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« on: October 30, 2019, 09:50 »
Isn't there an option to buy images with a specific license for this exact purpose, to incorporate them as elements in your work that you will commercially sell?
If it wasn't allowed/possible I guess most of the 3D renders including textures wouldn't be allowed on agencies...? I don't imagine many 3D artists produce their own textures.
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« on: October 23, 2019, 02:37 »
Surely you can just work off funds deposited to your bank from Paypal. Those bank statements are fairly black and white proof of income.
I'm not even from US, taking a guess here, but that's what IRS already knows, that he got income from PayPal, he needs to connect that PayPal income to Agencies. Bank/ bank account only shows that income came from PayPal, not from agencies. You can create a simple custom report on PayPal page that shows that that exact income came from agencies, but I guess that needs to be at least singed or verified by someone from PayPal to have any lawful meaning. Or pursue PayPal, instead of every single agency, to give you a more serious kind of that report.
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« on: October 22, 2019, 20:42 »
I also use the modified one from Arcurs site, thou sometimes I get a rejection because of the date format, I don't use US format, but usually reupload solves it.
Did you upload using mobile app?
I do write in US date format, however, I also spell out the month. So there is no ambiguity, no matter which country's date format.
Funny thing is that I always have an ID front copy on release with birth date clearly visible in the same format, so it seemed only logical not to mix date formats across the release. That's a good tip, I'll start using it.
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« on: October 21, 2019, 16:57 »
I also use the modified one from Arcurs site, thou sometimes I get a rejection because of the date format, I don't use US format, but usually reupload solves it.
Did you upload using mobile app?
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« on: October 15, 2019, 07:20 »
I assumed they have a software that does the reviews and maybe a handful of reviewers that get get images sent by software when it runs into some kind of problem it can't solve.
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« on: October 02, 2019, 06:01 »
September was very good for me, ahead of SS thanks to higher RPD.
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« on: October 02, 2019, 05:55 »
Why sweat about and waste valuable time? Just don't post there.
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« on: September 30, 2019, 03:21 »
Xpiks, free but you have to manually submit.
Stocksubmitter, not free but it submits.
Both of these have their dedicated threads here, not sure how you didn't find them.
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« on: September 22, 2019, 13:49 »
If that is true, I wonder if the person(s) that made the mistake of USD/AUD got fired or something.
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« on: September 21, 2019, 12:33 »
I'd say this is some clever trickery, I doubt the software/hardware knows all the parameters (type and intensity of lighting, angle, skin texture and material etc).
If you look at the 3D world you'll see that all these things need to be inputted by user and fine tuned for hours and days. So this must be some kind of 2D trickery where it's impossible to recreate photorealism hence impossible to create stock photos. To have a complete control over everything it needs to be 3D and as of now and years to come 3D design is far from pressing a button, it's actually really hard work and knowledge.
The day of automated/procedural (God I hate "AI" phrase that is so popular about everything these days) 3D design, but I don't think that day is around the corner.
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« on: September 20, 2019, 02:16 »
No refunds, but worst amount this year, less than half of July (but with the same number of downloads).
I suppose the video doesn't go to Canva, so no refunds right?
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« on: September 19, 2019, 19:32 »
Loads of refunds from Australia.
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« on: September 19, 2019, 01:38 »
Here is a citation from AdobeStock:
"Royalty rates are based on contributors ranks. The higher the rank, the higher the contributor's percentage."
Obvoiusly 1 credit will not be equal 1 Euro, if the contributors royalty depends on his rank.
Percentage of your cut of sale depends on the rank, not credit value, you convert credits after the sale(s) is done and you got your share.
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« on: September 17, 2019, 01:10 »
I admit sometimes I upload things that I just liked and I don't expect anyone to download them. Some are a surprise, most I'm right, no market, no interest.
But saddest of all is when you upload something you're not too keen on, and as you gradually grow to hate it more and more it becomes one of the best sellers in your portfolio. It's a cruel world!
I guess the ones with a mindset of a typical buyer are the best microstock photographers. Same is true for the majority of event photographers, at least from where i come from, give it too much work, thought and creativity and you might even find yourself criticized by clients that were expecting a lot less.
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« on: September 10, 2019, 12:00 »
I doubt there's a person on earth owning a digital camera that doesn't already know about dpreview.
