All my batch of images are rejected as well as 2 editorial ones needing "proper editorial caption" of which I had already done correctly.

Dying ? The funeral was a long time ago.

Points taken thanks but you would be surprised what does sell. Yes, it may have LCV but hundreds of other images I have taken with LCV have sold with no copyspae etc which is why I always shoot nevertheless. Why not, it costs a second of your time.

I really bought the RX10 for it's versatile video capabilities and lens. I suppose I could continue ( after a sensor clean) using the D200 for my general stock images and the RX10 here and there if I get a strong image with HCV.

Well, show me an image then you think has no noise, and I will check it.

The other one of the dome building I posted with the chinese pic. That is Raw with 125 iso.

Example?

Ok but a little dubious of sharing for fear of image theft from browsers who don't belong to this forum.

https://www.dropbox.com/s/o3d6pxpun6bhqxk/Chinese%20Decorations.jpg?dl=0



https://www.dropbox.com/s/vcun48mcx05i0ke/Ornate%20Dome.jpg?dl=0

Ok, so I have downsized my renderings. Uploaded shots taken in good, clear bright light at 125 iso and I am still getting a lot rejected on the basis of "too soft and blury" and or "excessive noise" - even after editing in Lightroom. I hardly ever has issues like this with my Nikon D200.

4 accepted and 12 rejected. 

Easy to upload so why not ? Also, they do make some sales for me. Just had another whole batch bar one rejected. Clowns.

And I make 0.33 today. It just gets worse and worse and worse.

Soul destroying sales and the uploading process is a complete mess, it's been broken for some time and nobody seems to be fixing it. What more can I say ?

Quote from: Mantis on February 08, 2015, 09:42

Quote from: Rinderart on February 08, 2015, 02:19

A large rubber band. wrap it around the handle of the head, then your finger. It takes a little practice, then slowly pull to Pan. very smooth, Much better than doing it by hand. Very Old trick. adjust tension on the fluid head.I do this on my slider also.
http://www.shutterstock.com/video/clip-1025065-stock-footage-homeless-senior-man-in-an-alley.html?src=gallery/Uz7MkwqcYMaZ6myj6goObQ:1:1/3p

Thanks, Lauren. Pretty cool.

Your very welcome. Also, Never had a problem sharing Ideas , tips or tricks and I Like competition. Someone gets good. Im all for it.

That is magnanimous of you Lauren. Much appreciated. There seems to be many facets of your talent which I admire. Thanks for sharing. My main income is from music/sounds but if I can get more into footage, trying to avoid the over saturated cliches it would be nice.

Has anyone experienced a few rapid cuts/fades telling a story making sales ?

I am curious to know if anyone has success with footage at SS. I have recently started to submit so am a bit of a rookie when regarding video. I have produced around 103 files and so far had sales I can count on one hand. Fair enough, I don't much with that number but another contributor has had more sales with just 38 and to be honest, I have as much variety but no food shots which perhaps is a good thing to shoot.I know some of the footage is hand held but I did use steady shot thinking it would be ok.

Here is my port so far. http://www.shutterstock.com/video/gallery/Marbury-272143/

 I am learning all the time and hopefully improving along the way. I am shooting with a Sony RX10 in AVCHD, rendering a Quicktime .mov file H264. I have used a trial of PP and currently using Magix 2015 (which seems to crash all the time) so undecided on final software choice so far.  That being said, I just want to keep it simple for now and edit the basics like contrast, saturation as my knowledge of anything deeper is off my radar for now at least.

There is obvious distortion at the top right and and bottom of the pipe starting from about where the streaks of red paint runs down the pipe, I cropped off that bit and I was left with about 10MP in the centre that is sharp. It's not bad, really, for such a tiny sensor. Stopping down the lens a bit would probably improve things further.

Now some comments for those who wonder whether this really is challenging the DSLRs. I've experimented using a heap of old equipment and I think it's fair to say that the image quality this lens/camera is producing is roughly equivalent to what I have seen from consumer lenses from the 1920s (I must admit, I was surprised at how comparatively good those old primes were, but they were still a long way short of "L" glass on a DSLR). Specifically,  in addition to the lack of sharpness around the edges of the image, I would say the contrast is poor, the bokeh horrible (a bit like the "clumpy" Tessar bokeh, only worse) and the background looks to me as if it has had some in-camera correction applied for noise and CA. The sky is clean - but look at the graininess where the edges of the bridge meets the sky - that suggests cunning noise reduction to me. The out-of-focus tree to the left of where the pipes join has a green cast, which is a sure sign of magenta-green chromatic aberration, but again it seems to have been corrected. If you look at the posts on top of the bridge, the left hand side has a brown/reddish colour while the right hand side has a bluish colour - that's the result of yellow/blue CA.
A lot of this might improve if the lens were stopped down to its sweet point but I think it would probably struggle to get past inspections at Shutterstock, and if you can't rely on your camera to produce stock-quality shots when you are using it properly then I don't think it is any use as a camera for stock. You need to know that if you are doing everything right, then the camera will deliver the goods.

Well it is working for some here who use it for stock. I think you are really nitpicking it. I read in the guide by (can't remember his name) that stopping it more than F8 can give lens refraction issues.

As I didn't have a video camera I thought the RX10 would be worth the price alone for just that job. A bonus if I can get images out of it for stock.

Read this (professional) guy's blog and you can clearly see what it is capable of.

http://visualsciencelab.blogspot.co.uk/2014/01/getting-comfortable-with-sony-rx10.html

Also, look at this Flikr photographer

https://www.flickr.com/photos/125808962@N03/with/15811725933/