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imagevillage
Joined: 09 May 2009
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Posted: Tue Jun 05, 2012 8:34 am
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I am getting really frustrated! I've been working hard to submit extra images this week, ending up with more than 240 in waiting... only to get most of them rejected.
Mind you, I am not a newbie anymore. I have a good idea what sells and required quality of the images.
DOES THE REVIEWER has the same understanding?
Someone needs to look into this - this is super discouraging!!!
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scotrus96
Joined: 25 Jul 2008
Posts: 9508
Location: always on the right track to desirable destination
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Posted: Tue Jun 05, 2012 8:40 am
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Attila the None came back.
It strikes very hard and almost everybody for no any reason.
Looks like for fun.
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lmel900
Joined: 13 Mar 2011
Posts: 4961
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Posted: Tue Jun 05, 2012 8:48 am
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Two weeks ago, I got only 3 accepted out of 47. I know how you feel. I resubmitted some of them ,and they got accepted by another reviewer, so it is like gambling.
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ruxpriencdiam
Joined: 07 May 2009
Posts: 26313
Location: Third Stone from the Sun
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Posted: Tue Jun 05, 2012 9:02 am
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Attila is back almost one year to the day.
So i would take it that he/she is a student in School because when School starts back up Attila will be no more just like last year.
Pretty bad that there is one rogue reviewer out there that needs to be addressed.
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rudyumans
Joined: 19 Aug 2008
Posts: 10636
Location: www.businesshelpforyou.org www.rudyumans.com
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Posted: Tue Jun 05, 2012 9:35 am
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how do we know it is only one reviewer?
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jhuls
Joined: 02 Jan 2012
Posts: 1047
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Posted: Tue Jun 05, 2012 9:41 am
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I've lucked out and gotten easy reviewers the last 2 weeks, but before that I had a couple weeks of really tough reviews. I really do wish there was more consistency.
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scotrus96
Joined: 25 Jul 2008
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Location: always on the right track to desirable destination
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Posted: Tue Jun 05, 2012 9:43 am
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he/she always accepts the worst images from the batch, and perfectly in focus image rejects for "not in focus" . He/she is blind and have no any knowledge of what is right composition or good light.
Everything rejected by Attila the None, always accepted after by the other reviewer. And the most important, these images get sales!
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hhltdave5
Joined: 20 Jun 2006
Posts: 24097
Location: Our Stock, Food & Portrait photography books at www.rindersmithphotography.com
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Posted: Tue Jun 05, 2012 9:59 am
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| scotrus96 wrote: | he/she always accepts the worst images from the batch, and perfectly in focus image rejects for "not in focus" . He/she is blind and have no any knowledge of what is right composition or good light.
Everything rejected by Atilla the None, always accepted after by the other reviewer. And the most important, these images get sales! |
I can attest to that. I had submitted a batch of BBQ rib shots that were rejected. I had them resubmitted, they all passed and now they are some of the top ranked BBQ rib shots in Shutterstocks database.
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felix_casio
Joined: 16 Jul 2006
Posts: 1774
Location: www.felixtm.com
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Posted: Tue Jun 05, 2012 10:22 am
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if your going to keep submitting photos of grass or texture backgrounds, they will eventually reject all of them because you will have had to many similar shots in your port. You have a good amount of people...but... from your newest photos your lighting is a bit flat, the expressions are mixed or not understandable.
you have this very handsome boy with a book (see below). your going for a schoolboy look but this image might be a little hard to understand. if the boy is holding a book why is he looking away and why is his mouth in a circle shape? this image might have limited commercial value.
you have people with "almost smiles", you dont have to many people with big smiles looking at the camera.
you have multiple images of the same fence with rope, just pick one or two, also there are thousands of similar images of wood gate with rope on this website so that also has limited commercial value. on page 2 of your newest first, you have 3 almost identical images of a beautiful little girl smelling a flower, I would have just submitted one.
if you have an idea for a shot just submit one and move on to the next shot, less is more.
You submitting in 4mp and your not shooting in raw so your not going to have any room to edit because once you do the images will compress and rejected.
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kellyplz
Joined: 09 Mar 2009
Posts: 17530
Location: Manitoulin Island, Canada.
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Posted: Tue Jun 05, 2012 11:08 am
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Like I said before, this reviewer needs to be brought to the attention of admin.
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robhainer
Joined: 03 May 2010
Posts: 2773
Location: Dallas, GA, USA
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Posted: Tue Jun 05, 2012 12:27 pm
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Personally, I think they need to get a grip on some of these similars. It's not really fair to other contributors when your stuff gets buried by groups of the same shot. Pick the best horizontal and vertical compositions, submit those and move on.
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scotrus96
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Posted: Tue Jun 05, 2012 12:37 pm
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| robhainer wrote: | | Personally, I think they need to get a grip on some of these similars. It's not really fair to other contributors when your stuff gets buried by groups of the same shot. Pick the best horizontal and vertical compositions, submit those and move on. |
I could only wonder, why a such difference in acceptance?
That makes me think, does SS really care what shots are on site?
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robhainer
Joined: 03 May 2010
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Location: Dallas, GA, USA
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Posted: Tue Jun 05, 2012 2:14 pm
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I think they do. It's just hard to get a grip on.
Those images I posted were new under "child playground." They look like frames from a video rather than separate still images, that's how similar they are.
I occasionally push the envelope on similars myself, but not very much because I only hurt my own sales when I do by splitting sales among two images, which keeps them from getting stronger in popular search.
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mcfields
Joined: 07 Aug 2007
Posts: 1870
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Posted: Tue Jun 05, 2012 2:21 pm
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| robhainer wrote: | | Personally, I think they need to get a grip on some of these similars. It's not really fair to other contributors when your stuff gets buried by groups of the same shot. Pick the best horizontal and vertical compositions, submit those and move on. |
+1 I've seen this so many times... Nothing personal to the contributor that you're referring to and I'm not at all sure that we're supposed to post someone else's stuff and single them out? but this is not an isolated case and your point is valid. Some of us get rejections on images being too similar when we upload 2 from the same shoot (although they are varied) and others can get a dozen or more in - that you can hardly distinguish between.
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robhainer
Joined: 03 May 2010
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Location: Dallas, GA, USA
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Posted: Tue Jun 05, 2012 2:35 pm
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| mcfields wrote: | | robhainer wrote: | | Personally, I think they need to get a grip on some of these similars. It's not really fair to other contributors when your stuff gets buried by groups of the same shot. Pick the best horizontal and vertical compositions, submit those and move on. |
+1 I've seen this so many times... Nothing personal to the contributor that you're referring to and I'm not at all sure that we're supposed to post someone else's stuff and single them out? but this is not an isolated case and your point is valid. Some of us get rejections on images being too similar when we upload 2 from the same shoot (although they are varied) and others can get a dozen or more in - that you can hardly distinguish between. |
Thank you for pointing that out. I don't want anyone to be insulted. This is not personal in any way. And hey, if they'll take them, submit them. This isn't on the submitter as much as it's on the reviews. You can't really blame the submitter if they're going to pass.
I have on occasion gotten some through that might be considered too similar myself. So I'm just as guilty as anyone else. I don't even know who the contributor is. It's just an example of the results from a typical search. You can search anything and see it.
I didn't realize I was doing something wrong in posting the example. If so, I humbly apologize.
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