wow................ glad to see it ended on a happy note!! .....
whitechild... I learned a long time ago... "it is what it is...." you're going to disagree with some rejections and... surprisingly, find you
have to agree with some others. It's a fact. I've uploaded my share of pix that got shot down and low & behold, the reviewer was right. Ya learn, ya move on.
On the other hand... I do not agree with a blanket charge that when there is a varying of acceptance between different agencies that this means your work is a big lump of non-commercialbility (is that a word?, it is now
. However, I have not looked at your entire 'port.
I have been in the biz for years now and have made '
a few' bucks at it and microstock has been a very lucrative springboard for me into free lance magazine/book/publishing work. All that considered, just last week I had images shot down as being '
snapshots'... Well, to that reviewer, they were. To reviewers at IS, they weren't and they are already selling. I have seen plenty of work not my own, that should never have been shot down. The reviewer must have been smoking the funny weed... but that's the nature of this biz.
My point.. it's not worth the bad vibes to dwell on it. My motto is.. Photographs are like nachos.. I can always make more.
On the final hand... I agree with
Sharply Done in the couple points he made about your images... Personally, I have found the man's advice to be more helpful than not by a large margin. Fact is, I don't recall ever disagreeing with his tech opinions. They are usually right on. If you can take existing pix in your port and tweek them to a more commercial look, why not do it?
And... as you see the results of those efforts, next time in the field.. take a bit more time and try to pull a better image out of the cam.
One other thing about this biz... is profitability vs productivity. The more you pull sellable (i'm coining words all over the place) out of the cam and reduce post work, the more profit you make.
SharplyDone... great advice!
=tom
There is a lot of good help to be found from some very successful 'Togs here on MSG. (and I am not including myself in that group)
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My gut still hurts from laughing... that should be put in a movie somewhere.... 
