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    Top Seven microstock rejections

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    By Amos Struck on October 19, 2009 Microstock News

    Since 2006 I've been collecting a tons of microstock photos rejections. This is a “fake” Top Seven of microstock rejection reasons, hope funny, just a pretext to show a list of some interesting or peculiar or common refusals. As we've already said, sometimes a rejection make you say “why, why!?”, sometimes you can learn and try to improve your stock photography style.

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    1. Dreamstime – back to the roots

    dreamstime silenzio rejectA lesson of basic stock photo life:

    “Image is not RF stock oriented or its sales potential is too low at this stage. Please note that Stock photography is a commercial type of imagery, so, snapshots are not Stock. There are several vital requirements that an image must meet in order to be stock oriented. An image must serve a purpose, must have a concept, must have a good technical execution in terms of composition, exposure, light setting, optical performance. Creativity is a keyword for a successful stock image, as well. It is also very important to understand that Art and Stock are two fundamentally different categories of imagery, that only meet when an artwork can adapt to a wide range of commercial usage”

    2. Fotolia – legendary aesthetic quality

    polaroid connected puppet reject

    One of the most disheartening comment 😉

    “Fotolia – Photograph Declined – Quality of the photograph
    We regret to inform you that photo # was not accepted. Your photograph did not reach our desired level of aesthetic quality.”

    3. Shutterstock – focus on focus

    concert stage rejectYour focus is not my focus

    “Not Approved:
    Focus–Your image is not in focus or focus is not located where we feel it works best.”

    4. iStockphoto – moment's aberration

    marrakesh ornament rejectPurple rain, purple rain…

    “The file has unacceptable levels of chromatic aberration, also referred to as ‘purple fringing”

    5. BigStockPhoto – let the client crop

    public bikes details rejectWhen details are not important

    “Poor composition/Cropped subject: Chopping off part of subject makes photo harder to use generally 🙂 thanks”

    6. Veer – What are you shooting!?

    social networking rejectDon't loose your time with this snapshot stuff

    “The subject matter is not suitable for Veer Marketplace”

    7. Panthermedia – You are late

    orange pink tulip rejectWhy are you sending us this overabundant category without a stunning image?

    “Unfortunately, we have too many similar images of this kind and therefore have to reject it. Please see our list of required images and less required images”

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    13 Comments

    1. 36clicks on October 19, 2009 9:04 am

      Hehe… Great post. It sure can be disheartening, those rejections on perfectly good images…. Reviewing remains subjective, but sometimes necessary 🙂

      Reply
      • mystockphoto on October 19, 2009 9:19 am

        Hi Hugo, yes, at the beginning the rejections could be disheartening… then they push you to produce better images. The subjectivity is in the game, I like also to mention that my Stockxpert's best seller was rejected by the other big ones 😉
        Thanks for your comment,
        roberto

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        • 36clicks on October 19, 2009 9:40 am

          "I like also to mention that my Stockxpert's best seller was rejected by the other big ones" – isn't that always the case? Quite ironic, and a prime example of the unavoidable subjectivity of review processes… 🙂

          Reply
    2. Luis Santos on October 19, 2009 11:18 am

      Your focus is not my focus! My favorite! 🙂

      Reply
    3. Gió on October 19, 2009 4:16 pm

      I think all of those reasons are good reasons to reject an image.

      Reply
      • mystockphoto on October 21, 2009 12:56 pm

        Yes Giò, you're right… It's just a funny way to talk about rejections. Cheers!

        Reply
    4. Cristina on October 19, 2009 5:26 pm

      Very interesting! But, did you try to propose them again after some time?
      You can have some surprises…
      Ciao 🙂 Cris

      Reply
      • mystockphoto on October 20, 2009 8:17 am

        Ciao, Cris… yes, I did, with good surprises: for example, my shutterstock's bes seller with 100+ downloads was rejected at the initial test 😉

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    5. Cristina on October 19, 2009 5:28 pm

      I forgot one thing: I have more or less the same picture of the bicicles in Milan… I can try to propose it to see how it goes!!! I'm joking, of course.

      Reply
      • mystockphoto on October 20, 2009 8:50 am

        waiting for yours, mine is online at
        http://www.shutterstock.com/results.mhtml#photo_i…
        and "Recommended" at Panthermedia… subjectivity 🙂

        Reply
    6. vaman on October 29, 2009 7:55 am

      An additional reason of rejection from Istock:
      We found this file over filtered from its original appearance/quality.

      Reply
    7. mystockphoto on October 29, 2009 5:12 pm

      Thanks to Natalia Macheda for the mentions on http://microstocker.blogspot.com/

      Reply

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