Some words for the Photographic Society community - my first contribution for the real PHOTOGRAPHERS.

I was so happy to see the creation of this community and to read such wonderful "about" words written by the Host @hive-142821 (the real profile is @lightcaptured or @travelcontest)
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I read the "Hello, Hive World!" first introducing post and smiled from ear to ear - these words so beautifully explained our goal as photographers and the goal of the equal Hive community. We can really help to each other, to support and to influence attitudes towards Artists here. Good photography is real Art and should stand in a better place.

My first recommendation for photographers, especially street and documentary artists is to join the "Documagazine" on Instagram and to Join the Free Open call they announced this week. This is your chance to be published (yes yes - hardcopy magazine).
https://www.instagram.com/docu.magazine/?hl=en

Last week I attended a filming process of the clip for my friend-musician, living in TelAviv and performing in the whole territory of the country. We were around 6 friends, and 3 members of her band (including her) who attended to help gratuitously to her to let this clip be filmed and finished and finally to see the world. We worked hard for two loooong days, seemed like a trip into the unknown. In addition to the help, I photographed behind the scenes of the process. Can't post much, maybe a few images.


Pillow and feathers.

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Last filming night, 1AM - furious fatigue before the long cleaning process.

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Well, one day I will post the whole clip here.



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Thank you for the warm words :)
With regards to Instagram... I had a well developed account there. Five-figure followers public profile. I even got Sony to hire me, as I tested the photo & video capabilities of one of the new phones back then. It was fun. Then, I suddenly found all my photos I shared on IG at tens of shady Russian and Ukrainian sites, giving them for free as wallpapers. Sites, having a bunch of ads surrounding my photos. Obviously making much more fans and money than I was, it felt like being raped. I wrote a few times to the IG legal team, no response.
I deleted my IG account and I am never returning back there.

If some day I have more free time, I'll probably return to PhotoCrowd. I still keep some of my pictures there :)

I'd love to see the full behind the scenes documentary :) Or at least, the best of these photos :)

!PIZZA

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oh I see. IG is the evil part of the FB and the whole META project ("meta" in Hebrew is "died")
never heard about Photocrowd, but seems like the internet is full of small and big applications that succeed less or more.
I will post more documentaries from this BTS soon.

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"meta" in Hebrew is "died"

That's quite interesting :) I suppose Zuckerberg has to know that? :D
Another reason I am not on IG... check out the top influencers there. It's practically a soft-porn site. I know, not their fault, they are just following the popular trends but other platforms, Hive included, managed to avoid that in some extent.

I was hanging a lot at Photocrowd before I joined Hive. It's a nice photography platform with a lot of contests and social element. I was a huge fan, I think I participated in some of those contests. At some point they decided to go public and I bought a few shares. Currently I am in a Read-Only mode here but I often tell to myself, "you have to participate in this one or that one" :)

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Ah, also PhotoCrowd was providing back then a high-quality photo-print services so I used them a few times to send prints to my customers in UK. P&P was about GBP 3, printing itself was flawless and with impressive variety of papers, canvas and photo frames. Not sure they still offer that, it was all too good for the price :D

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So i use the Redbubble site for the online prints, from the start it was social-oriented and only about photography. i sold a lot from here. but now it is destroyed completely.
The only social place I loved once - was Google plus and I was in their recommended photographers list. I got M1.6 followers but Google Plus is not exist anymore :-)))
but i got there many real-life friends. we meet each other already many years - Germany, Us, Switzerland, Uk, Italy, and other countries.

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Wow. Huge fan base there. Yeah, I was also sharing my works on G+ too bad they killed it. Too late in the game, I think. My FB photo page & profile were having each a few thousands fans before I deleted the page and cleaned up my friend list only to a few hundred of close people. Now I realize, as I have changed my PC a few weeks ago, I haven't signed in to FB yet. I don't need it anymore :)

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well all my local friends are on FB and the rock'n'roll events and usually, I post the photographs I take during the events there. kinda loop

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Yeah, I was doing that until a few years ago :)
My daughter told me, like ten years ago, "Facebook is for old people." :D I shouldn't listened to her back then and not waste so much time :)))
!PIZZA

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well. as usual i'm doing what i decide to do but also love to check what youngers are doing... but i have a red line as well. they moved to IG and to Tik Tok to all these reels and 15-sec stories because they don't interested anymore in being concentrated on something longer.
sorry to say - i prefer the classic things and TikTok was on my phone for exactly 5min and then was deleted forever. My Rock'n'roll friends are 18-40~ old people. They use FB for the same reason - to push their Art forward and to let others know that there is a new album or next event. And finally FB is perfect for this instead of TT and IG

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Hehehe, exactly what I did too with TT :D
Too many attention-deficit-freaks there, IMHO...
You are right, FB is good for some things and some audiences... My main reason to stop using it, is this feeling I was forking for free while making some other folks richer :))) Decreasing the "natural reach", unless paid, choosing "the right" audience for me, when I pay, etc. It's just too commercial to me.

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"It's just too commercial to me." so agree :-)
btw - i started using Visura dor co. . they are meant to be an editorial photography source for many.
so i hope one to start selling there one day
https://visura.co/bezrukov

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Interesting concept. I wish you someone hires you, not that much photographers from your country ;) How long ago did you start there? Also, are there any pre-set rates, or if one approaches you, it's all negotiable then?

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everything is very granular - you can put every price. if the image is to your personal client and not listed public - they take only 10%. if public and the traffic is organic - around 20-25% if I remember right.
first of all i really would like to the some sale :-))))
not many photographers from my country on Visura, even too many photographers here. :-)))

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Aha, I see, thank you! This sounds quite reasonable.
I saw on some profiles, their clients are listed on the left-hand side.
If I put up a list of what are my top performers at the Stock sites I posted, in terms of sales... you're going to laugh a lot, I assure you :)

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i aslo used to sell my images on the stock images sites.
some never sold, some very nice. a few exclusive for the sample for Fotolia (now its Adobe) were sold more than 500 times if i remember right.
My best sell were on Redbubble online printing site. But now when they started pring on some real shit like mugs for example, i'm selling there really not many.
too sad that photography is in the low priority level of all these.
i put here the samples of the Visura default recommended prices for the Editorial license images :

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Thank you! Some of those look good, would be satisfying to get such sales, I suppose :) I hear life is expensive in Israel.

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yes very. especially now after the "covid" period is got some prices jumped too high. And TelAviv was declared as the most expensive city in the world without any reason. but, people are buying as if nothing happened and not going to the streets.
but as I understand the whole world happened the same. quality of life goes down prices go up

I just hope that i will sell something on Visura :-) let's see. they just started

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Same story everywhere, it seems... This isn't going to end well, but I hope I'm wrong about that.

Fingers crossed you get some good hires/sells! :)

!PIZZA

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here is the conversation with more info about the site i use for editorial licensing @coloneljethro :
https://visura.co/bezrukov
It should be much more in terms of rewards than every stock site. it's more about the documentary and journalistic photography - exactly what you do perfectly.

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Doesn't that look fun?!! I would happily be part of that group! I don't even want to know how those feathers came about!

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yes look like film but all this is digital. i photographed on film as well but still need to finish the rolls and then to develop. let's see :-)
you will see the result soon. i hope it's already in the editing process although sometimes it takes too long time.
thank you Denise

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Looks like a fun project to do , something completly different from my Macro photography world , just glad i don't have to clean up those feathers 🤣

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yes the cleaning process in the middle of the night was long and depressing :-)
thank you for the kind words

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