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« on: March 22, 2015, 04:21 »
I rarely submit footage and sales are even more rare. However, I always retouch it (prefer the word "edit", since retouching is more applicable to handwork with photos). Brightness, contrast, white balance, selective color correction as well as skin filter on models. Often I would do it in AE 16 bit to avoid noise after manipulations.
To me it is the same as with photos: commercial value could and should be enhanced during manipulation. Greener grass sells better 
Thanks! I have installed the Davinci Resolve today and have a try with my timelapse footage! It's so amazing! Much easier than AE, and after just a little edit, it looks absolutely better than before. It seems I need redo all my files, for the better sale~!
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« on: March 22, 2015, 02:50 »
I am confused about if I should retouch my stock footage, like to do some adjustment in brightness, contrast, saturation and white balance etc.
I use Canon EOS 7D and EOS-M to shoot footage, most of them are editorial, I am not very sure if the original footage from the camera is good enough for sale.
What you guys do?
And I have about 400 clips on sale in different sites, and only have less than 10 times sale every month...
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« on: October 09, 2014, 05:10 »
Shi'de!
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« on: October 08, 2014, 19:56 »
Hi guys!
I want to apply for Getty and Corbis and other macrosites. But I don't know, if it's worth to do that? How different it is between macrosite like Getty and microsite like SS? Can I sale my picture in both of them as RF licences? And except Getty and Corbis, are there others sites worth to be tried? Like LatitudeStock, SuperStock, AgefotoStock?
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« on: September 01, 2014, 04:47 »
Thanks! I will remove the "_HD" and try again. I hope they won't ask me reupload them via ESP~~~ I've never put "_HD" in the folder name, but they end in "_done" which should be OK (if a bit long, though I know of no reason why that should matter... but this is iStock of course).
You changed the file names within the folders to match the folder name (with "_HD" but without the "_done") too, I presume?
If so I can't see any reason why this should fail. You will need to contact support.
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« on: September 01, 2014, 00:32 »
The name of folder are all right?
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« on: August 26, 2014, 01:09 »
I applied a IS ftp account and uploaded some footages in their server, but 7 days later I still can't find my files in the IStock site, the rest limits of my upload is still 999/168h. I don't know it's really need such a long time to processing the footage uploads or did I do something wrong? Please help, it's very weird.
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« on: July 30, 2014, 03:15 »
WOW!!!! I got a footage sold yesterday!~~~~~ suprised!!!
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« on: July 28, 2014, 01:46 »
Hello everyone, I am one of the owners of UltimatStock. We are a new site launching in 2014 and are currently looking for content providers. Our development stage is almost complete, and will be moving to the marketing phase shortly. Here are just some benefits of UltimatStock.
50% commission on sales.
Easy to use interface
Batch upload directly. (Images, Video or both) (Our minimum criteria for uploading video is 1920*1080P) meaning buyers are guaranteed the highest quality as a minimum. (photojpegs only uploaded in QuickTime format .mov
Upload and download model and property releases made easy directly whilst editing your content. Editorials do not require a release.
Once curated by our team, content is available for sale.
Content uploaded will automatically generate smaller resolutions.
You can easily change your prices for every resolution generated to help you sell.
You can interact on every piece of content uploaded, connect with buyers and other professional content providers.
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We are a new company so please make this happen We would appreciate any feedback and how you found using UltimatStock. Our mission is to create a different experience for everyone shooting stock. Upload today!
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Hello! Desiren, I have upload some timelapse footages in your site, hopefully you can sell it better! :-}
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« on: July 15, 2014, 19:38 »
I convert to photo JPEG. I think your problem might be that you are saving the files at max quality. All sites state to save in high quality, not max because it creates a huge file with no discernible quality difference. P JPEG is a more generally accepted codec. What software are you outputting with?
After effects CC
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« on: July 15, 2014, 10:05 »
I stated to upload some footages to some stock sites in recently, I use my Canon Eos 7d to shoot them. About the code, the camera saved as H.264, but I found most files in stock site are Photo-jpeg. The P-jpeg is much bigger than H.264, as a 20s footage, in H.264 the size is about 250MB, but when I convert it to P-jpeg it becomes more than 1GB, it's a huge expand.
