Drivin’ Home – Driving Time-Lapse Video

This is our decent home from vacation a couple of weeks ago.

For most driving videos, especially for ones over 2 hours, I use the one frame ever 2 seconds setting for the time-lapse. I think the 1 frame every second would also work but then the video would be twice as long and I’d just have to compress the time to make it <= 4mins. I think anything longer than 4 mins is usually a bit of a snooze.

For this video it was 21% rural country road and then interstate the remaining way home…oh and a quick stop @ Wendy’s drive-thru for some munchables! Actual drive time was like 95 mins I think.

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Getting Paid at the Photrade!!!! My third ad revenue distribution

I just got my 3rd ad revenue payment from Photrade. I am RATHER please about that! Thank you!

HOWEVER, and this is a pretty darn big however, they are killing me with their code or lack thereof.

I do 75.8% of my posting (of pictures) on forums and myspace photo groups. BUT the current html photrade image coding does not work with forums (forums use BB code (bulletin board code) instead of html), and of course we all know how mental MySpace is in terms of what they allow for html in their photo groups and email and elsewhere.

So, while it sure is nice to earn ad revenue from sharing my photos, I’m getting short changed and then some since they do not have BBcode or MySpace friendly html code to “share” the photos. The lack of BBcode is monumental to me, in that there are a million different forums I could be sharing my pictures on, 1/2 of those million being about photography. Yes, photography forums…what a concept :)

I emailed customer service and they told me that at some point BBcode would be worked on, but in the meantime I am being robbed! (In a sense). I guess if my blog got 500 visitors a day that would not be an issue…but I need to work up to that! I only average about 22 a day right now…peanuts!

I know, I know, Photrade is still in Beta but hopefully the code options will be addressed soon.

To review how one makes ad revenue from their photos on Photrade:

FROM: http://info.photrade.com/content/faq?l=1#earning

Earning Advertising Revenue

What is the adcosystem and how does it work?

Photrade’s adcosystem allows photographers to get paid for every view of their photos while providing free content to online publications.  A photographer posts a beautiful photo of New York on Photrade.com to share within the adcosystem.  A blogger, who is writing about New York searches for photos of New York and finds the perfect photo to fit the post.  The blogger grabs the sharing code from Photrade and posts the photo in their blog.  When the blogger grabbed the code photrade put a small advertisement at the bottom of the photo, and also added text attributing the photo to the photographer (note: any/all watermarking remains on the photo).  Every time the photo is viewed the photographer earns a portion of the ad revenue generated by that image.  So, the photographer gets attribution and payment for the use of their photo, advertisers get contextual in-content ads and publications get beautiful free images.

{See the entire ad rev FAQ here}

And let’s not kid ourselves, what other photo site pays you to share photos?!?!

I’d still bank my photos with Photrade any day of the week. The 514 other photo sharing sites out there are not willing to pay me to share my photos and so, PHOTRADE is the tops in my book for that alone!

And of course I could not, in good conscience, have a post without a few pictures…these are a few of me!

I know, scary!!

Sell photos on photrade | By timsdigitaldarkroom

Sell photos on photrade | By timsdigitaldarkroom

Sell photos on photrade | By timsdigitaldarkroom