Loved it! Micro is getting so plastic and processed that your computer generated cartoons phrase struck me as not just isolations but also business handshake and girl with headset shots. It's really becoming sterile in so many ways. You are so correct.

I can't remember if it was this Spring or last year, but writing to scout is a waste of time. Rejected for color balance or some vague lighting reason, when the shot was perfect color balance, outdoors at Sunset. Maybe the reviewer never saw Fall colored leaves on tress in India? What difference does it make? I mean is my time worth begging to have a photo up on their site so I can make $1.50 on it, one download a year? If it's rejected, I give up. Is it that important to claw away at their face to make IS recognize that I have a useful shot, even if it would make $10 a year? I don't think so.

Does anyone think that Scout cares if they (I assume it's a position not one person) gets 1000 appeals a day or ten? Maybe my not appealing is helping everyone else, but not wasting time asking for some reasonable review. If Scout is overloaded, there will just be more easy refusals, because the workload is overwhelming and it will drag down the process for everyone, when there are too many frivolous challenges. I'll do my part and give up trying.

Is anybody here getting isolations past reviewers, which were not done in studio with white background?  I just did a quick search of recent images and found very few.  Of the subjects I searched for, most of the photos looked like studio pictures of toys or computer-generated cartoons rather than real-world objects that had been cut out.

I'm trying to understand what is going through their minds.  I've had these isolations accepted in the past, some of which sell well, including a few of them right up until a couple of weeks ago, then .... the axe fell.

If they are saying, don't bother cutting out an image captured in the real world, let the shagging customer do that then they should just say so, dammit.

I've been firing a lot of these into scout, far more than I ever have in the past.  It's frustrating because reviews are taking almost 2 weeks and presumably scout is also getting filled up with appeals to reason by other frustrated contributors.

Like I said before ... I can shoot boring copycat studio images of models and toys too, just tell me if that's the only thing you want me to upload.

Simple solution - stop uploading. I wish everyone would just stop uploading to Getty, especially the independents. You keep uploading and what sort of message does that send to Getty - that it's OK to rip-off their loyal contributors? Do you really want to see the other micros follow Getty's greedy example? Because that's where this is leading to we don't don't find an effective means of protesting the commission cut. Ten cents a download anyone?

Well its easier said then done, you know. If youve got thousands of uploads and reached a good position, gold or diamond,   the only one youre hurting is ofcourse:  yourself and your purse.
To Getty we are a spit in the ocean, they can and will live without us, even replace us before you can say, crap!
Worse!  in the end of all this business,  whos to say we dont get a better deal?

best.