My husband is usually with me and our dogs.

One time a mentally disturbed man in a big city started yelling at me and getting in my face.  Scary. 

YEAH!!!!

Fotolia has been outdoing Shutterstock for me.   

For me it is better too in another important area.  I am often selling the kinds of images I love to make. Artist first over stock photographer. so happy about that.  I get kind of bored with the SS look.  FT has not caught up to my best selling agency but if the trend gets better, might dump SS and just stick to 2 agencies down the road so I have more time to photograph.

Has anyone else noticed a lot of recent inconsistency in the review process at Bigstock lately?

I recently had a whole batch of photographs that were all rejected, many that have been accepted at all other agencies, including the crazy Shutterstock.  In another batch, they accepted some that I did not even bother to upload to others due to noise but it was a popular topic.  I do like the way they will notify buyers to stick to smaller sizes rather than total rejection for noise.  Action and outdoor shots are not always possible to do without noise.  The ones where they have done that have all sold.

But lately, I feel like the weekend reviewer at SS has moved to Bigstock.  Rejection of images that are in focus, correctly lighted, correct white balance.  I know reviewing can be subjective and one can learn from rejections and all that... but sometimes, the reviewer just is not doing their job.  Has anyone ever resubmitted to Bigstock when they know he review was bogus?  Maybe it is not worth it---photos are on other sites and selling so maybe I should just move on. 

Just wanted to give folks a heads up that Fotolia once more changed the default I had as NO for free image section to YES in the middle of indexing uploading files.    Not the first time.  why does it change on me without me doing anything.

I wish they would fix this for once and all.  I like Fotolia. 

Seeing a slight pick up but I have very few Christmas or holiday photos and more a matter of having more uploaded than when I first started so slowly building portfolio.

Does anyone have any ideas  how to word descriptions so my photos do not get flagged for releases when no release needed???

When I resubmit them with explanation this is not an arena, accepted but there is a limit of 3 per month and I have photos of their practice as well as other dogs at trials that are not in an arena but an open field of grass.   I already used a description of the photos saying something like outdoors in local park to clue the reviewer into the fact that it was not an arena but not working.  I am not sure they even read the description.  No humans.. only dogs or maybe at most a leg and no logos on shoes.  Not the dogs causing the rejects because I upload a release for my dog.  Even when I forget to add it sometimes, they go through.

Also, the one that really gets me is one that has the following elements: dog, husband's legs, dirt, weave poles, shoe with no logo.   He was wearing some jersey beaten up shorts and only a sliver is showing and the notice mentioned uniform.   I guess I could add something describing his shorts? 

Kind of frustrating because of the 3 image limit on Scout.  I have already written them more than once and the only thing they do is say use Scout.  While it is not my main area of photography, I have enough that I would use up a year's worth of 3 per month trying to explain to them.  Obviously, they do not know the sport. 

I wish the image size was a little bigger on the list of uploaded files-- hard to see the images I want to edit.

I stopped uploading to them-- images waiting for review too long.  Tired of having to email them every time to actually get them reviewed.

I am getting fed up with Shutterstock and their review process.  A recent image was rejected for focus.... the main item in the photo WAS in sharp focus.  Nikon Transfer marks that area as the focus point as well.  There was nothing else wrong with the image either.  The focus point even looks nice at 200%.   Until they rejected that particular image, I thought maybe the focus/sharpness rejections might have been true.

SS rejects images accepted everywhere else.  Lately I have stop uploading bother to upload to them because I am so sick of the absurdity of it.  I do not mind trying to make my images technically better.  Was always very technical when did film-- even mixed my own print and film chemicals from scratch-- not powder mixes but the isolated chemicals, used a medium format camera etc.   I appreciate some feedback but not when it does not make sense.

I have finally come to the conclusion that I am not going to allow SS to dictate my photography.    I know that SS is supposed to be the big money maker for most but I am selling better on other sites.  I think part of the low sales on SS is the review process which has little basis in reality. 

Thanks.  Very timely.  Got my computer back from repair and they uninstalled my old copy of photoshop and the disc won't allow me install it any more times. 

you can write them and have them put watermarks on all retroactively one time.