I had 100% rejected on my last batch too, so 90% rejection is definitely something to aspire to

Quote from: AsianEye on December 14, 2008, 18:33
Sent one batch in. All accepted except 2, sent another batch in a couple of weeks later, all were rejected. 100% rejection is absurd. Not wasting my time with such a pathetic outfit.

Well, I used to have 100% accepted batches too. That is why I got so angry at their (almost) complete rejection of my last two batches (I do not think 5-10% accepted images is something to speak about. It is a blanket-rejection for me anyway.) I know my pictures are not worse now - on the very contrary. I just lost my temper with crestock. And I will not change my mind so fast although I have just had a few credit sales there recently (real credit sales, not their stupid (almost)free-of-charge so called subs).

Look weather before uploading...

Although I've had my share of rejections relating to focus issues I would suggest that it's possible that these rejections may be more about slight motion blur from an unsteady camera or too slow shutter speed or both.  I have been amazed at how much vibration there is even on a pretty good tripod.  If you have a DSLR that can do a "live view" and the view can be set to 10X (for me the DSLR is a Canon 40D) then try setting it to 10X in live view and check out how much vibration is going on even when you have it supported on a tripod.  I was amazed the first time I did this and realized that I needed to let the camera "settle" for a few more seconds before all the vibrations has ceased - and then I used a cable release. In the days before digital you would have had to inspect negatives or slides very closely with a high powered loupe - or print the images at a fairly large size to see these focus errors.

Quote from: Fran on December 02, 2008, 18:51
I'm not someone who complains on rejections infact I'm not going to complain even after I got 208 out of 208 rejected here. I've been doing this for just 10 months, i have lots to learn, so I can't really complain if a shot taken at f/11 with focus at infinity is rejected for "out of focus". Well, not one, a hundred of them. It means to me I have to learn to focus better, at infinity.

My only suggestion to the team is to  give more info on your rejections, some of them really don't make much sense, but at least I had a couple of good laughs

Thanks for your help and good luck.

I know, it sounds like I'm complaining... but... come on... out of focus... ah ah ah

That blows my theory about Crestock being a one man operation, which would explain a lot of other questions.  I don't know, do they say on their website how large their full-time staff is? 

Quote from: NewImage on November 28, 2008, 20:45
I feel very rejected by Crestock. I was an inspector for them for a year or more and now when I post on their forums, my posts are deleted. I am quite upset about it. I was not giving away any key secrets or "disclose details of personal employment with Crestock on a public forum" as stated. All I said is I wish I was inspecting still for Crestock as it was a good job to have. They let me go and I never got a reason why. Afterward I emailed several times asking why and got no response to why. My post can not be deleted on this site by them or many of the other microstock forums. I guess I am not welcome to post on Crestock forums without good reason. Not to mention my images that I uploaded are just dissapearing during their reviewing. They are not in my rejection folder or in my portfolio. I am sure this is just a coincidence that I am uploading and they are dissapearing.
After uploading, it shows they are pending then the same day I get a email saying they have been reviewed. Then they are simply NOT there.

Sorry, Josh does refer to a "Crestock Team" in his signatures - my apologies.

Quote from: download on December 15, 2008, 19:23
That blows my theory about Crestock being a one man operation, which would explain a lot of other questions.  I don't know, do they say on their website how large their full-time staff is? 

Quote from: download on December 15, 2008, 19:23
That blows my theory about Crestock being a one man operation, which would explain a lot of other questions.  I don't know, do they say on their website how large their full-time staff is? 

One person?  If he's busy with something else, he just rejects 100% to save time. 

Never started at this site, so I have no account, no photos, no rejections and of course no complaints.

Quote from: download on December 15, 2008, 19:18
Although I've had my share of rejections relating to focus issues I would suggest that it's possible that these rejections may be more about slight motion blur from an unsteady camera or too slow shutter speed or both.  I have been amazed at how much vibration there is even on a pretty good tripod.  If you have a DSLR that can do a "live view" and the view can be set to 10X (for me the DSLR is a Canon 40D) then try setting it to 10X in live view and check out how much vibration is going on even when you have it supported on a tripod.  I was amazed the first time I did this and realized that I needed to let the camera "settle" for a few more seconds before all the vibrations has ceased - and then I used a cable release. In the days before digital you would have had to inspect negatives or slides very closely with a high powered loupe - or print the images at a fairly large size to see these focus errors.

Quote from: Fran on December 02, 2008, 18:51
I'm not someone who complains on rejections infact I'm not going to complain even after I got 208 out of 208 rejected here. I've been doing this for just 10 months, i have lots to learn, so I can't really complain if a shot taken at f/11 with focus at infinity is rejected for "out of focus". Well, not one, a hundred of them. It means to me I have to learn to focus better, at infinity.

My only suggestion to the team is to  give more info on your rejections, some of them really don't make much sense, but at least I had a couple of good laughs

Thanks for your help and good luck.

