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10/30/2004 04:45:06 PM · #151 |
Melissa - instructions are inside your account! Login to try.
Originally posted by melking23:
Can anyone else get the FTP to work? If so what was the Host address? I cannot get it to work! I was trying Cute FTP and also EI
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10/30/2004 04:45:23 PM · #152 |
Sure - A B&W and color is ok to upload..
Originally posted by pcody:
Wow. You guys approve images really fast! I was wondering if I could upload both a black&white and a color version of the same picture. I don't want to clog up everything, but some folks don't have the ability or the inclination to do the conversion themselves. I don't want to do it for every picture, just a few of them. |
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10/30/2004 05:46:28 PM · #153 |
I have it working now using WS FTP....it is really great, when you have dial up internet.....thansk
Melissa
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10/30/2004 07:42:36 PM · #154 |
Jon, you guys are amazing! I sent an email earlier today and you personally replied within a matter of minutes. I also tried to FTP my photos and it worked very nicely and I didn't have to wait 15 min to add the keywords etc. The approval process was also very expedited. Kudos to shutterstock!
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10/30/2004 09:01:01 PM · #155 |
Thank you!
Originally posted by MrAkamai:
Jon, you guys are amazing! I sent an email earlier today and you personally replied within a matter of minutes. I also tried to FTP my photos and it worked very nicely and I didn't have to wait 15 min to add the keywords etc. The approval process was also very expedited. Kudos to shutterstock! |
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10/31/2004 01:05:24 AM · #156 |
I was browsing the most popular downloads page when I saw the most frequently searched keywords and #2 is water. Is there a way for me to add keywords to photos currently up on the shutterstock site?
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10/31/2004 01:22:48 AM · #157 |
Originally posted by MrAkamai:
I was browsing the most popular downloads page when I saw the most frequently searched keywords and #2 is water. Is there a way for me to add keywords to photos currently up on the shutterstock site? |
No. What's been suggested is to delete the current file and upload it again with the extended list of keywords. Do remember only to use a keyword if it's relevant to the image. Spamming the keywords just gives the site a bad name and doesn't do anyone any good.
Message edited by author 2004-10-31 01:23:56.
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10/31/2004 08:13:28 AM · #158 |
Originally posted by cpanaioti:
No. What's been suggested is to delete the current file and upload it again with the extended list of keywords. Do remember only to use a keyword if it's relevant to the image. Spamming the keywords just gives the site a bad name and doesn't do anyone any good. |
Yup, I read about the "spamdexing" and have no plans to follow that. I want to add keywords that are relevant to my photo. If you look at the #1 (was #2 last night) most downloaded photo //www.shutterstock.com/pic.mhtml?&id=5123 (it has clouds in the sky) it's fairly liberal with keywords like aviation, flight and flying. I can sort of understand spiritual and some others but I feel that one qualifies as spamdexing with the aviation keywords. Just my opinion. As for the photo I want to edit, it's of an ocean scene and it does have water in it. :)
I would like to make this an official site suggestion to Jon: please enable us to add keywords to accepted and posted photos that are already uploaded. I guess we could type in the comments section for the reviewer that we are just reuploading with new keyword(s). I suppose that will work for those with high speed Internet connections but for those on dial-up, that's got to be painful.
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10/31/2004 03:59:47 PM · #159 |
Finally! I got one...
...I've also got a "reference", but no downloads for that yet. So I'm at 20 cents. |
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10/31/2004 06:56:12 PM · #160 |
I couldn't resist. I had to check for the umpteenth time and low and behold, 2 downloads. 40 cents richer, on paper anyway.
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10/31/2004 07:18:21 PM · #161 |
I have 10 downloads and 8 from other people for a total of $2.24
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10/31/2004 07:21:08 PM · #162 |
| I am at a whopping .20 as well. Never thought I would be excited about .20. Its fun. |
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10/31/2004 07:25:25 PM · #163 |
Originally posted by melking23:
I have 10 downloads and 8 from other people for a total of $2.24 |
Oooo, you're ahead of me on referral points. But I'm getting my brother to sign up, so maybe I can make up ground in November.
What kind of pictures do you mostly have up there? My latest download was of some Brussels Sprouts! : )
Of the ones I have there, I think that one would have headed my "least likely to be downloaded" list ....
Message edited by author 2004-10-31 19:25:58. |
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10/31/2004 07:32:53 PM · #164 |
I've been shooting and uploading all weekend. Have 30 something up now but no buys yet. I did make $55 at istock this month. That's a record for me.
Mel, do you do different things for each site? I use my sigma for istock, but have started using my dimage for shutterstock and dreamstime. How do you keep up with which photos are where? Or are all of your pictures at all the sites?
