Thanks, Collis.  I look forward to an update.

Cheers

Phil

A few days ago, I uploaded 42 photos to the site.  Today, 38 of these images were rejected, mainly due to the fact that the inspector believes the images require a property release.

All of these images were captured from a public waterway.....none of them were captured from private property.

All of these images were accepted on Shutterstock, Dreamstime, Bigstockphoto, Canstockphoto, Depositphotos, Featurepics, Panthermedia, Pixmac and Yamicro.  A number of them were also accepted on Fotolia and Zoonar, and any that were rejected, weren't rejected for this reason.

Is 123RF doing the right thing in rejecting these images, or have all the other sites done the wrong thing in accepting them?

If 123RF believes they've done the right think in rejecting these images on the basis or requiring a property release, they'd better go right through my portfolio and delete many, many of my images that they've previously accepted. 

Quote from: collis on October 29, 2011, 00:09
Hey Phillip, that sounds like an odd situation, do you mean you've uploaded images for the portfolio review? (i.e. to become a contributor) or is this uploading to sell? What is your username? I'll see if I can figure it out - though it is the weekend so it may take me a day or two!

Yes, to become a contributor.

Username: PhillipMinnis

As I stated, the 10 sample images that I uploaded on two occasions disappeared after about 24 hours.


Cheers

Phil

I registered on this site on the 21st of October and immediately uploaded the 10 required sample images.  At the time of uploading these images, I notified the inspectors that I uploaded my images to 15 other microstock photography sites. 

Within two days, my 10 sample photos had disappeared.  I contacted support to notify them of this situation and 24 hours later I received an e-mail from the site requesting me to upload another 10 images.  I did this 24 hours ago and, once again, today, the 10 sample images have disappeared.

Has anyone else had this problem?


Cheers

Phil

Yes, Michael, thank you!

Is anybody having sales on Zoonar?

I was receiving a steady flow of sales each month until the 4th of March, this year.

Since that day, I have not had one sale.

Has this happened to anybody else?

Quote from: pdx on April 14, 2011, 22:53
I agree the caption is lacking in detail (for IS editorial criteria) and would include some brief information on what they are protesting against. What exactly is this carbon tax, does it merely tax vehicle emissions or electricity consumption or what does it entail and how would it affect these people? I would also provide more specific location information, such as "Protesters gather in front of the Town Hall in Canberra...". A simple one-liner caption won't usually cut it for IS - especially when half your caption repeats the same information. Basically, caption the images in such a way where someone (like me) living outside of Oz could look at the image, read the caption, and get a basic yet good understanding of what is going on:

Canberra, Australia - March 23, 2011: Thousands of protesters gather near blahblah Square on a Sunday afternoon to protest against the government's proposed new Carbon Tax. Under the new environmental tax, residents would be required to pay additional taxed based on vehicle mileage and blahblah.

Hope that helps.

Yes, that is a great help!   I'll add more content, and see how they go!   Thank you!

QuoteAs far as the caption rejections, it's hard to give you a suggestion without seeing the image, but you need more details about what's going on, exactly where (street; outside a certain building; something about who the crowd was or how big it was. There are tons of examples already on the site and you can ask in the editorial forum if you're unsure about what to include. One thing that has caused rejections for others is copying from Wikipedia for the caption description.

Ok, I'll accept that I haven't provided enough information about what was going on.

QuoteThe "no celebrities" rule probably has more to do with avoiding treading on Getty's toes than anything else, and I believe they said that big political names fell into that category.

I wouldn't have thought members of the Australian federal opposition, such as Bronwyn Bishop, Warren Truss, Sophie Mirrabella, or even their leader, Tony Abbott, would fit into the category of 'big' political names.  Probably half of the Australian population wouldn't know who some of them are!

I uploaded 20 editorial images to iStock on the 26th of March.  Today, some 19 days later, 13 of them were inspected.  To my surprise, all of these 13 images were rejected.  The photos were all taken at the 'No Carbon Tax' rally, which was held in Canberra, on the 23rd of March.  I thought I had followed all of iStock's requirements for describing editorial images correctly...in fact, I spent quite a bit of time reading up how they wanted everything set out and done.

