50% of submitted images going to the Data Market place where they are pending forever, seems like SS does not want any real photos from photographers anymore

I have pending pictures for their crappy data market places for 3 months now,
shuttershock is become more ridiculous by the day

and downloads from their unlimited plan do not count as downloads towards our levels, nice trick SS to keep us low leveled

I have files in queue for 2 and some for 3 months, what is going on?
that never happend and it is damaging my sales, all non AI

hard to believe that some people got paid a lot of money to design this crap 

I would decline this new design with reason "not in focus" or "noise" 

it was better last week, now this week everything gets declined again for crap reasons like noise.

I think I will just stop uploading with them, it is my main income agency with a 4 digit number every month but I cannot take this daily frustration anymore.

Quote from: Uncle Pete on December 06, 2021, 16:54

Quote from: pic_pom on December 01, 2021, 13:15
i produce 50 MP pictures and it a shame to downsize them to 20 or less.

I might have missed the answer but What camera and what lenses? 50MP images are pretty large.

that's a Canon R5

I shot with a Canon R5 and RF lenses, almost impossible to get blurry pics as it has so many stabilizers inbuild now, so pictures are roughly 8200x5500 pixels

what I see is that with editorial pictures there is almost no issue with focus or noise.
also, when I add specific keywords like blurred, defocussed etc. then picture passes.
model pictures almost passes all the time no matter what is going on around the model.

rain/snow/fog/sand/water causes problems and needs specific keywords in the title and tags

I really think it is an AI problem plus the guy who sits behind the AI and checks, it heavily depends on the weekday as well and on the time when I submit pictures.

no problems with other agencies, no problems with 4k videos as well on SS.

Quote from: Uncle Pete on December 02, 2021, 16:35

Quote from: Wilm on December 01, 2021, 22:49

Quote from: pic_pom on December 01, 2021, 13:15
but i produce 50 MP pictures and it a shame to downsize them to 20 or less.

In my view, this is the wrong approach! You get between $0.10 and $0.20 for most downloads, and with the revenue you worry about the generous buyer only getting a 20 MP photo? How many downloads do you need to even begin to recoup the cost of an equimpment that allows 50MP?

From a financial point of view, I think you need to rethink!

That's my answer too. Just downsize and move on. Giving away 50MP images for a dime is not going to make more than giving away 10MP images for a dime. And if the 10MP images come from that 50MP camera (what the heck is that?) and you are downsizing, you'll have almost no rejections for focus, pixelation, grain, soft or any of the other absurd rejections from the SS Bots.

I have also bigger sales at SS, actually these bigger sales drive the overal revenue, why should I not have the chance to have them?

now, in the last days I did not have any rejections anymore, weirdly exactly after opening this thread, perhaps a coincidence?

thank you for your feedback, I know about the SS forum threads but they are gone now. I will check the other thread here as well

videos I have no problems at all, at they are shot with the same equipment. Also my sales are good, only the acceptance rate really has gone down the drain.
I try it with resizing them and, for my point of view, oversharpening them and it works most of the times. but i produce 50 MP pictures and it a shame to downsize them to 20 or less.

I dont have any problems with other agencies like istock, adobe, getty etc. it is only SS which drives me insane lately.

either it is a wrong adjusted AI or it is some cheap, outsourced workers with low screen resolution and knowledge....

I have been uploading to SS for 5+ years and build a portfolio of 4k+ pictures, but lately it is almost impossible to get new content approved as it is declined for the weirdest reasons, mainly focus or noise, lens dirt, posterization etc.
obviously total nonsense as I know how to edit photos and have pro gear

what is wrong with them? are they viewing the photos in 400% resolution and think they are out of focus?
do they have space problems and dont want new pics anymore?

my acceptance ratio is from 100% to 20% now and I am feeling a little desperate.....

thank you for claryfieng this, I thought my browser is broken and there is no "New Thread" button