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« on: August 29, 2019, 07:14 »
I can only comment personally - I wouldn't do it, it's just too much work for so little in return. I'd keep it at simple and effective ideas, something that's quick to complete but effective and creative. Other than that, I'd rather invest time in 3D, takes about the same time, for simple things even less and you can derive more images from one scene or model. Not to mention animated scenes sold as videos on stock. You can be just as creative. Just an idea.
Nice input! May I ask you what program do you recommend for 3D and animated scenes?
To the topic: a $0.25 sale sounds bad indeed, though it won't sell just once and with time it can make up in volume. Or at least that's how it used to be, a good one could easily make past 100$ and more altogether, however nowadays due to a lot of uploads new files tend to get little exposure.
For anyone beginning now, wanting to jump into 3D, for fun, personal creativity, just exploration, stock or whatever other than chasing a career in a studio, hands down Blender. It's free, open source, it has grown so much in years, it's got pretty logical interface and workflow and has a huge user base and online resources for learning. It's now a serious package and it's only gonna grow more. I personally use now dead end Softimage XSI and trying to switch to Blender completely, but that's another long story.
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« on: August 28, 2019, 21:07 »
I can only comment personally - I wouldn't do it, it's just too much work for so little in return. I'd keep it at simple and effective ideas, something that's quick to complete but effective and creative. Other than that, I'd rather invest time in 3D, takes about the same time, for simple things even less and you can derive more images from one scene or model. Not to mention animated scenes sold as videos on stock. You can be just as creative. Just an idea.
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« on: August 26, 2019, 05:15 »
Or for instance, you could argue that my port or models is of low quality, I certainly tend to do, but seeing my minimap almost completely blank in North America still makes me wonder, is it really me or the fact they do have a field in their database where it says that I'm from a certain country that will take away 30% from US sales.
Well, it has been shown that buyers from the US will first and foremost buy products from the US, if they can. Also, people images from Eastern Europe don't look American, just like Nordic people images don't look Spanish, etc., and Americans are not that likely to need landscape images of non-famous locations around the world.
So, perfectly reasonable and logical explanations why a person with images from a European country (that clearly look European) will not sell as many images to the US.
Yes it's all logical, except 80% of my sales on for instance Istock do come from US. Not sure how could one differentiate US people from others since the US is a mix of people from all around the world, unless you are talking about strictly multiracial photos, which trully are popular and best represent US.
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« on: August 25, 2019, 18:25 »
I don't want to waste much time about it but I think it's rigged simply because it can be rigged and there are reasons why would they rig it, so I wouldn't count on corporate transparency and morals.
However there are things that probably fall out of rig calculations - asset quality and popularity of subjects which rigged or not contribute to randomness of contributor experience. Port size too, while it can be rigged I don't think they would fiddle with it much in a negative way.
Occam's Razor -- the SIMPLEST explanation for all sites yielding lower sales is supply outpacing demand
I'd agree but I'm talking about the way demand comes and goes and how it cycles between weeks of never sold assets and bestsellers.
Just because they are changing algorithms doesn't necessarily mean they're rigged (though on at least one occasion years ago iS did just that)
Well changing algorithms is rigging, thou we were never promised only one kind of algorithm, they can do whatever they want - and what they are doing we may never know. All I'm saying is that it's not a hand of God, they have database programmers.
Rigging implies some kind of deliberate change to penalise certain contributors. Of course they change algorithms to maximise sales. Why wouldn't they? Whose to say the algorithm where you got lots of sales was "fairer" than the one where you don't?
To ask you the same question - why wouldn't they? They could implement an algorithm, for instance, to spread the exposure (and potential sales) more evenly across all contributors - so top contributors will take a negative hit but won't really notice it much and complain given their sheer volume of assets but the deep down newbies would see a bit of positive hit for encouragement. This is probably the oldest theory on these forums.
Or for instance, you could argue that my port or models is of low quality, I certainly tend to do, but seeing my minimap almost completely blank in North America still makes me wonder, is it really me or the fact they do have a field in their database where it says that I'm from a certain country that will take away 30% from US sales.
How do Shutterstock benefit by reducing someones sales from a certain country? Yes they may want to encourage newbies and people who are still uploading regularly. Thats not "rigged" in my book. A search algorithm is never "fair" its owned by Shutterstock and they will control it in a way that benefits Shutterstock the most.
