Your a regular Diva of photography HONEY...

Quote from: Seren on September 13, 2008, 13:04
Am I the only one that thinks it's not hard to take ten pictures that will pass inspection with flying colours?  I could do that in twenty mins sitting at my kitchen table.

If you get turned down to sell your stock, perhaps you should go away for a few months and learn how to use your camera properly?

Take your very same 10 photos and submit them around else where and see if very same photos ALL get accepted. You know as well as I do this   industry is quite a racket that has photographer's jumping though hoops and playing guessing games all the time. None of them seem to know what they want, what's selling and what's hot or not. I'm not afraid to say that since I left a very established B&W film history to persue this crazy commercial stock world as a new challenge that I have had blanket rejects and with that said have taken the very same photos and not only had them accepted at more than one place but have derived sales from said photos.

Take your photos honey and go RM and submit to say, Alamy and you'll be at your kitchen table with your camera and coffee alright pouting over your rash of rejections. Your statement and theory leads no credibility to your said statement and is self-appointed elitism and pompous without purpose.

Dirk

P.S. You know upon further thought several months ago when I first started and I got blanket rejections from SS I was spurred but then submitted again to have it happen again until they became a part of my workflow process and after they in fact rejected them they in turn would be most likely be accpeted elsewhere. Another man's junk is another man's treasure. SS-0 Me-$$$ This is another valid point of what was mentioned above, also on the subject of credibility, it applies greatly upon the industry as well as a whole. This is the "Hollywood" of the photography world; you wanna friend, go buy a puppy, think you actually made a friend, think again, think your acceptance at some stock place makes you special or accepeted overall, again, think again, what's hot today isn't in 24 hours or less later, sitting in forums grandstanding our own ego's, yep, slamming others, yep, all in a NYC second.