I got an image rejected for too much white space with this text:

"The area occupied by the isolated subject is too small, and by cropping the resulting image is under 3 Megapixels."

The image is an open diary/note book with flowers on top, isolated, so, long but not tall.

I cropped the image close to the isolated object on the long side but I kept the aspect ratio of the original format (3:2), it's my usual workflow because some agencies specify standard aspect ratio.

After the crop, the image was 6 Megapixel, so I resubmitted it with the resubmit button and a note.

This was rejected again but now I pissed the reviewer off big time, here he is shouting with uppercase and threatening "the stupid contributor":

"The area occupied by the ISOLATED SUBJECT is too small, and by cropping the resulting image is under 3 Megapixels.
You have submitted this image before and it was refused for the same reason(s) OR the resubmitted file is too similar with your initial submission. Please ensure that you did fix the problem(s). Do not resubmit identical images. Your account privileges may be restricted if you use this method."

I had no intention to misbehave and the original image is 24 Megapixel, big enough even for DT but I didn't understand what the problem was. And what method is he talking about, it's their official resubmit button.

I don't give a da*n about my "privileges" of a few cents/month and I have no intention to resubmit but please enlighten me, do I have to cut out the middle of the image with no white space?

Again, it was accepted by all agencies the first time.

Many thanks for your thoughts.

Thanks, I can't reply to a machine ([email protected]) and I don't want to.
You are right about reaching payout a few times in a lifetime, still the tone of the reviewer could be different.

You are right Cathy, thanks,  here is a sketch.

I've seen many images with open books. I could have put something in the background but I wanted it to be isolated.

The original is a photo of 24 Megapixel but this one that I uploaded was downsized to 6 Megapixel. I don't upload full size images.
I'll move on, I just wanted to know for future images (if.....)
Thanks Cathy.

Don't lose your time for a site selling less and less every day�

That's why I don't resubmit. Ever. It is a waste of time. I upload to a number of sites and do not keep track of rejections. Obviously I notice if an image is rejected by a number of sites, then I know there is something wrong with it. But usually the randomness of the process is discouraging and resubmitting often is not worth my time. As for dreams time, I might be too old to collect the next payout.

Thank you all for your input. I was more interested about the rejection reason mentioned.

I don't resubmit either but this time I was stubborn because the strange rejection.

DT is a low earner for me too, very low lately but some people at the other thread still report good sales. I'm sure it depends on the portfolio, you can't expect earnings with a port of 200 images.

I said many times that I stop uploading but things change all the time in stock world, you never know which agency goes down or comes up. I made $0.90 in June and then, on the last day of the month some bigger sales came in, still not worse than 123, BS or DP.

Keeping my images on my hard drive will not bring anything in my pocket.