Strange thinking here. Its seems as if many here which they would fall? malicious thinking is no good for microstockers. Remember: what goes around comes around.
Microstockers should instead invest their time producing not lend themselves to gossip and jealousy.

I often wonder if your regular out-of-context use of 'jealous/jealousy' is somehow lost in translation.

Quote from: MetaStocker on December 06, 2012, 10:08

As for retro, it's pure BS and a fad, a sign of desperation if they have to go back to the '60s look

It's general cultural fashion at the moment. Most young women round about here (of those who care) are going around in black eyeliner and false lashes. Looks h*llish on anyone with fair skin and blonde to mid-brown or red hair, but do they care?

No they never cared, ever.

Historically women followed fashion trends imposed from the above and if you dare to ask them they will tell you that "i just follow trends, i don't make them", yeah sort of saying i'm a follower and happy about being one, a sheep paying exorbitant prices for clothes that were fashionable when their grandmas were young !

BUT ... let's look a bit deeper on this ... girls don't give a sh-it about all this, all they care is the final result, looking GOOD, no matter what, or if their clothes are modern clones of rags sold used by hippies in the '60s.

Where's the different with the editorial market after all ? magazine want to look good and grab your attention especially on their covers, who cares if it looks retro or whatever ?

And what's "modern" anyway ? If now we all look at Retro in both photography and music and fashion is because there's simply NOTHING new around, anything has been done to death already, over and over, and new cameras are only bringing us more MegaPixels and faster shutter speeds but nothing revolutionary compared to the past.

And here's the point, it's very very hard to make something new using something OLD, we simply reached the point where "new" means a little improving on the latest technology, digital imaging just reached its apex and i can't see anything making a breakthru soon, maybe in pocket cameras but never ever in DSLR.

And yet, imagine having your 100 megapixel pocket camera with F1.4 micro lens .. please tell me where will be the amazing difference with a DSLR with similar specs ?

May we like it or not, anyone can "be" a photographer nowadays, don't you see all these exibitions of people shotting polaroid or iPhone or even webcams ?

Sooner or later it will be just a matter of having big budgets for expensive shoots or being able to reach places nobody else can reach, that's exactly why Paparazzi will never feel the heat from amateurs' competition.

Quote from: ClaridgeJ on December 06, 2012, 10:46

Strange thinking here. Its seems as if many here which they would fall? malicious thinking is no good for microstockers. Remember: what goes around comes around.
Microstockers should instead invest their time producing not lend themselves to gossip and jealousy.

I'm not sure if the recent revamped version of MSG still has this info but a few months ago I found the hours that we'd all spent logged in here and thought how many more images we'd have produced if we'd stayed away, and how lower some peoples blood pressure may be.

I've never looked at that info, but I leave a tab open in my browser most of the time. I'm not looking at it, but I bet it registers as me being here, so the number isn't really about active time

Quote from: jsnover on December 06, 2012, 11:36

Quote from: thesentinel on December 06, 2012, 11:05

Quote from: ClaridgeJ on December 06, 2012, 10:46

Strange thinking here. Its seems as if many here which they would fall? malicious thinking is no good for microstockers. Remember: what goes around comes around.
Microstockers should instead invest their time producing not lend themselves to gossip and jealousy.

I'm not sure if the recent revamped version of MSG still has this info but a few months ago I found the hours that we'd all spent logged in here and thought how many more images we'd have produced if we'd stayed away, and how lower some peoples blood pressure may be.

I've never looked at that info, but I leave a tab open in my browser most of the time. I'm not looking at it, but I bet it registers as me being here, so the number isn't really about active time

^^ That too. I've got about seven tabs open all the time, one of which is msg.

Me too.  I think it must be a common practice.

Another one from that Glassdoor site which which jsnover pointed us to where they have the insiders' accounts of working at IS and Getty

Getty Images, the parent company is slowly but surely deprecating the company and destroying key elements of the culture.(Former Web Applications Developer in Calgary)

I think that pretty much sums it up for the customers and contributors too.

Quote from: Newsfocus1 on December 05, 2012, 05:26

Quote from: kobajagrande on December 05, 2012, 02:10

The upload limit was increased recently.

Non-Exclusive Upload Limits
Default now 28/week (was 18)
Bronze now 30/week (was 20)
Silver now 40/week (was 24)
Gold now 50/week (was 30)
Diamond now 60/week (was 38)
Black Diamond now 70/week (was 40)

Really? That's news to me. Can't find any announcement about that and my upload limit (non exclusive) still says 18 per week. Anyone else know anything about this or have a link?  Regards, David.

