For me the worst of sites like Cavan o w61 is you can't erase a don't work in macro session.

What is worst? I'm not sure I get what you are saying

^ few years ago friend got accepted after around ~6 months

Sean please one question, when logged and ready to upload images, will image review team judge my contributor status looking at my portfolio on my website (link provided during registration), or will they look only and even give more focus to images I upload through a Stocksy website (ones that are ready for sale if accepted))?

^ Jo Ann Snover, you are right.
Thanks for comments everyone

some good idea and some good shot. for me the problem in many is light.
sometimes too hard, sometimes too soft and flat.

If u find time, can u link to those photos?
To be honest I think my lightning is generally - ok. Since there are ~3000 images, sure I did miss some To some degree lightning is a bit of a personal style ... If you are willing post some pics, so we can discuss

what source u use in studio? i think small one mostly.

Studio is a small room, 5x5m, where I mostly use ~120cm brollybox, which i consider on bigger side. Also since room is small, and must be bouncing from walls, I always think its more on the soft side

i see the trend is more natural shot. yours model all look very constructed, they lack that easy posing in front of camera, most of them. they pretend to be super model attitude don't work.

Most of people you can see, actually aren't models or even if they are, they are just starting out, I was hoping that wasn't as visible since I pay attention to their clothes & poses. Guess you can't have it all with free, non paid, 'models' I agree, lifestyle images always benefit from "easy going" attitude.

As suspected I'm probably lacking in all areas a bit, which is fine, I'll learn thought time. What gets on my nerves is when I work with cheap gear, and get rejected for example, chromatic aberrations (I like shooting backlit) and such. How many of those 0.33$ you must sell to afford good (~1000$ lens), huh 

Hi, I been shooting stock for ~2 years, this is what I done so far, you can see condensed version here at my site, or at Shutterstock whole library. I'm uploading to all top and mid tier agencies, RF only.

I like shooting people, lifestyle & portraits, working with zero budgets (thinking I will invest once I earn more), shooting almost always local people, who would like to model ... Reason I want my portfolio to be critiqued is simple, I earn usually around 100-200$ per month, which is a shame, I can't even pay rent with that kind of money :/
I find it hard to enter into any 'specialized' agencies (for example Blend images declined my application few days ago, Offset, Stocksy and imagesource too).

I would really appreciate if forum member who is longer into microstock, gives me any direction/tips.
Thanks!
Milan

Hi!
Was just shooting some lifestyle pictures in caffe and there we found local newspaper, which is copyrighted. Now I have troubles hiding those parts of image, newspaper is clearly visible. How do you solve this problem, is there any 'public domain', cc0, magazine which I can print out (front page only maybe?). Or some other alternative?

I could print out my own version of free Canva magazine template, but I doubt that can be used in microstock. edit: just checked, that would require Extended licence which is pricey 100$ :/

I think today money is in Offset, Infinite and Getty.

What is Infinite? Fotolia collection?

Hi, I have my portfolio > www.milanstojanovic.com, and I got rejected as a contributor photographer few times.
What am I doing wrong, what kind of images I'm missing to provide?

Hi,
long story short, I shot catalog images of bow ties for local designer, who doesn't wanna pay. That is why I'm considering uploading them on stock sites to get some return of investment, in the end they are my images.
Many of those bow ties look 'generic', some variations in colors/shapes/patterns and such, some with flowers, some without ... but some look like they had their own textile printed or had some accessories added (little duck, and such). Should I worry if I sell them online, for that designer copyright issues?
Some examples to make things more clear, link to google drive:
https://drive.google.com/folderview?id=0B8IPacTkCI8MMWZUbEVyV3ZlY2c&usp=sharing

I mene interesuje odgovor na ovo pitanje.
Ako kacis kao editorial moras da opises kako sta gde ...

I just started there ...  no sales so far, altho I haven't been there for a month, and newb in stock overall.
Rest you can google really
U do ur own marketing, and u get 100% sales if bought from your own site. If not u get 80%.

Hi, I was reading standard model release form, where it says under Definitions:

"CONSIDERATION" means $1 or something else of value I have received in exchange for the rights granted by me in this release.

Currently I'm not playing model, and I was asking myself is model release valid when for example, model receives ('final' stock) photos I will be sending to agency, as "something else of value" if that is what we agreed on?