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Messages - HappyBunny
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« on: September 20, 2018, 10:09 »
Hello, I just made a new sale on Alamy. The buyer paid a whopping $1.25. Is that even possible? I hardly ever make a sale on Alamy. For that money it's not worth uploading and all that time consuming tagging.
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« on: August 03, 2018, 05:49 »
 It isn't about me. I just simply wanted to know if we ever get an increase in royalties because everybody charges more each year for food for example or train tickets..... Would make sense if we also increase what we get paid per image. My husband commented that this is a slave job we are doing.
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« on: August 03, 2018, 02:57 »
I don't have to bring anything up with my government. In my country it's the law, made by the government, that the employers have to increase salary by 2% every year. Otherwise people would get poorer and poorer every year because of inflation and rising costs of everything.
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« on: August 02, 2018, 04:25 »
What about the contributors who have been doing microstock for 10 years or more. Have you ever seen an increase? That's sort of insane not to get an increase. In 10 years we will get the same money per image while even minimum wages go up to cover inflation.
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« on: August 02, 2018, 03:46 »
I have been doing microstock for 2.5 years but never saw an increase of our royalties to cover inflation. In some countries employers have to pay 2% more every year to cover the loss of income because of inflation. Food prices go up etc. Do the agencies increase our royalties every few years or not at all? We can't just get 33 cents per image now and 33 cents in 10 years.
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« on: June 29, 2018, 05:00 »
I followed Serge Ramelli about 2 years ago and watched some of his older videos but in 2018 I gave up. I think he lost the plot. His editing his getting worse. There is no point going on with YouTube when you have covered everything. And this nonsense of reducing the highlight 100% and opening up the shadows to 100%. I am certainly not a genius in editing. I wish I were. But those fake colors I don't like. There are much better photographers on SS. Maybe the really great ones don't need to be on YouTube and have no time for that either. They are busy being professionals. That's just my opinion.
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« on: June 29, 2018, 04:48 »
Am I glad that I am not on Instagram. Maybe I am too old for that but I never understood why some photographers can become so famous because of Instagram. What's going to happen to that fraud? No criminal charges??? There is a photography holiday website and they are using images I have seen on SS. They have not written that there are their own but I thought that they were the images they themselves have taken during their touring holiday. People will think that these photographers are great, that they can learn from them and will book a photography holiday based on the quality of the microstock photos. They chose awesome photos and I found all of them on SS. Isn't that also fraud even though they have not written that they took the photos?
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« on: June 10, 2018, 07:53 »
There isn't really much newsworthy about my images. It shows boats getting repaired in the docks. Other agencies accepted them as editorial.
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« on: June 10, 2018, 07:50 »
Isn't that bad for my approval rating?
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« on: June 10, 2018, 02:56 »
I deleted 3 pending images on SS but they anyway viewed them and they were rejected. It is written that asset was deleted before reviewing but I have now 3 rejections for deleted images.
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« on: June 10, 2018, 02:52 »
Hello, I uploaded 3 images to iStock about a week ago. They came back today as rejected. They wrote that these images are news and not editorial and need to be uploaded on Getty Images news desk. I am not a Getty contributor. I only ever signed up with iStock. Can an iStock contributor upload at Getty Images news desk?
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« on: May 04, 2018, 11:41 »
I don't upload to Getty but I closed my Eyeem account when I realised that they are uploading to Alamy. I upload to Alamy directly. I didn't want Eyeem to sell my photos there and to get half of the amount of money I get when selling directly.
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« on: May 04, 2018, 09:22 »
Why not upload directly on Getty? Why go through a middle man and lose money?
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« on: April 21, 2018, 07:58 »
Art
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« on: April 21, 2018, 04:14 »
I quite too after 3 years and no sale.
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« on: December 21, 2017, 05:34 »
Wish I would have seen last comment earlier. I don't get email notifications even though I have switched it on. I don't get any emails suddenly from the microstock group. I received another email from Alamy in which I was told not only to ask Red Arrows for this one time but to be allowed to use this image commercially later as well. I now have written to the Red Arrows myself. But I am telling you, I am not going to pay for the permission of they give one. So far I had only one sale on Alamy and only earned 9. While in the same time I sold 1000 images on SS. That might not seem a lot to you but I am not doing this full time and it hasn't even been 2 years since I started.
