30mb is not 30mp

a 30mp image could easily be under 30mb

high resolution images give you the opportunity to crop in different ways and still have enough pixels left for decent size images to submit to the agencies.

Nikon's 36mp camera gives you a lot of flexibility. but I find that 22.3mp is enough to play around with

also, if you have noisy 36mp images or soft images at 100%, you can reduce the size by 50%, and still have a sharp, noise free appearing image at 18mp

i dont like the composition on most of them

i just pointed towards those black images in  my previous comment.

black is the new colorful

https://www.shutterstock.com/image-vector/colorful-abstract-background-572030401?src=03_bhvnrwEYlmQ9YihrgHg-1-14

haha

and then the similar images, all the same black gradient, unbelievable that this gets through without help on the inside, or it has to be a machine

which reviewer lets through a black image with the title colorful ?

i think the OP is a bit lost

there's so much wrong in the OP, don't even know where to start. worst advice ever.,

if anything changed, its either a bug/mistake or change of exchange rates. what currency did you get paid in? i have a dollar account, but any foreign amount paid will sit in the foreign balance, the dollar balance is updated based on the current exchange rate, if the foreign exchange rate changes, then the dollar amount reflects that change

i highly doubt paypal skimming off cents to line their pockets

i didn't request anything. just wanted to understand your reasoning.

how do they both get the model releases?

why would anyone buy your holiday photos? and if there is one category thats over saturated its travel

your holidays snaps probably wont have commercial value, you only have 100 images, they are average, and then consider competing against 100 million other images,

its somewhat comforting to read that people new to the business are struggling though, maybe we finally have reached a saturation point, where people like you give up after 3 months. maybe we are at a point that we can start working towards our balance getting restored. and sales improve again for us who have been in the business for decades

sorry to be harsh, but for me its a living, i could do with less competition

not seeing it, plus the new search tab just shows new images, nothing to do with keyword spamming

and the first few rows i checked had frog only once

thats been the case for about 5 years now.