I thought "Lack of Composition" means "we think this is not a stock photo".

*microstock photographers = creative human beings, stock photographers temporarily selling their images for 1 buck, independent entrepreneurs who have affiliates we can fire any time

*microstock agencies = chickenshit internet quasi-marketers who think they are entrepreneurs just because they managed to design and upload a site

I don't read a lot of magazines, but I was paying more attention to the photo magazines I occasionally buy, and I noticed that many of them use microstock photos without proper attribution - for example "photo by istockphoto" , they don't mention the name of photographer. Only one magazine I found using FT has "John Doe/Fotolia.com" which is very nice.

I am shocked that -photographic- magazines don't give proper attribution to photographers. And why they don't just use their reader's photos I have no idea.

Are magazine editors just plain evil or what?

Hello,
I am totally new to microsock, and I am interested to know how can I know where are my sold photos used? Is there a way to know this?

Thanks, and sorry for this newbie question.