Footage and Photo Request- Do you have this content?

We just had a request for this type of footage. Do you guys have anything like this or know anyone that does.

This is a list of the footage required with some comments next to them, and anything close or resembling will do just fine.

1 Politicians (Presidents) Shaking hands with other dignitaries European leaders
2 Barack Obama Making a speech
3 Movie star Being interviewed Any US actor
4 Movie star walking down the red carpet Preferably female
5 Fashion show / Catwalk
6 Plane/space shuttle take off Either one
7 People dancing African or Brazilian or Arabic Only one
8 Crowd of people walking on the street Hong Kong or New York Either one
9 Sports action Golf or Tennis or Rugby Only one
10 Sports star being interviewed World famous
11 Palace or Hotel lobby Inside shot
12 Traffic Motorcycle shot
13 War footage Tank firing / bomb explosion Either one
14 Soldiers in Iraq giving candy to children
15 Landmark Shots of Hong Kong / Milan / Paris / New Delhi / Lebanon / Buenos Aires
16 Electronic screens / Wall street financial screens Either one
17 Chef Cooking / Kitchen action / food flame
18 Robotics / Futuristic cars Either one
19 Boat / Yacht race

Cheers!

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My new ride- 3D tan tank on a white background
Current mood: mischievous
Category: Art and Photography

http://www.cutcaster.com/viewmedia/view/100026482/...

Hot new ride for anyone looking for a true gas guzzler. ha

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Using Paypal and Moneybookers to get paid

We have three ways of paying out users of which two, Paypal and Moneybookers, I will outline below. The other option is payout by check.




The Paypal solution of payment is used on the Cutcaster web site for three reasons:

To allow users to buy images or photos by using their Paypal account

To pay commissions to photographers who earn money selling photos through Cutcaster

To allow users to get paid cash from affiliation revenue.


In these three cases, customers and photographers must have a Paypal account. Below we will outline how to open a Paypal account.

Paypal is a free solution, which allows users to transfer money to anyone with an email address or securely purchase items from internet sites (for example, purchase any photographs from Cutcaster). In addition, Paypal customers may receive payments to their Paypal account (This could include commission payments to photographers or money earned from referring buyers and sellers to Cutcaster). At anytime, Paypal customers may transfer money to their regular bank account without any Paypal fees for sums of more than $100 and a $1 fee if less than $100.

Paypal is a subsidiary of eBay, one of largest companies on the Internet.

To create a Paypal account, click on your country below to get started:

If you are American: Paypal US

If you are Canadian: Paypal Canada

or Paypal Worldwide

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For those countries not approved under Paypal you should sign up for a Moneybookers account.

Depending on your country, you can send and receive funds via checks, bank accounts and even credit cards. Fees are outlined here.

Register in Money booker

Moneybookers is available in many languages among them English, German, French, Italian, Spanish and many more. Registration only takes but a few minutes. Money booker is a British company based in London used by more than 1.5 millions people.

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Get paid money via Paypal or Moneybookers

At Cutcaster, you can easily get your payouts using Paypal or Moneybookers. You must click the "Transactions" tab in the Mystudio area and then click on the "My Payouts" section. Your account must contain at least 20 dollars to request a payout. You must register with Paypal or Moneybookers before getting paid out. As soon as money has arrived to your account you will be notified by email from Paypal or Moneybookers.

Be sure the email address entered in the registration page at Cutcaster.com matches exactly to your email address in your Paypal and Moneybooker's account.

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It is Not Required, but Your Description May be Priceless!

One of our dedicated members Dennis Thomsen brought up the issue of describing our images in the Cutcaster marketplace to us and we felt that Dennis, as a former photo journalist and newspaper editor, would be an ideal person to share his experience as to why describing your images is so important for image buyers and those that want to sell their images.

Below is a little post he wrote about the best way to describe your content and why it is so important. Enjoy and please add any comments at the end. Thank you so much Dennis for passing on some education to all of us.



Like many of our members, I like to check out the Cutcaster collection to see what is being submitted, and to look for holes in the collection. I've also been checking out the new and improved search engine (more changes coming according to John). My examination of the collection led to this guest blog. The goal is to share with the Cutcaster community what this former photo-journalist and newspaper editor views as a big concern if our images (and Cutcaster) are going to get serious consideration from buyers.



Is a picture always worth a thousand words? Photographers and artists would like to think this is the case, but it is not always true. We are in the business of marketing our images, and buyers are looking for images which fit their needs. Do they care about descriptions (captions)? The answer from most buyers is YES! Descriptive captions are part of the marketing information buyers use in the decision making process.



