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5051
« on: October 21, 2011, 21:14 »
Just logged in. No problems.
5052
« on: October 21, 2011, 20:33 »
any images I would license on Alamy would not be anywhere else. they would be editorial that iStock won't accept and that I'm not sending to news wires. if Alamy's new breaking news format seems to work well, I might even supply there instead of elsewhere. but I'd never supply the same content as RM if it is already sold as RF. my sense of integrity wouldn't allow me to do something like this either.
iStock's exclusivity contract won't let us license anything as RF, no matter what it is. even if it isn't admissible on iStock. so I'm looking for a cozy home for my unpublished editorial images as RM.
I know about all that above stuff, but your work should do very well under non-RF terms, including editorial. Have fun with it.
5053
« on: October 21, 2011, 20:15 »
5054
« on: October 21, 2011, 20:14 »
The smallest size I will submit to Alamy is 3604x2403. Not sure if that helps you but it's 8.66 megapixel.
thanks. on another submission topic, I read that I can designate RM licenses only on Alamy when I upload. is this correct?
If the images you upload are also on MS, then you MUST license them as RF. If they are only on RM sites then you can license them RM. This is the quandary. You pick the license you want to use with each upload. But if your pics are on microstock then you are obligated to license them as RF or hope you don't get caught licensing them as RM, if that floats your boat.
5055
« on: October 21, 2011, 20:05 »
The smallest size I will submit to Alamy is 3604x2403. Not sure if that helps you but it's 8.66 megapixel.
thanks. on another submission topic, I read that I can designate RM licenses only on Alamy when I upload. is this correct?
If the images you upload are also on MS, then you MUST license them as RF. If they are only on RM sites then you can license them RM.
5056
« on: October 21, 2011, 18:42 »
Kill Bill, volume IV.
5057
« on: October 21, 2011, 18:41 »
thanks everyone. glad it wasn't just me being a twit. appreciate the info. so if my pixel dimension number is 54.6....is that large enough? I shoot Nikon D3X
Ha..twice as much 
5058
« on: October 21, 2011, 16:36 »
I'm preparing some images for submission to Alamy for the four "test" images. The following submission guideline is not clear, are they asking for files larger than 24MB. of course they want jpegs which are not uncompressed and most of my jpegs after processing are on average about 10MB.
"Uncompressed file sizes of more than 24MB. This means you should make your JPEG file from an 8 bit TIFF file that is at least 24MB. If you have a camera that is capable of producing an uncompressed 8 bit file of over 24MB then leave it that size."
thanks for additional clarity...
It means this. Open a file in Photoshop CS series (I am not sure about Elements or any other software). Click the menu "image" then "image size". At the top of the dialog box it says "Pixel Dimensions". That is the number they are talking about. If that number for you is over 24 then you are good to go. If not, you have to upsize your image (they do accept uprezzed images). If you upsize, click on the bottom drop down menu and select bicubic smoother (best for enlargement). Then switch your pixel dimensions to percent and play with a percent greater than 100 until that number reaches just at or over 24. With a 10 meg JPG you have plenty of gusto and shouldn't have to upsize. Hope that helps.
5059
« on: October 20, 2011, 18:28 »
Only IS, is badly down, really terrible. All the others. SS, is way up, followed by DT and FT, even some in the middle-tier, are up.
I agree^^ For me IS is way way down. Usually 12-15 a day, last two weeks has been 3-7 per day. Did they shake their best match again? Geeze.
5060
« on: October 19, 2011, 17:54 »
for brush resizing, just hit the bracket keys. The left one shrinks and the right one expands.
5061
« on: October 16, 2011, 09:10 »
Yep, sales are pretty much dead. One million images in your database means nothing if you can't turn it into some decent sales.
Agree. I make about $3 to $5 a month there with 2000 or so images. I am still going to keep uploading but that will happen on the back end of my workflow.
5062
« on: October 16, 2011, 08:28 »
As newbie I've started submitting to canstockphoto and 123rf about the same time. On Canstock I've 59 pictures in portfolio on 123rf 48. Sales on CS just around 0  . Sales on 123rf 9  . Does any newbie had some sales on CS
To make money in microstock you have to meet several criteria: 1. Usable concepts 2. Quality 3. Quantity 4. Upload to multiple sites (unless you want to go exclusive somewhere) I think you would need 500-1000 images to start seeing any repeatable monthly income. One of the most frequent mistakes new contributors to microstock make is the expectation of rolling in the income with only a handful of images. Plus you've chosen to upload to middle tier sites. Why not try to upload to Istock or Shutterstock? Keep shooting, keep uploading. If your stuff cuts the muster you'll start to see the counter move in the right direction.
5063
« on: October 15, 2011, 18:17 »
There's plenty of hope for stock. It's a great business model. Keep over 70% of every sale on average, on a product you don't have to manufacture and only requires server space to warehouse. Site traffic may be dipping, but so what. Prices are up, they're keeping a bigger chunk of the pie, and the company revenues probably aren't suffering. If things were really going badly at HQ, we'd be hearing about job cuts, benefits cuts for employees, etc. Last I heard, that on-staff masseuse was still around, so it sounds like things are humming along normally up there.
The only problem with the stock business model is that we're on the wrong side of it, the side that has to suffer to maintain the status quo for the employees, management, ownership, and investors.
But from the perspective of the company, things are going perfectly.
^^Exactly. Great post.
