Author Topic: ...and now I'm done. (Read 1153 times)

JEDphoto · « **on:** September 07, 2024, 00:17 »

So... I upgrade to multiple lenses of the new Zeiss Milvus line which produce the sharpest clarity at 1/1 viewing and best color rendering I could have ever hoped for. Not cheap to do. I upgrade to a full frame body. I do storm chasing for unique landscapes not covered well by competition for a niche subject matter... especially in my region for editorial type use of seasonal severe weather. Most of my sales are for subject matter in my region which is what I try to concentrate on... for more sales like I already get. I upload 16 images and after over 3months of waiting 14 are failed and 2 are passed. The sharpest highest quality images I have ever produced since 2005.

The main one that failed was the highest megapixel panoramic city shot I've ever done. One of the sharpest images I've ever done. I waited over a year for the perfect lighting and surrounding stormy conditions.

4 other ones that failed were during tornado formation under a rotating wall cloud. Literally right in front of me. Very unique conditions and subject matter... and dangerous actually.

At any rate, I am done with stock. I am done being a sheep. My images sell regularly but I have no control over my portfolio or any kind of sales strategy. You follow and exceed their standards of quality and they punish you. They pass your worst images easily and fail your best. Try it for yourself. More editing maintains more Adobe software subscription fees which is their goal. Keeping everyone on that hamster wheel.

Best of luck to you all.

mike123 · « **Reply #1 on:** September 07, 2024, 02:00 »

You could downsize your images before uploading to microstock - the buyers don't care about high resolution anyway. I usually downsize to 10-12 megapixels and basically never get an image rejected for technical reasons. But tbh it sounds like your photos are way too good and too unique for microstock, I would try to market them differently. Probably as prints on FAA, if you're located in the US.

Pacesetter · « **Reply #2 on:** September 07, 2024, 02:32 »

Sound like awesome images, would love to see them.

I reckon you resubmit. There are some pretty poor reviewers even on Adobe Stock. Next round should be accepted. Only problem here is the ridiculous wait time for commercial images.

DiscreetDuck · « **Reply #3 on:** September 07, 2024, 03:12 »

Quote from: JEDphoto on September 07, 2024, 00:17

So... I upgrade to multiple lenses of the new Zeiss Milvus line which produce the sharpest clarity at 1/1 viewing and best color rendering I could have ever hoped for. Not cheap to do. I upgrade to a full frame body. I do storm chasing for unique landscapes not covered well by competition for a niche subject matter... especially in my region for editorial type use of seasonal severe weather. Most of my sales are for subject matter in my region which is what I try to concentrate on... for more sales like I already get. I upload 16 images and after over 3months of waiting 14 are failed and 2 are passed. The sharpest highest quality images I have ever produced since 2005.

The main one that failed was the highest megapixel panoramic city shot I've ever done. One of the sharpest images I've ever done. I waited over a year for the perfect lighting and surrounding stormy conditions.

4 other ones that failed were during tornado formation under a rotating wall cloud. Literally right in front of me. Very unique conditions and subject matter... and dangerous actually.

At any rate, I am done with stock. I am done being a sheep. My images sell regularly but I have no control over my portfolio or any kind of sales strategy. You follow and exceed their standards of quality and they punish you. They pass your worst images easily and fail your best. Try it for yourself. More editing maintains more Adobe software subscription fees which is their goal. Keeping everyone on that hamster wheel.

Best of luck to you all.

But what a shame, it is the worst humiliation that competence, art and reality are so despised. They have no qualms about despising photographers because with AI, they feel they no longer need them.
And very soon, they will no longer need the prompting sheep either.
Apart from the technological revolution (or rather extermination) aspect, it is also the advent of a new human generation without much qualms, having misled certain values.
Many good, honest, professional and competent people have deserted this forum which has given great room to this new generation of prompters (sometimes former photographers without talent) who consider that experienced photographers are has-beens. Because today, to be competent, you don't need an eye, extraordinary patience, decades of practice, exceptional equipment... you just need a sofa and a keyboard. But this couch will be very soon the most radical ejection seat for them

For my part, after 20 years, I have never produced so much quality, and I persist, without AI of course.

After the incredible raid they carried out on their contributors (mediocre photographers can rest assured, they are not affected), the only law for them: greed and cupidity.
Now, they prefer to sell this:

https://stock.adobe.com/search/images?filters%5Bcontent_type%3Aphoto%5D=1&filters%5Bcontent_type%3Aillustration%5D=1&filters%5Bcontent_type%3Azip_vector%5D=1&filters%5Bcontent_type%3Aimage%5D=1&filters%5Bgentech%5D=only&k=storm+landscape+sky+lightning&order=relevance&price%5B%24%5D=1&safe_search=1&limit=100&search_page=1&search_type=filter-select&acp=&aco=storm+landscape+sky+lightning&get_facets=1

cobalt · « **Reply #4 on:** September 07, 2024, 04:11 »

Another voice for downsizing. Customers don't care about superlarge images.

You can get literally anything online if it is just a smaller size, 10mp, often just 6-8mp.

If you have a better place to sell your images, good luck to you.

