Hi, I am a newbie here and like to ask for some advice. Since more than 30 years I am running a mail order business in Germany. Some month ago I deceided to improve the the old, poor quality photos in our online shop. Since these are thousands I can not affort a professional photographer. Instead, I bought a Canon 550D, spotlights and other equipment, studied the basics in photography. With every session the photos became better and to check the quality I submitted some to Fotolia.
One of our product lines are metal signs. In my research I found out that there are not so many simmerlar motifs at the microstock agencies. For sure it is a niche market and it requieres a large quantity of photos in order to generate significant sales. Since the stockphotos are like byproducts the cost of production is very minimal, mostly my time consumption for uploading.
Here my problem starts: FT is accepting only a part of my photos, more than 50% are rejected for technical reasons. This is very hard to understand because mostly the photos are from the same design series and session, same settings and quality. There is no system in accepting and rejecting. Very confusing.
The question is, how can I built up an almost complete portfolio?
Here my actual FT portfolio
http://au.fotolia.com/p/200905542A good example for the problem are the white, oval doorplates. Only this 4 where accepted, all for bathroom / toilet doors. But all other like kitchen, guestroom etc. have been rejected.
Thankls a lot and best regards, Jochen