I know, it sounds like I'm complaining... but... come on... out of focus... ah ah ah

I use manfrotto metal or wooden tripod with timer counting 5 seconds before shutter release. So, I don't beleive that MY images was 'out of focus'...

The point is I have got even my bestseller vector files rejected there ;-)

You guys must have Cameras with initial prices more than $8000 body to earn $.25 - $.30 on Crestock...

They are dreaming some dream - let them dream... It is all what they'll have after they wake up ;-)

Quote from: download on December 15, 2008, 19:27
Sorry, Josh does refer to a "Crestock Team" in his signatures - my apologies.

Josh and his dog?

No, there are more people there, but I don't know how many.

Crestock has a full-time team of 6 (not including programming, development and accounting) spread across Norway, Denmark and Scotland. On top of that we have 17 full and part time image inspectors.

And, i have 2 dogs for the record.

All the best and a happy holiday season,

Josh - The Crestock Team

Well, since Josh is actually reading this thread, then maybe he would be kind enough to address some of the complaínts directly - and in details.....?

Maybe Josh would be kind enough to explain just WHY we should continue to upload?

It seems to me that most of the agencies - especially the ones as small as Crestock, actually does have an interest in the contributors. With Crestock, it seems to be quite the opposite? The less contributors, the better! So Josh, please expand on this... The official and the non official Crestock policy for contributors...

I for one would certainly like to know if I should consider uploading more images...

/Flemming

Hi, Josh!
I have some pics as 'Images awaiting evaluation' for a two months already.
Please tell us truly if small contributors are not welcome to Crestock- to go somewhere else looking for
microstock companies!
My username on Crestock is 'vanias'.

Best Regards
  vanias.   

Yes, the same here. Why have my images been piling up for two months now? Not ONE inspected out of ca. 200. Why?

Thank You Josh!
Happy Holidays !
vanias

CS rejected 50/51 of my images... Some of these are good selling images on other agencies...

My will  for uploading files on CS is totally defeated ...
Maybe I will close my account after another upload batch.

100% rejection today "We were unable to view this image at 100%. Please resubmit it to us. " 
Crestock, the 100% rejection agency with blind (or alcoholic) inspectors!!!

Please refer to the email I've sent you regarding this.

For general reference, any images left unsubmitted on the server for somewhere between 3-6 months will be moved to a secondary server where they are not easily accessible by our image reviewing interface. To avoid this occuring and to avoid the risk of having them unnecessarily rejected, I really do suggest just submitting files as soon as you can after uploading, and certainly in less time than 3 months or so.

Merry Christmas and a happy new year to all,

Josh - The Crestock Team

Sorry Crestock but again 100% rejection.
Sending e-mails to Crestock it's just a fairy I send already twice an e-mail and no one responding.
Please respond to e-mails...........
Do you really want for us to Quit just say so and don't let us bodering  uploading.
Real crazy stupid rejections overfiltered,noise reduction etc......... please tell me were......       

It's not without reason i asked 3 years ago to terminate my account.

Crestock is only about a few photogs.

Patrick H.

Crestock unfortunately, at least for me, doesn't fetch many sales. Couple this with low payments and it really is not worth while submitting. The number of rejections becomes irrelevant because the money isn't there for the images that are accepted. It's too bad, they seem like a good outfit but...

Peter

I have only been with Crestock for about 6 months, when they accepted 9 of my images. One has sold for 25c!! I have uploaded another 150 or so images a few days ago and every one of them was rejected. Almost all of these have been accepted elsewhere and many of them have sold. They have rejected one image that has sold over 50 times on another site. Has anyone made any progress with them? I have emailed them but no reply

Crestock is by far the slowest at reviewing....its rather painful. I have had files in the queue since the 1st October. I guess by the time they review my christmas images they may appear on the site for next year! If they keep reviewing at this rate I have also already missed Valentines day!

crestock is strange. i remember from this forum when i first joined crestock
and there were lots of experienced stock ppl here who told crestock to dump the judge. well, the judge is still there, and these experienced ppl i met here in this forum are mostly gone.
i took that as a message from crestock to take it or leave it.
so i 've more or less stop submitting to crestock.
my sale? $1 buck . lol . but then, my portfolio is so small there. i quit after i read one of the judge 's choice. it was laughable.

happy birthday CRESTOCK

one + with no uploads

from me ;-)



Befor upload to crestock just read.....

"i will never upload to crestock again"

I've had a very high percentage of model shots rejected by Crestock, shots that were accepted at most of the bigger agencies.  With the last batch I got an email suggesting that I do more work on the models' skin.  I guess they don't like reality, which is certainly their right.  On the other hand, it's not worth my time to edit further for them.  Crestock represents about 1% of my monthly stock income, which hardly justifies a big effort.  So I've decided to compromise: I'll stop sending them pictures they won't like.