Seems to me that it would be hard to prove someone is not abiding by the download agreement if every site has your picture for sale. You know, in case you want to get a site to send out a cease & desist letter. |
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10/31/2004 07:43:28 PM · #165 |
Pat, what's your username on istockphoto? Or could you post a link to your portfolio?
$55 in a month is impressive! I'd like to learn a few things from you...
Message edited by author 2004-10-31 19:44:11. |
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10/31/2004 07:56:37 PM · #166 |
| Just keep uploading till you get a great big fat portfolio. And do like Paul did (which I wasn't smart enough to do). Look at the most popular files. See what is being bought and put your own spin on it. |
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10/31/2004 09:09:01 PM · #167 |
Originally posted by pcody:
Just keep uploading till you get a great big fat portfolio. And do like Paul did (which I wasn't smart enough to do). Look at the most popular files. See what is being bought and put your own spin on it. |
Uh oh, time for Plan B. |
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11/01/2004 06:44:25 AM · #168 |
| Yea. I got 2 downloads at shutterstock! Maybe it will pay after all. |
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11/01/2004 06:53:02 AM · #169 |
woo hoo.. it was sitting a little stagnant at shutterstock for a while but yesterday i got 5 downloads.... :)
no referals though :(
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11/01/2004 06:58:20 AM · #170 |
Originally posted by MrAkamai:
I would like to make this an official site suggestion to Jon: please enable us to add keywords to accepted and posted photos that are already uploaded. I guess we could type in the comments section for the reviewer that we are just reuploading with new keyword(s). |
Good suggestion. I made the same one to Jon. I hope they listen. Jon and his people make up a fairly small company compared to Photos.com and Comstock.com (both owned by JupiterImages.com). Smaller companies are usually more responsive.
Linda
My husband (he's a consultant for an online ink jet printing supply company) recently wrote a history on stock photography (covering the last decade), that I think members of this forum would find interesting. It also compares istockphoto, Dreamstime, CanStockPhoto and ShutterStock:
//www.inkjetart.com/news/archive/IJN_10-28-04.html#5
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11/01/2004 07:29:17 AM · #171 |
Thanks for linking the article Linda. I have just printed it out to read later:)
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11/01/2004 07:53:03 AM · #172 |
I made $100.50 from Istock in Sept and $106.00 in October...
I put the same photos up on Istock and Dreamstime, but some get rejected and some don't so I have some different one both....bigstock is just a few I had left over...canstock are my istock rejects...and I am now uploading all my files to shutterstock.....
I have just two many stock site to keep up....I might not upload any more to bigstock or canstock for a while.
and I keep track of it all with folders
example: (folders)
(Istock)
>To GO
>Pending
>Rejected
>Uploaded
and I only have one copy of the file in the folder....the file is in the (To Go) folder first when I upload it, I move it into the pending folder and then move it into the Rejected or uploaded folder.
I hope this helps
Melissa
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11/01/2004 08:16:03 AM · #173 |
Originally posted by melking23:
I made $100.50 from Istock in Sept and $106.00 in October...
I put the same photos up on Istock and Dreamstime, but some get rejected and some don't so I have some different one both....bigstock is just a few I had left over...canstock are my istock rejects...and I am now uploading all my files to shutterstock.....
I have just two many stock site to keep up....I might not upload any more to bigstock or canstock for a while.
and I keep track of it all with folders
example: (folders)
(Istock)
>To GO
>Pending
>Rejected
>Uploaded
and I only have one copy of the file in the folder....the file is in the (To Go) folder first when I upload it, I move it into the pending folder and then move it into the Rejected or uploaded folder.
I hope this helps
Melissa |
hey.. are you copying me??? :)
I have seperate folders. for example dreastime, then under that
upload dreamstime
accepted
rejected
awaiting approval...
seems sorta similar :)
and same... i have thumbnails that i move between the folders...
too bad my earnings are the same as yours. :)
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11/01/2004 08:21:57 AM · #174 |
Originally posted by melking23:
I have just two many stock site to keep up (snip)
....and I keep track of it all with folders
Melissa |
I know what you mean! Sounds like you have a good system, though. Stock is a numbers game. Each agency attracts their own clientele. If the contract is not exclusive (and should not be under the R-F model), then the photographer should try to maximize his/her sales by selling the same images via as many distribution channels as possible.
Linda
Report on "New Paradigm Shifts in Stock Photography" |
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11/01/2004 11:35:14 AM · #175 |
I got my first download yesterday from shutterstock! Woo, I'm rich! Time to start thinking about that 20D...
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