I have submitted twice a pic of a shrub flowering and both times was refused on grounds that other images online were far superior -I checked and saw only 2  other ones and  definitely not superior to mine! Pics rejected by DT I have had accepted at SS .What is going on here? Are they even checking the pics ? Surely if SS accepts them and DT doesn't what is wrong here???  They are losing money here for sure. Also after many emails to them I have never had one reply yet. I am getting very  fed up .Any one else had these problems?

You didn't know? DT has the worst reviewers along with VR and GL. Yes they do check the files but it means nothing as well as ca, noise, artifacts, composition..... The approval or rejection very much depends on weather forecast.
Cheers,

Let us see the file.

Here is the file as requested,.

Looks like to me the brick wall on the left side is in better focus than the closed blooms on top and the right side in full of blown highlights when viewed in photoshop.

Here is my acceptance stats- 13 month base thus solid. Sales not great but my acceptance has gotten better over the year. Sales is my next goal- better quality shots that have more commercial value. So I don't agree with DT not accepting images based on my experience.

    Online:   Refused:   Acceptance ratio:   Downloads:   Earnings:   Referral Earnings:   Database Exposure:   Messages:
Sales   Revenue   RPD
Jan 12   17   9   65.40%   0   15   $18.56   $1.24   $0.00   0.00%   0
Feb 12   41   29   58.60%   0   18   $17.98   $1.00   $0.00   0.00%   0
Mar 12   52   28   65.00%   0   20   $20.91   $1.05   $0.00   0.00%   0
Apr 12   66   23   74.20%   0   4   $1.75   $0.44   $0.00   0.00%   0
May 12   75   37   67.00%   0   15   $18.19   $1.21   $0.00   0.00%   0
Jun 12   41   15   73.20%   0   8   $6.87   $0.86   $0.00   0.01%   0
Jul 12   50   10   83.30%   0   17   $11.18   $0.66   $0.00   0.01%   0
Aug 12   66   8   89.20%   0   24   $24.28   $1.01   $0.00   0.01%   0
Sep 12   62   6   91.20%   0   23   $16.98   $0.74   $0.00   0.01%   0
Oct 12   50   11   82.00%   0   21   $29.28   $1.39   $0.00   0.01%   0
Nov 12   81   31   72.30%   0   26   $28.10   $1.08   $0.00   0.01%   0
Dec 12   54   4   93.10%   0   28   $29.95   $1.07   $0.00   0.01%   0
Jan 13   72   10   87.80%   0   25   $22.96   $0.92   $0.00   0.01%   0

You could improve the composition of that photo.  having the main subject in the middle of the frame will get a rejection from some reviewers.  And its one of the subjects they usually tell us to avoid, as they don't sell much but I still do some flowers.  The one that got to be was a rejection for too many similars but I couldn't find anything like it when I did a two word search.  Then I read about the problems other people were having and they gave us a commission cut.  Don't know why the sites can't understand that demotivating us will cost them money.  Buyers can see almost all my portfolio on SS and they make more money from me than any other site.

I think that rejection is often a nice way of saying that they don't consider the image to be commercial enough.

They might be correct lots of times but quite often their lowly paid inexperienced reviewers get that decision wrong.

I have no idea what YOUR shrub is - but the proper label should be something like "Ribes Sanguineum King Edward VII or Flowering Currant Shrub".  All of the libraries have a huge number of nature photos.  Unless you label it scientifically and with it's commonly known name it really doesn't stand a hope of being added. 

Quote from: alexmk on January 24, 2013, 20:19

DT has the worst reviewers along with VR and GL..

Don't mistake incompetent reviewers for picky sites. GL is site with lowest acceptance ratio for me but I wouldn't say that their reviewers are bad, they are just more demanding. If you take a look at their site, you won't find crap as on the other sites.
Everyone should place higher demands on himself first and blaming reviewers later.
…and to be honest - if I was the one to decide I wouldn't approve OP's snapshot as well - regardless lcv, I don't like composition. And disturbing shadow on the right side, leafs in upper right corner, nail in the wall and probably wire visible under plant should be removed.

+1

Don't mistake incompetent reviewers for picky sites. GL is site with lowest acceptance ratio for me but I wouldn't say that their reviewers are bad, they are just more demanding. If you take a look at their site, you won't find crap as on the other sites.


I see, all files there are 1st class like this one:

OK. Let me change it to "you won't find so much of crap as on the other sites". I don't feel like playing "find reviewers fault"game.

There's a Full Moon on the 26th. Submit nothing for two days either side of a full moon, I hear it makes the reviewers strange and illogical.

And let me ask. You just discovered that rejections are often illogical from many agencies and reviewers? 

My favorite was from a couple of places saying "these don't sell well" for my best sellers on their sites, when I was adding similar images, just because they sold well.