Quote from: PZF on November 25, 2014, 07:14
And some more dollars arrived yesterday and today.....
Seems PP continues...a bit...or am I missing something?

Has also received a few dollars that I don´t know where they come from.

Quote from: JPSDK on August 19, 2014, 06:20

Quote from: labsas on August 19, 2014, 05:40
I feel tempted to give up ShutterStock. Just got 5 of the new ones rejected. So far 10 out of 20 of my best selling iStock images were rejected by SS. the last 5 for out-of-focus / blurry images. Since i bought my Canon 5D MK2 in 2009 in had NO images rejected by iStock for those reasons. Are they joking or what ?

That is the individual impact of the "glass house effect". Meaning that inside the istock glasshouse the competition is less among photographers, so they do not develop as much as independents are forced to.
Which deteriorates istock images from the inside so that contrary to the belief, images on istock are often NOT as good as those on other places.
Which again is why istoch in their desperation, opened the floodgates for new images, and thereby made many years of (outdated) curation worthless.

I don´t think it has to do with it, as his 10-top pictures hardly loaded up the last year considering how sales are with new images on iStock now.

Something however, Shutterstock is sensitive to, as I often get rejections for, is short depth of field. Don´t look at images that sell wll at iStock, but select images that are perfect exposure and long depth of field. Gladly studio pictures, if you have these.

(Sry for my crappy english)

I´m using http://vsco.co/film, love it!

Quote from: Pro_08stock on May 22, 2014, 14:14
I got one for 1st April. Waiting it to move.

Same here.

Quote from: maboleth on May 11, 2014, 09:36
Your portfolio looks better than majority of "modern" hipster stuff I've seen on Stocksy.

But if you want to look like "them" to be accepted then - desaturate your images, use "window light" as much as you can as your standard lighting, tone your images to look "different" or instagramy.

Thanks! I'll try it next time I apply to Stocksy.

It happened to me two or three times in the last week.

Ok, thanks guys. Now I know that I'm not way off anyway.

Quote from: Sean Locke Photography on March 03, 2014, 14:47
I think "two friends hiking" and "agnes 1104 edit" are in the right direction.  Most of the rest don't really have that "feel".

The recent countdown on the Stocksy blog of the top 20 trends is a good guideline for the kind of thing they like.

Thanks, I've checked that list. But as you say,  Most of the rest don't really have that "feel", and it´s just that to to know what "feel" they're after...

But I will give it another shot in April and see if it goes better.


(Please excuse my crappy english)

Ok, is it really so bad?

I would really appreciate any kind of feedback.

I applied to Stocksy this fall and got rejected. Do you think I should apply agin, and if so what kind of pictures should I focus in?

Any feedback would be helpful:
http://www.flickr.com/photos/71077419@N05/sets/72157638052607724/

Thanks,
Jonas

I live in the north part of Sweden, it has been warmar then normal this winter with several degrees above freezing. Normal for this time of year is between -10 to -20 celsius , but today it's -9 and will get colder this weekend.

coldest I have experienced is -42 celsius