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Photo Critique / Re: From newbie section (give up or not?)
« on: August 28, 2011, 18:26 »
Thank you lisafx for your advice.  I've learned a lot these last couple of days.
Maybe I will give it another try someday when I have better equipment.

Shadow

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Newbie Discussion / Re: Give up or not?
« on: August 28, 2011, 18:07 »
Yes I am pretty dissatisfied with this camera. Maybe I can try again in the future.
Thank you all for your time and advice.

Shadow

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Photo Critique / Re: From newbie section (give up or not?)
« on: August 28, 2011, 15:58 »
Went to photobucket and hopefully got the image sizes changed right.
As far as the cat food bowl.  It is an actual cat food bowl bought at a pet store.
The insect in the pink flower is a bee not a butterfly.

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Newbie Discussion / !
« on: August 28, 2011, 15:54 »
Well maybe it is the world's poorest camera.  It is a Nikon coolpix L20 and at the time I bought it didn't realize about the ISO setting but have checked for that setting long before I tried microstock and there is no setting for it.  It is automatic!

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Photo Critique / From newbie section (give up or not?)
« on: August 28, 2011, 14:56 »
Here are a couple of the pics that were rejected.  Hope I do the link right.
I will say on the garden type pics I suppose for one I should have cut the pink flower out of the background, but I thought
maybe these would be good for garden centers and such but guess I was wrong.
As far as the bowl of cat food, like I said in the newbie post, found one just like it but the bowl was a different color.
Thank you for looking and your advice.  Be a little easy  ;D still licking my wound's.

http://s1201.photobucket.com/albums/bb345/JHS529/

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Newbie Discussion / Re: Give up or not?
« on: August 28, 2011, 14:48 »
I do have my camera set at the highest quality but don't think it has an ISO setting but will check again and also
will check about disabling the zoom although I never use the zoom because I read somewhere that zooming could cause
noise.  I do edit a little but am afraid to sharpen too much also read that over sharpening could cause noise and reducing
noise too much can cause blurring.
After editing I save the file as PNG.  I haven't downsized the pictures so may try doing that.
One of the sights I submitted to stated that they will not be able to consider any more submissions, so now don't know
wether to keep trying or not.  Some of the other sites may tell me the same thing.
I just set up a photobucket account so I will go over to the critique section and post a link.

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Newbie Discussion / Re: Give up or not?
« on: August 27, 2011, 14:58 »
Thank you all for your advice.  Good points very well taken.
Now I guess I need to take some time to think it all over and make my decision as to keep trying right now or
do as Paulie said and wait until I am better prepared.
Have a good day and good luck to you all.

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Newbie Discussion / Give up or not?
« on: August 27, 2011, 11:29 »
Want a little feed back from you pro's.  I am a newbie here and to microstock.  I have been reading these forums and other internet sites for a couple months now to get a feel of what to expect when submitting to microstock.  I will admit I do not have a good quality camera, (only what you guys call point and shoot)
About 5 or 6 months ago I submitted photo's to a public domain site, (yes the unthinkable to some) but needed to know if anyone would even like my work.  I submitted 35 photo's and so far have had 8,089 downloads on those photo's.
Well just this week I submitted 11 photo's to two different microstock sites and have been rejected for low quality and no commercial value.  It seems to me with 8000 downloads that my quality and value has been useful for someone.  With that being said, and knowing I will not be able to purchase a good quality camera for a very very long time if maybe I should just give up on this idea as it seems I don't stand a change.  Oh one more thing to add.  Some of my photo's that was rejected for no commercial value I searched on that site afterward for those type images and found pretty much the same thing, one in particular was just a different bowl color.  Go figure.
TIA for advice

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Cutcaster / Question about procedures
« on: July 26, 2011, 10:22 »
Never mind the question.  Found a post where they are redesigning their site and see that others are having the same issue.
Sorry for the post.
Thanks


I am new to the forum and somewhat new to microstock.  I submitted a few images to a site about a year ago.  Some were accepted, some were not.  I thought I would try my hand at it again and submitted a few images to Cutcaster a couple weeks ago.  Some were accepted, some were not.
I am confused as to their procedure of doing things.  I found images in my folders that were accepted, but couldn't find the others anywhere.  Not even in the rejected folder, or the (all files) folder so I was confused as to what happen to those images.  I emailed them to find out what happen to the other images and was told they were rejected but wasn't given a reason.  Was also told that they are updating the stats and display coming soon.
So I am just curious if this is the procedure for every upload segment and for everyone or just new members?
TIA

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Newbie Discussion / Re: why can't I start a new thread?
« on: July 26, 2011, 09:59 »
Hello to all.  Great forum.

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