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Help DNF survive the winter
Syates:
--- Цитата: DNF-Style от Декабря 06, 2007, 06:47:54 pm ---...Working on titles, descriptions, keywords, all the things they told us are keeping us from selling. Making collections, lightboxes, building our networks, offering our stuff in the fora etc. Constantly changing and adding. Scratching our heads many times over this.
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I think that is the way for you, change your "promotion-style", but not your "photographic-style". SY
DNF-Style:
--- Цитата: Sybille Yates (hospitalera) от Декабря 06, 2007, 11:10:24 pm ---
--- Цитата: DNF-Style от Декабря 06, 2007, 06:47:54 pm ---...Working on titles, descriptions, keywords, all the things they told us are keeping us from selling. Making collections, lightboxes, building our networks, offering our stuff in the fora etc. Constantly changing and adding. Scratching our heads many times over this.
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I think that is the way for you, change your "promotion-style", but not your "photographic-style". SY
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Well our preprocessing style is part of the photographic style of DNF. It would be like analogue photographing and not developing your film to say that the processing does not belong to the photographic style. It is sort of like Lev says for us also. But we do understand and we already did try on a batch where we saturated instead of desaturated our images. To see if they would do better then others. In fact on our last Christmas series. Christmas faerie with white sign we changed two factors. It is saturated to get the red to jump out and it is more commercial with the white board involved. We are hoping this will sell since so far only the more saturating batch did not do the trick.
We are now working on fiercer colors to see what our new batches will do.
Here's on of the Christmas batch:
Talya:
DNF, I would not put too much hope on Christmas images now, the peak on the season is over, most of people who wanted to do something about christmas already did. I was told that christmas images sell through whole year, but they not going to be that hot anyway. Try do do something about valentines.
I looked through your images at SS (randomly) and have to agree, there is some room for improvement in keywording. But I would not do it for old images on SS which are at the bottom of you portfolio. There is basically no way on SS that will bring old image that sunk back to life unless it got into light box on the first page but this beyond your control. Adding keywords would not help. If I were you (and I gonna get hit again ;D ) I would try to delete several images which seem to have potential but sunk long time ago and upload again with new keywords, or upload slightly different version (saturated maybe, yes). For example (and I'm not sure about any particular example, maybe someone can advice you better which one has a good chance) : this one http://www.shutterstock.com/pic-3107520-boy-friend-and-girl-friend-in-arms.html It may (may not of course) sells well for valentine, but there is no way to find this photo even when it was new (look at keywords).
Also, I saw a lot of teenagers pictures in your portfolio, this is underrepresented category, so and teenage and teen and young etc whenever you feel it possible, the same with pregnant women (you have a few).
BTW, I found the photo that is in my personal top10 (do not remember where I saw it, not at stocks probably), can not believe it does not sell well. I'm really glad I had a chance to meet you here, guys.
Syates:
How is it going? And yes, I agree with Talya, it is time to shoot the Easter bunny and upload the Valentines! SY
alex123rf:
Hi DNF,
We're great fans of your portfolio as you truly do get some great shots out there. It's also a wonder to me why you say your portfolio isn't performing.
As a short term solution, I've gone and looked into your portfolio a little deeper and I think the faved images might help. I've taken the initiative and faved them on your behalf, I hope you don't mind the initiative on my part. I believe we have also given you a Hear It! page for about a month or so.
I notice that you have some good baby photos and kids as well, so I faved some of them, hopefully it'll give you a bit more of an edge. Also I tend to agree that your images at times look very sepia-ish, perhaps you'd like to consider shooting some with more color and leave the heavy retouching to the designers who license your work. Of course, photographers are not masters of every subject and perhaps it's your style to use such lighting and techniques, but do feel free to experiment.
Also for studio shots, I also notice that those with props, or real life surroundings and shots with multiple persons, people mingling and interacting with colleagues, lovers, etc (logos, vgstudio, andreasr, iofoto) do particularly well too.
These are just my opinions and do note that I do not (or rather can't) see things from a total contributor point of view but I suppose every little advice should help.
Merry Xmas to everyone!
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