was shot in February in the Florida Keys. The cliffs were simply hand painted in from my imagination. Could anyone ever recognize themselves in this? VERY doubtful, but still was not sure if GI would want a release so.... their loss.
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« on: August 29, 2013, 17:37 »
Thanks!
Knowing the agencies I figured I'd cover all the bases just in case!
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« on: August 29, 2013, 16:09 »
Thanks all for the compliments!
No problem Leo as it is all because of your foresightl!!!
With 1 sale it has beaten out all but 3 of my other agencies, and most handily, although to be fair, other than SS the others only have a token 100-300 images online so I could gauge their results.
SS is a different beast. I can go from 0 d/l's on a weekend to 30 d/l's during the week.
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« on: August 29, 2013, 15:50 »
Yes, great price for a dramatic image!! It knocks my $3 for a 1000 px image way over the boundary...
Steve
Thanks! It was for a 1000 px exclusive image. Years ago I would have never sold it for this "little" but in the current atmosphere of .18 sales to the artist this feels pretty darn good. I originally had everything set to 2x current prices, but decided to back it down to the current rates to see what happens.
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« on: August 29, 2013, 15:44 »
Congratulations! Just think, this could have sold on getty as a premium access license at $1.25 to you. LOL... too funny. At first reading I thought you were saying a bad move by not putting it on GI, of course until I got to the $1.25 part!!!
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« on: August 29, 2013, 15:25 »
Thanks Ron, appreciate it.
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« on: August 29, 2013, 15:07 »
YAHOOOOOO.... FIRST SYMBIO SALE!!!! Came on the same day I hit SS .33 level!!! Purchased medium size for $24.99. Funniest thing was I tried to get this to upload with a model release on GI, photographers choice where I have a couple of free slots. Never got it uploaded because I could not get the model release linked!!! Finally pulled it and put it up on my Symbio site 7/29. Feels better than almost ANY (thousands of dollars sales excluded of course!!) stock sale I've ever made through an agency as I keep 100%!!! Thanks LEO!!!!  http://landwehrle.com/stockphotography/image/sunset-behind-girl-jumping-for-joy-between-two-cliffs-2/
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« on: August 27, 2013, 14:24 »
Cool, thanks Redneck
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« on: August 27, 2013, 14:00 »
Is it necessary to upload a new site map after uploading new images?
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« on: August 27, 2013, 13:46 »
I am new in this forum (Hello all!) and quite new to the industry of micro stock - lucky to have sold a few mainly on Shutterstock since June with a tiny portfolio of 150 images with mostly landscape and nature images.
The Symbiostock project I find so interesting that I wanted to try. I downloaded and installed the theme and child. Followed along the instructions and searched around the forum to advance in the process and most things worked logically.
Then I got stuck with a problem when I tried to upload the first trial image - the image uploaded but didn't exist anywhere from within. I had to give up at that point. Too much work and learning curve and too little time for now.
I'm keeping an eye on the progress though 
On the left hand side did you go to the "Lady Bug" Stock Images and click on Process Uploads?
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