iStock = filthy, sticky crooks. I have stopped uploading there two years ago. I do have about 4000 images on their site, but they will not see my photos any more. I am still waiting for  a payout since I stopped uploading. I do well with SS and FT, and that is where I regularly upload my photos.

Merry Christmas to all of you.

Had a quick look on this thief's site. Found lots of my images being offered for free there. Probably my entire SS portfolio is stolen. I really am furious. Like you all, I also have worked hard to produce these image. Not to mention the expenses for each of the photo shoots. Any suggestions as to what we can do? I would like to wipe them off the internet if possible. Their hosting provider as well.

Adobe Stock/FOTLIA calls for content. On the other hand they do their best to discourage contributors.

I am very frustrated and I am fed up with Adobe Stock/FOTOLIA rejections of a number of my images for lack of aesthetic or commercial appeal, intellectual property violation, artifacts problem or technical errors. The images they reject for those reasons are accepted and doing well on other agencies.
So if Mat is listening in this forum I want to tell Adobe that:

I am knowledgeable about photography and related processing software. I have successfully been practicing photography for many years, and I am a contributor for several years now. And no I can not accept that another "photographer" reviews and classifies my work as "lack of aesthetic or commercial appeal, intellectual property violation, artifacts problem or technical errors" without giving me a real good reason.

1. My photos contain no noise and/or artifacts of any sort, and they do have a model and Property releases when needed.
2. When my photos are shot all photographic composition and other image quality factors are taken in consideration for each image.
3. I post process all my images using exactly the same procedures and techniques.
4. In regard to intellectual property violation, Adobe Stock/Fotolia has already accepted many images and similar series shot in the same areas, and under the same conditions with those rejected.

I understand rejections may occasionally  happen; however, those reviewing  the image, should specify the exact reason the image was rejected for. Show me where the noise or artifact is, tell me why should I provide a property release for the image in question, tell me why the image lacks aesthetic and commercial appeal

Hope I get an answer....

Following the first rejection, I submitted two more different photos of the same event. One photo at a time at different days.
I used: "CITY, STATE/COUNTRY � MONTH DAY YEAR: [Factual description
of the image content, including who and what the image portrays]" format. "STATE" included as it is part of their guidelines.

The first image was accepted. The second was rejected again for unacceptable caption.

Will keep learning and submitting.......

Hi,

I am in microstock for a little over three years, and produce images for commercial use.  My acceptance rate is good. In an attempt to start with images for editorial use, I made a test upload of a photo to Shutterstock, got a rejection for unacceptable caption, and trying to figure out what I did wrong.

I use Lightroom and I type the 'Title' in the TITLE section, and the 'Caption' in the CAPTION section of the software, using the Format:
"CITY, STATE/COUNTRY � MONTH DAY YEAR: [Factual description
of the image content, including who and what the image portrays]".

I would appreciate your advice as to what I might have done wrong.

iGeorge

Twelve more rejections today.
Five file for file size. For rest seven files the rejection reason box is blank. I can't know the rejection reason of these seven  files.
All twelve rejected files were part of a larger series of conceptual images that were recently accepted at SS and other agencies. All files were within the size requirements.

SS are you listening to this forum? I believe you do. So take some action to fix this issue.

My work is there too. I counted about 85 images of my port on sale as wallpapers and other print products on myloview.com
It is not only myloview site. Apparently there are more sites selling prints of our work. Here is one more http://vi.sualize.us/
I found my work on this site as well.

submit.shutterstock.com is back on Crete.

iGeorge

Thank you Dmitry.

iGeorge

Thank you all

I would not mind sharing the link to my portfolio and to my website at a later time. For the time being I would rather choose to remain anonymous.

Regarding my photographic interests, I like taking pictures of people, nature, and landscapes. Recently I started doing some table top still life. The last twenty some years of my business time I was doing - and still am doing - local and destination wedding photography.

I understand there are vagaries in a stocker�s life. It is a challenge. I am prepared to deal with them.

iGeorge