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sensovision:
Hi folks!
I'm still pretty new in stock photography world and wish to save extra time to editors who review my photographs.
I wonder if there are some stock agency which would be best used for evaluation of your photograph to see if it's well suit for stocks.
E.g. you submit photo there and if it's accepted there is good chance that it would be accepted by other sites too? Or there is no such site and each agency have pretty different preferences?

If someone using such technique I would appreciate if you tell more about it.

PS Right now I try my photos on DT first as they seems to give somehow reasonable feedback at least. But it seems that same photos which was accepted on DT could be declined on IS and FT(or it's rather exclusion than the case?).

digiology:
I never test images on one site. What gets accepted/rejected seems to vary wildly from site to site (at least for me). I just upload them all simultaneously and then wait for the dust to settle.

Its almost amusing to see what gets accepted/rejected at each site.  :o  Throw caution to the wind and just submit and see what happens.

Lee Torrens:
I've started tracking my acceptance and rejection graphically in a spreadsheet. I list all the photo numbers down the page and the agencies across the top. If an image is accepted the appropriate cell is green, or red if rejected.

Any vertical red lines means I got a reviewer on a bad day. Horizontal red lines means I made a poor decision contributing that image.

On that note, many of the agencies use your acceptance rate in their 'best match' algorithm, so it's in your interests to keep your acceptance rate as high as possible. I cull my photos ruthlessly before uploading. If I'm not confident that an image will be accepted at almost all agencies, I don't upload it. That doesn't actually stop me getting rejections, but it helps keep my acceptance rate up. Most people find that quality gets better earnings than quantity anyway.

I hope that helps.

PaulieWalnuts:
In my experience each site is different but I would say if something passes Shutterstock reviewers, it should have pretty good chances of getting accepted about anywhere else.

Everybody's experience is different. I think most of us have experimented until we found what sites fit our style.

vphoto:
I agree that Shutterstock test is more difficult to pass. Noise Ninja helped me out eventually.

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