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Messages - Phil
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« on: September 27, 2011, 17:07 »
5 so far, usually get 2 or 3
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« on: September 27, 2011, 17:06 »
been rising all year for me, this month they are doing better than FT, based on trend about 6 months will overtake DT for me
153
« on: September 27, 2011, 03:10 »
change from macro library to thinkstock, I can't imagine too many of photolibrary's contributors being impressed  more info about rates etc with the zoonar partnership would be good. 
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« on: September 24, 2011, 05:55 »
I'm out.
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« on: September 23, 2011, 16:42 »
...or have rich parents who'll do anything for their kids.
(..but I'm not bitter...  )
2nd hand camera, a couple of lenses, return plane tickets, 2 weeks food & accomodation - certainly a lot cheaper than supporting them through three years of university and they get the travel etc sounds like a great deal to me personally the 2 week boot camp on its own would be interesting, when you consider the cost of photo workshops etc. the reality tv bit is a turn off though
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« on: August 09, 2011, 06:57 »
I must be missing something as to me it looks
$15 ELs - I dont think so
25% to if its lucky is a middle-tier
A different uploading procedure so I have individually upload to them rather than put them in my ftp chain when I upload to everyone else? if so I am supposed to do this for a 25% commission of bargain basement prices, doesnt sound enticing (I can barely be bothered with istocks seperate uploading)
Referral program, plenty of others have much better programs I'll stick to those
High commission on exclusive images, I can make up to $5-$7 on exclusive images, I get that at istock as non-exclusive (and a chunk of my files on dt) - so you want to images exclusive so that the artist can get less than what they get non-exclusive elsewhere - seems like a fail to me?
Seems very arrogant and just crap to me - I cant really find positives compared to the others?? but people are uploading so what am I missing??
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« on: July 22, 2011, 16:27 »
Below is a link to one of the most hit posts on my blog, 'How to maximise your sales on 123rf'. Faving images and rotating which are ur faved images from time to time is paramount to getting good sales on 123rf, you can see some of my results in the blog. At the time of writing the blog, my sales on 123rf were not as good as on dt, but for around 8 or 9 months my sales are on a par with dt and on occasions more than.
http://www.microstockposts.com/how-to-maximise-your-sales-on-123rf/
your results aren't really about faving.. It's just 123rf is making much more than before.. I guess they are rising and making more profit than ever.. It should be up there in the top tier agencies.. They officially belong in "the big 5" now! at least for me, and I had completely forgotten about faving until this thread reminded me that..
if the trends continue, late this year / early next year 123f will catch DT and FT for me.
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« on: July 22, 2011, 16:19 »
unfortunately it was brought in at the time of some major best match changes so for me it is now hard to know how much of my still being serisously down in earnings is because of best match or people not willling to pay the extra, or whether I would be worse off if I hadnt put stuff in Photo+
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« on: July 19, 2011, 05:35 »
31/40 are subs
160
« on: July 15, 2011, 06:54 »
25% is a bit of a yawn,
especially for a new site (even if some of their other sites are big)
(and especially if they do the rip off the contributors on credits - this is an if as I dont know I'm not a member at any of their sites)
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« on: July 15, 2011, 06:48 »
thanks very much for this
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« on: July 15, 2011, 06:40 »
the last five sales I had were under $7, $50-$100 are more common, but I've had (nowadays very infrequently) sales of $300 (and $500+ a few years back). expect it to take 6-12 months to see sales, it is different from the micros.
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« on: June 19, 2011, 19:18 »
hostgator doesn't allow photo sites in their tos (although you can to some extent) I dont use ktools but had issues trying to use a coppermine and another gallery on hostgator, their php settings are not photo friendly (nowhere near what ktools needs) and if the building of thumbnails hits the server hard they will end the process and lock you out. However they did ring and say what was happening and they were always very good to deal with, specifically got told by support not to run ktools on their hosting plan. (ironically coppermine is a oneclick install with their hosting  I tried pacifichost (as they said ktools was no problem) and I had a heap of problems, my sites weren't accessable for a few hours each day (and neither was email), lots of problems especially dns stuff and support just kept saying everything was fine. I now use bluehost on their basic plan, I never got around to ktools but I have 12 domains one of which has a private coppermine gallery with about 30gb's of photos in it that I give people limited access to (ie here's the link and password to get photos of you etc) I asked when signing up whether 80+ gb would be a problem and they said it is fine. There seems to be limitation of 10000 pixels long edge for a photo, but not sure if this software or host or what (not a big deal for me). I have also found them extremely good to deal with and their support incredibly good.