Some of the images were rejected for this reason:

The main subject of this image appears to be a known person whose likeness may be protected or cannot be licensed for royalty-free use, including editorial. 

Well, yes, these images do contain known persons......they are Australian politicians, on stage, addressing the 'No Carbon Tax' rally.   Here is one of the images that were rejected for this reason: http://www.dreamstime.com/stock-photography-no-carbon-tax-rally-image18918772

The other batch of images were rejected for this reason:

**Please provide a descriptive caption that explains who is in the photo.

The caption information for this submission is either too brief and does not describe the scene successfully, or it is unclear, or both. The caption is where you supply the 4 W's: Where was the image made? When was the image made? Who or what is in the image? What is happening in the image? Please provide adequate information, clearly, and entirely in English.

Please provide captions in this format:

City, Country - Month Date, Year: Caption descriptive text.

and.........

here is what I provided with the image:

Caption
Canberra, Australia - March 23, 2011: No Carbon Tax Rally, 23 March, 2011, Canberra, Australia

Description:
Protesters at the No Carbon Tax Rally, 23 March, 2011, Canberra, Australia

Here is one of the images that was rejected for this reason: http://www.dreamstime.com/royalty-free-stock-images-no-carbon-tax-rally-image18918009

I'm just not sure how to placate iStock's inspectors.  Is it me that's got it all wrong, or is it them?

Oh, and by the way, all of these images have been accepted as editorial content on Dreamstime, Shutterstock, Featurepics, Scanstockphoto, Panthermedia, and 123RF.  They have been online on some of these sites for over two weeks!

There's only a few hours left in February, and I still haven't received my January Thinkstock earnings from iStock. 

As yet, I have not received my Thinkstock earnings for January on iStock this month.  Have any others received theirs?

Yes, that's correct I did, but it appears you have not read all of my posts in this thread!!!

I can't remember the exact words that I used to them in the site-mail, but I expressed my dismay at some of the rejections, particularly, the two images that are amongst my best sellers in iStock.  Because of this, I could not see the point in having my images on the site, if some of my best sellers were rejected.  That is what I used as the justification to ask for my account to be closed.

As I said, after the first inspection, I sent them an e-mail to express my frustration that my Eiffel Tower image had been rejected.  It is my best seller on Shutterstock....it's sold 131 times!  I received no reply to my e-mail, but when I sent the second e-mail, some 30 hours later, asking for my account to be closed, for the aforementioned reasons, it was closed within two hours of me sending the e-mail.

I can't understand that I wasn't sent an e-mail to address my frustration, before my account was closed.

I certainly wouldn't treat any of my suppliers this way in business.

Oh, well, it's all now too late!

I sent the site an e-mail after the first 25 were inspected, and protested about the number of rejections, and then yesterday, when the same pattern occurred with the second batch, which included my best seller on iStock, I asked them to close my account.  I could not be bothered with so many rejections on a new site, when I'm so well and truly established on 13 sites, and have been on most of them for nearly four years.   

I've just tried to log in to my account.......it's been closed!

Strange, really, as I didn't receive a reply to my first e-mail,in which I protested about the number of rejections, but my second e-mail, which I sent some 30 hours after the original one, was read, and acted upon within a couple of hours.  It's a pity that someone from the site didn't reply to either of my e-mails, before acting so swiftly on my request to close my account. 

I applied to join Stockfresh around last June.  I was finally accepted around last October.

Due to work committments, I  have not had the time to upload around 1700 of my images.  However, in the last few days, I uploaded them all, and then started moving over 25 per day, which is the maximum permitted in each 24-hour period.

Within a few hours of moving them across, they were inspected.  To my great disappointment, out of the first batch of images, 28 were rejected, and 21 were accepted...one didn't upload properly, so I deleted it.  So far, that's less than a 50% acceptance rate.....way below every other of the 13 sites that I upload to.  I expected some rejections...each site has different requirements and standards, but not this many!

