Reviews written by Iosif Astrukov
| 1 results - showing 1 - 1 | Results per page: |
Microstock Agency Reviews
Some experience... for the beginers
|
12 of 14 people found the following review helpful
Recently I heard about stock photos and ways to earn some money through the photos you have. For about two months already I was trying to breakthrough any of those agencies, and turn out to be hard enough... and more important - strange.And not to think that I can't make photos - this is my personal site - http://slidenew.hit.bg/ However when I tryied to apply to iStock and Shutterstock I was immediately rejected. Obviously I was confused - especially of some of the reasons - "this is not stock orientated image" or "too much noise or artefacts" It turned out to be nearly impossible to upload images that are made on film - they have increadibly high standarts of noise, and the scanners colud hardly compete. Ok... but when I upload digital images - they were rejected on other reasons... "not a stock orientated image"... "we are looking for better quality of what we already have".... it turned out to be too subjective issue... what is sotck and what is not... what is good and what is bad... The only sotck sites I was admit at last was iStock and dreamstime I fist tryied with iStock because I thought it was bigger and powerfull site. For about one moth I was trying to upload images and they were rejected. They reject images with which I was admited to the site - and the opposite - they approved images that was rejected at first selection. This is absolutely unbelievable! And also you have only 15 images per week!!!! and then wait for at least one more week to be reviewed. At the end I finished with 1 - ONE - single image online.... and I was really confused. So I closed my account there and tryied dreamstime. There you have better selection, better and much easier upload and review. Everything is going faster. Now I reached 14 images online and get stuck again. For some reason they started to reject all new files and limited my account from 100 images per day to only 2. Now, 2 months later, I end up with account only at dreamstime, and with only 14 images online, and 0.00 income. You can see for yourself - http://www.dreamstime.com/Ioshertz_info I took some time of thinking and analysing the whole situation and I reached the obvious conclusion - all stock site are FULL! They have more images already than they could handle. They don't need any more contributers. And for those who already are selling there - it's ok. For all the others it is a mission impossible. They are making harder and harder the selection proccess, making the quality stantards high to absurd levels, and so on... And even if you succeed to breakthrough this absurd levels, the proccess and the time you will have to spend to reach your first dollar is.... increadible. And I think this is not quite fair - we both are lossing time. It would be fair enough to stop new people by just writting down - we are sorry we don't accept any more contributers. After some time they could start admiting new people again. But to lose time for both sides by rejecting good images is nonsense. I don't know if I am right but that's the conclusion I reached. Good luck to all |
Was this review helpful to you?
|
| 1 results - showing 1 - 1 |
Powered by jReviews