My month of waiting has finally come up on Sunday.  I would really like to know if you guys would be able to help me out and help me pick my 5 to submit to StockXpert that way I don't have to get rejected again. Would that be possible?

I'd really appreciate it.

I've heard news that Alamy plans to add an internet uploading option.  What do people think of this?  Are people going to join/add more photos?  What do you guys think?

I know its gonna entice me to try it out.

This is what they said

Sorry but the quality of your files isn't high enough for inclusion to iStockphoto. Thanks for your interest in istockphoto, but we cannot accept you as a contributing photographer.

I don't get it though, because I had submitted photos that they had accepted in my inital submission, then they tell me to submit more, then they reject me entirely.  I really hate that site

Just an update on my Dreamstime photos...I've dipped to 25% again    Everyone took this last batch - albeit was StockXpert and Fotolia and Featurepics (which is useless, haven't gotten a single sale) but what can you do.  I get the same "poor lighting setup" message.  But then again, I get the for everything I put in most of the time, so I really don't know what to do about it.  Still stuck at 18 photos.  Although 123RF seems to be doing well for me so I'm happy about that.

I don't think anyone is totally rejected DT - we are merely stating are high discontent with their inconsistency.  Mistakes are okay but inconsistency is not as easily forgotten.

This "best-quality image/top quality/super-quality image" search is, in my opinion, a way to reject photos.  Photos with scratches and dust spots and bad lens flare and all that kind of stuff is bad and should be rejected.  With that said, I think that a market can be generated for marginally rejected photos by selling them through a discounted-style site for people who don't need the very best quality and they are just putting a .7 MP photo on a webpage somewhere or something like that. 

Again, I understand the desire for quality so I may be overruled fairly quickly which is alright as well.

My photos, which are not good for Dreamstime because they lacked concept, proper lighting and such,were good enough for 123RF and Fotolia and Shutterstock (the 2 that were accepted before they shafted me) and they are selling fairly well.

Cheers

From what I'm reading, Getty had record revenue and some other stuff as well.  They also acquired another microstock company Stockbyte.  Never heard of them.

I think you are absolutely correct.  The best way to do it would be that way - provided that reviewers are top-notch.  You would then have a system that would probably take a little bit longer but the end-result would be better quality photos and perhaps better feedback on the pictures. 

What I'd like to see (and hopefully one of these sites goes public or is bought by a public company) is the financial statements of a fairly popular one among photographers to see how well the company itself is doing.  I'm not sure if Getty is public, I'm going to look into that, but because they bought iStock, they would be mandated to publish the financials of iStock.  I would be curious to see how the sites do.

I feel for you GeoPappas.

I have a horrible acceptance rating on that site for POOR CONTRAST, LIGHTING BLAH BLAH...and its really annoying because these pictures are accepted everywhere and they have been making excellent downloads on 123RF so far.  Its very annoying because of the fact that I know my photos aren't bad and that they should be accepted or at least given better reason for rejection. 

I got a POOR LIGHTING SETUP for a picture taken outdoors of a barbecue (which was lit up by the sun).  I guess we have to find humour and just keep submitting and hope that they stop being dumb about it.

In the craziest twist of events, I decided to upload to 123RF because it was easy.  And I guess I'm happy I did because I'm getting downloads there where I haven't gotten 1 download on Fotolia (even though for everyone else its picking up) and I've gotten only 1 download on DT and BS.  I've been on those for 3weeks.  I've been on 123RF for 3 Days and I've gotten 5 downloads already.  Thats fun.  I'm quite impressed.  Thats with 60 pictures by the way.

In your opinion, would you still consider it a BIG 5?

Ooops, forgot one thing:

Don't know how long it took to catch the reviewer, but I just would like someone to review my pictures.

In terms of a corporation, Bigstock has lost all of my respect.  They have been having server problems for over a month, which is pretty sad because their entire system is based on the functionality of their server.  I had a response to one of my e-mails saying they had a renegade rejecting everything and server problems - but what it seems here is the lack of proper control by management. 

It would appear that this could possibly be the future of all mismanaged microstock companies that don't have the proper skills to adapt properly to the ever-changing environment.  What I know is that you can't blame your own inadequacies forever.

Just my thoughts.

They take lots of pride in rejecting me 

I have 16 photos uploaded so far out of maybe 35 or more...and I have a few in pending too, so more rejections on the wayyyyyy...they are pretty harsh on me considering the ones they reject are accepted by almost all the other sites. 

Nonetheless, I know that it means that that I can use it to get better, but I thought I'd just comment on previous threads where I read that Dreamstime was letting up a bit.