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Maggie Terlecki

8 Years Ago

Just Curious -

Are we affiliated with Ix?

I was browsing through the featured images as someone was discussing them in another thread and found pages upon pages of different images posted here but all under the umbrella of 1X.

So, I'm curious - are we?

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Jim Hughes

8 Years Ago

Looks like about 5000 images from the curated photo site 1x.com. All the ones I checked were uploaded within a couple of days, last month - I'm guessing they didn't have to use the same multi-image upload page that we do :-)

And all 'featured' of course.


Here's their description:

"1x.com is the biggest curated photo community in the world. All photos in the gallery are selected by a team of 10 professional curators with backgrounds from well known institutions such as Sotheby's and Tate Modern Art. Only 5% of all submitted photos are published."

 

Floyd Snyder

8 Years Ago

Sean made it perfectly clear that he was actively and aggressively seeking people with large collections. Be prepared for a lot more of the same.

 

Jim Hughes

8 Years Ago

Yeah Floyd, I know. But let me hold on to my fantasies just a little longer. I actually sold a few last month.

The 1x photos aren't keyworded - at least the ones I checked weren't. It will be interesting to see if someone gets assigned to do that. If that happens, we all get buried about a mile deeper than we already are.

 

Maggie Terlecki

8 Years Ago

So, they are featured although not individually members of FAA and no keywords and they still have precedence over our work?

Wow- I've been working very hard the last month and a half and I know it is supposed to take a long time but now I feel like no matter what I do - I'm too late to the game and I'll never be found. Very discouraging to me. :-(

thanks for the answers, guys

 

SharaLee Art

8 Years Ago

I feel that there is just too much competition here for anyone except family/friends to find me. The only upside is that FAA is among the top in the searches. I think I'm going to start directing people to my .com site and fulfilling orders there, if I ever get any. The print quality would be just as good or better and prices would be comparable. I've been really discouraged about this the past few weeks. Lots to think about.

 

David Bridburg

8 Years Ago

just looking at the prices. The markups.

They are giving them away.

JMO

Dave

 

SharaLee Art

8 Years Ago

Exactly, David! But with 5000 plus images and featured w/o keywords, just think of the traffic once they are keyworded. Profit in quantity.

 

JC Findley

8 Years Ago

What do yall mean by featured?

If you note the wording I think ALL images are featured.

 

SharaLee Art

8 Years Ago

JC...if you search 1x all their images show up under 'featured.'

 

SharaLee Art

8 Years Ago

Oh I see what you mean. Just searched mine and it also says featured.

 

Maggie Terlecki

8 Years Ago

Yes, If I search my images they come up as featured but only if I search for them by my name.

Here is what happened to me. I wanted to look at images that were featured in photography. I wanted to look at people's work and leave some comments on images I loved and thought it would be a fun thing to do for a few hours and might actually feel good for someone to receive.

So I skipped the first pages that I know are the best sellers ... and then from page 25-70 , it was only 1X and after that, I came to page 71 I think and no more images were shown, as I'd reached the 10,000 photos.

I don't mind that your boss wants them, I can understand that, but can't we be shuffled into that mix somewhere. Not one image did I pull up after page 25 that wasn't from the 1X at all.

I know we are supposed to do our own marketing but it would be nice to get a bit of a hand hold from this site too.

 

SharaLee Art

8 Years Ago

Maggie, this thread might interest you:
http://fineartamerica.com/showmessages.php?messageid=2492240
I think I'm going to try setting up paper.ie on twitter. Can't hurt.

 

Maggie Terlecki

8 Years Ago

@Sharon Norman

Thanks, I will take a look at it. I had not heard of this before and I could use the help. Thanks so kindly,
Maggie

 

Ali Oppy

8 Years Ago

no sure if this has any thing to do with what your talking about ,but this is what i found ,
http://fineartamerica.com/profiles/1x.html

 

Adam Jewell

8 Years Ago

It would be nice to have some kind of bulk uploader if you have a lot of images.

I'd love to see someone at the stock agencies have to sit there and upload and keyword one image at a time.

To get to 6,000+ images it's probably take 2 months 24 hours a day, 7 days a week if all the time was crunched together.

 

Edward Fielding

8 Years Ago

1X is featured on the home page. Is 1X handling curation for FAA?

 

JC Findley

8 Years Ago

No clue on my part.

As an artist a general search for photography won't affect my sales one bit as that is not how I sell. I doubt many buyers buy that way. (Very general search. )

Now, if suddenly 1x starts dominating the Pensacola Beach and Destin markets I may have to deal with that.

 

Edward Fielding

8 Years Ago

I can get my work curated by 1X and will if needed to get on the home page. I guess any cut they take will just be the cost of doing business.

 

Jim Hughes

8 Years Ago

A thread on the forum at 1x.com shows contributors over there starting to wonder how and where there work is being sold. One of them just found out about FAA

http://1x.com/forum/491/2812/1430738714

The work on 1x.com is generally high quality, although heavily weighted to 'art' photos; if it doesn't look like you went to art school recently, you won't get in. I used to have a few there but I got out because I didn't like the hipster attitude, and there was no way to sell prints. Now you can sell through them - except you have apparently no control over price, or where it's sold.

Eventually we'll end up with every site trying to sell everything to everybody, competing on nothing but price.

 

Maggie Terlecki

8 Years Ago

@JC,
the thing is, I think my customer is the same kind of person that I am. the art that I do is what I like to put on my walls.

So how do I find images I like to put on my walls? I look at images and go.. oh - I like that, let's see it up close, and then I fall in love. I would never go," oh, I want a photo of a still life with peaches and a vase or I'm looking for a specific barn or lighthouse". Maybe some people do that, but certainly not my customer. So they would have to find me through those featured images.

Now I understand that I've not paid my dues and have enough images here for the featured pages but I did think that eventually with enough tweeting, and pinning and google+ing and keywording etc.,etc., etc., I might eventually find some of my work there. But now I see, it will be impossible to achieve this.

Some people have a series of images, like Mike Savad that speaks to certain professions (barbers, for instance). That is not my work. Mine speaks to people that just see something I do and like it. I know of what I speak. I live in a small town and the variety of people that buy my works is far and wide - from doctors, to lawyers, to teachers and banks and even the cultural center. Not one of those images have anything to do with their profession. It's just they found something they fell in love with.

So why am I here? Because I live in a small town, 400 miles from the closest city and the internet is a way to try and get my work sold further out so I can actually not have to worry where my next meal is coming from. Now, I am feeling pretty defeated as I have no targeted audience and my efforts seem to be in vain.

 

Monsieur Danl

8 Years Ago

Someone please tell me how a fine artist can have 1000's of paintings he or she created.

 

Julie Palencia

8 Years Ago

Following thread.

 

David King

8 Years Ago

And the little guy gets squeezed out again. I've noticed lately a competitor, (prints but not POD) is working real hard on marketing right now with poster prints for as little as $9 for a 20x24, though their framing prices are similar, but I'm sure a lot of people don't bother with framing, (who spends $150 to frame a $10 poster print?).

 

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