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Shutterstock.com / Re: Milestone!
« on: February 06, 2016, 00:12 »
I've sold 128 files in 2 months time and I've a port of 450 images only. I think I need at least 3k images to get 200 or 300$ every month... What do you think?

I think you're trying to make Alfa feel bad about the accomplishment he's currently very proud of.

And it worked  :'(










 :D

I have 270ish files up with SS.. more with others and on SS at least 50 sales.. Stocky me has about double the files with slighty more than double the sales.. so we're both doing OK :)

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Shutterstock.com / Re: Milestone!
« on: February 05, 2016, 06:19 »
50 total! Per day would be nice :)

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Shutterstock.com / Re: Milestone!
« on: February 05, 2016, 05:42 »
Thanks  ;D

Yeah I'm with Alamy - no sales but working on it. I'm told you need at least 500 images and about a year as you say, to see sales.  I think I have 370 up now.. so getting closer :)

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Shutterstock.com / Re: Milestone!
« on: February 05, 2016, 05:00 »
Lol that's one of biggest fears! I'll get a barrage of criticism, not sure I'm strong enough for that yet haha

But here you go anyway.... http://www.shutterstock.com/g/David+Hewison?rid=3399407

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Shutterstock.com / Milestone!
« on: February 05, 2016, 04:51 »
I expected a lot less. My goal is also to get monthly payouts, working on that now :) I only have 200 images up... Trying to aim for that every month now.

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Shutterstock.com / Milestone!
« on: February 05, 2016, 04:35 »
I made my 50th sale with SS today!

I've only been doing this for just over 4 months so im delighted.. No idea if 50 is good or bad for that amount of time, but I am very happy so far :)

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General Stock Discussion / Re: 500PX Core/Prime sales
« on: January 06, 2016, 04:21 »
Just made my first sale on there - made $30.... Better than $0.30! :) I don't have many images up on there but it's incentivized me to change that.

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"It sends out a clear message that they are not interested in pro photographers at all. iStock seem to be coming to the same conclusion that pro's will migrate to Macro and the rest can be sold off cheap."

+1

The other thing SS has going for them (like other sites) is that they have A LOT of excellent contributors who simply don't pay attention to what's really happening or are in areas where a little money means a whole lot. That segment of suppliers probably isn't going away.  If everyone who knows what's happening were to pull their ports, it would not make much difference to the collection because there is plenty of good stuff to replace deletions. It unfortunate but it's a fact.

not sure which if i edited correctly , if not, sorry.
but this is the thing that seems to be prevelant here on msg. inconsistency .
what i mean is , only not long ago when rejections were high, many old guys were up with their pitchforks saying "the bar lifted too high already, for the kind of money you pay us".

so now, they lower the bar to very low, and still the voice is shouting saying "the bar is too low".

like cathy, i think , says, micro was never meant for "pros" using expensive cameras to shoot.
if not the cameras, but more the cost of production.  i also remember how someone also said we should be smarter at what we upload as it would be insane to upload works that cost an arm and a leg to produce.
but really, we all know it was never meant for any of us to be paid a lot of money from micro,
so we are flipping back and forth on our own expectation from ss.

i think until someone else comes along to give us as often dls and payout as ss,
i would hold my breath on going to macro or anyone who has not proven they can even be as
productive as dreamstime;  and we know how reliable that is.

looking on the right side, we still see all those long existing agencies still barely hitting past 30 .
so i won't be expecting anyone coming out or coming up to compete against ss.

for now, i will keep my own bar high, and use this lowering of the bar as a chance to actually
stand out above the rest. it's like the real world, you know.. when you see lots of ppl not caring about getting a good job. we still don't say, "oh... that's bad for me... if so many of them doing care
about aiming higher" . same applies to ss, you know. what worry what the others do...
it's really only us, what we do, if we earn more or less in 2016 with ss... with millions of 1/10 entries
and thousands of marijuanas ...
don't really matter anyway.
..should it???

Great comment.

