great landscape

Yeah, shutterstock is a great pain with noise.  I run everything through noise software (using an action, so i don't have to sit there and wait for it) no matter what the iso was.  The software automatically figures out what ISO the pic was taken at and knows that i am using a canon and figures out waht sort of noise reduction is required (noise ninja as a photoshop plug-in)

HOWEVER that said.., after shutterstock has lapped up all those noiseless images,  istock often refuses images because they are over processed with noise reduction software.... go figure.

wow...i'm the featured artist on Featurepics.com..


i think that they select it randomly.. lol 

Congrats on being the featured artist.  Not to be the bearer of bad news but are you sure.  I almost posted the same thing the other day.  They changed their website and instead of going to the site home page it would go to my page.  At first I thought I was the featured artist and then I realized I wasn't.  I had to delete the cookie they set and then it reverted back to the site home page.  Hopefully you are Anne and it is for real.  I got an email the other day from Featurepics about the category changes and they said they are going to start rotating the featured artist everyday. 

Mark