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06-13-2008, 04:53 AM
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Hope for SV!!
I am shocked!! I was away to photograph icebergs and all for three days. When I return, there were 6 DLs from SV with a total income of $13.50. Wow!!
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06-15-2008, 06:11 AM
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 Congrats on EL sale. I didn't even know SV sells ELs. Where can I found the prices for EL?
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06-16-2008, 05:17 PM
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I got 1 standard sale and 1 subscription so far in May and then the same in July. $3.80 total.
[sarcasm]oh boy I'd better upload the rest of my 1100 images before I miss out on even more sales[/sarcasm] I'm just kidding, I really do have to keep on trickling my images in 5 at a time. Snap is probably the most likely to succeed within the next few years. I really wish they'd optimize their website for Firefox, though. Sometimes you click to get the pop-up to browse for photos to upload - and it doesn't even pop up.
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06-16-2008, 05:53 PM
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Pretty soon I'm going to have one of those nights and I'll be down to three micro sites and two editorial.Absolutely contrary to the upload to a bazillion sites with thousands of photos and watch the money trickle in theory. SV and SS are two of them I'm sticking with, Alamy and Featurepics are the other two. Same deal for Editorial, one for big pictures, one for the smaller and cropped. The last Micro will be for photos that I had to crop and can't make the size requirements of the major quality sites, but they take 600mp on the smallest side. I won't name the last one, you'll have to guess.  After submitting, getting accepted and uploading to something like ten Micro sites (I've lost track) I'm just cutting my management and record keeping efforts. The dreaded time out server errors at SV have stopped for me when I upload my five images. When ftp goes live, I can pull the plug on the rest of the languishing and dormant micro accounts. This is not a suggestion for anyone else, just the same as people who have gone exclusive in IS and are doing just fine. Personal choice. It's a comment and prediction that when SV enables ftp, we might see some changes in the world of micropayment for some of the smaller sites. Now back to editing over 2000 photos still left from 10 days ago, that I haven't finished yet! After I throw out 30% of them for quality, I have to add metadata, then sort by group, session and driver and add the specific individual metadata. Then throw out another third for composition. Review what's left for details, focus and content, and make the best few for each driver, to archive and ftp to the magazine for their files. Even worse, I don't expect any will be suitable for Microstock without a model or property release, which is unobtainable. Over 3000 photos, down to under 100. My eyes get weary and my brain starts going limp. Have to take a break and read forums... 
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06-16-2008, 06:15 PM
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Glad to hear SV is taking off. Uploading process is very annoying there so I have only uploaded a few tens pics. If positive evolution will continue I will need to make an effort uploading more at SV...
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06-17-2008, 06:00 PM
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Hey Racephoto - sounds like you're giving that shutter a good workout! You must have to do a lot of bursting, with racecars whizzing by you. It's understandable. I bet you are fast with your post-processing workflow though. I'm slow as a turtle. Plus I always shoot RAW.
By the way: I just had 2 more sales on Snap since my last post. I hope this keeps up. Time to rock the cumbersome "5 at a time" html upload.
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