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Hell of rejections on "Too many photos/illustrations on the same subject.." blah
Perry:
rant...rant....rant...
Now I'm getting really annoyed with Dreamstime. I had just a small batch rejected most likely because I had earlier been uploading images of the same subjects. Of one subject I had uploaded one image and got it approved. Now I was going to upload two more and the both were rejected with a "Too many photos/illustrations on the same subject or from the same series. " message.
And believe me, all the three shots were different and included both vertical and horizontal versions, and the both horizontal ones had a very different composition and different copy space.
Second subject was an object containing text, I had a horizontal version and two vertical versions shot from different directions (left/right). I only got only vertical accepted. Don't they know that an image with text cannot be flipped during the layout?
I wish the reviewers had even some clue about graphic design / layout work...
Of my Big5 Fotolia and Dreamstime seem to piss me off with their stupid rejection reasons. iStock seems to be very consistent, SS comes as a good second. Can't say too much about SX because they accept almost everything.
abimages:
--- Quote from: Perry on August 25, 2009, 07:13 ---
Of my Big5 Fotolia and Dreamstime seem to piss me off with their stupid rejection reasons. iStock seems to be very consistent, SS comes as a good second. Can't say too much about SX because they accept almost everything.
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Thats exactly my experience too!
Freedom:
Totally agree. DT's weird rejections have made me stop uploading recently.
As if FT's Attila has been moonlighting in DT. ::)
gostwyck:
I think they are just trying to address the issue of some contributors who have been uploading 30-40 images of the same series. It does seem to be very random in terms of what they will accept and when though.
I'd much prefer them to give us all upload limits, based on sales, acceptance ratio or downloads per image, to ensure that contributors edit their submissions more tightly.
The mistaken belief of some that stock photography is just a 'volume thing' I find quite irritating. It seems crazy to me that some folk are allowed to upload hundreds of images every month when they have a very poor sales record. It would help everyone if they were encouraged to expend their energy improving their work and learning their craft rather than just generating tons of stuff that nobody wants.
cthoman:
Yeah, that's my big one there too. It's not so much that they reject the images for me. It's that it disrupts my workflow. I used to be able to immediately upload everything to Shutterstock and Dreamstime and then upload things to iStock as my uploads became available. Now if a series is more than 2 or 3 images, I have to break it up for Dreamstime.
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