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...........That's what bugs me most.No consistency at all. ................
5/50 ... ouch!
Elena... I looked at your portfolio and I am sure I know the reason. Reviwers looked at your work and said "you know what, this gal is too goods, she must be stopped or at least slowed down, lest she instills inferiority complex in most of contributors"...
Quote from: pr2is on November 01, 2007, 19:47Elena... I looked at your portfolio and I am sure I know the reason. Reviwers looked at your work and said "you know what, this gal is too goods, she must be stopped or at least slowed down, lest she instills inferiority complex in most of contributors"...Well, perhaps that is said in sarcasm, but consider this possibility: an SS reviewer who is also a submitter decides after seeing Elena's 50 submissions that he (the reviewer) has the same ideas as many of Elena's latest batch but knows that her images are far superior to his, and so rather than letting hers go through, he just hits the "reject" button for various reasons thus eliminating some of his own competition. Wild idea?? Maybe not---who is actually supervising all these reviewers???
Two days ago, I submited a big batch, of 175 images (LOL!), and 150 accepted, 20 rejected because of simmilarity. 5 because of focus. Not bad
I think the days are fast fading where you can get accepted with a P&S camera and a few pictures of your dog and kids...
Yes SS is a number one earner for me right now (well IS would have been better if not for their stupid upload limit).
Quote from: Elenathewise on November 01, 2007, 15:36Yes SS is a number one earner for me right now (well IS would have been better if not for their stupid upload limit). Elena,With your good sales record, can't you have IS accept more from you than the regular limit? Even not being exclusive, it seems obvious that you could generate them more if you could upload more.Regards,Adelaide
noise could easily get out of hand if the image was a little dark and you try and repair it in photoshop. some people think that shooting in raw gives them a 'free' 2 stops of leverage with an image, but shooting at iso 100 and then changing then bringing up the exposure in raw processing is still recipe for noise..... espcially if saturated colors or darks are involved.not saying you think like this stokfoto, this is just something i have noticed people (in general) have said here or in other forums.
I think sharply_done mentioned that Ron Chapple (iofoto) had been with SS for a while and then closed his account. Anyone know why?
Quote from: HughStoneIan on November 02, 2007, 08:51I think sharply_done mentioned that Ron Chapple (iofoto) had been with SS for a while and then closed his account. Anyone know why? I was wrong when I said that - his portfolio is a little difficult to locate on SS, and I didn't look hard enough before writing. My bad.
Today i bumped in to a customer on my way to the office.The first thing he said was that he visits the site on regular bases just to scan the images. -"It is starting to look real good now and and the images are comming in fast now" he said.Yes, we are getting some nice images now ( i said "some" having the "bad images" discussions on my mind).The customer answered: -" It is not just "some" - the most part of them are really good and usable - some are even to good"I asked him: -" How can a image be to good?"Well, he said: "Some images are just to perfect, to fixed - we want good images but with that special reality feeling"- Okey, what ever makes you happy, i answered and smiled.Let the every day customer decide if the image is good enough or not - all we can do is to continue to uploadthe best of our work. Customers repeat the same message over and over again: Let us decide.And we let them (for now) =)//R
I have always said the reviewing should be done by the designers.....but the designers I know wouldn't work that cheap...
Quote from: Void on November 02, 2007, 16:46I have always said the reviewing should be done by the designers.....but the designers I know wouldn't work that cheap...Does anyone know how cheap that actually is? I've always been curious how much a reviewer makes.
Well that is total. It's about 1 1/2 to 2 hours each way-depending on traffic and how often I have to pull over to scream....
So, if the reviewers are trained and supervised properly, the standard of acceptability is clear, then the result should almost always be the same. Point and shoot, cheap low end scanner, poorly exposed shot, it doesn't matter. The image either meets the standard (assuming there is a clearly defined one) or doesn't. This seems clear to me or was there some point I missed?
sending files to scout can take weeks.