Category: Rejections

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This Microstock Site is a Joke!

Sometimes I hear the words ‘microstock has revolutionised the stock industry’…

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Is it time to give Crestock another try?

Acquisitions of microstock agencies by more traditional stock agencies have been a common trend over the past few years. Both micro and macro..

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Poetry for the Struggling Microstocker

Oh why did you reject my photos again? I gave you my best but you said it was lame…

Keywords and Images to Avoid

The use of the following keywords will trigger off sirens at BSP Head Quarters and a cage will be dropped over the reviewer who is examining your image. The reviewer will not be released until the suspect keyword or image in question is fully screened…

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Super Gaffes

We all make mistakes. God knows I make plenty and before you all shout in chorus “Your blog, it’s a mistake!” I would just like to point out some larger gaffes. There was an article on Smartmoney recently called “Small Business: How to Beat a Goliath“. It focused on how a microstock company was the [...]

Hurry! Snap Up My Snapshots.

Believe me, this is not a whinge about being rejected. I’m never offended by being rejected, it’s a part of life. If one of the best football managers in the world can be rejected for having a month of bad results, not one of the best photographers in the world can accept his photos being [...]

They said, “turn photos sitting on your hard drive into cash!”

Having teething problems, but staying resilient none the less. I’m new to all this and a little surprised, at how difficult it is to get images accepted on these sites. Wasn’t the Microstock industry a way of turning photos, sitting on your hard drive into cash? It’s not as easy as they make it sound. [...]