Author Topic: Is it just me, or is EVERYTHING being rejected over at Fotolia? (Read 8730 times)

StockBoy · « **Reply #25 on:** November 18, 2012, 15:28 »

Like I said, "at least it should be entertaining."

Sadly, the literacy rate in the world is staggeringly low.

CD123 · « **Reply #26 on:** November 18, 2012, 17:27 »

Quote from: StockBoy on November 18, 2012, 15:28

Like I said, "at least it should be entertaining."

Sadly, the literacy rate in the world is staggeringly low.

Clearly you are under the impression that your quoted statement disallows anyone elses opinion.
Well so much for trying to compliment the illiterate/confused then it seems

OM · « **Reply #27 on:** November 18, 2012, 18:22 »

Quote from: Dantheman on November 17, 2012, 11:20

Nearly all my stuff gets accepted there. But i do 90% People Photography. I think they really like people photos!

Of my last 50 uploads, more than 90% accepted........zero people, mostly food and related but with industrial, golf and all sorts of other stuff including a couple of isolations. So, I should be so lucky except most of the last batch accepted by FT was rejected by SS (where I also had 90% AR until now) and I would rather have had it accepted by SS than FT!
I guess this is a Dirty Harry business after all......"Do ya feel lucky, punk? Well do ya?"

CD123 · « **Reply #28 on:** November 18, 2012, 18:26 »

Quote from: OM on November 18, 2012, 18:22

Quote from: Dantheman on November 17, 2012, 11:20
Nearly all my stuff gets accepted there. But i do 90% People Photography. I think they really like people photos!

Of my last 50 uploads, more than 90% accepted........zero people, mostly food and related but with industrial, golf and all sorts of other stuff including a couple of isolations. So, I should be so lucky except most of the last batch accepted by FT was rejected by SS (where I also had 90% AR until now) and I would rather have had it accepted by SS than FT!
I guess this is a Dirty Harry business after all......"Do ya feel lucky, punk? Well do ya?"

Luck of the "draw" I guess

StockBoy · « **Reply #29 on:** November 18, 2012, 19:44 »

Wow, I'd say CD123 you are being a bit sensitive, but I was not referring to you with my comment I was only commenting on what I'm sure is the impending flood of people who will critique the image I posted, even though I mentioned I wasn't looking for a critique of the image . . .

And for those people who will come to this thread and post about how great they are and how they rarely have anything rejected and how when they touch water it turns to wine and on, and on . . .

And for those people I say "Well, isn't that nice for you"

OM · « **Reply #30 on:** November 18, 2012, 20:33 »

No criticism from me on your image. It's excellent. If I did landscapes, I would aspire to creating images like yours. The sole point of my comment was to indicate that I think it's impossible to predict what any agency accepts and rejects. Reviewers are individuals with their tastes and 'biases' and we, as contributors, can have no idea about anything that goes on behind the scenes of the agencies and with their reviewers. Having said that, if the shot you posted was rejected, as far as I can see, it should have been accepted.

(I think there was a case about a year or so ago of a contributor who submitted a whole series of great landscapes to FT. All were rejected but then all were accepted on appeal..........rogue reviewer, bad hair day, etc etc...who knows).

cybernesco · « **Reply #31 on:** November 18, 2012, 21:04 »

In my last 100 files, three were rejected. My previous 100 files, 7 were rejected. Among those, I have people, a bit of nature, wildlife and food.

CD123 · « **Reply #32 on:** November 18, 2012, 23:10 »

Quote from: StockBoy on November 18, 2012, 19:44

Wow, I'd say CD123 you are being a bit sensitive, . . .

Well thank you kindly. Not so sure if it is a step up from being illiterate to being over sensitive. For the first I need a teacher, for the second probably a psychiatrist.

fotografer · « **Reply #33 on:** November 19, 2012, 05:22 »

Quote from: StockBoy on November 18, 2012, 19:44

And for those people who will come to this thread and post about how great they are and how they rarely have anything rejected and how when they touch water it turns to wine and on, and on . . .

