I recently had one image at Dreamstime that got this rejection.  It was a photograph and not an illustration.  The thumbnail looked fine, but I guess it got corrupted during upload.  I thought about emailing support, because on Dreamstime the corrupted image also affects the approval ratio.  But since it was only one image I didn't bother.

Mine have been like that for months.  It takes a few weeks before any views and sales, and then that batch starts selling.  Every batch I have to wait quite a long time before they have views, but they do show up.

I uploaded a batch by ftp this morning and they still aren't in the "unfinished files" section.  I thought maybe I skipped Dreamstime when I was uploading to all the sites so I tried again this afternoon and they still aren't there.

Is it just me?

about 3-4 weeks ago I was having a surf, and followed links along and a popup windows appear (turned the popup blocker backon since) anyway, close window and a new one appears, again and again,  after a few of these I am on a page for 'enlargement' products and there is about 5 photos of couples giving the testimony of how well it works. Thought it was bloody funny when I'd had a few and recognised all the models from stock

Yeah, when I first started microstock I never realized just how many ads use microstock to sell something the model doesn't relate in real life.  I'm still waiting to see an advertisement of myself advertising some embarassing condition, phobia, or pill. 

You smart guys and gals probably know this already, but I just found out Yuri's girlfriend is single!

Here is a picture that proves it.
It must be true.  The internet never lies.  I already signed up!

I just noticed I didn't have to delete my description in fotolia for each uploaded image.  The system now retrieves the title correctly. 

I logged into my paypal account and noticed I received a payment for $58.78 from the company www.inmagine.com

I've never sent pictures to them so I was really shocked.  I realize that they are affiliated with 123rf, but I also thought that any sales made by them would show up in my 123rf account, sort of like stockxpert and photos.com

Anyone else have this experience?  I'm sure there must be.

 

I just wanted to share something I just noticed and find quite amusing.
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Snapvillage adds their own keywords to your lame excuse of a list you supplied.

Here is an image of mine.

Snapvillage added the words "overworked, one man, one person, half length, half-length, in the park, laying down, crash, crashed, and crashing"  I believe I added the others that are listed.  I do find it a pain in the @$$ to upload to them five at a time, but their reviewers do a quick and decent job on their end.  Especially since they come up with more keywords for you.  Kudos to Snapvillage.

  I had to say something about Snapvillage that was nice, because even if they don't make alot of money for me,  I have been able to make payout the last few months.  Thanks.

All you others let me know what you think of this.  Also I think it would be interesting if people posted the keywords Snapvillage added to your picture that you wouldn't have added yourself.

Thanks for the comments guys!  I have never consistently used age as a keyword, but will now start.  I was afraid just having a number in the list would look out of place and may get the image rejected.  (Well you never know anyways)

I was reading the forum at Dreamstime and came across this one...
http://www.dreamstime.com/thread_10701

I was wondering what everyone does over here.  If you shoot a child, do you put their age as a keyword?  If you do, do you put "ten" or "10"?  And finally, do you think any agencies would reject a picture for this keyword(s) for incorrect or unneeded keywords?

Thanks for your thoughts.

Now that I have your attention I can let you know that I am in fact a "douche bag".  Well at least that's what someone thinks.

I was searching google for my pics and I finally found one and was credited for it.

Here is the link and have a laugh at my expense.
http://www.thetruthaboutromance.com/101/whyguys.aspx

I do have to admit that it's not my best picture by any stretch of the imagination and thankfully it is me instead of my daughter or someone else.

Let me know what you think,  am I a douche bag for having sparkles?

I know I am pretty new to this.  I'm the typical guy who loves to take pictures and have all his family say how good they are.  Over the course of a few months I have come to realize that they don't really know much about the technical aspects of photography.  They don't notice some of the harsh shadows or blown highlights.

As for 123rf, I have come to the conclusion that they must be cracking down on their acceptance criteria because I used to get EVERYTHING accepted, and I do mean everything. Some of my early stuff seems really horrible.

Anyways out of 156 photos this month I have 76 approved, 37 pending, and 43 rejected.  The rejection ratio is much higher than usual. 

The recent rejections could be from taking pictures outside, instead of in my home studio where I have a little learned a little more control on taking pics.
I suppose everyone receives more rejections when leaving their comfort zone... but how else do you get better.

Do you receive more rejections when yuo change your shooting style?  What's your take on 123rf as far as recent rejections?