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Messages - mino216
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« on: January 09, 2020, 11:34 »
The problem with ridiculous rejection here as well. I used to have almost 100% acceptance rate at Shutterstock, now it is slightly lower at cca 80-85%. But I really do not get some of the rejections. Images with motion blur are almost impossible to get accepted. It is not in focus. How should it be when the purpose of the image is to be blurred? Images in hyperfocal distance, everything sharp from the closest pixel to the farthest one. Again, main object not in focus. What? How come? So I decrease resolution approx. by 25%, sharpen it and try again.
Nevertheless, it is not extremely common. But videos, that is completely different story. From 85 % I am at maybe... 10%? And the rejection reasons are just totally ridiculous. The images are getting accepted but videos from the same spot are not from totally unrelated reasons. I am really expecting that the next reason for rejection of the video will be something like "there is motion in your video". It would really not surprise me.
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« on: December 28, 2019, 03:12 »
I have 0.24 sales in my case. Unpleasant surprise.
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« on: December 20, 2019, 06:09 »
BigStockPhoto. One has to choose each photo separately (if not using FTP) and it changes the language of the site every single time. Grrrrh. If I set English, I want English an English only and not to be reset to different (my native) language each time. The most annoying part is that I have to set English several times when it finally decides to switch to English which was requested long time ago. And when I upload again, English is gone again. At least the sales are not so bad.
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« on: December 04, 2019, 10:41 »
Stop throwing misleads. It looks miserable. It's just overpriced phone with lots of uneeded tech for true photographer.
I even bet that iphone11 can't beat Nokia 808 from 2012 in terms of provided resolution. It is not a surprise, because of pathetic 1/2.55" sized sensor.
ps. Huawei Mate 30 Pro and Xiaomi Mi Note 10 are more intersting stuff though.
I have made a short test ( https://www.zonerama.com/Mino21/Album/5836185?secret=56b6b14e395b4164afffce0a131843c01hl8RXfvi7). I have Nokia 808 and iPhone SE which has even smaller 1/3" sensor. There are images in native resolution, then all images converted to 12 MPx and all images converted to 38 MPx. As you can see, Nokia has better resolution which is not surprising, but I would not say that it is extreme difference (especially with the set of images with shops in archs). If you shoot RAW with iPhone, you can get quite nice images, especially if you are careful with exposure (Lightroom has underexposed the images) because iPhone has sharper lens than Nokia. If I should choose which smartphone to use for microstock, I would take iPhone instead of Nokia 808. Even though Nokia has slightly better resolution and ND filter, iPhone has much better DR and colors.
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« on: December 02, 2019, 09:30 »
It's all about AI...i don't think any human being can be so inconsistent and stupid on curation...
I don't believe AI can be inconsistent. It is not one reviewer. Seems to me the quality control on reviewers is broken. If reviewers receive next to no training or supervision and are required to review at a ridiculous pace I wouldn't be surprised if some go bat dropping crazy.
Because you do not know how AI works. AI should be consistent in a real world but especially when it is still learning, it is not. If you have trained it on million images, it is still posiible that even one additional image incorporated to the learning can break what was already working (change the decision for images which have been on the borderline and they do not even have to have anything in common with the new one because of all the dependencies - one changed weight in the system will influence other...).
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« on: November 23, 2019, 01:49 »
It will extend it (move the billing date one year further). Mat has already answered it several times. So, I have my Photoshop for free until September 2021  It does not work that way if you have codes for different plans. In such a case, they run in parallel
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« on: November 17, 2019, 01:57 »
There is also a possibility that default app takes multiple exposures behind the curtain and combining them for optimal results.
Yes, that is exactly what it does.
Very interesting, would be fun to try myself. The resulting 8-bit image could indeed retain more usable information than the RAW file, but what would be REALLY cool is if the phone could output a 16-bit TIFF from the multiple exposures! Can it do that?
Anyway, for still subjects this could work great, but as always, for fast moving subjects you would run into trouble. Try doing "computational photography" of a bird flying across the frame...
Adobe Lightroom does exactly that, 16bit HDR files from three exposures. Just change PRO mode to HDR. The DR will be great but the resolution (sharpness) will be a little bit lower than with single exposure RAW files.
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« on: November 17, 2019, 01:54 »
Maybe it is not so bad in terms of dynamic range. But in terms of pure resolution it is cr#p.
1/2.55 size explains all. Nokia 808 with its 1/1.2 still on the top.
The thing is that the sensor in Nokia 808 is horrible, especially in DR. BTW, some smartphones today gave a big 1/1.33 sensors (the new Samsung 108MPx sensor). I would say that todays smartphone far exceeds Nokia in noise, resolution, DR and delth of field as well (it was F2.4 only).
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« on: October 16, 2019, 08:07 »
Not in my case. I am selling both old and new images. To be honest, new images are selling better than the old ones.
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« on: October 11, 2019, 12:46 »
It does not show views in my case as well.
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« on: October 10, 2019, 16:42 »
No problems here. Try another browser, clear cookie cache...
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« on: October 06, 2019, 06:44 »
Great news. I knew that it would be available for Silver sooner than I would have reached Gold :-)
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« on: September 16, 2019, 15:23 »
In my case, I usually sell new photos and not the old ones. Of course, there are some exceptions, but I am usually selling images from 2018 and 2019 (on SS since 2007)
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« on: September 16, 2019, 08:44 »
I really do not get it. The company is giving some of its contributors free software (nobody forced Adobe to do so and it is not its obligation) and so many people are complaining and considering it as fail etc.
Of course, it would be fine if there is an illustrator bonus program as well and/or ability to purchase various Adobe softwares separately instead of buying all applications at once (why one cannot buy Photoshop/Illustrator or Photoshop/Premiere bundle at some reasonable price...) but to consider not giving free software for all as a fail? I do not think so.
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« on: September 06, 2019, 06:49 »
Great news :-) Still, with my 3000 sales a long way to go, but definitely much closer :-)
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« on: August 21, 2019, 00:49 »
It has worked. I have contacted the support (the Adobe Stock support), they promised me a new key and in two days, the new key was in my inbox. I have applied that and even though it was set correctly, it still has been showing that my next billing is next week for a while. After few hours, everything corrected itself and now it is showing that the next billing is in September 2020. Great. Thanks, Adobe :-)
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« on: August 19, 2019, 15:59 »
The same problem here. Uploading 10 images. 8 images were fine, the last 2 images were total pain to upload.
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« on: August 14, 2019, 09:48 »
Nice to hear that the Bonus Program continues :-) Unfortunately, my previous code expired prior I have activated it 
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