There are years since i was trying the first time to sell images to Getty, Fotolia, Shuterstock, etc. Now i realize why dr.Negru and others on flickr told me years ago i should try and sell my pictures there. (So i signed up with them so they can send me emails.) For most of them the sign-up process and the account is the same for buying or selling. So they can say i'm buying my pictures from them. Cause they never bought any pictures from me. (There are a couple of reasons: I don't need them and i don't have money).
Today i finally got an email from Getty after years since i've signed up with flickr asking me to complete a survey to tell them about the types of cameras i use.
It's none of your business Mr.Getty or Klein or whoever how i use my cameras and how i do get this type of quality i haven't seen yet in any of the pictures watermarked Getty in the news media. And it wouldn't be for a long time. It took me some 20 years (since i got my first SLR) to figure it out. It's gone be a while until the camera manufacturers themselves will understand these things and then be taught in photography schools. (or maybe they know and apply them only to high end models).
And if i had a more expensive camera than the one i use i would do even better.
However i respect this camera. It's got a large CCD sensor, larger than any in its class. Stability control on sensor. It is heavy. All of the moving parts are controlled mechanically and probably counter-ballanced. It has a mirror and a second sensor. The lens although cheap, designed by Minolta, favor colors. High precision, though cheap, cast lens.
It is true most of the times when i take pictures there are many photographers on the site.
But i will not complete the survey as a photographer's exam.
The game your are playing is a media one. It involves convincing a majority i am posing as a photographer. So was Lady Gaga and so many others. Real photographers know but they also can be bought.
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From: noreply@gettyimages.com via research.net <member@research.net>
Date: Wed, May 8, 2013 at 2:21 PM
Subject: Getty Images Contributors Camera Survey
To: geion@live.com
Hello!
As we mentioned in our Contributor Community Headlines newsletter last week, we have a surprising number of clients who ask us what camera brand a photo was taken with, or to do searches for them based on the brand, because they are doing an ad or other project for a particular manufacturer.
To help facilitate those searches and hopefully generate more sales for you, we’re asking you to take a short survey about the camera(s) you use when creating images you send to us. We’ll use the results internally for reference, and may also occasionally share them with a client who is doing their own searching.
Of course this survey is entirely voluntary. Please note that we will be asking for your name and photo credit so we can use the results to help find your images when they fit the client’s needs, giving you a better shot at possible additional sales. Thanks for your help!
Getty Images Contributor Relations
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From: noreply@gettyimages.com via research.net <member@research.net>
Date: Wed, May 8, 2013 at 2:21 PM
Subject: Getty Images Contributors Camera Survey
To: geion@live.com
Hello!
As we mentioned in our Contributor Community Headlines newsletter last week, we have a surprising number of clients who ask us what camera brand a photo was taken with, or to do searches for them based on the brand, because they are doing an ad or other project for a particular manufacturer.
To help facilitate those searches and hopefully generate more sales for you, we’re asking you to take a short survey about the camera(s) you use when creating images you send to us. We’ll use the results internally for reference, and may also occasionally share them with a client who is doing their own searching.
Of course this survey is entirely voluntary. Please note that we will be asking for your name and photo credit so we can use the results to help find your images when they fit the client’s needs, giving you a better shot at possible additional sales. Thanks for your help!
Getty Images Contributor Relations
Here is a link to the survey:
https://www.research.net/s.
This link is uniquely tied to this survey and your email address. Please do not forward this message.
Thanks for your participation!
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The new red Jeep belonging to the woman at 5 who had a PCC parking permit on the old blue Jeep (probably a student at PCC) just showed up. It was time, i was writing a new post in English.
To give some an idea how far the craziness has gone. There are five different techniques i'm using that most photographers ignore or don't use. Some of them go against well established rules and recommendations. And now i'm asking myself if the manufactures didn't do this on purpose, making design decision, use and maintenance recommendations with just pure propgagandistics purposes so only exteremly few would make use of the techicques mentioned in the first paragragph. And this is not the only example, there are so many others.
I just read that BS crap about CNN faking a live transmission. Didn't see it, it's easy to see if it's done through satellite if there's any lag (latency) in voice. But CNN aren't idiots, i know this too well. If they did that they did it on purpose, and the purpose can be only one, to prove how cars can be be driven around by themselves and scheduled on supercomputers. At least, in Oregon.
On every trip cars are assigned by brand, type, color, meaningful license plate number, other inscriptions, emissions, noise, name it.
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