When we go through the Cutcaster image submission process we are required to title, keyword and price our images. It is optional whether we describe (caption) images. In fact, we can leave this field blank if we so choose. What I've observed is many image descriptions are too short, lacking detail, or completely missing. If our goal is to sell our images or increase our sales, this may be a big mistake.



Many high end buyers we hope Cutcaster will attract in the upcoming marketing and advertising campaign need what is referred to as the "five W's and H" in the descriptions. This information, the who, what, when, where, why, and how, of an image should not be ignored when you go through the upload process. Few images can stand alone. Those descriptions (captions) provide details buyers need in the decison process. It may help your sales figures if you review your photo descriptions with an eye toward checking and editing for present tense, active verbs, and the five Ws. Captioning is not always easy and it can be time consuming. It is a skill that develops with practice, just like keywording!



If you want to learn more about this photo caption (description) process, there is plenty of help available on the internet. You might want to check out some of these sites for caption writing basics:

"What Makes a Good Caption?" which is a good starting primer -

http://www.notrain-nogain.org/train/res/Write/caps.asp

Photo Caption Checklist site which provides more captioning thoughts

http://www.americanpressinstitute.org/content/318.cfm

and the following site is also worth visiting - Writing Photo Captions which summarizes the AP stylebook guidelines:

http://mysite.verizon.net/res8dhka/mcpaul/caps.html



The above are a great starting point if you are new to captioning or want to work on improving your image descriptions. Books have been written on this subject. This is just the tip of the iceberg. Hope you find something useful here and your comments are welcome.




Check out images belonging to Dennis here:
http://www.cutcaster.com/studio/pub/739083431

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Free Images on the homepage

We are going to be offering a few images and photos each week as free images/photos and will be linking to the person's studio who offers them. This is to help us attract buyers to the site from the search engines.

Is there anyone who is interested in offering some of their images as freebies and help us out? We would be really grateful and are open to any ideas people have to reciprocate your good deed.

Please email webmaster AT cutcaster DOT com if you are interested.

Thanks

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What does Shenk think about all of you?

Interesting article on the rise of Microstock and amateur photogs for everyone out there. Amateur photographers are shaking up the global market for licensed images far quicker than video is for broadcasters, and even Bill Gates's privately held image bank, Corbis, is having to reinvent itself.

Here is the last sentence of the article, ""There will be a shake-out in this space in the coming years but we're happy with what we are doing. We think Corbis has the resources and patience to succeed in the long-term. We will beat them with better [commercial] execution.""

I agree with him about Corbis having the resources (see Bill Gate's pocketbook) and the shakeout (see LO and hearing Albumo up against the ropes) but we will have to wait and see if they can execute better. Up to this point they haven't instilled us with confidence.

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Support for SmartFTP and CuteFTP

You can now use both CuteFTP and SmartFTP when uploading to Cutcaster. If you need more directions on uploading via these FTP clients please email us at upload@cutcaster.com.

Thanks

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Want more people to see your images and studio profiles?

Here is something very easy to do. Some of you may not use these "share" buttons on your media details page or your studio pages but you should be.

They are a very important form of driving traffic to your studio as well as your images ..caster or your own site and you should use this button to leverage getting more traffic and views/downloads of your content. And they are completely free.



To promote your work or someone else's work (if you like their stuff) ..caster you hover over the "share" button and click on the different networks you want to send the content to. The different sites will allow you to title it and put in a description and then feed it to their millions of users. It is so Easy. From our research and experience, this works in driving traffic and buyers to see your work and translates into sales.

Try it out for yourself and see how the views and traffic will pile up for you. Just click on the share button and send to the networks that you are a member at. My personal favorites are StumbleUpon, Digg, Myspace, technorati, facebook, reddit, twitter and delicious. But there are many places you can derive traffic from and I bet you will be happy that you tried it.

If you need some help understanding how to do this, just email us.

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Clipfolders fixed

The Clipfolders have been fixed and moved to the live site. Just wanted to give you a heads-up that you can start using them and organizing your work. If you do see any issues let us know. The public and private Clipfolders will be going live very soon.

Also we are working on setting up the servers so that the website, the database and the upload section all are running off seperate servers at Amazon. This is going to speed the site up a ton. Finalllllyyyyyyyy.

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These guys won’t be stealing images again

Photographer Gets $12 Million Verdict!!!

Not a bad days work or settlement.

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