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Adobe Stock / Rejections Lately

« on: July 17, 2013, 23:57 »

Anyone else experiencing a rediculous amount of rejections. I started at about 50% and got up to 70% acceptance. Last 3 uploads have been 0% (10 images ) and 15% (for 20 images). What . is going on?! Accepted by other libraries.

Should I just wait and resubmit later on?

Chris

Newbie Discussion / Opinions On My Progress

« on: June 30, 2013, 19:54 »

Hi,

As a relative newbie I was interested on people's opinions on how I am going compared to 'the norm'. If that wasnt too much to ask!

So as dot points:

- Been with Shutterstock, iStock, CanStock, 123RF, Alamy, DepositPhotos, Dreamstime and Fotolia for 3 months.

- I have between 180 and 240 images approved and online with all agencies. Shutterstock has lowest at 180 and Alamy the most.

- I had about a 60% approval rating and I have raised this to around 80% on all agencies. Alamy approve everything.

- I have 156 downloads with Shutterstock and by far the biggest with Fotolia next on 34. Only 11 on iStock

-Revenue wise its about $120 on Shutterstock, $45 on iStock and about $300 on all agencies. None with Alamy.

-I have 90% used images I had already and these are mostly travel images

My ShutterStock gallery is here:

http://www.shutterstock.com/cat.mhtml?gallery_id=1500320

I have a rough aim to get to 2000 images and try to earn at least enough to replace my 5D2 a with a 3 etc.

Obviously this game is A LOT of work when it comes to prepping images. I am now moving into lots of skylines. Some I have shot recently and some odler. Removing logos and editing pretty time consuming. I havent gone into a total conceptual frame of mind yet mainly because im wanting to post what I already have. I have thousands more to go thru. Id estimate 1000 images possible worth of submission still.

How have others gone in this time frame. I feel im about average to be honest. iStock is high revenue and low downloads. Thing going some images exclusive with them might help

Cheers

Chris

Newbie Discussion / Hello All - New to MicroStock

« on: April 10, 2013, 23:12 »

Hi All,

Thought id introduce myself as I'm really enjoying this site. I work in Melbourne Australia freelance taking lots of travel/portrait/wedding/music imagery.

I dabbled in stock a while back but didn't give it enough of an effort for it to do anything. Wish I had now. I basically got into it again after a big road trip across the US and trying to take more stock like photos. I bought a Kindle, downloaded some books and have thrown myself into it. Its also a way for me to sort thru the 10s of thousands of images that I have doing nothing on my PC.

An idea of my portfolio can be seen here:

http://depositphotos.com/portfolio-2209782.html

I am achieving between 65-95% acceptance rate to 9 libraries. Fairly happy. Im still uploading borderline shots to test the boundaries of the reviewers. For example how much of a copyrighted landmark can be in a shot before its rejected. How small can people be without a model licence etc. Its fun stuff overall. A few sales have come thru but with only 100 uploaded or so I guess that should be the case.

My next step is to move more into the stock photography concept type thing. Most of my shots are standard travel, urban type imagery. Id like to do the 'man resting on holiday' type image. Also explore the editorial imagery sector. I have A LOT of images that I think meet this grade. I just don't understand it yet

Anyhow enuff from me. Have a good day!

Chris

General Stock Discussion / Fotolia Stats

« on: April 08, 2013, 03:12 »

HI,

I am just building a spreadfsheet to monitor acceptances/rejections and sales. I have been able to source in a table quite easily for most sites but Fotolia is hard to get that info from. Unless you start counting acceptanceance/rejection emails. Does anyone know where to find these stats, if its possible, on Fotolia?

Thanks

Chris

Software - General / Lightroom Cataloging of Stock Uploads

« on: March 08, 2013, 07:50 »

Hi,

I am brand new here so please be nice

I am an experienced photographer and well travelled and hence a fairly extensive collection of stock. After 5 years I am now only really giving stock a good go. basically after reading some Kindle books. My website is www.filedimage.com if anyone is interested.

Anyhow I am an experienced user of Lightroom and make extensive use of Smart collections for auto uploading to my Zenfolio hosted site. Works well. The only thing ive never worked out is how to categorise images upon where you upload to. I used to add a keyword for different agencies but thats very rookie. I tried colour coding, but some images go to more than one stock agency. Manually dragging to a folder isnt ideal as id like to be able to filter in my folders for images not uploaded.

Any ideas?

Thanks,

Chris

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