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« on: May 02, 2011, 07:52 »
I had this same problem with my submission and was rejected first time. I had submitted three wildlife images, all different animals but all lite from basically the front. They want a diversity of lighting and different images to show that you can do more than one kind of work. My second attempt was right on and accepted.
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« on: May 01, 2011, 11:13 »
I have a question that's bugging me.
Let's say I do a TFP/TFCD shoot with a model. So I'll give her the image files and she'll proudly show them on her Facebook page.
I however submit them, let's say, to Getty with exclusivity.
Does the model (or I) have to fear any legal issues?
How do you guys handle that?
Your contract with her needs to specify that she can not "sell" any images; exclusivity has nothing to do with exposure, only the sale of the image. Saying that, you can not put a Getty exclusive image on Dreamstime for exposure as that is an agency in the market to make money, but flickr or facebook, no worries.
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« on: May 01, 2011, 07:24 »
March 2011 was first full month non-exclusive from DT
This month (April) 1/3 of last month; I have sunk like a rock, I have fallen and can't get up, I am circling the drain.
On a bright note, a couple sites got out of the "zero sale" toilets:
Mostphotos, the 3D Studio and Yay had their first sales this month
Still maintaining their "zero sale" toilet status:
123RF, Cutcaster, Featurepics, Panther, Pixmac
Added one new agency, Warmpicture, to early to put them on the charts
On SS, down by 2/3; number of images sold is only down 1/3 but lost on the EL sales this month
On DT, down by 1/2 over last month
IS: two sales totaling 0.35 cents. I did manage to get my total port. on IS over 100 this month so that is helpful, I will keep building my port so that there is even more images on IS that they are not buying.
Overall; based on recommendations of MSG and other sites, I have started reworking my raw files to give my images a bit more punch. I am reloading these files on SS first.
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« on: April 30, 2011, 16:45 »
BME at Shutterstock. THREE ELs in April.  
Warren, you are such a "wet blanket", go away Seriously, very happy for you, glad someone is selling stuff because "I have fallen and can't get up"
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« on: April 30, 2011, 16:42 »
Forgive me as I go a little off topic but this is a Nat. Geo story. About 20 years ago, during the age of transparencies, a friend was commissioned to go shoot tigers in India for a Nat. Geo assignment. As you know, you can not just pop into the nearest Starbucks and hire a tiger for a couple days of modeling; they, he and his guides. were in the woods for a bit of time. Every week, they had to send in their rolls of film via FedEx to this editor. Now understand, wildlife photographers on assignment for one specific species are going to photograph something, just to keep practiced with the light angles, timing, etc. So this photographer was photographing monkeys. Week after week, month after month, this editor was reviewing hundreds of rolls of film, thousands of transparencies, of mostly monkeys. Monkeys in the trees, monkeys swinging, monkeys scratching their private parts, and so on.
This photographer continued his assignment for months, after about three months he got a message to call the editor. During his telephone call, the editor told him "I don't want to see another *(& %^$* picture of a monkey unless it is in the jaws of a tiger"
I hope you enjoy this true story and think of it also when you are having a dry spell shooting the subject you desire.
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« on: April 29, 2011, 16:08 »
Leaf, time to lock this thread; every couple days I check my position again (reminded by this thread) and find that I have dropped even more. Today, 27,834, down from 27808 earlier in the week.
Someone needs to give me a few mercy purchases just so I can maintain position on the chart.
Someone (AKA - you!) needs to start fatening up his portfolio in order to get some more downloads!
You have some great photos, why not at least fill the very few slots you have a week???
Another tip: you can upload isolated versions of the animals as well.
Well, since I have only been non-exclusive from Dreamstime since mid-Feb.; I have been using every available slot every week; I have managed to get 111 shots online in the past two months and I have over a thousand waiting to be loaded as they allow. Thanks for the compliment; I truly am trying to get them online to IS, at 18 a week, it is taking some time. One other thing that pisses me off about IS is the way they calculate the week; you are allowed to upload a certain number of images per week but the week starts at the end of your previous upload. Therefore, if you are subject to an outage, such as happened last weekend; or your happen to be on a dogsled heading in from the tundra; you loose a few days time. At least on DT and Veer, the clock resets based on a calendar, not your last upload
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« on: April 29, 2011, 14:38 »
I feel if the customer downloaded the image, it is theirs, even if they made a mistake, it is not like they can un-download it. They should eat the loss, not us
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« on: April 29, 2011, 12:20 »
By the way we shouldn't be calling these "clawbacks". A "clawback" implies that the person being clawed has been convicted of a crime. We're not the perps here.
But we are treated like the criminal; we are the only ones being punished. The purchaser has the image for free, no penalty; the agency only looses the sale that never should have been approved in the first place and the contributor is charge for the loss and looses his property. See, we are the guilt ones because we are the punished party.
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« on: April 29, 2011, 12:16 »
Leaf, time to lock this thread; every couple days I check my position again (reminded by this thread) and find that I have dropped even more. Today, 27,834, down from 27808 earlier in the week.
Someone needs to give me a few mercy purchases just so I can maintain position on the chart.