I'm still new to Microstock having only been playing for 6 months or a bit less. I'm not all that good, but even so I'm making consistent sales here and with other sites so I'm happy.

If this does indeed lower the quality of SS content, it can only be good for those of us that are making sales and produce reasonable stuff.. we'll stand out more...

That said, it did stroke my ego getting accepted into SS - now it's no achievement at all.

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General Stock Discussion / Re: Which gender sells more in general?
« on: November 28, 2015, 04:34 »

Based on average RPI for new files, I would say transgender is best selling right now. Transgender moose, of course, is the key to financial independence.

I'm in Australia, we don't have moose here. What am I meant to do to achieve financial independence?

I feel so downtrodden by privileged white male moose photographers 😐

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General Stock Discussion / Re: Eyeem market
« on: November 18, 2015, 01:15 »
It looks to me that they have changed their policy, but have no yet updated their website.

You can submit RF EyeEm/Getty images to other sites too. I'm very happy about that because I have a few images on Getty via EyeEm now, so I'll upload to the other agencies.

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Wow what a very creative port
This guys going to burn through a cameras shutter actuations just on this one subject lol

That's not all he's burning through. Probably makes it easier to shoot the same shots 1000 times.

With that much weed, maybe he just forgot he shot the previous thousand images  :P

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Shutterstock.com / Re: Shutterstock acceptance rate
« on: November 03, 2015, 17:43 »
Photos: 70%

Although when I first joined them they rejected much more than they accepted, the last 2 months the acceptance rate is about 90%... Probably because I don't upload on weekends!  :P

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General Stock Discussion / Re: Eyeem market
« on: October 24, 2015, 01:01 »
Meh - I've been trying for two days to upload my content.. of the frist batch of 50 - only 14 made it, that was after two attempts. Also keywording and captioning is not carried over..

What a crock.  >:(

You can't/shouldn't treat it as an agency because it actually isn't one. The main purpose of the platform is an online & mobile sharing community. It wasn't designed to ingest many images at once. They just introduced a desktop upload tool this week, probably a lot of people tried it out at once, and initial bugs/problems are to be expected as with any new feature.

Also, there was (actually is) no classic keywording. EyeEm uses an "album" system where people can share images into public galleries (instead of the hashtags Instagram is using). So any "keyword" you add is actually an album in the system.

Ahhh.. OK then - well fair enough... Thanks for the heads up :)

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General Stock Discussion / Re: Eyeem market
« on: October 23, 2015, 16:44 »
Meh - I've been trying for two days to upload my content.. of the frist batch of 50 - only 14 made it, that was after two attempts. Also keywording and captioning is not carried over..

What a crock.  >:(

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General Stock Discussion / Re: Is Shutterstock for real???
« on: October 22, 2015, 15:53 »
You do need a sense of humour, yet that is something sorely lacking in this forum (Thats not directed at you Pauws99).

SS are unpredictable, it's true. You mentioned 123RF - at the moment, and I'm still reasonable new to this, I have 100% acceptance rate with them, but rubbish sales. Yet at SS i have a 70% acceptance rate, and 10 times the revenue of 123RF.

There are plenty of images SS rejected that are selling on Istock and Fotolia.. but SS still out performs all of them.

If I'm really honest with myself, the images SS refused deserved it, with a few exceptions. I've also noticed that at times, especially when I really can't see any faults in the image, I just resubmit and 9 times out of ten they accept them  :D  It's a pain, but at the end of the day, it pays off.

I'm going to regret saying this but there are a significant number of people in this forum that really should consider trying something new.. they seem to hate noobies, they hate Microstock and hate life. Why they're here is beyond me.

Noobies, by the way, are found everywhere - all business have to live with new  competitors all the time. Why is this any different?

Ok, to balance that out I have an image of a nice pair of boobs that will cheer everyone up... :)


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General Stock Discussion / Re: Wishing editorial on Fotolia
« on: October 06, 2015, 18:03 »
+1 for editorial too..   8)

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Hmm I decided to upload to these guys - upload process on the surface is senssational - although I'd rather FPT - I've asked for an invite for that and i suspect my problems will go away after that..