5065
« on: October 14, 2011, 18:34 »
^ self-policing would be ideal if it worked. but as many have pointed out, it seems that there are serious consequences for having an opinion in our industry. that sucks. I've been verbally pushed around and wrist-slapped many times on iStock, sometimes I deserved it, sometimes it was pre-eptive and sometimes it was uncalled for and I was pi55ed off. but I also believe that companie's have the right to limit damage to their reputation, especially when it is libelous and inaccurate.
so again, the compromise seems anonymity is allowed, but qualified by an admin on MSG. no one here could honestly believe that their anonymity would be compromised by Tyler. it's fairly standard to require user registration on forums.
I really don't disagree with you. There is always a gray area. I'd go along with Tyler if that was the case. However, if he required our identity to be public then Tyler has to allow us to disengage our real identity from the current anonymous one. Probably easy to do but we'd lose all of our rankings and such.
5066
« on: October 14, 2011, 17:50 »
^ you probably won't see my post since it seems you're lucky #32...but your post makes a point. instead of stating why you disagree, or welcoming discussion, you've posted an inflammatory, dead end response. aren't we beyond the popularity games of high school at this point?
I am anonymous but I don't have a single person on ignore even though there are times I want to. The reason? I enjoy reading comments from people for which I disagree because sometimes I change my mind. Now, for me, I have a few reasons for remaining anonymous and one of them was already pointed out. Someone started flagging unnecessary keywords on my images at DT because I disagreed with them in a forum discussion (not on MSG, of course). The other reason is that for simple posts in Istock, I have received three threatening site mails. On another forum I am banned already for calling the BS card with a "the next one we will close your account". None of these posts used foul language but DID make someone else look like a fool. If that can happen on their own forums I am a little nervous about what can happen here when certain threads are followed such as sensitive FT and IS threads. Not all of us anonymous posters are trolls or hide behind a cloak. I make it a personal policy to never bash someones port because I think that is unfair since mine isn't available for someone to criticize. However, like SNP, I call them like I see them just as I would if I weren't anonymous. Some people call that cowardly...you are anonymous so you say anything. In my case, that isn't the issue. Self policing is my personal policy.
5067
« on: October 09, 2011, 19:43 »
Rinder you know Boots Randolf?
5068
« on: October 09, 2011, 07:51 »
They have lots of IS images. I'm guessing that they are indexing the site without paying for using the images, and then buying a license to do individual prints when someone buys them. I'll ask ce about it.
Thanks, Sean. Much appreciated.
5069
« on: October 07, 2011, 19:32 »
Jazz or stuff I wrote and produced, Theres hundreds of my songs on You tube and a lot of video tutorials. just use Laurin Rinder or rindersmithphotography
Time Traveler, Laurin Rinder
Holy cow. I'm an old school guy, but this was definitely not my cup of tea. But, hey, to each his own. I am listening to some Gerald Wilson Orchestra.
5070
« on: October 07, 2011, 16:06 »
300,000 yen is about $4k US.
5071
« on: October 07, 2011, 15:39 »
A bunch of mine are in there, too.
5072
« on: October 07, 2011, 07:44 »
worst week in a long time. 2-3 subs a day is it.
5073
« on: October 02, 2011, 18:47 »
^ If you depend on it for a living, yes.
The beauty of it though is you don't have to do it that way. You can take the pictures you enjoy, and just regard it as a hobby that pays for itself. A week ago, I bought a 5D Mk II. Paid for with my last three months income.
Congrats on the 5D Mk II.
5074
« on: October 02, 2011, 18:02 »
Stock photography is all about preplanned, carefully composed images in a subject you chose delibaretly. You spend a lot of time doing research on what is already available in the collections, what is missing, then you decide on location, models, props, type of lighting, organize helpers, do the shoot, then spend a lot of time post processing.
You dont walk around with a camera and shoot what catches your eye. Stock is commercial photography with a clear intention.
Of course you can learn how to do this, but you have to work very hard for it.
And no, the images that I see dont seem to be shot with the customer in mind. What concept are they supposed to sell with that image? Can they be printed on a pizza flyer or added to the email newsletter of an insurance?
if you want to learn about stock, just look at the images that are used in advertising and product packaging all around you.
The question is: will you even enjoy shooting stock? Or would you maybe prefer to shoot editorial images? Or take portraits of families and get paid for that?
Excellent advice. This post should be stored for instant retrieval for when the next wave of Flickr-ites ask the "Should I do stock?" question.
Microstock is simply put.....hack photography. You might enjoy doing it but for the most part what you shoot isn't what you'd hang on your wall in your home. No matter how you slice it, the isolated bananas, the plastic model loving her job is nothing more than hack photography. MS is (as it should be) all about money. It is not about enjoyment, it is about volume, which equates to money...even though you may enjoy it. Take away the money part and the rest is moot.
5075
« on: October 02, 2011, 16:53 »
1- Putting 123RF in the Top Tier just doesn't reflect reality as I know it.
2- Are the majority of people here REALLY earning more on 123 than on FT?
1- No, It does! For me 123rf does much better than fotolia
2- Yes, otherwise why would we vote them into top tier just for the fun of it 
For me 123 has jumped about $20 a month after the last Istock debacle. But it is still 1/2 of Fotolia's monthly income. I look at stuff in terms of repeatability, so I don't get a boner when I have a good month. Rather I wait to see if the next 6-12 months repeat before I would claim a rise (no pun intended) in status to top tier.
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