We were answering the part of your question, is EVERYTHING being rejected over at Fotolia? If you only wanted negative answers then you should have stated that. As far as I'm concerened if I uploaded for instance nature photos then I would also have a lot of rejections. I think it is a lot to do with what sort of photos you upload. Somebody that uploads mainly people shots and gets lots of rejections needs to improve their photography but somebody that uploads mostly nature maybe just needs to change the subject of their photography.

heywoody · « **Reply #34 on:** November 19, 2012, 13:38 »

At the end of the day different sites like different things. Personally I hardly ever get rejections at FT as I probably do the stuff they like and sales are only ok. However, on IS, where they don't like the type of stuff I do, whatever is accepted does much better than elsewhere - seems similar to the landscape scenario on FT. Maybe the strategy should be to submit what a site doesn't like as low acceptance will probaly be compensated by higher sales as a result of less competition?

CD123 · « **Reply #35 on:** November 19, 2012, 14:10 »

Quote from: heywoody on November 19, 2012, 13:38

At the end of the day different sites like different things. Personally I hardly ever get rejections at FT as I probably do the stuff they like and sales are only ok. However, on IS, where they don't like the type of stuff I do, whatever is accepted does much better than elsewhere - seems similar to the landscape scenario on FT. Maybe the strategy should be to submit what a site doesn't like as low acceptance will probaly be compensated by higher sales as a result of less competition?

Interesting approach, except that their customer base is probably more prone to be looking for the general things they do approve, as that is what they expect from the site's niche. The other problem is that some sites tends to limit your uploading capacity due to low approval rate.

stockastic · « **Reply #36 on:** November 19, 2012, 16:27 »

There's nothing wrong with that photo at all, so don't drive yourself nuts trying to understand the rejection. FYI, my software says the color space is Nikon sRGB which is fine. IMHO Fotolia is a screwy and very possibly not completely honest company and it was the first agency I dropped after I got into microstock and gained some understanding of it..

cascoly · « **Reply #37 on:** November 19, 2012, 19:28 »

for me, FT has always been one of the worst for subjective reviews - combined with their low sales, i just upload and forget about it - if they take it and it sells, fine.

Livingstonatlarge · « **Reply #38 on:** November 20, 2012, 12:37 »

Yes.

I was rolling along with them pretty well and then I think the reviewer on crack from SS moved to France. (There's some on crack and some on dope. The crackheads reject everything but 1 and the dopers accept everything but 1).

CD123 · « **Reply #39 on:** November 20, 2012, 13:38 »

Quote from: Livingstonatlarge on November 20, 2012, 12:37

Yes.

I was rolling along with them pretty well and then I think the reviewer on crack from SS moved to France. (There's some on crack and some on dope. The crackheads reject everything but 1 and the dopers accept everything but 1).

I think the crackhead has set up a distribution channel within the industry. His influence seems to span over more than one site these days.

aly · « **Reply #40 on:** November 21, 2012, 04:15 »

I have just joined, the first 4 were accepted then everything since has been rejected lock stock and barrel all because does not meet level of aesthetic quality! I feel like they do not want any more to submit to their site perhaps.

CJH · « **Reply #41 on:** November 21, 2012, 12:12 »

They have a clear preference for certain styles, as others have mentioned. People that can get that style down seem to do really well and others really poorly. Almost everything I send them is rejected, and when they accept something it is usually not up to the technical quality of the ones I upload elsewhere. For example, one of the isolations they accepted has blown highlights and poorly done isolation. It is also my best seller there. I am still a beginner to stock, but have a much better acceptance and sales at DT. Still trying to qualify for IS and SS, which has been a great learning experience for me!

uvox4 · « **Reply #42 on:** November 21, 2012, 12:34 »

I have a high FT failure rate (80%). It seems to be the way it is. I feel they have stricter rules and you need to understand the style of photos they want. I have considered leaving them but as a relative newcomer I will give it some time to adjust to their style.

friese · « **Reply #43 on:** November 30, 2012, 13:01 »

Quote from: StockBoy on November 17, 2012, 01:29

It seems like whatever I upload, stuff that I check and double check at 100% is being rejected for "does not meet our desired level of aesthetic quality."

Have I all of the sudden become a really bad photographer or are other contributors finding the same results?

lol.. i get that all the time and then upload to shutterstock and make $100 on sales...
aethetic quality is subjective... i wonder about their reviewers sometimes...

JPSDK · « **Reply #44 on:** November 30, 2012, 13:21 »

We are a few that have driven our selves nuts trying to understand rejections:

CD123 · « **Reply #45 on:** November 30, 2012, 13:49 »

Quote from: friese on November 30, 2012, 13:01

... i wonder about their reviewers sometimes...

I wonder about them constantly........

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