I feel sorry for this guy ... ArtFilmStock was a startup microstock agency that promised better everything, because their stragegy would be to present artful images instead of usual bland microstock images. I uploaded several of my (as of that time) best photos, and dozens of other photographers did too.
There weren't any sales, so without warning he deleted all our images and declared that the agency would accept only black-and-white photos ... that sure irritated his contributers! ... and me!
In the following weeks it became obvious that there still weren't any sales and that few contributers were interested enough to upload any new b&w images. (And many former contributers remarked that there is no commercial market for b&w.) I, like some others, don't do b/w anyway ...
Today their web site looks like this:
There weren't any sales, so without warning he deleted all our images and declared that the agency would accept only black-and-white photos ... that sure irritated his contributers! ... and me!
In the following weeks it became obvious that there still weren't any sales and that few contributers were interested enough to upload any new b&w images. (And many former contributers remarked that there is no commercial market for b&w.) I, like some others, don't do b/w anyway ...
Today their web site looks like this:
Maybe next time he won't summarily delete our photos.
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