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Messages - AlessandraRC
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« on: September 26, 2016, 19:57 »
Hi all,
Alamy has certain restrictions as to what type of images can be licenced for sale on its website (e.g. RM image on Alamy cannot be sold simultaneously on microstocks as RF, etc.).
In your experience, have you ever come across (unintentionally, of course) to a situation where your photo was put on Alamy as RM and at the same time it was on microstock as RF/editorial? Does Alamy track this down? In other words, how does it enforce this rule/limitation and what could be the consequences if you get caught?
These things happen to the best families. Lately I spotted two of my images that were supposed to be RF but on Alamy were marked as RM. I wrote to them and it was fixed within 24 hours.
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« on: September 23, 2016, 19:50 »
I've had a similar experience though my port is about 1/2 of yours. Even Alamy has picked up for me with a few sales, and those made it up for my entire 8-months on SS. My sales on fotolia, however, are erratic. Some weeks there are lots of those, some other weeks its dead silence on that end.
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« on: September 23, 2016, 19:47 »
Everywhere in forums there were strings of complaints. It as normal for this year for most.
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« on: September 23, 2016, 19:45 »
I had never gotten one of those before till today. As I was submitting the images, some went through, some had misspellings, and by the time I was doing fixing the misspellings of the remaining ones, the first ones had already been approved and by the time I hit send about 30 s passed and they were all approved. 
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« on: September 18, 2016, 12:10 »
When you all are reporting poor sales on Istock, do you count the sales through the partners programs? I though my earnings were low there until I noticed the statistics panel and all those downloads through partners. I actually make twice as much on Istock than I make on shutter stock at present, mostly partners programs. My port there is below 400 images.
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« on: September 18, 2016, 12:06 »
To be 100% legal...
Would I need a working Visa to shoot some stock footage/photos in the USA while on travel? Does shooting stock counts as work before you start selling it? I have a company outside US and I sell stock trough that company.
NO. When they ask you at the border what you are doing here, answer tourism. This is 100% legal.
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« on: September 06, 2016, 08:16 »
I think it is, last month I made there as much as I made in SS.
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« on: September 04, 2016, 11:42 »
No
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« on: August 30, 2016, 08:27 »
Part of the problem there is the massive rejections. They are picking and choosing pictures based on their perceived need, and since they do not have a means to house a very large collection, they try to avoid having too many pictures on the same theme.
I wrote to them a while back asking why so many rejections and that's what they told me anyway, not with the same words, but basically that. And that they were thinking about creating an artist hub where they would communicate to us their needs.
I haven't uploaded there in a long time. IT is a waste of my precious time.
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« on: August 11, 2016, 21:03 »
There are a lot of misunderstandings about how Alamy operates and most of them come from contributors who read the faqs, misinterpret them, then go on repeating the misunderstanding.
Best is to write to support, they are always available for help, explain the issue in detail, then print the response e-mail and keep the records in a safe place. If problems arise latter.
AS for selling on Alamy, it takes so long to sell anything there, and most things just don'tt sell, that I am not surprised Alamy is not worried about the overlap.
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« on: August 08, 2016, 20:21 »
No partners yet
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« on: August 06, 2016, 09:28 »
My obs based on a small port of less than 300 pics is that there are weeks when there are many sales and then weeks when there are none, it is erratic but the pictures that sell on fotolia from my port are definitely different from those that sell on SS.
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« on: August 06, 2016, 09:25 »
I have noticed that also.
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« on: August 04, 2016, 08:08 »
The problem is you are looking at the photos of people who get an average of .25 c per image.
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« on: July 31, 2016, 19:42 »
About rejections in 123rf, they usually happen when you take a close-up from very close. They don't like this type of composition, at least when I do it. 
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« on: July 31, 2016, 19:38 »
It can only be January since August is yet to come. You cannot sell a file in the future.
There are a few things more confusing in this world than the american way of writing dates.
A.
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« on: July 26, 2016, 21:06 »
Very nice, It shows clearly my sales plummeting from May to July in spite of the fact that I almost doubled my port during those two months  Well my port is still small but the graph is depressing.
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« on: July 23, 2016, 21:21 »
The problem also is their long review process that can take up to a month. What is the point to adding new content if it raches DT when it is already old content on the other sites?
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« on: July 21, 2016, 13:58 »
I'm currently averaging the same royalties with fotolia and istock. I am new to stock and have a small port. My port at istock is a bit smaller, since uploading there is such a pain, so I am behind uploading. So yes, I think fotolia may be worth it on the long run.
Through fotolia I have sold landscape, fotos of signs, bridges, and still life. I am saying this because some people believe that still life and photos of food do better there, and may be they do, but in my experience other types of images do as well.
This month was the worst for me on fotolia, since I joined, lat January. Only three sales.
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« on: July 21, 2016, 13:51 »
I am also tired of so much bitching, moaning, complaining and blaming. It only serves the purpose to bring everyone's energy down. The time people use to bitch and moan, they could use to keyword a few more pictures, or try to learn to make video for sale, or if things look so gloomy, find another source of income.
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« on: July 16, 2016, 10:17 »
There are three things you can do with frustration. Change it, accept it, or leave it.
There is a fourth thing that seems to be the choice of a few: hang on to it, complain, bitch, rant, lament and blame.  I wonder how many positive things in photography could be done in the time one spends ranting. Particularly those who have experience, equipment and "know what they are doing". There's money to be made in photography, for those who are in a position to do so. Go and grab it.
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« on: July 15, 2016, 21:04 »
I have been on stock for six months and I a already tired of Laurin's ranting. Laurin, how many problems in stock have you solved by ranting? Move on man! You are better than this!
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« on: July 14, 2016, 10:18 »
I guess those images that you cannot upload to live news can always go on to stock.
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« on: July 14, 2016, 10:14 »
I'm amazed at you guys comprehensive knowledge of stock sites! 
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« on: July 14, 2016, 10:11 »
One of the problems their high rejection rate of photos which, in their perception, lack commercial value. Several of my images they rejected have sold elsewhere.
However, they seem to have approved my best selling photos, and those also don't sell there.
So I don't know. My port is still very small to draw any conclusions, but I keep uploading there in the same manner that people buy stocks when they are low hoping one day they will value.
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