Hi Linda,

That sounds good... 

I have an additional small question for you...  Have you taken over a bunch of editors from Crestock?  The reason I'm asking is that I have recently had a bunch of rejections for "poor editing" !  Basically that's fine, but all upoloaded images are in fact approved by editors on several top and mid tier agencies... And selling as well... 

Thanks
/Flemming

two small subs within the first week after approval of my application...  Then relatively quied, judging by the number of views

I have been trying for several months now. If the response to half of my 10 images that are submitted is simply "Not Approved:" with no further detail, but the other half do have reasons such as "Compositon" or "Commercial Value" are the former accepted at first but rejected because I've had less than 7 in the batch approved?

Correct me if I'm wrong, but as far as I know, this is what counts:

You need 7 out of ten approved.

Read the comments... Those of the images WITH comments - are actually "rejected" - IF there's more than 3 images rejected for a solid reason, the rest with no comments, might be sort of approved, but since the number of Real REJECTIONS IS MORE THAN 3,  the whole batch is rejected.

Hope you understand the writing as English is not my first language...    But anyway, this is how I understand it :-)

I guess they are happy with the 500k

You could say that, at least it seems that they are not in a hurry expanding the portfolio by reviewing applications and letting in new contributors

Thanks all,

I fully agree about the laws and especially the photography in the sistine chapel.

However, the main issue for me is that all agencies, including fotolia are in fact selling a large variety of images from the Vatican museum. Images that are in fact, showing the exact same ceilings as mine are... Mine were rejected for the same reason - and NOT due to any technical issues...

So my main issue is really that fotolia seems to be very inconsistant, since they have accepted the "same" images from others without property releases... And rejected mine for not having property releases... 

And yes, basically it really doesn't matter with these few rejections - to me it's just a matter of trying to understand the reason for rejection.

When I'm in doubt wether or not to upload "grey area" inages without property releases, I generally do a search to determine if they generally does accept such images..  If there are lots of them present, then I generally just upload, expecting that property release is not necessary... 

But now...  To me, all logic seems to be missing 

... and to complete the confusion, dreamstime has just accepted several of the very same images that fotolia just rejected...

Guess that the laws of property rights are subject to interpretation ...?   

HI ,

I'm having the same problem, and I have just reported it to BS according to the advise from Scott.

/Flemming

Just wondering....

How is it possible for the editor to determine, wether or not a certain image will appeal to the customers?  I really doubt that it is possible for the editor to know anything about what current and future customers has a need for 

...Why not just be honest and introduce another rejection reason, witch could be: 

Great image, nothing wrong, but we just don't want it, have a nice day!

Till now I have no complaints, my initial batch of 10 were processed within less than 1 week - 8 approved and 2 rejected. The 2 rejections were for this reason:

Composition, styling, and/or lighting do not quite reflect the aesthetic that appeals to Veer customers. Please review our Contributor Guidelines to get a better sense of what we're looking for.

Both rejected images has passed inspection in lots of other sites, but still....  It's just two images, and if veer decides that they don't want them, even though they are selling in several other sites, well, that's veers decision.

I'm resurrecting this old thread for some update - nothing to attract people, on the contrary. It must be their last sigh before death...

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Dear Contributing Photographers,
I hope that everyone has being having a good 2010.  This communication to all of you is long overdue and there is many things I need to brief all of you on regarding the status and future of Absolute Stock Photo.
I first want to address the excessive downtime of ASP over the past month. We host our own server and have been experiencing Denial of Service Attacks which effectively clogs up the works and crashes the web server rendering the site unreachable. I have not been able to identify/implement a solution to prevent this from happening so we are in a state of restarting the server over and over again. I understand this is an unacceptable state of operation and I have ultimate plans for migrating back to a professional hosting service. Since the price of storage is so much cheaper than 5 years ago I believe this will be a viable solution.
Second, I'd like to let you know that after much deliberation, I've come to the conclusion that we do need to keep up with the (dream)times and implement a subscription and credit system on our site. I found a great prefab solution that will do just the trick. When I found it back in April there was only one problem that I found with its implementation � unfortunately it was a deal breaker. The problem was that the architecture the software used limited the number of files to 32K files. The vendor was made aware of this issue and finally on July 7Th they released an upgrade which resolves this file limitation.
I'd love your feedback on this software solution
http://www.absolute stockphotos.com
http://www.cmsaccount.com/photostore/online_demo/
At this point our sales are so small that running Absolute Stock Photo and putting the time in just to keep it running at a basic level is a financially losing proposition for me. I do have a significant emotional and historical time investment in Absolute Stock Photo and I do not have any intent on abandoning the business.
What I do foresee is generating an option for photographers to pay a fee and I�ll set them up their own subdomain at absolute (i.e. �firstnamelastname.absolutestockphoto.com�) and for a monthly fee they can have all of the profits to their sales and have exclusive administrative rights so they can configure the site as they/you wish setting your own pricing, terms, etc. � I�m interested in your thoughts on this offering.
Due to the late release of the software�s defect fix and the fact that I don�t have any extra time this summer � migration of the site to the new software will begin in September.
 
Many Thanks!
Julie Landman

Thank you for using Absolute Stock Photo.

To me, this sounds exactly like what we have already seen from photoshelter..  Pay for the usage of the shop and don't blame us for the lack of sales...

Yes, interesting to follow... Still have my doubts though....

... PM is event worse than alamy when it comes to upload / submission
... PM is more or less the slowest agency when it somes to review...
... PM images seems to attract next to ZERO clicks... And equally "many" downloads 
... PM is German based and my fear is that the system perhaps favour german keywordings...?

So even after this one nice sales, I still have PM on the same list as YAY, CRESTOCK and ZYMM  - Meaning that I'm expecting them to either die, og if nothing changes, I'll be leaving on my own free will....

You're welcome 

and in danish...  Ha en fortsat god weekend..  At d�mme efter dit navn, er du jo nok dansker, har jeg ret? 

/flemming

Quote from: fljac on March 28, 2009, 06:39

Since the D700X is not launched yet, you might have consedered the "older" D3X in stead   

That one was out from the start, moneywise. I don't pay 7000+ euro for a "new" cam without sensor cleaning and without video. It was born as a grandpa. It's obvious why Nikon is holding the D700x back... they want to milk the D3x-ers first.

That might be the case...  But what is it with that video thing?  If you want a videacam, why not just buy one that's build for the purpose?
Isn't it like the mobile phone thing?  - None of you guys are shooting pictures with your mobile phone...

So why shoot video's with a DSLR ? 

/Flemming