But in the meantime - i uploaded 20 files  - they all completed, but some said they were processing. So I uploaded another 20... and over half of the orginal files have no disappeared  :(.

Of the second batch of 20, only about 15 of them worked..

anyone else having these problems?

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Envato / Re: Envato's idea of a fun fact
« on: September 25, 2015, 02:37 »
I'm glad to learn Im not the only one that PhotoDune likes to slap us around with rejections..

Every other agency I'm with accept 90% or more of my images and they are all selling well.. Aren't they an aussie group?  I'm an aussie - in the same city too.. they should look after their own!  >:(

Maybe I should walk down there and knock on their door - see how they like a rejection...

 ;D

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I started with no portfolio at all..  I mean i had about 14000 images on the server, but they had been taken with higher ISO so had noise, or maybe they were just not really what i wanted to upload.  So I made a decision to start from scratch 2 months ago.

I'm with 15 libraries and I'm making sales every 2 days now and my portfolio ranges from about 80 images to 200 depending on the agency.

My advise - start now, as Pauws99 says - as you go you will judge what works and what doesnt. What photos to send to which agency.. and if ou upload a batch of thousands say to Alamy - and they reject only one image... the....whole...batch...gets... rejected.... :'(  ouch.

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Citizen Journalism Forum / Newzulu
« on: September 18, 2015, 23:12 »
So I'm thinking of uploading my news images to Newzulu - has anyone had any experience with them?

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General Stock Discussion / Re: funny request
« on: September 18, 2015, 16:48 »
Nothing wrong with a bit of exposure though  <-- see what I did there  ;D

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General Stock Discussion / Re: lost partition recovery
« on: September 17, 2015, 20:27 »
This highlights the importance of daily backups... I hope you work it out!

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General Stock Discussion / Re: Editorial shots - where to put them?
« on: September 17, 2015, 19:51 »
Sorry, On the Red Carpet still shows up on their website so I assumed it was still around. I didn't mean to send you off on a fool's errand.

With Alamy News there is no formal program. You have to email them. I shoot for a lot of magazines and newspapers so the first time, I just reached out to them when I found an event that I thought would be great for my stock photo portfolio on Alamy, but not something that my usual clients would be interested in. Usually I do the legwork by reaching out to the PR folks for the event and then get a letter/email from Alamy confirming that I shoot for them if the PR folks require it (have done this a couple of times). They (the PR folks) usually want a list of publications that your work has been in. It's pretty standard practice, I think, or at least in my experience. Hope this helps. With On the Red Carpet they contacted the event people and did just about everything for me. This was back in 2008-2009 when SS was a lot smaller.

The people at Alamy News are very nice to deal with. Contact them and see how it goes.

Thanks Wordplanet, you're a champion!

I'll email them now.

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General Stock Discussion / Re: Editorial shots - where to put them?
« on: September 17, 2015, 00:02 »
Scroll to the bottom of your home page under "Promotion" you'll see "On the Red Carpet" and you click on that and fill out the application. If I shared a link it would have my name and contact info filled in but it's easy to find.

It's been some years since I went that route - I mostly use my own contacts or get a letter from Alamy News if I don't have a pending or potential assignment.  But shutterstock's program is still around. They were great to deal with.

I'm sorry for being a noob, but this letter from Alamy - it appears I have access to upload to news but this letter, how do you get it?  Just email or have I missed something on their website?

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General Stock Discussion / Re: Editorial shots - where to put them?
« on: September 15, 2015, 22:50 »
SS and Alamy News can both help you get press credentials - with SS thru On the Red Carpet you have to give them the files exclusively for 2 years then can add them to other micros after the two years expire - with Alamy News they go online as RM.

I shoot for various magazines and newspapers but when I don't have an assignment and want to attend an interesting event, they have often come through for me.

OK I'll check it out - thanks! :)

Mind you I never thought I'd need a press pass to shoot some snaps of a mediocre car show... live and learn!

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