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Messages - lathspell
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« on: December 08, 2007, 19:42 »
I would have liked to have seen an increase in the XS price from 1 credit to 2 credits - I get cheesed off whenever I see those 24c commissions.
A year ago you got these 24c for an S (~800x600px) sized image. The XS was (as lisfx wrote) probably only established to have a "1 credit" image size at all. Raising the royalties for XS IMO would make the XS size pointless so I'm pretty sure this will never happen ...
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« on: December 03, 2007, 17:02 »
we talking the tv comedy (3 times) Blackadder?
Yep, it's Blackadder's 3rd season, the "Ink and Incapability" episode.  Sorry for the OT!
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« on: November 26, 2007, 11:41 »
Monday was a record day for me on IS and the rest for the week, my sales were down 30% from my average.
best match changed on Thursday, so it could not have been affected Tuesday and Wednesday results ...
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« on: November 08, 2007, 08:27 »
May I join the party? I'd like to applaud too ...
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« on: November 07, 2007, 15:50 »
pretty good start this month, no problems, and even an EL today. So yes - it's you.
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« on: November 06, 2007, 18:32 »
I've given up wikiing pictures on istockphoto long ago. Well, at least almost - sometimes an image just causes a certain level of total frustration about its keywords, and in this case I still can't resist. But it is like fighting windmills - occasionally I discover files with keywords still under review which I had wikied almost a year ago, and there are probably more mistagged pictures uploaded than wikied every day.
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« on: November 01, 2007, 19:25 »
How about this one ...they tell me to rotate that file? ?Wow!!! They were probably not going to tell you to rotate the file. They probably want to rotate you the phone's keypad during a re-shoot to get rid of this nasty perspective distorsion, making the picture looking incredibly better and more useful.
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« on: November 01, 2007, 10:45 »
The whole review times are just upside down now - istockphoto(!) beats StockXpert, dreamstime beats shutterstock(!). Weird.
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« on: October 30, 2007, 06:45 »
...exclusivity ties the work published as exclusive, not the photographer, isnt it? Nope, you're wrong. istockphoto demands exclusivity per photographer, not per photo, with a few exceptions like RM work, prints etc. It's all in their Exclusive Artist's Supply Agreement.
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« on: October 08, 2007, 06:33 »
91.7 ... I must admit that I'm a little jealous now.  My current best one is at 25.9, and my all time bestseller is at 21.1 ...
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« on: October 05, 2007, 13:59 »
wow how long did they spend keywording, or did they just copy and paste a dictionary?
If that's the case then they missed aardvark ... (anyone knowing "Blackadder" here? )
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« on: October 01, 2007, 10:06 »
A lot of posts where SS is no longer in 1st place
For me SS has never been in the 1st place, not even close to it. Though my IS and SS portfolios are about the same size (~300 pictures) SS never made more than 60% of IS's $. And in a typical month SS is bringing ~40% of IS.
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« on: October 01, 2007, 08:55 »
As a little test I forced myself to not upload anything in September (ok, I gave up at the end around Sept 27 ...  . As projected SS royalties dropped significantly (~75% of August), DT kept quite stable, IS lost ~12% both in DLs and $. StockXpert was the absolute loser of the month - WME there, 60% of DLs and 30%(!) of royalties compared to August which is actually less than what I got in April, my very first (and even incomplete) month there. From the total results the following companies made: IS: ~38% SS: ~11% DT: ~8% StockXpert: ~4% Total number of DLs from these 4 sites: ~600. And the missing 39% royalties came from 15 DLs at two local and not-so-micro-stock sites. That's why I will never go exclusive anywhere.
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« on: September 28, 2007, 13:43 »
Is there an "opt out" feature?
have you read the posting? it's all there ...
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« on: September 14, 2007, 07:44 »
Sorry Nazdravie, but you are wrong ... Last year I did a request for refund on IS. The picture in question was uploaded in 2006, but the quality didn't meet the standards at all. It was noisy, out of focus, and the background (showing a blue cast due to a wrong white balance setting) was photoshopped away (leaving portions of a wallpaper structure which the "artist" probably hadn't seen at all) in such an amateurish way that it made me asking for refund in the second I opened this picture after download. Not sure how this one had slipped through the approval process, but I got pretty angry about this particular picture.
Yes, I had to send a Certificate of Destruction via fax, signed by me and another witness. The fax, a phone call (because something went wrong at the first try to get the refund) from Germany to Canada, the time needed etc. was certainly worth more than the $5 refund. But sorry, this picture was so off from the standards that I didn't want to honor the contributor with giving him MY money.
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« on: September 10, 2007, 12:30 »
Anything between 2 and 12 days is "normal" for non-exclusives, at least this is the range my pictures were approved (or rejected) in during the last 12 months ...
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« on: September 07, 2007, 15:25 »
site is online ... offline ... online ... offline ... and that was just the report from the last 5 minutes.
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« on: September 06, 2007, 17:23 »
Go to "BROWSE", hit "NEW", enter some text and some additional infos (# of a picture, article, portfolio), press "SUBMIT". Pretty difficult, aye? 
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« on: September 05, 2007, 13:44 »
I only remove pictures which don't meet current quality standards anymore. Removing pictures just because they don't sell sounds a bit strange - something that has been removed won't sell for sure, something still online perhaps will. And as mentioned above there are some suprising downloads for "non-sellers" from time to time ...
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« on: August 31, 2007, 20:20 »
For me IS was once again the best player this month, with a ~20% + in $ and DLs. IS is now regularily outnumbering SS in downloads, and IS's average royalty/DL is twice as high as SS royalty/DL ...
StockXpert was the biggest surprise - it outnumbered SS $-wise, with just 25% of SS's DLs it brought about 10% more $ than SS.
Made a BME on IS, StockXpert, DT.
SS is more and more annoying ... with every other company you see a long term success and results of more uploads, with SS you can only hope for keeping last month's level. Take 4 weeks off, and your DLs drop to unknown depths ...
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« on: August 26, 2007, 20:47 »
Once the fastest, now the slowest review times ... That's a bit annoying, but at least the sales are doing well.
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« on: August 23, 2007, 22:11 »
Erm ... sorry ... I think I got confused between all these rejections ... *blush*
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« on: August 23, 2007, 15:58 »
Here's my strange rejection
Are you sure?!
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« on: August 22, 2007, 21:11 »
I wonder, how large a batch are you folks uploading where it's taking days to review?
I only upload 2-5 pictures a week, so batch size doesn't seem to matter ...
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« on: August 22, 2007, 18:42 »
I have pictures from Aug 19 still pending ... Time to get used to longer approval times at StockXpert?
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