Piotr Krzeslak Posted August 20, 2020 Share Posted August 20, 2020 I have better story to tell you. I ask shutterstock via ticket how deleting account working from technical side (how long it take etc.) Instead of answer what i ask for they disable my whole image and video portfolio of more than 30k images Now i cannot turn them on till 16 september. I dont have enough balls to disable portfolio so Shutterstock made this hard decision for me And this is professional company? 14 Link to post Share on other sites
Elliott Bignell Posted August 21, 2020 Share Posted August 21, 2020 I've mentioned this before but not received that much interest. I have built a photo-server that fetches my pics from SmuMug and serves them up. It's open source and runs on PythonAnywhere or on a RaspberryPi at home, so everyone can pick up their own copy and adapt it at will. There's some work to do yet, but I'd like to get a network together and start sharing between groups of collaborators, making up an independent, peer-to-peer photographers' network with no central manager or owner. All of us together are bigger than any one agency! We could make this THE network for selling stock and keep the proceeds for ourselves. Anyone who is interested, even if only with a wish list, get the code and contact me via the links. https://github.com/ElliottBignell/homePIX https://elliottcb.pythonanywhere.com/ 3 Link to post Share on other sites
Andrew F. Kazmierski Posted August 21, 2020 Share Posted August 21, 2020 Thank you Elliot, I would be interested in that, I have a Smug Mug account, I will look into those links soon... 1 Link to post Share on other sites
Elliott Bignell Posted August 21, 2020 Share Posted August 21, 2020 Great, I'll look forward to any comments. 1 Link to post Share on other sites
Thomas Siegmund Posted August 21, 2020 Share Posted August 21, 2020 I am also a very disapointed contributer and just jumped to level 2. Great, but what is the effect? None at all, I still get only 0,10$ as before when I was in level 1. Is there anything I did wrong? And what happens next year when I fall back to level 1 once more? Even less or what? Link to post Share on other sites
lazaralinsilviu Posted August 21, 2020 Share Posted August 21, 2020 Nu este normal !!!. Link to post Share on other sites
ribeiroantonio Posted August 22, 2020 Share Posted August 22, 2020 14 hours ago, Elliott Bignell said: All of us together are bigger than any one agency! We could make this THE network for selling stock and keep the proceeds for ourselves. Anyone who is interested, even if only with a wish list, get the code and contact me via the links. https://github.com/ElliottBignell/homePIX https://elliottcb.pythonanywhere.com/ I would be interested but I need to understand what you are proposing, how it would work and what the real benefits. 1 Link to post Share on other sites
Anita Ponne Posted August 22, 2020 Share Posted August 22, 2020 20 hours ago, Elliott Bignell said: I've mentioned this before but not received that much interest. I have built a photo-server that fetches my pics from SmuMug and serves them up. It's open source and runs on PythonAnywhere or on a RaspberryPi at home, so everyone can pick up their own copy and adapt it at will. There's some work to do yet, but I'd like to get a network together and start sharing between groups of collaborators, making up an independent, peer-to-peer photographers' network with no central manager or owner. All of us together are bigger than any one agency! We could make this THE network for selling stock and keep the proceeds for ourselves. Anyone who is interested, even if only with a wish list, get the code and contact me via the links. https://github.com/ElliottBignell/homePIX https://elliottcb.pythonanywhere.com/ Interesting. Are you on FB? 1 Link to post Share on other sites
Elliott Bignell Posted August 22, 2020 Share Posted August 22, 2020 Hi, Anita. No,I'm no longer on Facebook. You can find me on Twitter and Medium. I thought I could start writing articles on Medium to explain what I am doing. Watch this space... Antonio, my idea is a site like Flickr or 500px, but which everyone could have their own copy of. You could style it yourself if you are skilled in web development, or just copy someone else's if not. You would put your photos up somewhere like SmugMug and my code would let you organise and present then as you like. You could also put them up for sale at a price that suits you. Or you could direct the buyer to Shutterstock, come to that - what's to stop you? So far this is nothing new. My idea is to network between photographers so that potential buyers can search for a photo across the whole network. If you sell your own shot, you keep the whole fee, or perhaps give up a small percentage to an income pool which everyone shares. If your site directs a buyer to another photographer, you share the income, maybe 50-50. Done right, we could even set our own terms individually. With a few thousand photographers, we would rapidly have a network with millions of photos. These could be star-rated by the public and this would rank the shots, rather than a simple in/out quality metric. The key is openness. It should work with many photo-sharing sources and also any other networks that come up in parallel. It could get really big. 4 Link to post Share on other sites
Rudy Matchinga Posted August 24, 2020 Share Posted August 24, 2020 I'm surprised, with all the censoring, this thread still lives. Hi Kate. How are you? 5 Link to post Share on other sites
Billy333 Posted August 24, 2020 Share Posted August 24, 2020 On 8/17/2020 at 1:57 AM, Elaine Davis said: Not worth it anymore. 10 cents a picture Totally agree. At ALL lavels 2 Link to post Share on other sites