So this is the problem, does it necessary to convert the H.264 to P-jpeg? if I convert, the quality of the footage will be decrease? or what is the real different between H.264 and P-jpeg except the size.
I have been upload more than 80 files in SS\POND5\Motionelements and get accepted, I think it's ok for stock site to submit H.264, but I don't know the sale situation. I have not get a sale for now, I am a totally newbie in stock footage
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« on: May 16, 2014, 08:57 »
Hello Jason, I join in Microstock a year ago, in the beginning, my idea about this market was a big mess.
As you do, I believe I can get 1$ per 1 image in one year, so I uploaded many many snapshots into IS, DT and other sites and full of confidence. But as time goes by, I found make money with my photos in miscrostock sites is much difficult than I thought before. I have a big portfolio but very very very less downloads!
After a year of exploration, I think we as all newbies in microstock need two things, the one is patient, another is hardworking.
I think our photo is much like the goods in the supermarket, there are many different or similar files in the storage rack already and there still are lots of excellence pictures added into it everyday. And as newbie's photo, it usually lack of competitiveness, you can not make sure every customer come to this supermarket will buy your files instead of other's, it's a kind of probability event, it's the same situation not only for us but also for every contributor, the different thing is the size of the possibility.
My experiences, if you want to get sales better or even want to make living by microstock ( that is my goal), you should keep uploading to make a really big protfolio and try your best to make your pictures more and more attractive for the buyer, and the most important is the patient and confidence and the fadeless interesting in taking photo, and the last work is left to time, waiting for sales coming, if not, change your strategy and try again.
This is my experience in the past year.
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« on: April 14, 2014, 04:06 »
And I also want to know which brand or kind of background paper you used? I found if I zoom the shadow into 100%, it looks very coarse and makes me very uncomfortable, I think the perfect shadow should be smooth and evenly, so I shot these isolated pictures by the PMMA（organic glass board), it's very easy to isolate.
And you referred the clipping path stuff, how does it works? the format is Jpeg or something?
Clipping path tutorials: http://www.istockphoto.com/article_view.php?ID=89
http://www.seanlockephotography.com/2008/09/29/clipping-paths/
For background paper, I use cheap poster board from the grocery store, or Michaels. I swap it out often as it gets damaged easily. I eliminate any shadow coarseness by using a soft fill light from a big umbrella. Since I backlight my shoots, I'll often stick something dark behind the subject to make it easier to mask.
Add dark board behind the subject, good tips! I will try it! Thanks!
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« on: April 12, 2014, 20:30 »
Do you load both, with and without shadow, images to the same web site? Hence a choice for the buyer?
No, it wouldn't pass inspection cause it's the same photo.
Most sites include clipping paths. In fact they encourage them.
Thanks a lot! You mean that I should keep the shadow on the ground and just remove when there is only one object in the picture? And I also want to know which brand or kind of background paper you used? I found if I zoom the shadow into 100%, it looks very coarse and makes me very uncomfortable, I think the perfect shadow should be smooth and evenly, so I shot these isolated pictures by the PMMA（organic glass board), it's very easy to isolate. And you referred the clipping path stuff, how does it works? the format is Jpeg or something? Thanks again
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« on: April 01, 2014, 09:50 »
As my title, what kind of color space you guys use? sRGB or Adobe RGB? I know the A-RGB have a broader colour range than sRGB, so I tried to use A- RGB in my recently shooting. But there is a problem, when I upload these pictures into the stocksites, I found there are chromatic aberration in some sites like SS and FT. So I'm very confused in the color space. Which one you chose?
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« on: March 12, 2014, 10:13 »
I think add some texts in the isolated shoots will promote the value of a simple picture. But I don't know how to do it, there is anyone can help me? Thank a lot!
If anything it puts designers off buying the image, Its just extra work to remove the text, serves no purpose whatsoever.
I don't know why agencies accept these it makes them look amateurish.
