Quote from: cobalt on March 30, 2019, 10:55

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eta: I also find the similars ok, as a buyer for me this is perfect. I hate having just one or two images from a series to chose from, I very much prefer to do my own selection.

Obviously, I don�t want to see 200 images from the same shoot, but an intelligent selection of 30 images is great, if they are all nicely done and useful.

yes - I often get a block of downloads of similar; I figure designers DL several images and decide later

the argument of sales dilutions makes many unsupported assumptions - biggest one being sales of 1 image impact another ( so 6 individual sales worse than 6 of 1 image)

I have get 60 downloads from 1 customer several days ago. All the images are about sexy girl (the same model). Boys like sexy girls' photo.
Maybe, they don't want to use them in there project. Their Annual Plans will expiring soon.

Quote from: whatwolf on March 30, 2019, 06:52

https://www.shutterstock.com/g/Molostock
It is a long time since I came here last time.
My friends, if I have missed anything, please tell me.

 

Interesting portfolio. Most of the models looked about 26/27, although there were a couple that looked about 21/22.

Looks like you have quite a wide variety of poses, of people doing things in a wide variety of situations. Looks like you have a wide selection of photography, so I think you should be doing well/fine for people looking for asian models.

Trust me. The couple is about 30 years old.

Some of your model images border on porn and child porn. I hope your female models are of legal age, some look childlike. Jumping goldfish has been replaced by people making hearts with their hands. Ugh.

Some are usable stock, though. I agree, way too many similars.

the girls' age are all above than 20, all of them. Maybe ... asians look younger than they are.

I know I had contact them before I starting aforum thread but I have not seen any feedback yet.

I want to delete my images and my account. I have submit it in contactus.html

I have focus on stock  images market for 1 year. And I have upload my files to 26 agencies to sell.
In those agencies, Superimagemarket.com gives the highest royalty---80%.

To day, I receive a Email from superimagemarket.com. The email says they start to recruit photographers to upload their photos. So I relied to them to ask them about why they give 80% royalty even 100% royalty for the first year. They told me they plan to offer a platform that provide artist to sell their works just like a Self-Hosted website.
I have registered. It is my 27th agency. I hope they can sell images well. So I can get more money than anyother stock images agency.

So what do you find about it?

here is the picture post in the Email.

I found my FILE be used by some website but how can I know Which websites have paid for my Picture. And which websites did not paid to me?

Some buyers would upload some picture they bought to some FREE-DOWNLOAD websites, to attract people who is seeking files to do their own design.

I have found so many files could be download from a FREE-DOWNLOAD website, as the same time those files was sold on SS,IS and so on.

What can I do, if I found my file was put there to be download for free?

As an iStock exclusive I am not clear on where else we can sell and license our work.

It appears, by the Artist Agreement, that we can sell prints online at Print-On-Demand sites like Fine Art America, Crated, etc... and on our own sites and through "our own" POD sites like Zenfolio, Smugmug, and Photoshelter.

Also, can we license our images through other-than-Getty, Rights Managed sites like Almany? Are there others?

As an IS Exclusive, where do you sell your work other than iStock and how effective are those other channels?

Thanks so much for your comments. 

Or you can just quit the exclusive program. And you can upload your file anywhere you want.

I hope I can get EL every month in 2015!

thank you! Niakris!
It is very useful tool to add metadata to my photos.

I cannot upload any files to  pond5 but I can open their website, and I can use my ftp software. It has been about 5 months.

so... is it selling well? by 0.25

I just quit the exclusive program from istockphoto. Because I cannot see my video is selling.
I know there is some people get very good income from the GI by the "signature+" channle.
How about yours?

I decide to wait one more day, and I'll write to istock next day.