I don't mean to sound negative, but I can't screw around with having mutliple sizes for different agencies.  I should, but I don't because it's just an extra step - more time consuming.  Maybe this is why it's been about 2 months that I've already been accepted to Alamy, and yet I still haven't gotten around to upsizing all of my images for upload. 

So are we supposed to have 3 versions of every image?  One saved for Alamy sizes, one for SS, and the other for the rest of the micros where larger sizes yield larger payouts?  That's just too much work, to me.

Save the resize as an action.  Mine literally takes me two extra clicks to resize for Shutterstock and Alamy.

I can't get over my Fotolia rejects lately.     Normally I can understand what they're saying.  But lately it's all the same rejection - "similar photograph already submitted"

Am I like entirely crazy here or is this "similar photograph" rejection just an easy out when a reviewer (who reviewed 20 images in less than 30 minutes) wants to just hit the button. 

Same here, I was submitting shots earlier and they were being reviewed literally as I was submitting them, and loads and loads were knocked back for being too similar!  Sometimes designers need different views of the same subject!  I've noticed often places like SS and IS I'll get multiple downloads of the same subjects within minutes.

I do the same thing. Nothing else.

Perhaps your images need further inspection, I guess my images are clean and sharp they dont inspect every one of them because one momet whole batch is pending, the other is all aproved... This is just my guess. They are thinking whether to accept it or not. hhhhh

Can you  post a sample of your pending images?

They're all images that have been accepted on iStock and Shutterstock, so I doubt they're "thinking" about them.  From my previous two batches of 50 they only rejected two images, so I can't be that bad!  I can't remember how long they took though, I did them a few weeks ago.

I can try and push everything through to my fotolia portfolio if they want to buy it...

Got this one for motion panning if you like...


And this one for an amateur doing sport?  Got loads that could fit this brief too, rock climbers, could even dig through my sunday league football shots if you wanted something like that.



Some sports

well i think that was Lee's point.  These events are attended by non avereage stock shooters.  They are not made to appeal to the average stock shooter.   If it was it probably wouldn't be for a week.  The only ones who can take a week off are the ones who are self employed stock shooters.

Not sure which country you live in, but in the UK most employees of private companies get 21+ days off of holiday per year.  That's four weeks if you play your cards right.  It's not unfeasible to take a week off to go on a photographic hobby!

Well I'm interested in going, but I'd rather camp or stay in a hostel than pay those ridiculous prices for the hotels.  I don't think I'd go anywhere in Europe and pay that much!  They seem to have made deals with the hotels though, so I guess they probably get a cut of what the hotel takes.

1) The model is a pro.  She gets paid to work by the photographer/company doing photography.  Common enough.
2) The model isn't a pro and the photographer is.  She pays the photographer to do her portfolio.  Very common here.
3) The model and the photographer want to both get something for nothing and they do TFP.  Happens all the time.

Around here it's completely the other way around.  Photographers pay models, models very rarely pay photographers (since models don't NEED portfolios to get signed by an agency - they just need snapshots - then the AGENCY pay for the basic head and body shots).  Lots of very average TFP.

I've actually had more luck recently by looking into the fetish scene - professional dominatrixes need advertising photos and are willing to spend money and escorts always have enough money to pay for photos to advertise themselves.  Slightly too seedy for alot of people, but doesn't bother me in the slightest!  The sex industry has alot of money to go around, and I'm willing to take a slice of that!

Which site likes what better?

Upload and find out.

No-one can tell you which sites YOUR photos will sell on.  It is a mystery which shots sell and why half of the time!

Depends what you mean by "these images".

In the UK the glamour market is saturated.  There are so many wannabee models who are quite content to send pictures in for free to Nuts and Zoo magazine that they no longer need to pay (unless the photographer sends them an invoice IF they see their work in publication with a threatening letter to take them to court).  FHM use their own in house photographers mostly (apparently).  The top shelf and hardcore adult mags / websites will always need new work from photographers, but it's all about who you know.

Fine art nude depends where you can sell the shots.  Some galleries might take them on, but they all depend on people wanting to buy your work.  Photographs are not as desirable as paintings.  Having said that, my boyfriend collects photographs, but I think he's been educated from me.  In my experience (and gallery owners I've talked to) people will look at a fine art photograph and say "I could do that" and not buy it.  YMMV.

Can't tell you much about the other markets around the world though!

People say the 18-55 kit lens is crap, but I shot most of my microstock portfolio with it before I "treated" myself to the 50mm!

I found it fine, especially if you're still learning.  Use the lens within it's limitations.  You're never going to shoot low light or action with it.  That's why you're buying the 50mm.   

As far as copyrighted images being held hostage, well probably a lot who posted there do not have images registered with appropriate gov't entitities, so no real recourse there.

Just wanted to quickly point something out.  Most of the world doesn't have to register their copyright with the government, they just automatically have it.  And I doubt that US "registered" copyright would actually mean anything more than "normal" copyright in the rest of the world either.  You make something, it's yours.  It's up to the other party to prove that it isn't yours.

You will get dust problems whatever camera you have.

I've not had either my 350D cleaned (which I've had for two years) or noticed dust on my 5D, and I change lenses fairly often.  In fact half the time I leave a lens off while I wander around the house trying to find my other lens...  doesn't seem to have caused me a problem yet.

Really?

The last batch I uploaded to LO I had an 100% acceptance

In Istock Im having an 20%

Mine is the other way round, with about a 35% acceptance on LO.