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General discussion / I show you mine, you show us yours

« : Январь 28, 2008, 01:57:53 pm »

How about showing each other how our workspace looks like.
Yhis is where we do our shopping
Our studio will follow as soon as we are ready building our new one, since photo's of our living with flashes on the side and paperrolls on the ceiling are not really a studio ;-)

Oh...and do not clean up first. We want all dirty details. 

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General discussion / Snapvillage any experience or sales?

« : Январь 27, 2008, 04:14:18 pm »

Does anybody have some experience with Snapvillage.com ?

This is a agency produced by Corbis. We are there for 4 months now but don't get any sale.

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Photography / Your opinions needed

« : Январь 10, 2008, 11:26:13 pm »

Dear All,

We are working better stock material.
better said, we never really worked on stock material, we just uploaded our stuff up for sale but never really shot sets for stock especially.
Our experience, after looking at many colleagues files and reviewing many best sellers in the business that some over saturation sells.
That is what we did with these series.
When posted on a very strong critique forum in the Netherlands everybody is telling us the files are to yellow/red.
We did explain to them that they were intentionally over saturated but they keep telling us the colors are wrong.
We thought we involved you also in our search.
Please, and we really also want the biggies here to join in, what do you think:

Wellness series:

Easter egg serie:

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Photography / What your equipment list

« : Январь 05, 2008, 01:51:30 am »

Maybe it is nice to know what equipment we al use.
Danielle and I:

Cams:
Canon 5D and 30D

lenses:
50 mm - 1.8
28-70 2.8L IS USM
70-200 2.8 L USM

Lights:
Speedlights 430EX and  550EX
2 stobes 150 Ws and 2 strobes 100 Ws Falcon eyes
3 flasheads / 2 floor background heads 2 generators all by Beam (15 year old stuff)

extra's:
Softbox 100 x 60 // softbox 60 x 60 // softbox 200 x 40 some small stuff like snoots etc.
background support for three paper rolls (mostly black // white // grey
Manfrotto tripod

On the road
Mobile background support
1200 watt strobe accu

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General discussion / Rejection reasons

« : Декабрь 20, 2007, 02:45:27 pm »

What are the most dumb rejection reasons you get.

Ours is from our new personal inspector at CS who does not seem to like freckles on a person and is rejecting every model with freckles with the reason:
visible freckles. 

What's yours?

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General discussion / Help DNF survive the winter

« : Декабрь 06, 2007, 10:44:46 am »

Like discussed in other topics. People keep telling our images are great and they should sell very good.
Since they don't our images don't seem so great to the buyers.
We are doing al we can. Since about 4 months our keywording has improved and is stil improving. The rest is being re-keyed (very difficult on some agencies). We're working towards somewhat more stock related material. But still sales won't pick up.

Any/All help is appreciated. We give you full disclosure (please don't share outside this forum).
Here are our portfolio's
Shutterstock
Sales: 3847

Istock
Sales: 952 since december 2005 on 734 files

Dreamstime sales: 638 portfolio exposure 11.97% average 65.13/month acceptance ratio 83%

Albumo
Sales: 0 Earned 88 dollars though sinve the give 25 USD to start and after 1000 files 10 ct for every upload.

Bigstock
sales: 158 approval rate 84.94%

Lucky Oliver
Sales: 47

StockXpert
Sales: 78

Snapvillage (building up)
Sales: 0

Fotolia
Sales: 683

Gecko
Sales: 0

Crestock (building up)
Sales: 1

123RF
Sales: 122 since jan 2007

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General discussion / How about

« : Декабрь 05, 2007, 08:11:34 pm »

A list of users and links to their portfolio's so we can monitor eachotehers work and progress?

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Off topic / Show yourself

« : Декабрь 03, 2007, 11:35:06 pm »

How about showing our faces to eachother. I know I know we all became photographers to make sure we were not being the subject of our equipments ;-)
But hey, if we can look stupid, so can you.

Here's us:


owkee to be honest, I'm not white and not short haired anymore. I'm your regular Santa:


and so is Danielle (only 10 times as pretty)


These images will selfdestruct within 2 months.