I have comment from reviewer for this photo,first time! 

Comment is : "Nicely done!"



http://www.bigstockphoto.com/photo/view/3644796

They also get my vote for the most ridiculous one:


Can you guess? It is obvious!
It was rejected for cropping.
I know, my bad, next time for an ocean shot I'd rent a space shuttle.....

Oh please, the space shuttle will set you up for a snapshot rejection. There'll be too many distractions (islands and continents) from the main focus of the ocean. Try again though.

This one made me laugh so hard...



When iStock said 'lighting' - no contest. But here -

"Subject not evident enough - hard to tell what the subject of the photo is - sorry, thanks"

  sorry, no sexual acts , please ! 

Can you guess? It is obvious!
It was rejected for cropping.

Running the risk of being a partypooper and you getting mad at me, I have to agree with the rejection reason. There is a cropping/framing problem here. People in sunsets are very difficult to do and not only for technical reasons, like spanning the huge luminance differences. We all have the tendency when standing in the water to keep our cam safe from getting wet. The result is you don't have the horizon in the image, and especially with sunsets this makes it slower for our brain to extract the object shape. Personally, I mostly try to have the shoulders over the horizon. This yields a surprising and eye-catching composition which has more chances to be sold. You will have to lay down in the surf and you need one eye on the surf to protect your cam. Seawater and DSLRs don't mix very well.

As an expample, this shot (not mine) from Istk. Which one would you buy? Yours or this one?


An example of a shot while I was laying down with the cam just a couple of inches above the water level. Imagine how it would look if I were standing up and I had the model surrounded by just water ...

"Poor composition/Cropped subject: Chopping off part of subject makes photo harder to use generally :-) thanks"
It would be nothing funny in this rejection if it was limited to first two words

Well reviewers at BigStock have only a limited number of rejects reasons to chose from, and this is probably the closest they could find. Some sites are worse. Take IS: when they reject for distorted pixels, they really mean we love our exclusives 

My last sale on BigStock was on september 14th. It's really sad.... It's almost 2 months since then

My last was yesterday...

In my portfolio BigStock is double better than StockXpert and 123RF...

BigStock lost the 5th place this month to Zymmetrical, but sales there are normal to me (slow but steady).

Regards,
Adelaide

Borg,

This is always strange indeed, you have one person saying "site A rocks" and the next "site A sucks".  One reason could be the type of image one creates, maybe some sites sell them better than others because of their specific clientelle.

Regards,
Adelaide