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Uncle Pete:

--- Quote from: elakazal on June 02, 2020, 13:08 ---I'm fairly new and small time in this business (about 150-300 photos each on a couple sites), and I haven't bothered with DepositPhotos in the past, but given the situation at Shutterstock, I thought I'd check out Wirestock and see how that works (with the idea of getting to a higher level faster) and since Wirestock supports DepositPhotos, it's easy enough to click another box and include them. My first 9 just came back all rejected by DP for noise (There are another 20 pending). Is this typical? All of these were accepted by Shutterstock or Adobe (and mostly by both) and were taken in broad daylight at low ISO and honestly it never occurred to me noise would be an issue on them (Adobe usually nails me if I try to push it a little on noise). I don't generally have issues with rejections on the other sites—90%+ acceptance.

Is this typical of DP? It's not much work to click the extra box on Wirestock, but certainly these results are not making me enthusiastic about working with them, especially given that they seem to be a pretty small site to begin with.

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The rejections came from Wirestock not DP. WS tells us nothing of what happens after we upload, except if they decide we don't meet their standards to upload to the other agencies.

Upload the same images to DP yourself and see what happens.  :)

Wirestock has become irrelevant by their own actions and has created a terrible review system that rejects accepted and sold images. Example: I upload my own to SS, AS. The images have been accepted and sold. I selected those same because of WS exclusive requirement, and picked DP, DT and P5 for submission.

They were rejected by Wirestock for distracting elements or the horizon or "exposure". As a result, Wirestock is the problem.

elakazal:

--- Quote from: Uncle Pete on June 03, 2020, 16:11 ---
The rejections came from Wirestock not DP. WS tells us nothing of what happens after we upload, except if they decide we don't meet their standards to upload to the other agencies.

Upload the same images to DP yourself and see what happens.  :)

Wirestock has become irrelevant by their own actions and has created a terrible review system that rejects accepted and sold images. Example: I upload my own to SS, AS. The images have been accepted and sold. I selected those same because of WS exclusive requirement, and picked DP, DT and P5 for submission.

They were rejected by Wirestock for distracting elements or the horizon or "exposure". As a result, Wirestock is the problem.

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This is really good to know—thank you. I didn't realize that Wirestock had it's own layer of review on top of the sites'. It seems really silly—wouldn't they want anything that could make it on one of the sites to be there? They're not even paying to host it—it's just an opportunity to make money for them. Not looking like a good option...

Uncle Pete:

--- Quote from: elakazal on June 03, 2020, 18:58 ---
--- Quote from: Uncle Pete on June 03, 2020, 16:11 ---
The rejections came from Wirestock not DP. WS tells us nothing of what happens after we upload, except if they decide we don't meet their standards to upload to the other agencies.

Upload the same images to DP yourself and see what happens.  :)

Wirestock has become irrelevant by their own actions and has created a terrible review system that rejects accepted and sold images. Example: I upload my own to SS, AS. The images have been accepted and sold. I selected those same because of WS exclusive requirement, and picked DP, DT and P5 for submission.

They were rejected by Wirestock for distracting elements or the horizon or "exposure". As a result, Wirestock is the problem.

--- End quote ---

This is really good to know—thank you. I didn't realize that Wirestock had it's own layer of review on top of the sites'. It seems really silly—wouldn't they want anything that could make it on one of the sites to be there? They're not even paying to host it—it's just an opportunity to make money for them. Not looking like a good option...

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Same change for myself. I have accepted photos on the top agencies, and now WS is refusing them for DP, DT and P5.

Yes they have instituted their own review standards which are computer assisted and flawed. Images that have sold on SS and AS are rejected. They started out with good support and responding. When I asked about the flawed rejections, no answer. I guess that means, they aren't going to answer. So much for a place with so much potential.

I never minded a legitimate or reasonable rejection, but when it becomes machine learning and arbitrary, I'm done.

WaterView:
I haven't noticed any unusual changes in acceptance ratios for DP. Seems like a usual, steady seller from my perspective. Best to you, Lee

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