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« on: January 23, 2018, 04:29 »
Hi!
I'd like to know if there's a way to exclude the microstock agencies websites from the results of the Google reverse image search.
When I search for an image to see if I find it in use, most of the result pages are from the agencies, and frequently multiple results for the same agency when the result page is translated into several languages like pl.fotolia.com, ru.fotolia.com, etc.
If I use the following filter to the search I only get the first site excluded, but not the second:
-site:shutterstock.com -site:fotolia.com
So, in this case I do not see the image on the shutterstock site but fotolia still appears.
Does anyone knows how to exclude multiple url's from the reverse image search?
Thanks.
127
« on: January 13, 2018, 05:59 »
At the beginning, with a few hundred videos I was selling one or two occasionally. But video sales dried up despite the very low competition on the subject I mostly have a shoot.
Meanwhile I've uploaded my entire photo portfolio (thousands) and I only sell one or two photos every other month.
Even the corpse of Stockxpert which has a fraction of the photos and all of them old, perform almost as well as Storyblocks with video and photos combined. Not good.
128
« on: December 17, 2017, 11:02 »
One more reason to submit premium images to Midstock, especially as RM.
On Alamy, which can be considered traditional/midstock, RM never gave me a better sale value average than RF. And I sell there hundreds of images per year. I do not see a motive to sell RM anymore, especially when agencies don't care about chasing infringements.
129
« on: December 08, 2017, 01:29 »
At this moment the current message appears on the site:
"Sadly, Facebook Watermark Its Back Again. "
130
« on: December 07, 2017, 12:19 »
Copyright law states that a work becomes public domain 70 years after the artist's death. If Turkey signed the convention they may have the same law. The people portrayed on the picture have nothing to do with it because most of the times they do not have the copyright over the images.
For example, if the photographer had 20 years in 1938 when he took the photo and died 60 years later (1998), that means that the image will only be public domain in the year 2068.
The fact that it's in Wikipedia means nothing. There's a lot of stolen images there. I found some of mine, for example.
131
« on: December 06, 2017, 14:01 »
I'm every day closer to get a regular job and abandon the stock altogether.
When that happens, I'll build a site and give away all my 20.000+ images for free in high-resolution only asking for a donation and I'll advertise the heck out of it.
One thing is certain, one major tourist destination will be "nuclear bombed" for the agencies.
132
« on: November 22, 2017, 10:33 »
No one cares anymore what happens or where this is going because it's so disappointing. Am i right???
Oh, I do care! And I'm pissed as hell!
133
« on: November 17, 2017, 10:09 »
Why don't you contact Depositphotos directly here:
https://depositphotos.com/contact_us.html
This is the obvious first step. Confirm with DP if the contact is legitimate.
134
« on: November 09, 2017, 07:52 »
In my portfolio it looks like a random collection of old, unsold or rarely sold images.
The least likely adjective describing the collection of images found on the first page would be "popular".
That is an exact description of my popular images today! 10 year old stuff that never sold are now my most "popular". It's embarrassing and absurd. EDIT: I've now realized that my least popular images (the absolute last ones of all images) are the ones I've uploaded in the lasts weeks and have sales! Great way to kill new images that people actually bought within hours of approval!
135
« on: November 07, 2017, 12:41 »
Statistically, from the last 10 years November is my second best month. But this year is appalling. I've already had three weekdays worse than last Sunday!
And the worst part is that I've uploaded several hundred great quality images in the past weeks. Instead of seeing an improvement I'm sinking.
And the joke is, I even got an image rejected for "similar" when it was a great variation in color and with effect filters added when compared to the original. No other similar images in that batch. But some people get away with hundreds of millimetric variations (literally) of the same composition.
136
« on: November 03, 2017, 13:49 »
When an agency considers to be unsustainable to live with a commission of 80% of each sale, and raises it to 85% cutting the measly share of the artist from 20 to 15%, I think it deserves all the hate and then some more.
Especially considering that several agencies have survived all these years splinting the sale 50/50 with the artist.
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