Hajakely Posted August 24, 2020 Share Posted August 24, 2020 I stopped uploading since I received that email! Instead, I am back maintaining my old and new photo gallery website (www.hajakely.com and www.marolook.altervista.org). I will not take down my portfolio but I will not upload new content anymore. Just like what I did when Big G... bought Small i... and changed their earning structure. I rather give my new photos for free for personal use or for small fees for non personal use at my own website. Just in case, if anyone is interested, I would be happy to build a photo gallery website for you for FREE. If you already have a domaine name then I can also host it for you. If you are new to web development and web hosting then I can do both. You receive an up and running website wihtout fiddling around! Drop me a message here or contact me via my website if you are interested. If we join hand, we can be stronger. Once we are stronger, we can stand up and have our say! 7 Link to post Share on other sites
Aleksandar Dickov Posted August 24, 2020 Share Posted August 24, 2020 So, i'm now "lvl 4" and last 5 earnings are: Thanks for those bonus of 0,1 2 Link to post Share on other sites
Gray Photo Online Posted August 25, 2020 Share Posted August 25, 2020 The beatings will continue until moral improves. 4 Link to post Share on other sites
Neo Geometric Posted August 25, 2020 Share Posted August 25, 2020 7 Link to post Share on other sites
Radek Borovka Posted August 26, 2020 Share Posted August 26, 2020 I deactivated my portfolio. Sorry Shutterstock. I am no idiot. 14 Link to post Share on other sites
zsooofija Posted August 26, 2020 Share Posted August 26, 2020 On 8/21/2020 at 9:54 PM, lazaralinsilviu said: Nu este normal !!!. Dar este oare normal sa descarci poze gratuite de pe net si sa le vinzi ca si cum ai fi tu autorul? Link to post Share on other sites
Andreas Prott Posted August 26, 2020 Share Posted August 26, 2020 On 8/25/2020 at 1:11 AM, Aleksandar Dickov said: So, i'm now "lvl 4" and last 5 earnings are: Thanks for those bonus of 0,1 Looks like a good series. I had several series of 0,10s at level 4. 1 Link to post Share on other sites
Rudy Matchinga Posted August 26, 2020 Share Posted August 26, 2020 Six years of uploading video to SS. Here and Pond5 were my best sellers. I deactivated my port in June. Have not uploaded anything since the pay cut, and will not upload again. If something changes here, which I don't think it ever will, I will reactivate. Until then, let the dust collect. A shit way to treat those who supplied you. You know it, we all know it, and you don't care SS. 11 Link to post Share on other sites
Centrill Media Posted August 26, 2020 Share Posted August 26, 2020 I have been with Shutterstock since June 2008. Before that, iStock was always my best revenue stream until Getty bought them out. Then iStock sales plummeted. I decommissioned iStock and Shutterstock eventually became my best revenue until now... Sales volume dwindling to almost nothing and the revenue is chump change. Pond5 is my fastest rising sales agency now. It is so pitiful that Shutterstock is screwing the very same artist that built their empire on the NYSE (SSTK). But that's OK for Shutterstock I guess... because they have a new generation of high school iPhone children uploading blurry cell phone images to fill the void while their best professional contributors are fleeing elsewhere. Best of luck Shutterstock... the pro's will eventually all depart, your iPhone children will grow up and get bored with you... and you will fade into obscurity looking for viable content and eventually selling yourself, like a street whore, to the highest bidder. 21 Link to post Share on other sites
ribeiroantonio Posted August 27, 2020 Share Posted August 27, 2020 3 hours ago, Centrill Media said: I have been with Shutterstock since June 2008. Before that, iStock was always my best revenue stream until Getty bought them out. Then iStock sales plummeted. I decommissioned iStock and Shutterstock eventually became my best revenue until now... Sales volume dwindling to almost nothing and the revenue is chump change. Pond5 is my fastest rising sales agency now. It is so pitiful that Shutterstock is screwing the very same artist that built their empire on the NYSE (SSTK). But that's OK for Shutterstock I guess... because they have a new generation of high school iPhone children uploading blurry cell phone images to fill the void while their best professional contributors are fleeing elsewhere. Best of luck Shutterstock... the pro's will eventually all depart, your iPhone children will grow up and get bored with you... and you will fade into obscurity looking for viable content and eventually selling yourself, like a street whore, to the highest bidder. Excellent note. Congratulations. 6 Link to post Share on other sites
Andrew F. Kazmierski Posted August 27, 2020 Share Posted August 27, 2020 I've been hearing on the news about the complaints about Apple taking 30% profit on app store sales. I think what Shutterstock has done is a lot worse. Not sure if I wasted my time but I filed a complaint with the Federal Trade Commission explaining what has happened here: https://www.ftc.gov/faq/consumer-protection/submit-consumer-complaint-ftc 11 Link to post Share on other sites
Elliott Bignell Posted August 27, 2020 Share Posted August 27, 2020 Houston, we have a solution: https://medium.com/@elliott.bignell/freeing-photos-from-agencies-a7b4b7723910 3 Link to post Share on other sites
VdZ Posted August 27, 2020 Share Posted August 27, 2020 I have deactivated my account and even when the royalty program returns to normal, i will certainly not activate my account again. Shutterstock F**KED us all, RIGHT at the beginning of the Corona crisis. Many people got fired, lost their incomes.. And right at thát moment, Shutterstock decides to cut the paycheck to their loyal artists. Well screw you guys, i'm uploading ALL my photo's at FREE websites like PEXELS so one day, hopefully, Shutterstock will go DOWN. 8 Link to post Share on other sites
Marko Duca Posted August 28, 2020 Share Posted August 28, 2020 I'm not a professional, I don't use pro gear and of course - this is not my main income. My photos are mediocre but I sell images almost every day, and every single sale I made this month was at 0.10$!!! This is a classic capitalist thievery, and they should be really ashamed of themselves! Soon as I get my 35$ I'm out of here! 8 Link to post Share on other sites
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