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Greg Boiarsky:
Istock is unbelievable.  I submitted a series of 16 photos, all processed identically.  Istock takes half of them, says the other half have "artifacting" at full resolution.  What horsewater.  They're all fine, and every other site has taken them.

No wonder SS is overtaking them.  Who needs the aggravation?

leaf:
i second that motion.

My upload time to them is dwindling by theday... so i will have stopped uploading there all together

Striker77s:
If you read the past week or so.  Everyone is complaining about iStockPhoto's approval process.  It is getting slower and slower and they reject a lot of images.  Most of the images I had rejected are not suffereing from the problems they claim, like noise and artifacts lack of focus and on and on.  My guess is unless you are one of their prime photographers they aren't going to treat you very well. Oh well,  :-[ It could be new policies coming down from Getty

Mark

chellyar:
Their review time certainly isn't that good, but I don't think they are any more or less harsh on rejections at the moment....

Although I did get one odd rejection last week for 'lighting' on a shot that obviously had too much noise in it, but I'd submitted on the off chance..  (It was accepted by SS so I thought I'd giveit a go on SI and DT... DT rejected it for noise (rightly so) and IS on lighting/shadows)

When I look at the images IS rejects vs the other sites there are different 'themes' to the rejections, but I don't think they are being unfair...

I do know that I don't submit similar shots at the same time anymore, as they'll get more picky if you submit a whole block of similiar content at the same time..  You'll get rejetions for noise, artifacts, lighting etc as they will look harder at the group of images than they would if just one shiny screwdriver was in front of them..  Or at least that's my take on it.  (This is similar for all the sites).

I always submit similar images a few days apart so that the reviewers are not getting them all at the same time.

Just my 2c worth...

Greg Boiarsky:
Good ideas.  I hadn't thought about the theme issue, given that SS and others don't seem to do that kind of comparison (although Bigstock has done something similar to me).

I also think that IS doesn't like food shots, or cooking-related shots, as much as others.

Fotolia seems to have a minor bias against mountain shots; they probably have enough already.

Anybody else see any themes?

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