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« on: December 21, 2017, 03:32 »
Help, I am suddenly not getting any emails from the microstock group not even for topics I started and where notification is switched on. I wrote to the email id at the end of this page but that came back as undeliverable. In order to read answers from you to my own question I have to go to the website. And I wondered why it had gone so quiet.
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« on: December 21, 2017, 03:19 »
Now I received the following email from Alamy: The pricing is still under negotiation for this.
I think if you are having this much concern then we can agree not to lift the restriction. I can only advise the customer to seek permission from the red arrows.
I can tell them that the only way they can have the image is if they take full responsibility, In which case you would not be at risk.
The decision is yours.
Well, I don't really want to be sued. Can I contact the Red Arrows? Does anyone know if companies charge for such permission? Alamy can't tell me how much customer is going to pay. They don't answer if they want to sell it RF or RM. I wrote to them regarding iStock. They make me feel as if I should just remove the restriction. Well, I would just remove the restriction because as I wrote before there is no logo on the planes and they are so far away that they look black. But I was told that it doesn't matter if we don't recognize them but that the Red Arrows can recognise that it is them. Does anyone know for how much money contributors get sued for?
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« on: December 20, 2017, 06:51 »
I wrote that I want proof first before I lift restriction. I guess it will be RF since iStock doesn't allow photos to be deleted. Do I see that right? And if I write to iStock to ask if they can delete it I will have to wait for 6 weeks before I hear from them.
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« on: December 20, 2017, 04:19 »
I told Alamy that I want the Red Arrows permission and asked them if they would get it. Here is the reply from Alamy: Thank you for getting back to us. Alamy would not be doing this for the customer, however we always advise customers to seek permissions their selves. Also i am happy to tell the customer we can only lift the restriction if they agree to take full responsibility.
Does this sound good to you?
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« on: December 19, 2017, 11:20 »
Thank you. I guess a signed piece of paper from the buyer might be useless unless I let it check from a solicitor and I am not going to do that. Asking for permission from the Red Arrows sounds a good idea. I am really astonished that I got no help or advice from Alamy. Reading their email I felt nearly bad that I didn't want to remove restrictions. According to them others are having no problem in removing editorial restrictions. But I do because I remembered how SS rejected it as editorial because of the Red Arrows. At least they care if I get sued. Do you all have taken out an insurance in case you get sued? So far I thought that the agencies protect us by not accepting images for which we can get sued.
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« on: December 19, 2017, 08:35 »
Or is it better if Alamy gets permission from the Red Arrows?
Alamy wrote that a customer requested the image as commercial.
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« on: December 19, 2017, 08:32 »
Me too by SS. But you can't see that's the Red Arrows planes. On my image they look just black and not red.
Well, Alamy wrote only that they won't pay anything if I or the customer get sued.
Shall I remove the editorial and let them sell it as commercial?
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« on: December 19, 2017, 05:13 »
I took a photo at a free Air Show with a crowd of people watching the Red Arrows. Photos are as editorial on microstock but not SS and Alamy. I was far away from the air display. 3 planes flying straight from the left. Planes look rather black, no logo visible but their coloured smoke is. Visible is the beach, it was public land, the rock in the sea gives away the location. No visible face in front of photo. As I said I was far away. All people in front with back to camera. It's basically the whole depth of the beach full of people and in the distance black looking planes with the straight lines of coloured smoke. Alamy wrote to me yesterday asking if I would lift the editorial restriction. They have a buyer who wants it as commercial. I am worried that the Red Arrows know that it was them on the photo because of that coloured smoke. Should I lift the restriction? Should Alamy ask the Red Arrows for permission? I need your help fast please. Thank you soooooo much.
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« on: November 05, 2017, 09:42 »
What's a very little portfolio? How many images?
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