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litifeta ---  Who/where? You forgot to tell us which outfit is rejecting you..... -tom

ah.... thanks Geopappas....  regardless of my 'full member" status, I guess I'm still a newbie   Maybe that should be spelled  'Fool" member in my case...  LOL  Apologies to litifeta!
    I'm guessing litifeta is also saying that his total rejection is noise related?  Surprisingly, I haven't had a noise rejection at SS in some time.  I had 2 out of a 10 batch rejected today for "lighting".. but  SS was right.  I'm still having trouble with my "isolated on white" shots. This  'little box" photography, as my daughter calls it, is still all new to me, still learning.
    I really don't have any problem with SS rejections unlike some other sites, SS, at least for me, has the problems nailed.  I've been able to correct some and resubmit and have them accepted.  But to litifeta's point, when I first started with them,  I was running 50-70% rejection at SS for noise too.
       Personally, I'm selling more on SS daily than all my other sites put together.  I have a lot of respect for the reviewers at SS.  In my case they seem to have an eye for what will sell,  seeing as SS has sold upwards of 80%  of the pix I have uploaded there.   
     Hang in there, litifeta. SS is a top player.  In a short time you'll be seeing your acceptance rate go up.      -tom

Exact thing happened to me yesterday on my four submissions!  I really didn't use much reduction (photos of ice covered river and fruit) but  maybe they are taming their noise free policy down. I do tend to focus on noise reduction more at this site then some others because of their policy!

Yes, SS seems to have an eye for what will sell.  I've noticed that 'out of the box' images sell very well on SS; by that I mean images that can just be bought and used; the complete package if you like.

Perhaps the customers at SS are web sites and newspapers etc who just want to buy a finished piece and use it 'as is'.

The opposite seems to apply at IS, whose customers appear to be the design community; a browse through the designers section shows how backgrounds and partial images are bought and used to 'make up' a finished brochure or pamphlet.

On SS the best sellers are 'packaged products', whereas the best sellers list at IS includes lots of backgrounds and vector shape designs.

Anyway, that is how it appears to me with my limited experience.....

i noticed in my case, that they reject all, or accept all... no matter how many there are in the bunch. obviusly, if you upload 1 you just risk 1.

Lucía

Which probably boils down to the reviewer your get, or how they were feeling.  Also if the first two images have really bad noise, i image the review is going to look pretty closly for noise in the next 8 images and it probably won't take much to get them rejected.  If the first two images they see are SUPER great, they may skim the next 8 assuming they are similar.

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Since taking all of your advice i now have about 75% success and 104 shots online. sometime soon i will try to load the other 3000 ... lol

Just a note however, they have knocked a lot back after using the noise software, so i dont use it anymore and have had much better luck.

yesterday i got 5/5 rejection
saying they're not stock worthy.
and prior to that, i find that
rejection rate has been going up
in SS a lot...

i had to learn it the hard way, but now have no rejections for noise reason.
ninja noise is not easy to use... it could generate artifacts, so be careful. i use ninja the same way sharply_done does, and also use the blur tool on dark and out of focus areas (that way i get rid of noise and artifacts at the same time).
hope this help you, litifeta

Lucía

hey thanks Griz. Will give that a burl.

Sales down half of last month. bit slow this April.