I just wanted to share something I just noticed and find quite amusing.
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Snapvillage adds their own keywords to your lame excuse of a list you supplied.

Here is an image of mine.

Snapvillage added the words "overworked, one man, one person, half length, half-length, in the park, laying down, crash, crashed, and crashing"  I believe I added the others that are listed.  I do find it a pain in the @$$ to upload to them five at a time, but their reviewers do a quick and decent job on their end.  Especially since they come up with more keywords for you.  Kudos to Snapvillage.

  I had to say something about Snapvillage that was nice, because even if they don't make alot of money for me,  I have been able to make payout the last few months.  Thanks.

All you others let me know what you think of this.  Also I think it would be interesting if people posted the keywords Snapvillage added to your picture that you wouldn't have added yourself.

I was reading the forum at Dreamstime and came across this one...
http://www.dreamstime.com/thread_10701

I was wondering what everyone does over here.  If you shoot a child, do you put their age as a keyword?  If you do, do you put "ten" or "10"?  And finally, do you think any agencies would reject a picture for this keyword(s) for incorrect or unneeded keywords?

Thanks for your thoughts.

Now that I have your attention I can let you know that I am in fact a "douche bag".  Well at least that's what someone thinks.

I was searching google for my pics and I finally found one and was credited for it.

Here is the link and have a laugh at my expense.
http://www.thetruthaboutromance.com/101/whyguys.aspx

I do have to admit that it's not my best picture by any stretch of the imagination and thankfully it is me instead of my daughter or someone else.

Let me know what you think,  am I a douche bag for having sparkles?

Hi everybody, as I said before I am red green color blind or rather have a color deficiency with these colors.  I do know that there are many successful photographers who are colorblind and I have done pretty well with microstock so far.  My problem has been lately, that I am getting rejections for having my white balance off.  9/10 rejected at Shutterstock for this reason and my latest batch at Dreamstime were rejected for white balance too. 

I did some research and have found some methods for fixing a color cast without "using" your eyes, but rather the numbers in photoshop's dropper tool.  I uploaded my original picture that was rejected at Dreamstime and then the one I tried fixing with this new method.  Please tell me if this is an improvement, or what.

Also if any of you are colorblind, please share any thoughts or ideas you may have.  Thank you very much.  Just so you know, I shoot RAW so I can change the white balance, but it only helps to change the white balance if you change it to the right one.  

Anyways, my pictures are on flickr, the files labeled with a "b" afterwards are the redone ones.  Hope it's not too confusing.  Thanks for your help. http://www.flickr.com/photos/22088204@N05/