I just started in February of this year there. No sales so far, but would would love some input if you want to look at some.




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Thanks for looking

Hope this helps 


             

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Now, anybody who does not understand why the agencies treat contributors as they do, read this thread. May be we all should shape up and become a little bit more professional.


Strike (removing images) never works, and if more established contributors try to tell newbies not to apply .......... I don't even want to finish this sentence.


Be so good that nobody can ignore you, make yourself needed, then they will come and pay you.


Somebody mentioned Walmart. Walmart became so big because they pay next to nothing for merchandise. Their buying power is so strong that they don't have too. Same happens in Micro right now. The only exception to get into Walmart is having an item they need and you are one who can deliver for less.
As a manufacturer, if you want your product displayed, they charge rent for shelf space, don't wanna go further into that, but micro stock has the same future. Only top notch photographers will be on display and for newbies and weak "Merchants" will be no room. 
Enjoy the time as long as you can make money in this industry and raise the bar. Once everything is dialed in, max 2 more years (In my opinion) they will not accept new applications and you will have to have big connections to become part of it.
So, newbies,  sign up NOW. Established contributors (many made a killing, especially the ones who do it since 2005) do not want new competition, which is ok and understandable, but for my part, I will not listen and will try to get a piece of the pie. That's what free market is all about. May the best win.

got it on the 14th

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I was watching one of the documentaries in the Megacities series with Andrew Marr a while back.

There's a giant open sewer, I think it was in Mexico City, basically like a giant river of sh*t and toxic waste 30 odd feet wide. Every now and then the vents at the end of this river of sh*t get blocked. Often with the decaying body of say, a dog, or a victim of crime who has been dumped in the huge river of excrement. These vents are 50 feet down in the pitch black under a massive weight of sewerage. It is the job of this one guy to put on a diving suit, and go down 50 feet in the pitch black sh*t river and fish out unspeakable stuff from these holes and hope that a syringe doesn't puncture his suit causing him to die from some hideous disease.

This is an essential job, without this guy the waste system in the city would stop working. How long do you think we'd have to hold out to find someone who's passion it is to fish month old corpses from under a river of sh*t without material compensation?

But if nobody does it, the ones who do what they love (Engineers), never would design the system like that, and cities would put something different in place (like a machine that cleans it) as a solution, which needs to be engineered. Therefore the engineers can keep doing what they love and the crap-diver can move on to better things

oh, this was awesome, thanks for posting this, all the best to you

Quote from: Gunter Nezhoda on September 05, 2012, 19:40

Quote from: pancaketom on September 05, 2012, 17:08

So if you sell an image through them at Alamy for 100$, does Alamy get 40, and you and Yay each get 30 or does Alamy get 40 and Yay 10 and you 50?

Much better than how Veer went about it anyway.

I think it's more like
Alamy get's 40%, Yay get's 60%, that's $60 to Yay
Photographer get's 50% from Yay's commission. That's $30 to you, which is 10% less than if you are direct.

By your arithmetic, it would be 50% less than if you were direct, when you would get $60. I don't know if that's how they're working it out, as the announcement was ambiguous, but it certainly would be one interpretation. That was the 40/30/30 scenario indicated by PancakeTom.

You are correct, I edited, should be right now

Almost 2 years ago I tried to apply and they told me come back in 4 weeks, nothing happened and I emailed 6 months later and they replied that they don't accept new contributors. I don't say there was no reason, my images certainly were not top notch, but today, 2 years later most of them are and I'm kicking on the top agencies who accepted me in the beginning. Why support SF now? They didn't support me and we have plenty other $50 a year agencies.

Whatsoever, I'm ready to upload ........ how much do you pay per approved image?

This is the first time I've seen it, underneath an image is a button "Edit Beta" and you can edit the image online with a simple editor (like Picasa).
Interesting ...................

done,
I just started one too :
https://www.facebook.com/pages/Gunter-Nezhoda-Photography/354128571272142

And here is my photography group, please join
https://www.facebook.com/groups/358025760893320/

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