Let me know how that works out for you!

LOL... do.

I am just cooling down from rejections.  I don't upload to SS but they have been accepted at four other agencies.  My immediate reaction to the BS rejection was, "No wonder you aren't selling my images.  You reject the good ones."  LOL

It's a strange world. I had two photos that were rejected universally but accepted at SS. My best selling images on IS and SS are refused by FT and DT, because "these don't sell well." One shot that I have is only available on IS, everyone else rejected it. Come on, don't try to make sense of any of this. 

There is really no logic in rejections (unless of course the image is just terrible), its just what the reviewer is thinking at that particular time.  I think of it the same as cooking spaghetti . . .  throw it up on the wall and if it sticks then its ready!

No! You should not upload that files again... It is completely different editor who rejected your images. BigStock has very good sense for what sells there and that is completely different stuff than on Shutterstock!
Just take a deep breath and continue uploading other stuff!
Good Luck!

Quote from: Albert Martin on October 23, 2009, 14:16

No! You should not upload that files again... It is completely different editor who rejected your images. BigStock has very good sense for what sells there and that is completely different stuff than on Shutterstock!
Just take a deep breath and continue uploading other stuff!
Good Luck!

If BigStock got this sixth sense why SS outsells them like 100x for me?

It is simple: Other buyers structure and less of them on BigStock... But, also there is different taste. Just look at what sells on Shutterstock (vibrant eye catching mostly ti death postprocessed images). On BigStock it is completely different ;-)

Sorry if this is necroing a thread (though it's only a few days)
I joined BigStock on 10 October, submitted ten and had five accepted, since then I've submitted 7 more - all rejected. Now, it's hard enough to know if your submissions are good enough without the added thought that perhaps BigStock have moved the goalposts in the meantime. Any thoughts on that?
Particularly since I followed the guidelines and submitted a photo of someone actually doing something with a piece of machinery, only to have it rejected as a snapshot  
PS Hello - I'm new here and everywhere

As I said - they think different and they sell different to different buyers... So, You should have really good photos to get them accepted. Try 'out the box' - that should be good for them!

Thanks for the suggestion, but I've decided it's a combination of me being careless, and my aging Fuji S5000, though looking through miscellaneous fora, I think probably all of the agencies are upping the stakes a bit regarding the low end cameras, consciously or not.
So, I've decided to improve both me and my camera, a new D5000 (mainly for me, though an income on the side would be good) - the difference in quality is truly startling! Though I've had film SLRs in the past, this is a whole new learning curve.
Now, if I can only remember not to leave shutter priority accidentally set at 1/4000 sec, I'm sure I'll be getting somewhere.