I just tried two random countries and saw lots of travel images.

Problem was that a good number of them weren't taken in the country I searched, especially 'France'. (some I didn't understand why they'd been returned in that search, others had both 'Austria' and 'France' in the keywords, others ...)

BTW, good luck, Martha.

BTW, good luck, Martha.

Thanks for that, Sue!

I just started the sign-up process and right away spotted something that may be a roadblock for me. They want to see how active a contributor is on social media. Not really my forte!

Plus, the more I look at their curated collection, the less I think my stuff will appeal to them.

Sounds like two strikes against me. But hey, it may still be worth a try. I'll keep ya'll posted.

Thanks for letting us know that we can give it a try now - keeping my fingers crossed for all of us!

Quote from: jrwasserman on June 12, 2014, 15:03

You can have content that was previously on other sites as long as it is deleted. You can still sell POD.

Hi,

what is POD or POD sites?

Thanks,

Kalevi

Print on demand

Or as far as the text generation refer to it "Passed out Drunk"

Print on demand

Or as far as the text generation refer to it "Passed out Drunk"

LOL!!!

I'd say the technical standards allow a much larger room for play than Shutterstock or iStock or other micros.  Stocksy seems more about capturing an aesthetic or feeling than fulfilling an arbitrary set of technical standards.

example: an image can have noise or be a bit blurry if it contributes to the feel of the image.

what should be the minimum size of 25 sample images ? and as it is for evaluation purpose so can one send images which are already on any other site ?

Thanks Jen

Bearing in mind your images aren't supposed to look stock-y.

Just "stocksy"... whatever that is. 

What about the size requirements? I have plenty of old 4MP images, some might fit over there.

http://www.michaeljayfoto.com/agency-news/stocksy-launches-new-call-to-artist-should-you-apply-as-contributor/

That's a good article. Two things Michael has written especially chime with me:

Which are the photos that I really loved taking? .... Potentially even that much that you didn�t upload them into your microstock portfolios because you knew they would just sit there, ignored in the masses of images in those libraries.

They were not produced with the �I shoot this because it will sell� mentality that stock (especially microstock) has put into our minds. It�s the �I really like this, I have to shoot this�.

And I could imagine applying to Stocksy or some other agent within the next few years. But I'm not in a hurry. I'd rather work on producing a coherent body of work which I actually care about first. That matters more to me than money TBH. I've been making small steps recently. It's been great to start again from scratch. Instead of the directionless this-and-that stuff I have done over the past few years. I really kind of lost my way.

I am definitely sitting on better work at the moment. The changes at iStock have made it seem rather pointless uploading content since it never gets seen or used anyhow. It certainly seems increasingly as if microstock in general is going towards being the preserve of factories producing pictures of business teams. As Sue and others have pointed out here previously a huge amount of new work even from very well performing photographers is not being surfaced anymore.

So it's good IMO that Stocksy have made something which isn't a shoe-in. It would be great to hear about other smaller sites doing well too.

sorry if this was posted before

http://www.jengrantham.com/2014/06/13/how-to-get-accepted-at-stocksy/