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« on: June 19, 2011, 16:25 »
I use it as it is definitely faster than firefox. Firefox 4 is very slow for me for some reason, I went through everything I could find to get more speed out of it.
However you lose the plugins (not that I had many) so most of the time it isnt a big deal, but occasionally I want the functionality and so fire up firefox do what I want and then go back to chrome.
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« on: June 08, 2011, 02:01 »
Today I got an email saying that site "has a keen interested in the quality of your (my) work"...etc., etc.
And wanted me to upload "free".
Then there was these curious sentences:
To entice you into our collective, were prepared to guarantee higher
placement in our site search results for better product visibility and
higher sales volumes. Besides, we undertake image uploading for sale.
I wonder if that means they'll pay me to upload? I guess they've done that in the past. If not I suppose they will just give me better treatment than their old faithful contributors.
I pass.
I think it means they will click them through the categories etc for you. you just have to upload them
166
« on: June 07, 2011, 16:06 »
been gold about a month or so, sales I would describe as a bit low, cant say I noticed the commission increase.
I got to rank 422 overall with 7 days often hitting 300. when they lowered commissions last my 7 day rank went into the 700's. the change in gold hasn't changed my rank, still in the 700's (overall is now 426).
My inclination (and obviously I cant really tell) is that the best match is skewed away from higher ranks
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« on: June 06, 2011, 06:21 »
notify the company that they are hosted on that they are copyright and to take them down (filesonic? in this case). I've never done it but my understanding is that to be able to accept paypal they have to have a policy to do so.
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« on: June 04, 2011, 19:22 »
my wife does the redbubble and zazzle redbubble - a really nice group of people, we spent a bit of time last night chatting to a guy about geckos , the impression I get is you want to promote yourself, we have about 500 images on and entered heaps of 'challenges' and done well with them (they are just a featured / ego thing) and even had an image on the front page of redbubble. So we like the site...but we have zero sales (and giving up on it), speaking to the gecko guy he's had one sale of $0.49. He said (so 3rd hand  ) that knows a couple of people with daily sales, doing stuff like play on words of car companies, doing stuff for world cup etc. So my thinking is, good if you do very commercial stuff but not if you are just trying to sell nature / wildlife photos. zazzle - sales tick along, mostly postcards and cards - my wife created a calendar last night and it got featured on todays best http://www.zazzle.com/space_calender_2011_calendar-158436813333424557 hopefully it will get some sales
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« on: June 04, 2011, 17:36 »
I'm almost too embarrased to admit this  , but I have no idea how to thumbs up/down threads there.
umm, I'll go one step further I didnt know you could  I still really cant get over their annoucements on friday afternoons (and just quietly in the forum), pretty spineless for people running a multimillion dollar company.
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« on: June 04, 2011, 06:25 »
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« on: June 04, 2011, 01:58 »
sony a900 files (which adobe had problems with until LR3)
iso 200 - fractionally not as good as lightroom / capture one - touch darker, fixing creates more noise, had to sharpen as well
higher iso (800+) extremely poor, doesnt compare with adobe or capture one - blacks blocking in, lots of coarse noise,
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« on: June 03, 2011, 19:09 »
I'm 'trending' to not even make half the 40000 rc that I made last year, so the new 'fair' system Istock have 'worked hard' and cut advertising to the site, pushed the customers away to thinkstock and other sites and pushed my images further back and so get themselves an extra 5% payrise on my images
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« on: June 03, 2011, 18:50 »
thanks, I will give it a go
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« on: June 02, 2011, 04:31 »
yep, I think you may be the last one I started again 2 months ago, when I saw that it wasn't really making a difference and BS was paying me less and that pretty much every site has cut commissions. so i drop about half my quota in each week and I'm working through my backlog for all sites and exploring other areas, not really shooting much microstock anymore
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« on: June 02, 2011, 04:28 »
I think it'll be just the same in the future, the vast majority of people earning highest commissions will be top dawgz, just because best match favours old (also crappy or even mostly crappy according to the reports) files. So you'll have to wait at least 5 years or so to enjoy 40+% if this won't change;)
so the images that sell well are the crap ones???
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