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Photo Critique / Re: Stocksy rejection-need your opinion
« on: April 14, 2016, 03:43 »
The answer is simple: your images are too good for them.  These are correctly exposed, correctly lighted, nice images. Really nice images!
Good images are boring for them. They already have some... so now they need trendy, surprising, spontaneously taken images. Different looking images. Much worse images then yours. Buy an iphone  and forget about lighting and composition and they will let you in. At least this is my impression while I am browsing Stocksy.

 ;D ;D ;D ;D

Tnx
I have a bunch of those "worse" images, that's why I applied to stocksy, hoping I'll put them somewhere where I can have some use of them..  8) ;D

No really, I have a lot of those artsy photos because it's something I love to do too, but it's  just not something that I want to show in my portfolio. I enjoy doing it but it's not where you can show your skills.

Maybe it's better they rejected me..just the other day a friend (who is already at stocksy) told me they rejected some of his latest work with an explanation "too good" so I caught him wondering around how to make his photos less good..and it's becoming his style now..I think it's not good.

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Photo Critique / Re: Stocksy rejection-need your opinion
« on: April 14, 2016, 03:07 »
i don't want to be critic but all this portfolio looks really the same...pale skin tones, same pose same color...i mean stocks is full of this style, flickr is full especially russian artist, 500 px is full....when i read " my style"....im not harsh but this is the style of everybody in instagram, in any hipsy stock agency.. i don't see nothing original. they are good done but nothing creative. anybody really can do this in any corner of the world right now.


I can agree with some things you said, but keep in mind that I'm still young and new in photography, so my current goal is to master all technical stuff first (lightning-pre and post production, photo montage, combination of photo and cgi etc), so there will be time for other things, but first things first.
And this is where I can't agree with you, because not anybody can do this, and there are actually small number of people who mastered all those skills.

http://www.jelenabalic.com/beauty - This girl is example of how I see my work will be in a few years...  (yes it's fashion, beauty and commercial but I like it and it's not easy as you think)

So we're gone too far.. I just wanted to put my other work somewhere and... something that I do when I'm walking down the streets, or travel, or catching random moments with my friends... because I'm aways photographing something. That's why I'm here asking for your thoughts and thanks to everyone who shared their opinion :)

Ps. I don't know how you managed to put together so called "russian" style and hipsy - totally different styles.

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Photo Critique / Re: Stocksy rejection-need your opinion
« on: April 13, 2016, 03:58 »
Indie, I come across your work many times in 500px. I find your work is very similar to 2 other very popular photographers in Stocksy, and one of them from your city and I'm sure you know them well. Each time I see similar portrait in any viral social media post, I always try to guess which of the 3 of you take the photo.

Have you considered Trevillion and Arcangel?

Update: Oh, just saw your port in Trevillion. Stunning work!

Tnx again to all of you but I think this could be the main reason. Yes there are few of us in the same city and we basically grew up together and we are all more or less good friends, so it's no wonder we have a similar style. We also live in small country where you can name just a few models (in a fashion industry that does not exist) so it's extremely hard to find new faces, that is why we usually work with the same models   :-[

Anyway, I'm planning to relocate soon(to another country) because I'm somehow stuck in here and I can't make further progress with such a limitation. I'm working on it for the last year and a half so I believe there is a good reason for everything that happens to me (at least it's always been that way so far :) )


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Photo Critique / Re: Stocksy rejection-need your opinion
« on: April 12, 2016, 04:52 »
Thank you all, I agree with most of the things you said :) It makes sense
I can't see myself to be just stock photographer (and you saw that in my work..I'm not going in  that direction). So I applied to stocksy because they represent themselves different, like they want different styles, not classic stock photography etc.  They are also giving 50% of sales to photographer which is great, so I thought it could work for me, but I guess they are still stock site so they want to see something like that..

Classic lifestyle photography is not a challenge for me, that's why I don't have it in my portfolio, but I thought if they see that I can do things that are way more complicated than lifestyle (like fashion, beauty, knowing lightning and postproduction) that I could easily do the lifestyle too (and the editing style they need...which again, I like, but it's too easy to achieve to represent only that in my portfolio) ::)



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Photo Critique / Re: Stocksy rejection-need your opinion
« on: April 09, 2016, 13:18 »
Nina, your work is so beautiful. I'm sure you will be accepted if you applied a year or two ago.
However, I think glamour portraits is quite saturated in Stocksy. I could be wrong, but I recognise a few of your models have worked with other Stocksy's photographers, so that doesn't really help especially when they are looking for something different.

Thank you!  :) <3

You are right, I have few friends photographers on stocksy, that's because we live in a small city  and we have a few same models. Maybe you are right about that, I thought they could actually gain from that..because that way I wouldn't be able to sell those photos anywhere else, and I know they don't allow selling same or sister images on other sites.

