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Messages - Pauws99
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« on: May 28, 2015, 01:33 »
If you look hard enough I guess you can find a reason to reject anything as the comments on the image posted shows. I think maybe for some categories the instruction to reviewers is to look for any reason to reject rather than saying "we have too many of this subject - unless your image is stunning it will be rejected"
4302
« on: May 26, 2015, 08:13 »
or after a few days.........
4303
« on: May 26, 2015, 07:58 »
You seem to have the right mind set for this game 
4304
« on: May 25, 2015, 13:24 »
As usual the thread is degenerating - time to take the useful advice at the beginning and do the only worthwhile test of your images - put them up for sale and see what happens 
4305
« on: May 25, 2015, 05:08 »
I would say look on the first three years as a learning experience and take it from there. Thats what I did and the effort far outweighed the monetary reward. However, my skills improved greatly and I'm now in a position that while my "hourly rate" is still quite poor it's not so bad and I'm still on an upward path.
4306
« on: May 19, 2015, 13:30 »
I have the same issue has it gone away for you yet?
4307
« on: May 16, 2015, 11:49 »
Looks like the photodune reviewers have moved in!
4308
« on: May 08, 2015, 00:40 »
SO....Robots are reviewing.lol probably just want to automate everything. Trouble is they can't automate us.
I don't think they are saying Robots are reviewing rather they are saying they are using statistically based sampling methods to audit quality.
4309
« on: May 07, 2015, 18:07 »
You may also need to take seasonal factors into account. IMHO the best way is to chart it then let your brain work out the pattern otherwise it gets complicated and a relatively small data set is not really reliable enough. Better to spend time taking more pics
4310
« on: May 07, 2015, 15:11 »
It probably means once you are on the naughty list its hard to get off it and if a reviewer is (un)lucky enough to get a run of good or poor images they will be under scrutiny. If its a statistical method the best strategy for a reviewer would be to accept/reject images randomly to keep within statistically acceptable parameters.......or am I being too cynical. Most (all) performance targets have unintended consequences in this case rejecting ALL my images!!!  Surely review turnround time is the WRONG priority.
4311
« on: May 07, 2015, 06:59 »
46% increase in images pretty extraordinary considering the number they seem to be rejecting!!!
4312
« on: May 06, 2015, 10:22 »
me too
4313
« on: May 06, 2015, 07:54 »
"I don't know that getting better at photography will help much. I have over 95% acceptance rate at all sites and shoot high demand subjects and still income going down at a troubling rate. I read the same from lots of others.
If you want to improve your skills for personal satisfaction, great. If your doing it for stock income, don't bother."
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Presumably not high demand relative to supply? or not so much in demand now?
4314
« on: May 05, 2015, 04:42 »
Think it is not so much about quality of the photography technically/artistically but rather meeting what the market, or what the agencies think the market, needs.
So far my sales are meeting my modest expectations and still on an upward trend - how long this will last who knows?
4315
« on: May 05, 2015, 04:35 »
I doubt very much this will happen......my bet is the opposite 
4316
« on: April 29, 2015, 11:17 »
Just had pics reviewed by Photodune and zoonar - Zoonar accepted 19/20 and PD 1 out of 20. Guess which one PD accepted. Yep I do mostly travel type stuff so it probably explains it!
4317
« on: April 27, 2015, 09:01 »
H'mm I think a range doesn't have a median a range or group of numbers does. A range has a midpoint in this case $5,005. I could be wrong I got into Mstock to get away from this stuff but while I'm here statistical significance relates to sample size and variation rather than absolute value
4318
« on: April 27, 2015, 06:24 »
I've always found it slow but occasional bouts of activity signalling a false dawn. No dawn for me so far this month.
4319
« on: April 27, 2015, 03:39 »
I like 123 good customer support decent sales uploading is quick and easy high acceptance rate
Yeh me too though their software seems a bit flaky at times - long processing times and periods where sales data goes AWOL but one of the better sites in my opinion.
4320
« on: April 27, 2015, 01:02 »
Are you thinking of people shots? If so its worth thinking about occasionally hiring a studio imho
4321
« on: April 27, 2015, 00:46 »
When I started getting rejections for noise for the first time I realised something was not quite right! 
4322
« on: April 27, 2015, 00:46 »
When I started getting rejections for noise for the first time I realised something was not quite right!
4323
« on: April 26, 2015, 16:21 »
Why didn't you leave them there to earn the odd $. It would be a lot of work loading them back up if the site improved?
4324
« on: April 25, 2015, 12:48 »
I've been saying this for years -- what they need to do is put upload limits on contributors and let us edit ourselves. As you get more successful, your upload limit would increase. Likewise if you make poor decisions your maximum number of uploads would decrease, giving you incentive to be choosier about what you upload. They could save a ton of money on reviewers, contributors would be much happier, and I think the overall quality of uploads would improve. But I'm not going to hold my breath waiting for it to happen.
That is actually a great idea - if you ever set up a site let me know!
4325
« on: April 25, 2015, 12:05 »
Some sites tell you they already have enough and unless its better than what they have it won't get accepted (Dreamstime I think) - seems a sensible approach.
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