Frustration continues...

Finally my batch of 20 got reviewed after a long wait, the same batch as been accepted 100% by SS, StockXpert,Bigstock, 1 rejection from FT and DT each, I got 13 rejections out of IS. ( I even got a nice email from the reviewer at BigStock, " nice work, saves my eyes tonight, thank you" )

The funny thing some photos were rejected for not good enough model release ( the whole batch using the same model release)

Another is on camera flash is not accepted, well I did not use onboard flash, I have flash mounted on a tripod 5 feet away from camera just to add a tinkle to the eye, cannot tell flash is used.

Another one is over filtering or cannot find a focal point, ( those are for model portrait, try to make it a little soft ) yet it is perfectly focused.

The worst one is in camera settings! I shoot raw and convert to Tiff, then go through Neat Image, then save to Jpeg 12, I don't see how the setting has been affecting quality.

However most of the accepted one got rated 5 out of 5 star, though they were shot at the same time at the same place using the similar settings.

Not only IS is distance 4th, after SS, DT and FT, but more pain to deal with them, besides it's so hard to build the portfolio with them, anyway I am dissappointed.

Thanks, Phildate.
I tried again, still not working.
Maybe I will try tomorrow, could be something with my internet service? but certainly I don't experience any delay in surfing the net.

Anyway I guess I forgo this week's upload then:(

Thanks Mellisa, I got this working now.

Souds like you still have decent returns for your efforts.
i started with IS, DT and FT at the same time with same images, now I got:

FT 248 Pic  112 DL
DT239 Pic   213DL
IS  85 Pic     63 DL

Download per image is comparable,  but not only IS rejects lot more,  slow to build up a portfolio, and also lowest in average $ per download, so in two month I am at it:

I earned 5.7 times more on DT, and 2 times more on FT,

So I think I started to lose interest in them, especially their painful uploading system and rejections.

Thanks, I have to leave Image manager on in order to preserve that, somehow my image manager never loaded onto the computer, every time I have to rerun set up, I must have some issue with the software, maybe I will ask the Image Manager developer to figure this out.

Finally I can submit 20 images after over 1 week wait, I inputed all the catergory and title, keywords in a 20 file batch, but the Image Manager keep give me an error message, " title can not have repeated words"
After a search on the forum, found out that it's a known error, I don't know when they will fix, but my efforts are all wasted, need to reinput, that really sucks:(

Welcome to this site.
I am a newbie as well, being only online with micro for 2 months, found out about this site 1 month and half ago, very friendly and helpful site.

Since then I have 1336 pictures at 6 sites, with total downloads of 1014, so pretty happy so far.

But I do consider drop BigStock, they only give me 18 downloads with 160 pictures:(

Thanks for the quick response.
I understand the initial batch of 250 approved got me a huge boost, there is one day like 50 downloads, but since then I average 50 uploads a week to keep it up, but the overall download has gone down to half as much.

Typically its' around 350-750 range, I think I have checked most images, maybe I should take the check mark off since some of them are uploaded to BigStock as well.

I have on BigStock for almost two months, with 160 pictures, I know it's such a small portfolio, but compared with my revenues from other sites, BigStock really is in the toilet, is it worthwile to keep it?

I have only 18 downloads during the same time, while I have 108 from FT, and 202 from DT, of course SS has 577 downloads in half of the time but double the images ( plus 3 entended license sale!)

With the commitment of 90 days, and low sales, doesn't sound this is a viable place to spend my time on it, what do you think?

Just got strange rejections from SS, saying " cannot read model release's name" as a reason.
so the whole batch of 20 got rejected . I told them I was the witness, and then they said you can't be the photographer and witness, have someone else sign it and print their name and resubmit the whole thing.

So basically I have to submit the whole thing, and reenter all the key words and everything else for a model release issue, very unfriendly way of handing my work.

thanks for all the feedback, i will resubmit with more acurate key wording but grouping similar shots together in order to avoid future problem or possible warning from SS, after all it's my biggest money maker now, DT is slightly below them though.

I am a newbie, let me start, so to see where I am:

I started in July, and some sites in Aug, overall I have about 29 days average across 6 sites, with a combined images of 1016, and the total for my first full month is : $249.00, so with this math, maybe if I double my portfolio with like kind of quality I maybe able to hit $500/per month.

of course I made 100.25 at SS for 12 days on line with 329 images
                          89.10 at DT for 36 days on line with 206
the rest is not even close to the two top which include FT, StockXpert, IS, BigStock