Cutcaster - DPChallenge Forums

Canon EF 24-70mm f/2.8L USM

03/28/2008 08:55:33 AM · #1

Has anyone had any dealings with this company before? I had the guy who set it up asking if he could put one of my shots on the front page.

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Any thoughts? I've signed up and submitted the shot but I'm not sure how lucrative this'll actually be. Anyone sold any stock on this site before?

Kaveran

Canon EOS-50D

03/28/2008 09:15:51 AM · #2

Ive never heard of them, looks like he has a long row to hoe as far as traffic is concerned. dpchallenge has an alexa rank of 25349 and cutcaster is over 300,000 so as of now it doesnt look like the site gets a lot of traffic.

Olympus OM-D E-M5 Mark III

03/29/2008 05:44:09 PM · #3

hahahah You are right Kaveran. We are over 300k because we are just getting started and we are beginning our first marketing push this Monday. Jimi's photo will be seen by a lot more people after this week I bet. I reached out to Jimi bc I thought he had some amazing photos and put one of them on the homepage which you can see at www.cutcaster.com. But you are right about DPC having more traffic.... for now ;-)

If you have any thoughts or suggestions for us at Cutcaster I would love to hear them and would love it if you signed up so you can tinker around when you are logged in.

Nice work Jimi. I love the photo. Let me know what you think.

John

Yo_Spiff

Olympus 12-100mm f/4.0 M.Zuiko ED IS PRO

03/29/2008 05:56:27 PM · #4

My curiosity is stimulated. I'll hazard a look around.

karmat

Apple iPhone 7

Canon EF 70-200mm f/4.0L USM

03/29/2008 06:00:40 PM · #5

ya, me too. :)

03/29/2008 08:25:10 PM · #6

Wow this is absolutely incredible, thank you so much! These guys have been really helpful, my shot is up there and I'm really pumped. This is the first time I've submitted stock so go check it out ;-) Thanks John.

03/29/2008 08:31:22 PM · #7

Shameless link!

Canon EF 70-300mm f/4.5-5.6 DO IS USM

03/29/2008 11:20:08 PM · #8

Yeah if anyone else has a shot that they like I'd love to feature it on the homepage. Jimi's looks great. Nice work. Let me know if you have any questions. My email is john AT cutcaster.com.

cpanaioti

Canon EOS-40D

03/30/2008 12:49:30 AM · #9

When browsing some of the images seem over sharpened. Also, the third one (Santiago fire) is really pixelated.

Some look really good though so don't know what's going on with a few of them.

(You probably didn't want a critique but it may be something to check before you get a whole lot of traffic)

Canon EF 70-300mm f/4.5-5.6 DO IS USM

03/30/2008 09:04:48 AM · #10

no thank you. im going to take a look at the ones you are talking about. it looks like we created two thumbnails (100x66) instead of a larger preview (620 x427). thanks for the heads up. that is fixed now ;-)

let me know if you see anything else.

Message edited by author 2008-03-30 09:11:11.

cpanaioti

Canon EOS-40D

03/30/2008 11:19:23 AM · #11

Originally posted by johngrif:

Jimi's is still looking way over sharpened. Compare it to the one Jimi posted at the beginning of this thread. The Santiago fire image is fixed though.

Message edited by author 2008-03-30 11:20:39.

Canon EF 70-300mm f/4.5-5.6 DO IS USM

03/30/2008 11:40:44 AM · #12

fixed that. check it out now. thanks a ton.

//www.cutcaster.com/viewmedia/index/698777635

i think it looks a lot better now and think part of the reason is we are changing our preview page to look like this.

//design.pwsdev.com/cutcaster/view-media-details-video-preview/

let me know if you have any suggestions for making it better ;-)

thanks

Message edited by author 2008-03-30 11:46:13.

cpanaioti

Canon EOS-40D

03/30/2008 12:00:50 PM · #13

Originally posted by johngrif:

That's much better.

03/30/2008 12:23:29 PM · #14

Yeh looks a lot better now, cheers.

Canon EF 28-105mm f/3.5-4.5 II USM

05/02/2008 12:17:35 PM · #15

great and thanks Jimi. Let me know what else you think we can work on or do. Glad you liked your photo spotlighted. I thought it was an amazing shot.

melking

Canon EOS-1Ds Mark III

05/03/2008 10:10:06 PM · #16

Thanks for the heads up on this site...I will wait to see what happens with it!

Canon EF 28-105mm f/3.5-4.5 II USM

05/05/2008 02:54:54 PM · #17

Cool Melking and in the meantime if you do have any questions please email me. I'm the founder and more than happy to answer any questions you might have.

John

melking

Canon EOS-1Ds Mark III

05/06/2008 02:39:00 PM · #18

Originally posted by johngrif:

Cool Melking and in the meantime if you do have any questions please email me. I'm the founder and more than happy to answer any questions you might have.

John

Oh wow! you are really hands on with this business....that is great!

Melissa

05/08/2008 08:19:15 PM · #19

Yep for sure Melissa. I'm always around and happy to answer any questions or get any feedback.

Canon EF 100mm f/2.8 Macro

05/11/2008 10:34:30 PM · #20

@Kaveran
" 03/28/2008 09:15:51 AM
Ive never heard of them, looks like he has a long row to hoe as far as traffic is concerned. dpchallenge has an alexa rank of 25349 and cutcaster is over 300,000 so as of now it doesnt look like the site gets a lot of traffic."

I am happy to report we are up to 169k and counting. So we have moved up 150k spots in a month and a half and I am working my butt off to get us higher and improve our search rankings. Thanks for all your help and visiting the site.

oboy

Canon EOS-500D Rebel T1i

05/28/2008 04:26:09 PM · #21

Cutcaster upgraded their upload system just recently. If you have your IPTC data like title, description, and keywords completed in the file, then it is very easy and fast to submit you images to Cutcaster.

07/25/2008 10:31:56 AM · #22

Thanks oboy for the update. We are still improving it all the time and making it as fast as we can. Our goal is to have one of the simplest and fastest uploader in the industry. If you have any other feedback on how we can make it better please just email me.