Hi All,

I'm a fairly new hobbyist to photography...been shooting with Point and Shoots for years but recently bought me a D3100 SLR:) Loving it and decided to try and get accepted at Istockphoto (using the best from all my photos so at this stage is really mainly those shot with my Panasonic TZ8 not the SLR).

I have had 2 photos out of 3 accepted...one of a landscape and one of a squirrel.

Keep getting a third rejected. First rejection was for poor lighting on a daisy shot. I understand that.

Second rejection was for too much processing yet...I barely did anything to it apart from crop the right hand side and make it a touch warmer. The image did half in size though (as in MB) as it was a JPEG so that could be it. They have said:

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Plaza de Espana with rowing boat.jpg
 
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Status: Rejected
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My question is, is it realyl worth uploading the original because it is so similar to the version they have already rejected:

Original: http://www.flickr.com/photos/bud_um_tiss/8982074262/#in/photostream/

Rejected Version:   http://www.flickr.com/photos/bud_um_tiss/8982074116/#in/photostream/


Alternatively should I just upload a fresh photo from one of the below:
http://www.flickr.com/photos/bud_um_tiss/8982074572/#
http://www.flickr.com/photos/bud_um_tiss/8982073924/#in/photostream/
http://www.flickr.com/photos/bud_um_tiss/8982073752/#in/photostream/
http://www.flickr.com/photos/bud_um_tiss/8982073548/#in/photostream/


Or do you think none of these are good enough and I need to take new photos? I probably wouldn't even be that bothered if it wasn't for the fact they have accepted 2 out of 3 which I was pretty chuffed about!!! If it helps, I don't think model/property releases matter for the application stage so I think they just purely go by how good the shot is. I feel my third shot should include a person as neither of my accepted two do.

Also apologies for the crude watermarks...never done one before and I was originall trying to post on Istockphoto forums until I realised I'm not able to until I pass:( Not gonna lie I've only joined up on this site today with this in mind, but to be honest I'm hoping this could be a great place to learn new skills and get to know people into photography.

Anyway, would appreciate any feedback. Be as harsh as possible please!!! if I get rejected again it'll be a month wait (I think?). At the moment I have 6 days left of my posy 7 day wait!

Thanks,

Andrew