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semmickphoto · Posted: Wed Jun 27, 2012 4:44 am

I am about to quit SS, or the whole MS business. I cant deal with the inconsistancy of the reviewers.

I just had another batch of 40 hours of work rejected.

I created another set of face flags in my series of face flags. 40 online and selling every day. Some of them used on the cover of a magazine with a circulation of 50.000 a week, on the Groupon website, a chinese magazine, etc.

Yet this reviewer just rejected the next batch of flags, 100% for composition. You have to be kidding me.

I cant deal with this. Rejections are fine, this is just brutal. I dont even know how to resubmit to get them accepted.

SS advices to use gallery sets to track which sets sell best so you can increase sales. I did, the face flags sell, so I created more countries. Rejected.

I had a photo of a camera with an eye in the lens accepted in my initial 10. I only replaced the eye with the globe. Rejected uneven lighting, by that same reviewer. If its good for first 10, it cant be worse now.

Shutterstock, please, this cant be right.

hhltdave5 · Posted: Wed Jun 27, 2012 6:18 am

If the rejections were only for composition and composition only and you had others that were done with the same composition that were approved I would resubmit them with a note stating you have X number of shots just like this that were already approved and ask for a rereview.

This will not automatically work because one reviewer can look at something differently than another and approve or reject on that basis even though they are following the review guidelines.

I agree with you Ron that it is the inconsistency that most of us object to.

semmickphoto · Posted: Wed Jun 27, 2012 6:43 am

semmickphoto · Posted: Wed Jun 27, 2012 6:48 am

Just checked DP, already 3 sales on the new photos, and thats my 5th earner. Shutterstock is rejecting money not photos, in my opinion.

hhltdave5 · Posted: Wed Jun 27, 2012 6:58 am

mattgibson · Joined: 11 Nov 2009 Posts: 601 Location: London

Considering you did a resubmit before and they then removed the approved image you referred to(approved in error I think) would a resubmit immediately be the best option? Just wait a month or two.

If you resubmit too much just asking for a re-review without changing anything you will end up getting a warning.

Up to you.

hhltdave5 · Posted: Wed Jun 27, 2012 7:44 am

semmickphoto · Posted: Wed Jun 27, 2012 7:57 am

semmickphoto · Posted: Tue Jul 03, 2012 9:56 am

All photos accepted 2nd round. I added a note explaining the situation. As per Dave's advice.

Thanks SS, now lets get rich.

warrenprice · Joined: 15 Dec 2009 Posts: 420 Location: Central Texas

algol · Joined: 03 Oct 2007 Posts: 624

Good news on the acceptances for the resubmission.

I just got one of those weird "composition" rejections on an illustration - no idea what the reviewer saw as a problem, but it's a good seller elsewhere.

What did you put in the note when you resubmitted? I'm not altering the image and there's not a technical reason I can explain (eg. incorrect rejection for keyword spelling etc.). Do I just say I disagree with the rejection and would like them to take another look?

hhltdave5 · Posted: Tue Jul 03, 2012 1:16 pm

algol · Joined: 03 Oct 2007 Posts: 624

Ian Rushton · Joined: 10 Jun 2012 Posts: 20 Location: New Zealand

I'm new here but have already encountered the inconsistency. But in my case images that should really have been rejected were actually accepted while meanwhile technically superior shots get rejected. And more recently, two all but identical images taken at the same time and location were submitted in separate batches. The one that I consider the slightly better of the two was rejected for poor composition.

Seems like its a bit of a lucky dip.

mattgibson · Joined: 11 Nov 2009 Posts: 601 Location: London

Ian, on a separate note, you may want to check your ten least popular images, they are all titled the same "Old gnarly tree....." may explain why they are not selling?