Interesting...
Image of dunes with different background skies are very poor to my standards. I mean the images don't even respect the light at all. it seems like a copy+paste of 2 images in one. This guy have skills... but probably not related all to photography.

Hi, I share the same view: Content is king! not resolution or best high tech camera.
In my case.... almost 95% of portfolio is hd. Rest is 4k or 8k.
I also having the sense that there are much more sales nowadays with content made with smartphones HD than with last big cam (even set in HD). I think this is due to fact that smartphones are very portable,  less intrusive,  ready to shoot everywhere you go and some with even water resistible. Despite i love big gear i must say that can't beat this daily life advantages of smartphone.

"Please change your labeling of your photography on shutter stock as it is it is not even kinda racist.  You referring to a woman of color ...."

I just stop reading when SS called woman of "color".... LOL! You see In Europe, specially in Portugal, that is racist because we are educated that people don't actually have colors but they just different ethnicity. For instance here and in Spain "Negro" is the correct answer because Black is too much racist. you can find this in wiki too: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Negro. But I know that is different in other cultures like USA where it seems Black is the right answer aside from Martin Luther King, Jr. called his own race as "Negro" in his famous "I Have a Dream" speech of 1963.

So it depends actually of the culture background. I know that "Afro Hair" is the exact term in Guinea West Africa since I lived there for a year. Also is the same word in Portugal. Probably is an offensive term in USA. In this case you should delete for something which can not give you so much trouble like "African Hair Style".

There is another way of think this:
upload your video in youtube and use music from someone.
creating an audience to artist is the flaw of microstock sites but the key to success for any artist.
cheers

Quote from: Evaristo tenscadisto on January 26, 2021, 18:02

For example, Nowadays you don't need real people you can use some GAN Ai services and create a face that doesn't exist. Photo shoots are much more easier and cheap than rent studio, hire people and real models.  We can do it almost everything in a Pc with a 3d environment.

I think photo-realistic CG models in lifestyle shots is still a bit of a long way off. I don't think I've ever seen one, let alone enough for it to be commonplace.

There's already plenty of models 3D scanned with fotorealistic details selling for less than 10$. you can find that in tbsquid, cgtrader and others. Also you can buy cloths or create them in marvelous designer.  In terms of body positions you can use Mixamo or rokoko to make the mocaps. And if you use Ai Gan to make a new face  like this https://generated.photos/faces . Just apply to new body with zbrush to retouch model and match/tune color with substance sw.

For animations i think improve needs to be made but for photos? - I bet you won't tell the difference between real and Ai. 

For me this site was the king to buy/sell 3d models. But last 2/3 years ....  pff
i use other sites. They are much better. 

happy new year everyone!

This is so toxic platform for artists.
If i get it right... Basically: its a video editor online for marketing products for a low cost.
You don t need a camera, an editor, a motion graphics to marketing your products anymore. Promo made a platform so it can reduce post production costs and camouflage the license costs for Business or Commercial licenses for companies.

For me its a huge red flag to microstock companies that are associated with this stuff.

Deeply sorry for your loss Martha. I do understand that these times in life are hard,  but i know you will treasure your memories together and overcome this.
Hope you stay safe and strong.

I watched this video yesterday.

https://youtu.be/Dfqp9xD188A

"This video tells you about the outcome what can happen if you disclose your stock photography earnings publicly. Even sharing screenshots or writing about your earning in any post or blog is a violation of Shutterstock terms of service and will get your account banned!"

Has any also experienced account disabling for this reason?

I don't put my work in that lousy Company. I don't trust them a bit. Nevertheless i must say: Wow.

Let me see if i get this right.... If you pay taxes then Its public information how much you earn in SS right? Anyone can share the IRS. Getting your block account for sharing this info is ridiculous and useless.  So i don't really understand this fear SS campaign. What Shutterstock wants to hide?

People are free to speak how much they earn and with who! anyone knows even how much football players earn...this is absurd for me.

On the other hand, I kind see suspicious and interest in making some investigations from IRS and FBI to see if everything is right. Because this is the kind of moves that companies do when they want to hide profits or holes in financial statements. Since SS is USA base company, contributors from there, should start to put a word of this move to authorities and question with them the illegally of the act.



 



   

My guess its probably for a movie sort of thing. They have to get full rights otherwise distributions will not allow it. you could get royalties for movie, tv, and all digital platforms. get a lawyer, register clip (your art work) fast. And ask them if transfer of rights is for a period of time or Lifetime. If it is lifetime its probably a movie. You get the moral right of having your name in credits ( not microstock agency) but you never see a penny after that even if your work is redistributed platforms not yet invented.

best regards!

When sales go down, don�t fix the blame on Shutterstock only. Maybe the portfolio is out of date by now, which may happen any time.

artwork is not a supermarket product but your opinion seems to sound like one. 
what you think is "old" in SS will be NEW in other avenues.