I don't understand why the buyer will purchase those photos, and how to use it, but I had ever saw one of these kind of pictures showed on the local bus as advertisement. And I think this kind will be sold, but I don't know why~~~
Maybe it was sold despite the text, rather than because of the text.
i.e. maybe for the image you saw, that was the actual image the designer/client liked, and there was no similar without text.
http://www.shutterstock.com/pic-25671838/stock-photo-painting-summer-landscape-with-blue-sky.htmlThis is the picture I saw in the cabin of bus, and it is the 39th in top 100 popular pictures at SS, and there are many files added sample text in every stockphoto site. If them sold good not because the text, and why the author will spend time to do this extra but useless work? I think design the style of characters is more complex than shooting. This is why I think there may be a special software or file format they used.
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« on: March 12, 2014, 08:55 »
I think add some texts in the isolated shoots will promote the value of a simple picture. But I don't know how to do it, there is anyone can help me? Thank a lot!
If anything it puts designers off buying the image, Its just extra work to remove the text, serves no purpose whatsoever.
I don't know why agencies accept these it makes them look amateurish.
I don't understand why the buyer will purchase those photos, and how to use it, but I had ever saw one of these kind of pictures showed on the local bus as advertisement. And I think this kind will be sold, but I don't know why~~~
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« on: March 12, 2014, 01:35 »
I am wondering a technical problem. There are lot of photos added with text, like this picture: http://www.shutterstock.com/zh/pic-166482245/stock-photo-potatoes-on-white-background.html?src=1f71RmQEmRoYP29ly9e52Q-1-31 I want to know what software you guys used for doing this kind of work, and the format of the picture is still the JPEG? or something else? and if it's JPEG, how can the buyer change those example words into their owns and keep the style of those characters no changing? I think add some texts in the isolated shoots will promote the value of a simple picture. But I don't know how to do it, there is anyone can help me? Thank a lot!
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« on: November 26, 2013, 07:00 »
It's seems like I have know something! If a file is RF-Editorial in microstock agence, that means it's OK to set as RM in Alamy? And a file is just RF in microstock, it must be RF in Alamy? You need to be aware that the amount actually charged for a photo usually bears very little resemblance to what's shown on the image calculator, as it seems most buyers have negotiated deep discounts.
There are occasional high sales, but fewer and fewer; most IME are sub $50.
Remember also that prices quoted on their forums are generally gross, not net.
Check out how many millions of files there are there, and be aware that the owner said they made IIRC c330,000 sales last year. Lets you know what your chances are.
You may Just to manage your expectations.hve to wait months for a sale to clear before you get the money.
It's absolutely not a get rich quick scheme. I had several hundred images and eight months before my first sale.
Be aware that if you have a file RF elsewhere, it must be RF on Alamy, also if there is any tiny, out of focus hint of a person or something that needs a PR that you don't have releases for - they don't do RF editorial.
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« on: November 26, 2013, 04:38 »
As a photographer, what's the difference between RF and RM about your income? Which type sales better and bring your more?
and I found in Alamy, a lot number of pictures just shooted in the street, park, or every common place in a city, these snapshot will be sold in actually?
what kind of photos should I upload to Alamy will sales good?
I hope I can get some experience about Alamy from you. I joined it just few days. And I don't want to make another tragedy again( As my DT problem...)
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« on: November 17, 2013, 08:37 »
There is even 'better'... search for Battersea Power Station. The newest ~200 images by the same contributor are a series of the same or similar views but with different photo effects: normal, vintage ...b/w. I wonder which photo effect is coming next?
So, what happen in IS? I'm very doubt that whether the IS is becoming a site like Flikr or something? QC is already inexistenced?
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« on: November 17, 2013, 08:29 »
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« on: November 17, 2013, 04:25 »
sorry, i have to say those you uploading are just used to fill the gap for IS..if you uploaded those 2 years ago, those will get a lot rejected, seriously 
That's my question... I found it's too easy to upload, It seems like there is a very very high successe rate in IS
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« on: November 17, 2013, 04:21 »
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! His first file was uploaded on 5th June, he has an 80% acceptance rate and 7 sales.
