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« on: November 08, 2018, 19:41 »
Wow, this is really a foggy issue. I would think that as long as a person can not be identified, a release would not be needed. I kind of think about it like a court case. Could this picture be used to positively identify a person in a court case? I don't see how. The person could claim it was them, but there is no personally identifiable items in the photo.
But I am just saying my thoughts on it. Apparently, there are no hard fast rules on this. Take this photo for example. I cropped out everything but a hand. How could any be identified by a hand?
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« on: November 08, 2018, 18:31 »
The dog is mine and the person holding her is my son.
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« on: November 08, 2018, 18:09 »
If you have small but decent (sharp, well lit, little noise) images, making a collage/array/group is a reasonable option (I've done that with a number of things and they can sell).
Dreamstime is largely useless as it sells so little these days that it would help you to have the images there.
However, I do think you should give some consideration to the marketability of your images before investing time in processing them for upload anywhere. Having a rare image is only important if anyone wants to buy the image.
Stock images have to be useful to designers and sometimes things are rare in an agency collection because no one buys that sort of thing. There might be a few biology text books that would purchase a few insect images, but what else could you use it for?
Often, with stock images, it's the usual image, not the unusual one that will become a big seller.
Could you give me a sample of what you are talking when it comes to a collage. Are you talking about something like this example?
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« on: November 08, 2018, 17:57 »
Take this picture for example. Would a model release be necessary for a picture like this?
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« on: November 08, 2018, 08:36 »
I think what you are saying is correct Jo Ann. I had though about those points. A niche market is great, as long as there is a market.
You are also correct about the usual things being good sellers. Some of my most popular sellers are if prickly pear cactus and yucca plants. For the life of me, I don't know who would buy them and for what. And I guess that is kind of my hope with these exclusive insect pictures I have. Maybe there is a market out there I don't know about.
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« on: November 07, 2018, 14:12 »
When I started getting interested in photography 20 years ago I was doing a lot of foreign travel for my job, which took me to some awesome places where I could capture images of unusual things. The problem was, back then digital camera technology was still in it's infancy and I was not rich enough to buy the best stuff on the market. I bought what was considered great equipment in it's day and it cost a pretty penny, but by today's standards, it is would severely lacking. But it was what I had, and I was able to take a lot of nice pictures with it. Many of these images are so rare, nobody in micro stock or macro stock has them for sale. My problem is, due to technical issues, most of them cannot get approved for sale.
What I am looking for is creative ways to get them to pass. Let me give you an example. Here is a picture I would very much get approved of a Rooster-tail Cicada (fulgorid planthopper). There are not pictures of a real fulgorid planthopper on the micro stock websites I have checked. That search brings of a Pyrops candelaria, which is a completely different class of insect.
These shots have been rejected by every micro stock site I have tried, except for Deamstime, which I think, just accepts everything. They have been rejected by shutterstock, 123RF, and adobe stock. These are truly unique and I think it is worth trying to improve it them I can find a way to do it. I am just not that good at advanced photos editing tricks.
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« on: October 29, 2018, 15:40 »
Wow! Thanks for the all the great answer.
Many of you suggested that I should try somewhere else. Where do you suggest?
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« on: October 29, 2018, 12:46 »
So I signed up with 123RF a few weeks ago and uploaded a couple dozen photos to start with. I have since uploaded a couple hundred. All of my upload are fully keyworded and even Country associated, but they are all still in the INCOMPLETE category. There is nothing left to do that I can see, but they just sit there as Incomplete. Any advice?
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« on: October 27, 2018, 10:38 »
Thanks for the reply. It would be a really useful function, but I realize that this function is very complex. My problem is that where one image might be approved at one agency, it might be rejected at another. There is a function in the program to mark an image as approved, but is does not allow you to make this selection agency specific. It just marks it as approved to all agencies. The same goes for marking an image as rejected. The program does provide for agency specific categorization for Ready, Uploading, Uploaded, and submitted, but only if the function was performed in the program, not if you made modification directly on the site. So there is no way to reflect agency specific changes that are made manually on the site.
I really like your program for keyword research and for FTP uploading. At this point it lacks a little to be a database manager, but I can see you are working towards that goal. Hopefully, my feedback will be helpful.
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« on: October 26, 2018, 18:40 »
Okay. So I have been trying out stock submitter and I like it, except that I can find no way to synchronize it with my agencies. What I mean is. How do I make it talk to the agencies and get the status of images I have submitted. For example. After I submit images and they are reviewed, how does SS know which images has been approved or rejected? Do you have to manually change the status of each image individually for each agency in the program? That's a lot of work.
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