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Agency Based Discussion => iStockPhoto.com => Topic started by: lunfengzhe on July 02, 2017, 03:06
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I just leave IS two years ago and come back recently. Which quite shock me is the approval of photo is quick... actually quicker than i think, or expected. Anytime, i submit those photos for reviewing, average 1 mins they approve my photos and the acceptance current i got is 93%! around 100 photos.
That's impossible compare to two year before and even make me think a robot is approving my photos.
So, what's going on here? is this a good thing or a quite bad thing.
Previously i treat IS as the highest quality and most difficulty one, even than SS and fotolia, but now it quite like small agency and accept anything...
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It's a bad thing. A lot of their accepted images over the past couple of years are shockingly bad. So are a lot of the earnings nowadays, but the low-payers don't get to see only the poor files.
That was an incredible achievement getting 7 files rejected, unless for needing releases.
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A lot of contributors stopped uploading so they now have take what they can get. There have been a few signs of desperation lately. The lax reviews being one of them.
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They now accept anything other than for property rights issues and poor captions on editorial.
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They now accept anything other than for property rights issues and poor captions on editorial.
Shutterstock, Dreamstime, Alamy, 123RF… do the same.
The only site from which I get rejections (most of the time inconsistent) is Adobe/Fotolia.
It is far the time when there were tons of rejection for "noise", "white balance", etc.
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They now accept anything other than for property rights issues and poor captions on editorial.
Shutterstock, Dreamstime, Alamy, 123RF… do the same.
The only site from which I get rejections (most of the time inconsistent) is Adobe/Fotolia.
It is far the time when there were tons of rejection for "noise", "white balance", etc.
actually when i send another 5 of 6 pics to ss for the so called test they rejected each of them with the noise issue when i knew there was zero noise also dreamstime rejects some images from time to time .so no they dont accept anything ecxept istock
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It's a bad thing. A lot of their accepted images over the past couple of years are shockingly bad. So are a lot of the earnings nowadays, but the low-payers don't get to see only the poor files.
That was an incredible achievement getting 7 files rejected, unless for needing releases.
i agree and i also treat this as a very bad thing.
i don't know if there is big difference between ss and is on the aspect of incoming, but so far i think the incoming from is (not exclusive) is far behind even with some middle tier or low tier agency. Even they get a lots of photos on their website, how they could not control the quality of those photos? i means, as long as they reach the number they want, what next? delete pro-folio and kick out some photographer?