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« on: April 29, 2011, 07:21 »
Wow, this is cool; I see this as an excellent app. for insurance companies to catch fraud. Someone claims equipment damaged beyond repair and sell it; or claims stolen and sells it. Insurance can trace equipment and find history.
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« on: April 28, 2011, 17:52 »
full time and really struggling this month
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« on: April 28, 2011, 08:30 »
My reviews this past week have been much better, I hope it is a trend.
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« on: April 28, 2011, 08:19 »
I have been using lightburner for two months; seems to be having some problems with a few sites now so I am less pleased with it
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« on: April 27, 2011, 14:15 »
Well (IS), mine never was very good and is going downhill; DT is only site with any real sales and it is down from before; this month sucks
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« on: April 27, 2011, 13:32 »
My camera manual says it shouldn't be used below -10 C (14 F).
I never tried going much below. Besides batteries not lasting long, I guess condensation could be a problem at -50, always wondered how people manage to do in those conditions.
Condensation is a problem if you come inside with a cold camera; must put in a plastic bag and seal it tight for couple hours till it warms up to room temp. Batteries are pretty easy to change out and keep next to body. Lisa, I love the birds and the few mammals we have here in Florida; but I must admit my heart is in the tundra. I wish my body had allowed me to stay but it started to fail and I had to leave.
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« on: April 26, 2011, 20:27 »
VI -
Don't you have anything better to do that worry about istockcharts?
Obsessing about charts makes you go blind.
Actually, my one vice is MSG; when I take a break I check-in here. iStockCharts is just the topic of this thread; this community is so much into stats that one must do one's homework before posting else one is found to be a fraud, poser or lurker.
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« on: April 26, 2011, 18:49 »
This is not good, today I am at 27,808 (sales)-dropped from 27,702 but number of files puts me at 11,878. Look out folks at the top, heading your way (top for number of files); Look out folks at the bottom, I am heading your way in sales, it seems. When sorted by member since (ascending), I am number 21, woo hoo.
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« on: April 26, 2011, 18:33 »
Lisa as a BD on IS alone, you are hardly considerd a "mortal" ...
Lisa is mortal, just ask her about the Florida heat
Yes indeed. The older I get the more aware I am of my mortality...
I am with you Lisa; Florida is for Reptiles! This heat is killing me; when I left Russia, it was a balmy -20 (trust me, compared to -50, -20 is shorts and t-shirt weather for me, at least for the first 30 minutes); when I landed in Tampa, it was 88 and that was 11 pm at night. I always try to see the bright side; I have taken more photos in the past three weeks since landing in USA than my previous 6 months in Russia; and not because I was not making the effort-there is just not a lot to photograph when it is -50. Once I was photographing a Raccoon Dog and I noticed after about 10 minutes he had not moved. I slowly cozied up to him and he was frozen stiff, if guess if you don't keep moving at -50; you're dead. Anybody know a good market for "frozen Raccoon Dog images".
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« on: April 26, 2011, 17:38 »
Race; You have to much free time on your hands; you need a day job or another dayjob  I have hopes of making it to 100 downloads before year end; I dream of downloads such as Sean or Lisa-I bet they get hundreds a day Time to get back to work, will not get anything uploaded chatting here on MSG  Yesterday was Hot Dog photography day, today was Grilled Cheese photography day. I think tomorrow will be breakfast day, eggs and bacon; I can smell it already. This is what I shoot after 10 am and before 5 pm when the light sucks in Florida; no wildlife photography during these mid-day hours
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« on: April 26, 2011, 17:29 »
Animals, Animals, Animals is a stock agency with specialization in Animals.
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« on: April 26, 2011, 17:23 »
I did my monthly check of my minor sites to see sales and was surprised, no-I fell out of my chair, when I saw I had one sale at Yaymicro and two sales at Mostphotos. I was hoping Yay would someday become a good site but I had given up on Mostphotos with the stupid "likes". Imagine my astonishment when I say two sales at Most for approx. 5 euro. I am a long way from a shopping trip but it is better "than a poke in the eye with a sharp stick".
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« on: April 26, 2011, 10:16 »
I do wildlife, pets and some stock. I recently moved from Russia (personal assignment); as a full-time stock photographer, I need to make money to live and eat, hence shooting regular stock (in Russia, I could survive on little money, in USA, not so easy).
My passion is wildlife; I love shooting pets also. My wildlife and pet images have done moderately well on microstock but not well enough to call it a living.
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« on: April 26, 2011, 08:00 »
Lisa as a BD on IS alone, you are hardly considerd a "mortal" ...
Lisa is mortal, just ask her about the Florida heat
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« on: April 25, 2011, 17:35 »
Indeed, there is plenty of room at the bottom; someone is welcome to my place as I move up the ranks, slowly.
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« on: April 25, 2011, 13:57 »
Would I spend three months in the tundra for a 0.35 cent sale; NO; but for thousands of them, that is a different story. I just wish I could live on the income I make now; it was no problem in the tundra but there was no car, no real food, no entertainment and no margaritas in the tundra. On the flip side, there was plenty of ice if you wanted to make a margarita.
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