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Good movement.

It's a great capitalist economy lesson doing this during the Covid pandemic.

Not surprising.

Something deliberate, I'm sure.

Don't know the reason, because the KV was added just one time in the keywords, not in the title. The monument has several names, two in English and one in Italian.

One of the English names was deleted. Just that kv.

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These editorial pictures are always in a grey zone.

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New rejections from skyscrapers and financial district of la Defense. Whole batch of modern architecture from there, many of them unrecognizable reflections and things like that.

Content not suitable for licenses: We cannot incorporate this image into our commercial or editorial collection, or we no longer accept this type of content

The first time, I have these kind of pictures in mi port in all agencies as editorial. Not the Grande Arche, that always have been rejected on SS and BS, but pictures of skyscrapers, even with logos, always have been accepted on SS as editorial. The rejections are not only close-ups, cityscapes and panoramic ones too.

Anyone elese having this kind of problems with urban pictures?

Are you sure there is a human behind the IA? In my batches, when I send them to SS and BS the same pictures are rejected with the same reason.

I'm not sure there is always one person clicking. Looks like sometimes It's automatic, sometimes not.

Quote from: trabuco on April 09, 2020, 00:47

I have to experiment with my cam, a bit lazy sometimes. When I'm outdoor I'm with my wife sometimes so I don't have a lot of time and use to shoot in the way I feel comfortable (don't want my cam banned on our trips  ). When I shoot landscapes I feel in a hurry for the light or the perfect picture that is in my mind and use to shoot too quickly.

But I need more time and calm.

The good thing of stock (the only one) is that my pictures are much much better now after one year and a half. So I'm happy about that. Maybe I need to think less in the commercial value and the things the costumer would need and more in my technique.

Thank you for the tips anyway, the calculators are amazing.

Darn I was going to remove those, Oh well, now linked in a quote. 

Here's what I've found. I worried so much about getting things right, that I stopped just having fun and doing experiments. Sure with film that cost me money, but digital? Click, it's gone, no one will see a poorly exposed, crooked, blurry shot of half of a car.

I don't carry a computer to figure hyperfocal distance, I bet it's available for people who care, on their phone. I think anyone here can estimate depth of field after a few years of experience and some learn faster.

What I mean is, have fun, take some intentionally with bracketed f stops and see what you see? How bad is it to shoot at f/8 instead of f/22? Is there some gain in the lighting?

I know what you mean. Fortunately my better half is pretty tolerant and will play candy crush or have a smoke, while I'm out with the tripod because "oh wait honey, I see a shot". She even came along for a couple of my Nature Walks, to the rail yards and tunnels, which she has no interest at all. Railfan photography is pretty much foamers and guy stuff?

And yes years ago I got so set for, will this sell, that I stopped having a good time. With the market down and we're getting mostly subs, I'm not that worried about 38-99 cents made or lost. I make more "not suitable for Microstock" (no commercial value) now than every before. Sometimes I actually make a shot that will sell, by accident?

I mean really? 14 downloads? Why? Who wants this? No I'm not going to be rich, but I will be amused.

I understand you well. I vave tried to get a solid port but I think that now It's more interesting for me to produce some "small art pieces" that tons of pictures, now when I have a lot of them in all companies. In fact, as you say, when I sell these ones with my vision of a monument It's really cool, not the typical tourist shoot.

I have a plan. To buy a good cam to my wife to get her vision for our trips (not the compact one that she uses now).

Same for yours. Although f/18 is a little over the top and you could be getting some diffraction, that's not going to be enough for a legitimate rejection.

I expect that both of you are smart enough and experienced enough to know that f/4 to f/8 is the sweet spot for most lenses and going higher could cause a problem. But... I doubt that either of you are getting rejections for that reason. Besides if you want to have everything from small objects close up to the distant, all in sharp focus, true f/## is the only way to get that.

I have this mental fight, my sweet spot is between 8 and 11 but I like the textures with high f numbers and I use to have grass, snow, wood or sand close to my lens. Maybe in architectural pictures I should use more this sweet spot, I use to shoot with high numbers in facades f.i.

I'm still learning, any advice is always welcome.

I'm pretty worried about the excepcional powers that politicans and policemen have now in my country and in another countries in Europe.

Today I have to go to buy food for 10 days and have to drive 10km to find a mall where can buy all the supplies. If I find a patrol in my route I could be fined because there are not clear rules to my small trip to get food. You can buy food, but they don't say to you where or how and the policemen and soldiers have the right now to fine you with an unkown fine, imposed by other authority by their own criteria with no rules either. In my small village It's imposible to get all the supplies, so the risk could be 300 to 30.000 euros (or even more) if I find an stupid patrol man (a lot of them in traffic patrols, they believe they are Sheriffs).

I have a PO box in that village too and have to get my mail.

Feel like I'm going to war, because you can't have an argument with the patrols (could be charged with disobedience, a crime). I mean, if they fine me I have to keep my mouth shut, even whether I have the right to buy food and get my mail.

We ask Germans to do the hard work and put the most cash threatening that else we will dismantle EU.

Maybe we should not talk anymore about "the hard job and the germans and the southern countries and the siesta". In all european countries we use to work hard and It's quite insulting.

Nobody wants free money, but we can agree that this is a new situation that can test the Union and the behaviour of the members. I can't see any advantage in to leave the countries fall and then rescue them over their economic sovereignty.

Anyway, I was joking with the years that have past from Tiananmen  or the WWII


Apologies for my English.

Solidarity:

https://www.reuters.com/article/us-health-coronavirus-portugal/portugal-to-treat-migrants-as-residents-during-coronavirus-crisis-idUSKBN21F0N7

Portugal to treat migrants as residents during coronavirus crisis


LISBON (Reuters) - All foreigners in Portugal with pending applications will be treated as permanent residents from Monday until at least July 1, authorities said on Saturday, to ensure migrants have access to public services during the coronavirus outbreak.

Regards.