Showing posts with label istockphoto. Show all posts
Showing posts with label istockphoto. Show all posts

Saturday, February 20, 2010

This past week...

This past week I didn't get much accomplished since my mother was here to visit for my son's birthday. He's four years old and it amazes me how time has been flying! Unfortunately I didn't get much good pictures, definitely nothing I'd be sticking on micro-stock! My son is quicker than the camera.

The only thing I did accomplish was joining up to more websites and getting some of the same images accepted onto their sites. Some accepted one or two, some accepted almost all of them. However no sales made at all on my others accepted last week, and rejections on my photos left and right from Istockphotos and Can Stock Photos. They're a little more strict than what I've been able to accomplish and I don't know if I'll ever please them, but I'm sure I'll continue to try!

The highlight was I bought photoshop last week and got it downloaded from adobe! An expensive program but in the end worth it. Like I told my family everything I invest into photography I have to make up for it. So I have a ton of money to put into this that's for sure! I wish my husband didn't have to work graveyard so we'd be able to go out and take some pictures - it's a rare occasion when it's beautiful here. I guess I'll be focusing on learning more about photoshop. Currently taking interest in vector imaging, so we'll see how that goes!
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Wednesday, February 10, 2010

Getting started!

Considering I just started uploading my pictures to microstock yesterday I think I'm off to a rather nice start!!

Shutterstock is really quick!! I got my photos up and accepted within a day which was wonderful. They require you to submit 10 photos for initial approval and if you don't have at least 7 they approve you have to wait 30 days to try again. I got 7/10 approved and was able to find out why the others were rejected and after seeing it from another person's view I agreed. I'm pending 6 more photos for today.

Fotolia has up to a 90 hour wait for accepting images which stinks (in the terms of being anxious), so I have 16 pending currently. I'm anxious to see what they like.

123 Royalty free is pretty quick as well!! However only 7 out of 15 photos downloaded were accepted which kind of brings me down. I currently don't know which ones were rejected because they must have been barely approved. *Edited: Found out which ones were disapproved and I'm rather surprised on a few other them. They only down "Poor Lighting/Composition" on all 8 of them which boggles my mind. But as my husband said, "each one wants different things."

Istockphoto currently has my three main images still pending, but I have a feeling I won't be approved with them. I am sure my instincts are correct - I totally chose the wrong ones to send.

Dreamstime is pending my 15 photos.

Big stock photo is pending the 13 images I've uploaded.

DepositPhotos required I upload 5 photos to be accepted, just sent them off a few hours ago so I'm pending.

So far 7 images accepted in two nights on two websites, which isn't bad because my original goal was 5-10 accepted images each week if I can keep it up. Hopefully I'll see more approved in the next few days!
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