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hebden · Joined: 17 Jan 2006 Posts: 159

While I can understand the reviewers despair at her tedious task, it is her job, I presume she is getting paid for it,(apologies if not ).Every job has its downsides and it is human nature to moan and some people do it better than others.
I am a nurse and love my work, some of it isn't particularly 'nice'. I chose the profession and will continue to do so unless I feel I have to start moaning, then you can shoot me !!!!
I just get bored of people who moan about nothing, you have one life make the most of it, get a new job, go on holiday, focus on something else other than work.
Be happy !!!!!

dkapp12 · Joined: 12 Aug 2005 Posts: 940

OMG - It made me laugh, and then it made me wince once or twice. Just submitted my first headlight picture the other day.... :)

china · Joined: 03 Sep 2005 Posts: 257 Location: Cairns Australia

Thanks for posting that Laurin, it was a good read and a great laugh.
Have to agree with Editorial, sounds like she could do with a long break.

Then again.....10 hours huh..........isn't there a name for self-inflicted torture ?

jenden2005 · Joined: 20 Oct 2005 Posts: 326

An excellent source of ideas!! Thank you for posting so many sugestions! (Checking que to make sure I have nothing up for review before posting this!!)

Seriously though, I think that will always be a part of the microstock model. In order to get micro pricing, the business model needed an economical source for a lot of images - which meant a lot of beginners. This also means the work of weeding out the submissions; just part of model.

As for the reviewers distress, no doubt its justified. Should be a way for a computer to do that type of work, but they just aren't there yet. Think if they were though; generate random pix, review it - goood=submit - bad=generate new pix & repeat. We could have every possible combination of pixels online!

iahulbak · Joined: 12 Dec 2005 Posts: 247 Location: Norway

I'm so happy to see that the reviewers really love us!

avman · Joined: 10 Aug 2005 Posts: 35 Location: Normal, Illinois

[quote="rinder99"]This was sent to me by a very good friend and reviewer of long standing and a great photographer. I want you all to read this, And read it again. Forget about me being frustrated with amataurs, Focus on what these good people do day in and day out. I for one would shoot myself. Please do better, If not for yourselves, for them. and you think you have a tough job?? forget about it. Respect them. here it is from me through her and what her life is about. Learn!!!

This is precisely why I do NOT complain when images are rejected....it is part of the process...learn and move on...I have better things to do....

Tom

mayangsari · Joined: 06 Aug 2005 Posts: 2340 Location: Singapore

Hilarious but true ... it's all business. Learn from mistakes, shoot more and move on..

seregaivanov · Joined: 19 Jul 2005 Posts: 211

I guess, this reviewer is paid for hos job. Isn't he?? To lok for masterpieces all day long he should pay and visit museum of photography, Museum of Fine Arts etc.

righteousseeds · Joined: 09 Sep 2005 Posts: 2049

Funny, I was about to start a post yesterday about some of my initial submissions. Terrible. And at the time I thought they were great! Poor reviewers.......

Pete Bax · Joined: 30 Jan 2005 Posts: 1238 Location: Brighton England

Perhaps The most boring job in the world is fresh water pearl hunting. Hours of stood in waders in often freezing water opening shells with a blunt knive
but sometimes you find one and that is so rewarding.
I think their is a moral there. I often spend days trying to get a good shot and never know if it will be accepted. When shots that are in focus, on a good background, that will sell, are rejected for being
snap shots, I find that quite boring. But I don't moan about it. People are doing as well as they can,
and the reviewers should be pleased about it, without them they would not have a job.
With a little help and patience some of these beginners will produce pearls.
I think the annonymous reviewer is really an annonymous person. I could make a comment about the
person who has tried to win favour with the reviewers
by making this post, but I think most people know already. Pete

mavrick · Joined: 20 Dec 2005 Posts: 1364 Location: colorado

good read.
with time and rejects we all make progress.

connellyink · Joined: 17 Sep 2005 Posts: 319 Location: MA

Thanks for posting this Laurin! A great reminder of how things look on the reviewer's side of the process. Perhaps they are feeling burned-out on reviewing, but it seems a logical response to having to cull through what is basically a worldwide open call for stock images.

batman2000 · Posted: Thu Jun 22, 2006 8:34 am

Rinder, this is a nice (great) piece of writing. It should be mandatory reading for anyone applying to SS (as part of the terms of usage). It made me laugh (and suffer) with all his experiences... :lol:

elenathewise · Joined: 05 Dec 2005 Posts: 115 Location: Toronto, Canada

While it was fun and entertaining to read, it is also worrisome. This person does seem to be overworked and sick of what he/she is doing. Ya, I can sympathise with them for having to look at many ugly and eye-offending pictures, BUT... that's their job, right? Don't like it? - don't do it! I hate keywording for example, maybe I should complain on newsgroups how hard that is... doubt i'd get much sympathy tho.
What worries me most is - and I did hear that before from other reviewers - is them saying they are sick of certain subjects. Money, standalone trees, swans, those poor strawberries... gives people a wrong idea that they shouldn't shoot and submit these subjects at all. Meanwhile, *good* shots of all this subjects are really good sellers, and ya, you may be sick of money, but you're in this business to make them, right? On one of the other agencies recently simple but nice quality US bills background was in top 50 sellers for quite a while, freshly submitted, too.
There is nothing wrong with strawberries, or nice nightlife pics, or trees or any other subject for that matter *as long as it is a good quality photo*. I will sympathise with them having to look at the bad quatlity pictures, but I don't like them complaining about "being sick of a particular subject". That's not professional. We are submitting pics not to please a reviewer's sense of aestetics, all of us are trying to sell images here. And they are running a business. And what sells often has nothing to do with an image being artistic or out of the ordinary.

smcrae · Joined: 23 Nov 2005 Posts: 185

While I can understand why professional photographers get a big kick out of belittling amateur-level photographs that are represented on microstock sites, I find that copying and posting a particular rant to a microstock site a touch degrading. But hey, I'm sure it's a form of entertainment to some -- I was entertained enough to write an amateur-level response ;)