News to me too. Mine remains at 38.

Yeah, mine is still 24, but that is irrelevant as I stopped uploading there earlier in the year. After being a solid contender for 2nd place each month for years, they fell into last and stayed there. Not even tracking month to month sales there any more, it's in the same bucket as my trial and test accounts.

Microsoft makes more from Android than Windows on smartphones

That article is from june 2011

pretty sure that it is SPAM, to get more traffic from google, nice job kobajagrande

my bad, thanks Cory

Yeah right... what do I have from that traffic dude...   

And yes, I got that info in the e-mail, one of those "we miss you, come back and upload more (vectors)" as ShadySue said. 
This might not be the case with photo contributors, maybe only illustrators, not sure. 

Quote from: MetaStocker on December 06, 2012, 06:42

And actually i'm wondering if i could make more money writing photography apps or PS plugins rather than selling photos

Me too. But I just keep reading that the all the money in apps goes to a handful of developers with mega-hits.   I think the days of the profitable one-man app ended long ago - and maybe they never happened.  Successfull apps and plug-ins are big projects like any other money-making software.     Sure it would be fun to create an app that other photographers started buying and using... but wait, I'm only getting 50 cents a sale - it's a familiar feeling, somehow...

Probably better to develop an app, use it yourself while the mobilestock trend is still live, then sell it later. Why encourage the opposition, as Sean would say!

Quote from: stockastic on December 10, 2012, 10:07

Quote from: MetaStocker on December 06, 2012, 06:42

And actually i'm wondering if i could make more money writing photography apps or PS plugins rather than selling photos

Me too. But I just keep reading that the all the money in apps goes to a handful of developers with mega-hits.   I think the days of the profitable one-man app ended long ago - and maybe they never happened.  Successfull apps and plug-ins are big projects like any other money-making software.     Sure it would be fun to create an app that other photographers started buying and using... but wait, I'm only getting 50 cents a sale - it's a familiar feeling, somehow...

Actually i was referring about DESKTOP apps.
I don't even own a smartphone but i could start developing on WinRT/WP8 using the emulator in Visual Studio 2012.

PS Plugins are a BIG mess, the CS6 SDK has near zero decent documentation, you basically use it as a hook to include your own standalone app (as a DLL).

Said that, you must be an expert in Computer Graphics algorithms, and that's not the case for me, i can have the raw idea but i should simulate it using Math tools like MathLab etc you can imagine how long it can take do all this from scratch alone, and not surprisingly there are very few free samples of PS plugins around, the few ones i've found are about very simple stuff, nothing with complex layers and complex tunings.

For instance, there are excellent PS tutorials around that required maybe 20-30 manual steps, wouldn't it be good to make a PS plugin out of it ? Yes, but ... this can really take ages if you have to develop your own standalone app to simulate PS commands, as PS doesn;t give a common API ! the only way you can batch is using PS actions, but on a PS plugin you can't ! So you must do it on your own with the .NET framework, now imagine coding from scratch algos for radial blur etc etc ... c'mon .. it's crazy unless you use 3rd party libraries with ready made CGI apis and that's another big mess anyway ... you've no idea how complex it can get, not to mention if you want to port it to OSX it must be recoded in Objective C using Cocoa framework.

I've the nasty feeling Adobe is keen on keeping PS developming difficult to master as they know it's a gold mine and they don't want the market to be flooded by small plugins as in the past or as now with the 1000s of LR presets.

 I'm an old school guy and can't get used to desktop applications being called "apps".  So if it's for a phone, do we  call it a "phone app" or maybe an "app store app"? 

I was in software development for a long time, but got out of it last year and recently removed VS2012, XCode and the rest from my hard drive. Nirvana!   

My experience is that doing something like a 'plugin' always requires inside-track support from the big boys (Adobe in this case).  The publicly available tools and documentation never cut it; to really get anywhere you need to be on the inside track - you have to 'matter' - i.e. your plugin would have to be something Adobe actually wants to happen.   

WP8 could be a serious opportunity right about now.  The tech press keeps putting it down, discouraging developers, but I think it's going to come on strong.

Its gone a bit off topic. Maybe move this part to a new thread?

Quote from: ShadySue on December 10, 2012, 15:52

I'm a clueless girl who hasn't a clue what the difference between a 'desktop application' and a 'program' is.

They are synonyms. 
... explanation ...

Tx