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Anonymous Mon 22 Apr 2024 02:53:54 No.4306474 View View Reply Original Report

Quoted By: >>4308034

Does anyone still do microstock as a side hustle?

Anonymous

Anonymous Tue 23 Apr 2024 01:15:49 No.4306743 Report

Quoted By: >>4306751

Have had stuff on Pond5 since like 2009 and shutter stock from like 2012ish. Probably still average like a couple hundred a year these days.
That shit got me through high school and college, funding all my photography needs at the time. Peaked at 2k/year on both for a while. Game changing money for a youngster.

Anonymous

Anonymous Tue 23 Apr 2024 02:09:06 No.4306751 Report

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>>4306743
Lucky you started early. So saturated since around 2015. Can still make decent side income with videos though on pond5 and shitterstock

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Anonymous Sat 27 Apr 2024 15:05:13 No.4308034 Report

Quoted By: >>4308628

>>4306474
all of them promote AI shit and even offer creation services, it's a fucking waste of time for photographers, especially since there are still such high requirements for anything photography to get accepted
>had an abandoned soviet era swimming pool's diving board image rejected over 'intellectual property' despite the ussr having collapsed 40 years ago
>adobe stock rejected a simple photograph of trees in fog over 'quality issues'
doesn't help that shit like unsplash exists for photographers to get good boy points in the form of views and likes while offering everything for free

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Anonymous Mon 29 Apr 2024 18:28:56 No.4308628 Report

Quoted By: >>4308631

>>4308034
Had another image rejected on Adobe Stock over 'quality issues'. A pretty simple shot of a rose in sharp focus with an 85mm F1.8. Nothing wrong with it, got accepted on every other platform uploaded to.

Took one look at the images that are supposedly performing well on Adobe Stock and they're all AI with fucked anatomy. Pretty telling on where things are going for this industry.

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Anonymous Mon 29 Apr 2024 18:39:49 No.4308631 Report

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>>4308628
Adobe is very strict with images. always have been

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Anonymous Mon 29 Apr 2024 18:47:25 No.4308636 Report

Quoted By: >>4308637 >>4308642 >>4309605

>>4308631
Clearly not. Here's something they're happy to approve. But actual photography? Nah, fuck you.

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Anonymous Mon 29 Apr 2024 18:48:44 No.4308637 Report

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>>4308636
More of that Adobe Stock quality. Note the dress. But they'll make up your photography might have some issue that doesn't warrant approval.

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Anonymous Mon 29 Apr 2024 18:50:47 No.4308638 Report

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>>4308637
Title: glass of water

Wow, great stuff Adobe!

Anonymous

Anonymous Mon 29 Apr 2024 19:03:00 No.4308642 Report

Quoted By: >>4308644

>>4308636
I am talking about photo submissions. Ai is different and less strict

Anonymous

Anonymous Mon 29 Apr 2024 19:14:17 No.4308644 Report

Quoted By: >>4308645

>>4308642
Yeah it's frustrating. There can be absolutely nothing wrong with an image and they'll reject it, you go on the marketplace and see absolute shit getting approved.

Other platforms aren't so bad, but they're all promoting the AI nonsense. I think it's getty that is the only one that doesn't allow AI submissions whatsoever.

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Anonymous Mon 29 Apr 2024 19:16:21 No.4308645 Report

Quoted By: >>4308647

>>4308644
stock photos don't pay for shit anyway so I don't care. video is where it's at now

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Anonymous Mon 29 Apr 2024 19:22:49 No.4308647 Report

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>>4308645
>video is where it's at now
It is, but only a matter of time until they promote the AI shit and claim the real stuff has quality issues.

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Anonymous Thu 02 May 2024 20:35:17 No.4309604 Report

Quoted By: >>4309625 >>4309780

yeah. just so I can join the coming class action lawsuit for them using my photos to train their shitty gen ai

Anonymous

Anonymous Thu 02 May 2024 20:37:53 No.4309605 Report

Quoted By: >>4309779

>>4308636
that's because they use AI to vet their application process and it doesn't notice it's own gaussian noise bs. You basically need to use AI upscaling tools to get approved on their garbage stock site

Anonymous

Anonymous Thu 02 May 2024 21:20:48 No.4309625 Report

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>>4309604
you probably agreed to it when you signed up dumbass

Anonymous

Anonymous Fri 03 May 2024 15:18:16 No.4309779 Report

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>>4309605
yeah it's pretty clear that's the case, especially with shutterstock; had videos both rejected and approved at the same time, had to contact them and have them fix it

Anonymous

Anonymous Fri 03 May 2024 15:19:16 No.4309780 Report

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>>4309604
most probably have you already agreeing to it, others would defend themselves like shutterstock by giving you a payout if your photograph was used to train generative pajeetshit

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