My month of waiting has finally come up on Sunday.  I would really like to know if you guys would be able to help me out and help me pick my 5 to submit to StockXpert that way I don't have to get rejected again. Would that be possible?

I'd really appreciate it.

I would just like to post some pictures either in this forum or on a website and ask whether or not, from your experiences, you believe they will pass the test.  I don't want to get rejected again for an entire month.  I got shafted by Shutterstock when I shouldn't have and I don't have a constant earner which I need...so any help would be greatly appreciated in passing the initial submission

A forum without opinions.  Come on.  That's like suggesting the world is going to stop spinning.  Show us your pictures if you dare. 

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Tennis?

Awesome, thanks.

I didn't want to use the baseball one against the wall - the parrot closeup is not very good because I don't think I cropped the other properly.  The full parrot is quite popular (for views and 1 or 2 downloads so far on other sites)

Here's my humble opinion, for what it's worth.  The parrot is noisy and has major artifacting.  My guess is that you saw the image was soft, and so you applied a lot of USM.  As well, the focus seems to be on the neck feathers rather than the eyes--the overall DOF is too shallow.  I guarantee that neither SS or IS will take it.

The baseball photos are better, but don't seem to me to have a market.  Who do you want to purchase these photos?  What uses do you foresee for these images?  The same goes for the tennis racket.

The image of the pens and graphs seems to me much better composed.  The only real problem I see here is that you haven't given enough white space.  You need to provide more space around the main elements because (1) designers would like to be able to crop the image to their own needs, and you haven't allowed for this; (2) there isn't any room for text that might overlay your image.

As I say, though, this is just my opinion.  My sales aren't anywhere near leaf's--or the many others who contribute such sound advice to this forum.

allright, here is my opinion. I haven't read the other opinions yet because i didn't want to be influenced by them so sorry if i write something that has been said.

first paret shot - nice image, good placement of the parret in the frame.  nice background color.  It looks like the sharpness is right behind the eye (on the body).. so the eye of the parret isn't in focus. I would try shooting with a larger aperature.
second parret (close up) - seems very noisy in the red, and over sharpened.  The focus is again just behind the eye, which is too bad.I feel it is also a little tightly cropped
Bat against wall - nice image.  I am not sure i am a big fan of the center framing, but it has potential.  I don't think it is bad the way it is, I just think it could be stronger with a tiny bit different angale of picture, or crop
Bat on grass with ball - nice image.  Perhaps one of my favorites.  Nice framing and shot setup.  I think it could be a smidgen brighter though.  Take it in to an editing program, and take it WAY to bright then bring it back to where you think it should be.  Compare it to how it was before and see which one looks better.
Tennis ball and racket - well, it has the on camera flash in a dark room look to it a bit to much, but an allright concept
calculator image - nice set up and good 'story line'. Decent lighting and i imagine very usefull stock.

hope that helps

The parrot ones dont look focused on the eye.  i woudl prefer the ey and beck to be in focus where as it seems the neck is. - this might just be bacause of the reduced file size.