Quote from: Digital66 on November 16, 2013, 19:41

It's ridiculous! This is what happen when there are no upload limits and no QC.  Personally, I'm sick of all these new snapshoters flooding iStock with their big portfolios full of crappy images. 
My advice to any fresher:  Stop flooding the site with all your snapshots!!!You are not going anywhere doing it.

I think your comment is out of line.
1. The photographer supplies the kind of pictures that iStock now wants to see. What's your problem? Are you afraid of competing with "snapshots"?
Haven't you heard that iStock is THE place for professionals?

IS have big plans for their collection. They will now be able to compete with Mostphotos or flood Google Drive.
Resistance is futile

2. CaptainYoung's photos are not bad. The compositions are generally quite OK, e.g. this one is quite nice:
http://www.istockphoto.com/stock-photo-29311448-the-road-in-bamboo-forest.php
The main issues are: too many nearly identical photos, the light and colours are not so good and the subject matter which is not popular in microstock.

Do you remember the Galapagos series that was accepted some time ago? Compared to that photographer CaptainYoung is a true master of photography.

thank you, I will do it better....
glad to know you!

Quote from: CaptainYoung on November 17, 2013, 00:29

Quote from: luissantos84 on November 16, 2013, 22:12

guys this gets even better, he is exclusive at DT

It's true~ Because I started mircophoto site at DT first. At that time I don't know anything~~~ So, I applied to be exclusive at DT. But now, I am prepring to cancle it as soon as possibble~~~~~~~~

that's a big mistake~~~~~~~

And thanks everbody!

You have broken your Exclusivity Agreement with Dreamstime.  Did you know that Dreamstime will probably invalidate and recover all earnings you've made so far?  I guess it's not much, but anyway...

Yes~~~But this is a truely mistake~~~I think it's the only way to solve it....

I joined in IS 2 months ago, there are more than 2800 photos in my portfolio, but just 8 of them been downloaded. I know it need some patient, so I'm waiting and uploading. But two days before, when I got up in the morning and checked my DeepMate, I found my balance become 14$(it increased to 25$ at the end of that day), it's to say I get almostly 20$ in one day, and I found it's from PP not IS, and the number stop raising after that special day. So I have some questions, maybe I can get some help from you.
1、How PP worked? Does I will get more money from PP than IS?
2、If there is any period or how long it's need  to get increase everyday regularly?
3、If the theme of my files are belong to those who are hardly to be sold. If there are any problems of my files?
4、If the passing rage is to high in IS? many of my photos have been rejected in other sites, like DT,SS,Fotolia.
5、I'm really want to know what I should do, if I want to be a freelance photographer.

I'm a totally fresh photographer and I just joined in microphoto market less than 1 year. It's hard for me to find a right way to go, because I have no teacher or friends can tell me how to do that, as beginning I even don't know where to find the microstock site and how to sale, I do these step by step, day by day by my ownself, stockphotographer is a rare occupation and the photographer is treated as a strange occupation in traditional concept in some way in China. But my goal is to be a freelance photographer,and I think the camera can help me to get my dream.

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