In the future, all of the microstock companies will be owned by one individual. Me. All shall kneel before me, and agree that without Whiz there would be no microstock. 

Or not.

I don't see why microstock would go anywhere. The only problem is that too many photos, illustrations; etc will be available. The increasing competition may make it more difficult to make money. This will be especially true for those who are just starting out in microstock photography in five years. So either microstock companies will raise their standards excruciatingly high, or they will start deleting images that don't sell(like Fotolia does).

Make sure that you have the correct language selected in your control panel. Somehow I accidentally selected Dutch as a language once. Or maybe it was just a glitch.

Weird. All of the photos in my latest batch were accepted. But I mostly shoot isolated objects so maybe that's why. Or maybe I just had a nice reviewer.

I managed to get thirteen out of fifteen accepted about a week ago. I was pleasantly surprised too.

I have 250 images on DT, and sell 1 per week. Low.

Same here. I need some affiliates.

Two or so days.

In the beginning, I didn't even know what an f-stop was so I used the default camera settings(sad, I know). I think it was 2.8 or so. Now that I understand what it is, I use an f-stop of around nine for most of my photos. I've read that a really high f-stop can make the image less sharp. What are your thoughts?

Maybe try submitting your photos in smaller batches? Like five to ten per day or something. I submitted eight photos on Monday, and they approved all of them. And I'm not as good as you are. 

A light tent will help. Or you could use the lasso or magic wand tool to make a selection around the object you want to isolate. You could also create a new layer in Elements 5 and use the pencil or brush tool to trace around the object that you want to isolate. Then select the solid color image outline that you created with the pencil or brush tool and hit delete.

After this, make sure that the selection of the deleted object is still on the screen and switch layers to the image you want to isolate. Use ctrl+shift+i to reverse your selection. Then hit delete and your image will be isolated over whatever color you like(create another layer for your background color). This is a bit different in Photoshop CS(clipping paths), but it will work in Elements 5. Hopefully, I made some sense. You could also just use the brush tool to "wing it" if you like.

Zorki, I think you just had an angry reviewer. I have about an eighty percent acceptance rate at SS, and I only upload around ten to twenty images a week. Usually, I just submit them in batches of five. So like others have said, you should probably just submit your images in smaller numbers. 

I've been having a terrible week at iStock. Anyone else? It's probably just me.

What are your thoughts on my keywords for this photo?

http://www.shutterstock.com/pic-6148075-tennis-ball.html


I can't really think of any more keywords to add, so I wanted to see if anyone else could. Thanks.

If I'm inside using a light tent then I use just use manual control. But if I'm outside shooting landscapes, animals, or people then I will use aperture priority.