Melastmohican's Blog

Overall worst month of the year. SS recovered a little from disaster last month but average performance of others was not good enough to make better numbers. For a second month SXP got results from ThinkStock and it way below it used to be before IStock acquired it. I guess it is a middle of [...]

I have reached $3000 or more in all time Shutterstock earnings and my Standard License payout rate has been increased to $0.36 per download. It took me a little over two years to reach this level despite of global slowdown. Pay per download is determined by your total lifetime earnings: Earnings per Download Lifetime Earnings [...]

It has been a while since my last extended license on Shutterstock. Hopefully it would break a spell and I will have more this month.

It was bad month overall. I got almost 30% less than in May which was also worse than previous month. Hopefully it is just summer slowdown, otherwise trend does not look good. Individually SS made worst result this year and could be worse than 123RF. 123RF on the other hand made the second best result [...]

If you logged in to your Crestock account today you were presented with new contributor agreement. It would not be anything worth mentioning if I would not notice new copyright statement in a footer of the page: “© 2010 Crestock Corporation. A Masterfile company.” When does it happen, I asked and looked at About page. [...]

Print-Only Extended License on 123RF is allowing to use media in print if it is published in less than 10,000 copies. So far I sold only Comprehensive Extended Licenses which are 3x more expensive but if you got 3 PELs a day it seems like the same I wonder it this images are going to [...]

I did expect to have my LR3 Upgrade shipped so soon but couple days ago I got info from Amazon that it will be sent earlier than at the beginning of July. I got it today and installed it without making any special preparations. I have been doing upgrades on this machine since version 1 [...]

I took a while to reverse engineer Canon batteries. LC-E6 is expensive and sometimes hard to find in stores. The Series 7 SL-E6 is a 7.4v, 1800mAh Lithium Ion battery pack which can charge on the Canon LC-E6. The SL-E6 battery also communicates with the EOS 5D Mark II and 7D digital cameras, allowing you [...]

Last year Getty Images picked around 100,000 images from selected Flickr contributors. Now gates are open for everyone and there are 40 million images to choose from. Every contributor can have now license request button next to any image on Flickr. Anyone interested in licensing your photos can let Getty Images know by using the [...]

Beta was out for while so we got a glimpse of what is going to be there. Briefly I want highlight what’s new: Noise reduction – natural-looking results from your high ISO images with noise reduction technology Lens correction – automatically reducing lens defects like geometric distortion, chromatic aberration, and vignetting with single-click profiles Flickr [...]