Ps.
They keep saying they want different styles but I can only see a bunch of new photographers with the same or really similar style...or maybe it's just me..don't know.

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Photo Critique / Re: Stocksy rejection-need your opinion
« on: April 09, 2016, 13:08 »
I might suggest submitting something other than head and shoulders looking at the camera glamour model portraits.  Not they aren't nice - nothing I can do - but it's basically a one not submission.

i love your work, but i too had the same first impression as slp...
take his word for it, he knows stocksy well .

also, you should also try Offset, which is not exclusive.

Thank you for your advice, I agree with you 100%, I know it's not what they need,  but I thought they will consider the fact that I do a few different styles in photography and I enjoy doing all of them. I thought the film and lifestyle section is more for them, but  I can't just remove all of my other work when I'm applying just because I think they don't want it.
Most of my clients want me because of my portrait and fashion photography..It would be great if they left the old way of applying where you could decide what you want to send them, but then again I got the impression they want their photographers to be 100% in just one style of photography, and I think that if you want to be a professional you have to be able to master a lot of different styles in photography - pre and post-production part. ::)

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Photo Critique / Re: Stocksy rejection-need your opinion
« on: April 09, 2016, 06:55 »
I have no idea why, they should tell you.  Are they still only taking 500 new contributors a year?  If 10,000 apply, the odds aren't great.

I think yes, and I know the odds aren't great but I would like to hear from you why I'm not good enough for them, because I can't see why... considering the content they already have...
 :)

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Photo Critique / Stocksy rejection-need your opinion
« on: April 09, 2016, 06:04 »
Hi,

after 10 months of waiting for response I've got rejection (for the second time :D ), so I just want to ask you(if you can) to take a look at my portfolio and try to tell me why do you think they don't want me. I understand that they don't want classic commercial fashion photography, but I'm more curious about lifestyle section. I'm not sad about rejection, or disappointed.. rather just curious, so please, let me hear your thoughts  :)

Thank you.

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Stocksy / Re: Call to Artists 2015
« on: March 31, 2016, 16:23 »
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Someone just mentionned in another thread that travel and landscape don't do too well on Stocksy unlike lifestyle.

Do you mean in the application process or in the Stocksy market?

In their call to artists they list the subjects they need, and "Diverse ethnicities and cultures" is the first one.

I meant sales in the Stocksy market.. Didn't mean to discourage anyone anyway

Oh... OK, I just needed clarification, never thought you were trying to discourage anyone  :)

I was rejected last year too, after a long waiting (6 months). I submitted mostly lifestyle images, too similar to what they already have. So I was thinking on applying again this year with something completely different like some travel photography from a couple of places I don't see very well represented in their collection.

The more I think about what they want the more I'm confused, so I think the best you can do is to just be you and shoot what you really love because when you force things, nothing good can come out of it.

Ps.
I'm still waiting for their response and it's been 9 months now so I guess I'll end up applying to new call to artist 2016  ;D ;D

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Stocksy / Re: Call to Artists 2015
« on: January 04, 2016, 08:40 »
Ok, am I the only one still waiting??? Is this normal?
It's been 6 months now..

Btw. Happy new year :D

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Stocksy / Re: Call to Artists 2015
« on: November 10, 2015, 18:06 »
Tnx jen and sketchyt  :) Maybe waiting is a good sign  ;D

To me last year was not :(

Oh, I'm so sorry  :(
How long did you wait? Have you applied again this year?


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Stocksy / Re: Call to Artists 2015
« on: November 10, 2015, 15:42 »
Tnx jen and sketchyt  :) Maybe waiting is a good sign  ;D

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Stocksy / Re: Call to Artists 2015
« on: November 06, 2015, 16:55 »
Two of my friends applied after me and they got rejection email within a month, and I still didn't get any response. The more I'm waiting the more I'm confused...really.

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Stocksy / Re: Call to Artists 2015
« on: October 24, 2015, 03:49 »
Still waiting...  :D :o

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Stocksy / Re: Call to Artists 2015
« on: October 07, 2015, 05:58 »
So..I'm still waiting, and it's been almost 4 months since I applied. I'm starting to think
I wont get any response at all. They said it can took 1-3 months for them  to respond, but I have nothing yet. Has anyone had this happen before?

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Stocksy / Re: Call to Artists 2015
« on: September 30, 2015, 18:07 »
Anyone else still waiting to hear back from Stocksy for 2015 CTA? The wait is nuts. I applied in June and still nothing. Am I the only one???

You are not alone. I tried last year and got rejected 2-3 weeks later. Now I'm waiting... I applied in June like you. It's not good :D

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