One of the images rejected is my best seller on iStock.  See here: http://www.istockphoto.com/stock-photo-5642037-air-conditioning-ducts.php  The image has sold 297 times on the site, and earned me around $300.00US.  It's also a good seller on some other sites.  If that wasn't enough, another of the rejections has sold 42 times on iStock.

Are other people having the same experience?

I don't intend to waste my time moving any more across, if this is how it's going to be, and I wrote and told Peter that.

admin edit: changed the subject to be more descriptive.

I appear to be having the same problem

On the 1st of June, all of the sales that I achieved on Polylooks during the month of May, were credited to my Zoonar account. 

On the 1st of July, all of the sales that I achieved on Polylooks during the month of June, were credited to my Zoonar account. 

The sales that I achieved each month far out-weighed what I have been achieving on sites such as Featurepics, Cutcaster, Veer, Deposit Photos, and Graphic Leftovers.  For a relatively new site, and considering that I've only been a member of Zoonar for a short time, I was more than pleased with the sales that I achieved during this two-month period.

However, I'm puzzled why it appears that I didn't achieve ONE sale on Polylooks during the 31 days of July.

I wrote to Zoonar's Michael, yesterday, to ask him to look into this matter.

He promptly replied to my e-mail, offering me the possible reason for the lack of any sales during July, might be due to the fact that a lot of people in Germany are on holidays during July and early August and, consequently, photo sales should be expected to be low.

I notified him that I could not get Zoonar to work for a number of hours between the 31st of July and the 2nd of August. I asked him to look into the possibility that if the Zoonar site was down during this period, the Polylooks sales figures for July may not have updated properly on to the Zoonar site.  He promptly replied to my request and stated that he would look into this.

It might be a good idea for others in the same situation to log their concern in this thread.

Has anyone had a 'batch' of images inspected, lately? 

I had a batch of around 100 images inspected on the 16th of June, then around 20 images inspected on the 5th of July.  I still have 717 awaiting inspection that I uploaded during the promotion.

I know they're completely overworked.....probably 100's of 1000's of images were uploaded during the promotion.  I'm glad I'm not an inspector on that site!

I'd be interested to hear if others have had any inspected lately.....

In my opinion, after the way many of us have been treated, it will take a lot for them to get photographers to start uploading again. 

I had two goes at Crestock.  Both times, I had no more than 25 images accepted out of a pf of nearly 1000 images.  I regarded it as an absolute insult!  I pulled the pin for the second time about a year ago.

In my case, I won't be contributing to the site, again, unless they pay me to.

After the standard set by DP, Zoonar, and Veer, I'd be mad to waste my time doing it for nothing!

For the last few months, I've been averaging sales of around $120.00 on iStock each month.  So far, this month, I've only had sales of $38.00.

Is it just me, or are there others who are experiencing a downturn in sales?

OK, an update..........

On the day the promotion started, I commenced uploading batches of 100 each week.  Since that time, I've had three batches inspected, and out of those three batches I've had 245 approved.  I'm happy with that.  I now have another three batches awaiting inspection. 

Between now and the end of the promotion, I'll be able to upload another three batches of 100. 

I'm hoping to get between 600 and 700 images approved during the promotion.

The good news is that I've had two batches inspected in the last four days, so the inspection process seems to have cranked up a notch.

Yes, for a new site, I find it a bit strange that after three days, my five have not yet been inspected. 

Nobody heard of it, or had anything to do with it?  http://www.photaki.com/

Does anybody upload to Photaki? 

If so, what's the sales like?

I've used ProstockMaster for about 15 months, now.  I'm very happy with the program.

Here is my referral link: http://www.prostockmaster.com/?refcode=2763

I've only had three sales, with a portfolio of 1207 images.  Each of those sales has netted me $2.60 each.  Even though it's not satisfactory, it's a darn site better than the five sales I've had on Featurepics over the past five months, totalling $2.10! 

It's a nice easy site to upload to, and the staff are very helpful and friendly!