I am not sure, to many unknown economic things going on that are beyond my knowledge of those things, but I'm sure there is some logic or math, some kind of tax, rewording countries with signed treaty (if I spelled that correctly), rewarding contributors from western countries, you name it. US is probably the best stock buyer force (as seen from my experience on other stock agencies) but yet I see very seldom US sales. Well that's what I said, call it rigging or not, they don't sit around with their feet in the air and let it all be.
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« on: August 25, 2019, 14:42 »
I don't want to waste much time about it but I think it's rigged simply because it can be rigged and there are reasons why would they rig it, so I wouldn't count on corporate transparency and morals.
However there are things that probably fall out of rig calculations - asset quality and popularity of subjects which rigged or not contribute to randomness of contributor experience. Port size too, while it can be rigged I don't think they would fiddle with it much in a negative way.
Occam's Razor -- the SIMPLEST explanation for all sites yielding lower sales is supply outpacing demand
I'd agree but I'm talking about the way demand comes and goes and how it cycles between weeks of never sold assets and bestsellers.
Just because they are changing algorithms doesn't necessarily mean they're rigged (though on at least one occasion years ago iS did just that)
Well changing algorithms is rigging, thou we were never promised only one kind of algorithm, they can do whatever they want - and what they are doing we may never know. All I'm saying is that it's not a hand of God, they have database programmers.
Rigging implies some kind of deliberate change to penalise certain contributors. Of course they change algorithms to maximise sales. Why wouldn't they? Whose to say the algorithm where you got lots of sales was "fairer" than the one where you don't?
To ask you the same question - why wouldn't they? They could implement an algorithm, for instance, to spread the exposure (and potential sales) more evenly across all contributors - so top contributors will take a negative hit but won't really notice it much and complain given their sheer volume of assets but the deep down newbies would see a bit of positive hit for encouragement. This is probably the oldest theory on these forums. Or for instance, you could argue that my port or models is of low quality, I certainly tend to do, but seeing my minimap almost completely blank in North America still makes me wonder, is it really me or the fact they do have a field in their database where it says that I'm from a certain country that will take away 30% from US sales.
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« on: August 25, 2019, 10:19 »
I don't want to waste much time about it but I think it's rigged simply because it can be rigged and there are reasons why would they rig it, so I wouldn't count on corporate transparency and morals.
However there are things that probably fall out of rig calculations - asset quality and popularity of subjects which rigged or not contribute to randomness of contributor experience. Port size too, while it can be rigged I don't think they would fiddle with it much in a negative way.
Occam's Razor -- the SIMPLEST explanation for all sites yielding lower sales is supply outpacing demand
I'd agree but I'm talking about the way demand comes and goes and how it cycles between weeks of never sold assets and bestsellers.
Just because they are changing algorithms doesn't necessarily mean they're rigged (though on at least one occasion years ago iS did just that)
Well changing algorithms is rigging, thou we were never promised only one kind of algorithm, they can do whatever they want - and what they are doing we may never know. All I'm saying is that it's not a hand of God, they have database programmers.
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« on: August 24, 2019, 14:55 »
I don't want to waste much time about it but I think it's rigged simply because it can be rigged and there are reasons why would they rig it, so I wouldn't count on corporate transparency and morals.
However there are things that probably fall out of rig calculations - asset quality and popularity of subjects which rigged or not contribute to randomness of contributor experience. Port size too, while it can be rigged I don't think they would fiddle with it much in a negative way.
Occam's Razor -- the SIMPLEST explanation for all sites yielding lower sales is supply outpacing demand
I'd agree but I'm talking about the way demand comes and goes and how it cycles between weeks of never sold assets and bestsellers.
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« on: August 24, 2019, 07:54 »
I had 41 sales and got 128 dollars. Lowest sale was 10 cent, highest 40 dollars.
Loads of sales below 50 cents, then a few over 10 dollars.
What I really miss are the eyeem direct sales, havent had one in months.
My top sale this month, a highly innovative picture, for your inspiration...
https://www.eyeem.com/p/60521057
Good one!  I didn't even know that Nokia 3110 had a camera!
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« on: August 24, 2019, 07:48 »
I don't want to waste much time about it but I think it's rigged simply because it can be rigged and there are reasons why would they rig it, so I wouldn't count on corporate transparency and morals.
However there are things that probably fall out of rig calculations - asset quality and popularity of subjects which rigged or not contribute to randomness of contributor experience. Port size too, while it can be rigged I don't think they would fiddle with it much in a negative way.
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