It seems inspectors will accept anything. But at least it is fast. I am real glad for the fast inspections, I am going through the archives now and I like to have one from a series accepted before I put up a whole batch. But I was checking recent uploads on my favorite keyword and I see they are taking anything. One guy had the same photo up with about 20 versions.  Different crops and brightness and the worst thing was the white balance bracketing. Horrible and just filling a big chunk of the page in a sort by file age. Not to single anyone person's work but I see it has been mentioned here, but no thread.  Lobo locked the thread on istock on the reasoning that people would post examples.
Pendulum has swung too far the other way. But why?

Who knows? The quality of its inspections and the resulting high standard of content was one of iStock's redeeming features.

Seems that's been chucked out of the window now.

Presumably someone higher up the food chain has said 'I don't care about quality, I want a gazillion images!'

The conspiracy theorist in me suggests it's a way to sell millions of files that thousands of artists will never reach payout on, thus allowing the greedy goats at the top to keep all the money for themselves. Surely not.

Good to know.

Will also try out in sending some images from my archieve 

Maybe they are testing their newly invented auto pilot program - that way they don't have to pay the inspectors anymore... 

I guess i can no longer take pride in my high acceptance rating

Not sure that such things matter any more for independent contributors. My RPD is down by more than 50% since the price changes.

There was a time when being accepted as a iS contributor was kind of proof that you are at least above average photographer. Now it's proof  that you are camera owner.

Quote from: Dantheman on July 08, 2013, 20:01
Good to know.

Will also try out in sending some images from my archieve 

Yeah, but it's really difficult to sell new pics as for months new files have been trounced in the best match.

http://www.istockphoto.com/stock-photo-25503909-background-from-white-paper-texture.php

Good stuff.

Quote from: Sean Locke Photography on July 08, 2013, 22:03
http://www.istockphoto.com/stock-photo-25503909-background-from-white-paper-texture.php

Good stuff.

The title and keywords are all wrong __ I'm sure that's a white cat in a snowstorm.

Quote from: Sean Locke Photography on July 08, 2013, 22:03
http://www.istockphoto.com/stock-photo-25503909-background-from-white-paper-texture.php

Good stuff.

Anyone care to speculate as to why having two of these is a good idea - same contributor, one right after the other sorted by file age...?

http://www.istockphoto.com/stock-photo-25503892-white-template-paper-texture-or-background.php

They are in fact different images LOL. I am just shocked to see images on IS that wouldnt even pass muster at DP or CanStockPhoto

There is presumably a Plot afoot. Probably we should be very afraid.
I don't usually suspect iS of advance planning (unless it's some way to shaft us).

I love this one.
http://www.istockphoto.com/stock-photo-25704679-wet-white-onion-with-roots.php?st=9e66cb0

I really don't understand their plan if there is any. Quality of images was probably last advantage of iS.

Quote from: jm on July 08, 2013, 22:39
I love this one.
http://www.istockphoto.com/stock-photo-25704679-wet-white-onion-with-roots.php?st=9e66cb0

I really don't understand their plan if there is any. Quality of images was probably last advantage of iS.

Only from iStock - Thank god.

Don't worry. Quality control is still there. My latest rejection:

Quote from: rimglow on July 08, 2013, 22:58
Don't worry. Quality control is still there. My latest rejection:

I learnt a lot from my istock rejections. Too bad istock is not giving these contributors a chance to learn from their mistakes and improve their skills.

I am not blaming the contributors for uploading, all over the stock world people are looking at old files and rejects to send them off to istock.

But I really don't understand how files like these will attract new customers and grow sales. SS and all the other sites, must be handing out free champagne whenever one of these files  get's accepted. For their sales team christmas came earl this year.

And I sincerly hope this is not done in an attempt to let go of inspectors.

Never a dull moment. Let's see what will happen in September!

SS IPO mentioned they had so many files, valued at blah blah. Maybe Getty is bloating the IS collection so when they put IS up for sale they can say we have so many images valued at blah blah. Driving the price of Istock up.

Quote from: jm on July 08, 2013, 22:39
I love this one.
http://www.istockphoto.com/stock-photo-25704679-wet-white-onion-with-roots.php?st=9e66cb0

I really don't understand their plan if there is any. Quality of images was probably last advantage of iS.

I see your onion and raise you a squash...

http://www.istockphoto.com/stock-photo-25704683-yellow-squash-on-wood.php

One can only hope this is a contributor testing the boundaries just to see...

Quote from: Sean Locke Photography on July 08, 2013, 22:03
http://www.istockphoto.com/stock-photo-25503909-background-from-white-paper-texture.php

Good stuff.

At least it's only 7 credits for an XXXL.

removed

Also, except for my nemesis Keywordzilla, they seem to be letting all sorts of irrelevant keywords through.
Keyword checking has been inconsistent for a long time, but now almost anything goes. Even with the onion and the squash, why were e.g. 'farm' and 'community' let through? (I've seen much, much worse, though.)

Quote from: Sean Locke Photography on July 08, 2013, 22:03
http://www.istockphoto.com/stock-photo-25503909-background-from-white-paper-texture.php

Good stuff.

a real class act, linking other photographers work.

Quote from: tickstock on July 08, 2013, 23:29

Quote from: jsnover on July 08, 2013, 23:25

Quote from: jm on July 08, 2013, 22:39
I love this one.
http://www.istockphoto.com/stock-photo-25704679-wet-white-onion-with-roots.php?st=9e66cb0

I really don't understand their plan if there is any. Quality of images was probably last advantage of iS.

I see your onion and raise you a squash...

http://www.istockphoto.com/stock-photo-25704683-yellow-squash-on-wood.php

One can only hope this is a contributor testing the boundaries just to see...

I'll see your squash with this here potato http://www.stocksy.com/19921

again, a real class act linking other peoples work.