To specify what I wrote earlier about "individual frame exclusivity", it should be "photo series exclusivity" or something along that line. So we are going to require that all photos from a certain photo shoot with same setup, model, etc. need to be exclusive. Of course artist can choose what to upload.

Anyway thank you for your suggestions.

Of course. We have had trial run of ads in various medias, banner ads, and google adwords. We are now planning something bigger and are preparing for it by analyzing the data we've got.

Let me just say, we are taking this really seriously.

The problem is going to be getting enough images to make the buyers interested.  I don't see any point in advertising when you have a tiny collection, that's a waste of money.  I would like to see a site get past this problem but if we aren't paid to upload, what's our incentive?  I like giving new sites a chance but there's already so many selling the same stuff.

Let me say again, this isn't "hobby project" for us.

We are going to do "Featured Photographers" thing soon. The idea is to promote photographers works and also help them in their own career, for example wedding photographer, sports or studio photographers. And we are going to get some serious traffic to their pages. If someone wants, we're happy to interview him.

We are well aware the most microstock photographers are probably not interested about such thing and prefer to remain anonymous. That's ok. But then, we are NOT just another microstock agency.

Everything we do is based on the thought that we are not selling the same stuff. We are all about unique shots with artistic twist, and we don't especially care about "micro masses" of isolated objects, ordinary smiling people, etc. Sure at the point we do accept such to our RF collection and we sell them, but our featured photos or exclusive collection is all what we are about. That's the core of our thinking. Our niche is art that goes into photos.

We know people who want to get that business handshake shot, he can go to iStockphoto and then the problem is solved.

If person wants well executed, artistic photo and the original large film scan of it (what he can use for big print advertisement, for example), he can come to us. We're going to have tons of these.

We didn't put "art" to our name just for decoration. That's what we're all about.

I hope your strategy works and I will be watching to see how you differentiate the site.  We really need sites that do things differently.  Photocase seem to be doing a good job selling more artistic images, so there might be a market for art in stock.  Many people have said that art and stock don't mix but there is some art selling well with the big sites.

Thank you for your comment. I also want to say thanks for your uploads. You have great technical execution and skill.

We are now accepting editorial images.
Only exceptions are sports or famous people, and sensation photos just after some big accident.

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Ok, so bye!!! I've sent you 350 pictures in the beginning!!! And now i have a blank portfolio!!!
Good bye and good luck, i will look how to disabling my account.

Wow, that has to be the biggest risk I have ever seen a site take.  You would be much better off converting all colour images to monochrome and giving the buyers a choice.  The monochrome market is going to be tiny in comparison to the colour market. 

Surely we can't touch or convert the original images uploaded by our artists, that just wouldn't be right. We leave that choice for our artists.

The market might be tiny in comparison, but even if we can get to 1% we're pretty fine with that.

It's better to have that 1% of 100% than nothing.
Plus, there's going to be much less competition between our artists when the amount of images stay lower.

Do you have a market for this? It's not going to fly with any traditional design house or publisher, you would really need to be developing the market for print sales and there are precious few of those around.

The stuff I've seen left on your site isn't going to win any awards, either.

That said, it's new and different so I'll give you a bit of a chance. Who knows, it might work. Japan may be more amenable to monochrome images than the US market.

It's a little bit off-topic this B&W stock-art thing...
I must say, I was wondering where the heck my files were gone. Did you developed a newsletter system? I didn't received anything about the changes. Anyway...
I'm sorry about the time selecting "artsy" images, managing and uploading them. Now I see my 5 most unusable files in the gallery.

Nowadays it's a big challenge to sell the stock images with the most potential, not narrowing down the collection to art-like stock... In top of that, the B&W thing narrows down the collection beyond any usability(?) Please tell me, I'm wrong...

^^^Not likely, they wouldn't put people off uploading if it was a scam.  I would think switching to a black and white site is going to cut their uploads by at least 99%.

And now i have a blank portfolio!!!

You're still on their front page as featured photographer. Maybe they should rebrand the site as Flying Dutchman (for the culturally differently-abled : an unmanned ship roaming the oceans).