But if you want to keep having steady income from the micros, you need to supply content in the way they like to take it. And they prefer smaller sizes. Or simply accept them without problems.

The quality from your lenses with still make them stand out.

Big Money · « **Reply #5 on:** September 07, 2024, 08:25 »

Quote from: JEDphoto on September 07, 2024, 00:17

So... I upgrade to multiple lenses of the new Zeiss Milvus line which produce the sharpest clarity at 1/1 viewing and best color rendering I could have ever hoped for. Not cheap to do. I upgrade to a full frame body. I do storm chasing for unique landscapes not covered well by competition for a niche subject matter... especially in my region for editorial type use of seasonal severe weather. Most of my sales are for subject matter in my region which is what I try to concentrate on... for more sales like I already get. I upload 16 images and after over 3months of waiting 14 are failed and 2 are passed. The sharpest highest quality images I have ever produced since 2005.

The main one that failed was the highest megapixel panoramic city shot I've ever done. One of the sharpest images I've ever done. I waited over a year for the perfect lighting and surrounding stormy conditions.

4 other ones that failed were during tornado formation under a rotating wall cloud. Literally right in front of me. Very unique conditions and subject matter... and dangerous actually.

At any rate, I am done with stock. I am done being a sheep. My images sell regularly but I have no control over my portfolio or any kind of sales strategy. You follow and exceed their standards of quality and they punish you. They pass your worst images easily and fail your best. Try it for yourself. More editing maintains more Adobe software subscription fees which is their goal. Keeping everyone on that hamster wheel.

Best of luck to you all.

This is exactly why my 50mp pro canon sits in my studio not used for microstock business. First off they don't deserve our high images like yours! I used my iphone for this wimpy business! They get my 12mp photo only!

Mifornia · « **Reply #6 on:** September 07, 2024, 09:47 »

Second downsizing and sending hugs to you!
Van Gough sold only one painting when he was alive! Struggle is real! Keep going!

PS: your images probably have too much dust for reviewers

PS PS : @Big Money, yep I have sunsets from IPhone that got accepted, just wanted to see if it’s possible. Didn’t sell any though

stoker2014 · « **Reply #7 on:** September 07, 2024, 12:44 »

microstock business does not imply elite equipment and super quality. Why accept files that have a large weight in megabytes if few people will buy them. For microstock business, you need content that the buyer needs and the quality that the mass buyer needs.

Pacesetter · « **Reply #8 on:** September 07, 2024, 20:03 »

I was of the idea that the images were reviewed and rejected. If you are you talking about uploading large image megabytes then agree with just downsizing some to bring it under the megabyte limit.

The other thought I had (and this is only relevant if the images were reviewed and rejected) is that the reviewer might of thought your awesome images were AI and not real photos and as they were not tagged as AI generated, they were rejected accordingly. If this be the case, then the reviewers and review process needs some work.

wds · « **Reply #9 on:** September 07, 2024, 21:25 »

This also highlights another aggravating aspect of rejections....generic non-specific and sometimes misleading reasons for rejection.

zeljkok · « **Reply #10 on:** September 08, 2024, 01:02 »

Rejected shots were likely never seen by human eye. It's all AI based on various metrics obtained by parsing the image file

Madede · « **Reply #11 on:** September 08, 2024, 03:44 »

Adobe photo review is done by people with low or absolutely NO experience in photography.

tätarätä · « **Reply #12 on:** September 08, 2024, 04:34 »

Quote from: JEDphoto on September 07, 2024, 00:17

So... I upgrade to multiple lenses of the new Zeiss Milvus line which produce the sharpest clarity at 1/1 viewing and best color rendering I could have ever hoped for. Not cheap to do. I upgrade to a full frame body. I do storm chasing for unique landscapes not covered well by competition for a niche subject matter... especially in my region for editorial type use of seasonal severe weather. Most of my sales are for subject matter in my region which is what I try to concentrate on... for more sales like I already get. I upload 16 images and after over 3months of waiting 14 are failed and 2 are passed. The sharpest highest quality images I have ever produced since 2005.

The main one that failed was the highest megapixel panoramic city shot I've ever done. One of the sharpest images I've ever done. I waited over a year for the perfect lighting and surronding stormy conditions.

4 other ones that failed were during tornado formation under a rotating wall cloud. Literally right in front of me. Very unique conditions and subject matter... and dangerous actually.

At any rate, I am done with stock. I am done being a sheep. My images sell regularly but I have no control over my portfolio or any kind of sales strategy. You follow and exceed their standards of quality and they punish you. They pass your worst images easily and fail your best. Try it for yourself. More editing maintains more Adobe software subscription fees which is their goal. Keeping everyone on that hamster wheel.

Best of luck to you all.

High resolution camera and lens is not a good combination for microstock.
I think the reviewers use PS scripts in pre selection to see some problems in image quality.
The Zeiss line is very sharp but with some CAs not easy to get rid of it. Even more visible by use of high resolution cameras.
The other thing is the weather. About 30 years ago i have send some 6X6 landscape slides to a Swiss macrostock agency.
Technicaly Ok, but al were rejected. Nice images but they wanted landscape images with blue sky like postcards. My images were taken at stormy weather.
Nowadays there is a huge oversupply of landscape images.

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