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Hi Michael,

If a file has slight technical issues such as very mild noise or the focus isn't quite as sharp as a purchaser would expect, we can lower the available resolution sizes so none of the issues are detectable. This saves us rejecting quality files for slight technical flaws.

I wasn't the inspector that reviewed your files, but as for that particular image, I would expect it was lowered in resolution because of minor noise issues in the shadow areas.

thanks!
Ron

Just recently I had a file reduced in resolution - it was an image of a small island in Thailand with four boats around it - but the focus on the boats was borderline sharp enough to pass another inspectors evaluation - I knew this might be the case, so I fully expected it to be reduced to the small size - and it was. I'll never speak to that inspector again. :)

Hi Ron.

thank you very much for your fast reply and for the explanations.

I was thinking that my picture could have been resized such a reason.

Btw, it is difficult to make a high quality picture with low light (late in the afternoon) in winter, especially when the subject was continuously moving:).

Best wishes,
Michael

This has been an issue for me too. When I was using my old Olympus I fully expected my pictures to be resized and only available at small size, but now I see with my Nikon that my 8-10 MP pics are all being resized to 4 MP. I guess if that gets them accepted, it's cool. It's just a bit of a bummer, is all. It just tells me there are issues with all of my photos and taken at 100% they just wouldn't be good enough. I wonder what the main issue is. The rejection reasons I can always understand and I must be honest, I do try my luck a little when it comes to my philosophy to uploading and sometimes 75% expect an image to be rejected (but nothing ventured, nothing gained, right?). The accepted ones, however, I have no feedback for, so have no idea what the problem might have been that caused the resize. It'd be nice sometime in the future to get a picture accepted here as is. :)

I do think Crestock is quite tough, and yet I'll sometimes have an image accepted here that was rejected by a far less discerning big stock site. Most photos in my portfolios are the same across the sites, but the slight differences I find interesting. ;)

Hi,
the reason for resizing are most of the times noise, sharpness and/or artifacts. If you reduce a file those things sometimes get negligible, that´s why we choose to resize them rather than rejecting them.

Well, a good camera alone does not assure good quality images. A bad lens will make images soft, bad settings or resaving jpg files can cause artifacting, and too high iso or too much postproduction will cause noise.

Regarding some of your rejections that are accepted elsewhere. Every Agency that has the customer in mind and wants to succeed in the longrun, sooner or later has to go only for the really best quality. We decided to start that way rather than perhaps having a need for weeding out images that are out of focus, noisy, etc. later on.

Producing the best quality for the customers is also fairest for contributors. I guess everybody will agree to that. Crestock isn´t a gallery to show ones portfolio, it´s a stockagency that wants its customers to return and buy again.

Hope that helps a bit!

nataq (1/20/2008)

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Hi,
the reason for resizing are most of the times noise, sharpness and/or artifacts. If you reduce a file those things sometimes get negligible, that´s why we choose to resize them rather than rejecting them.

Well, a good camera alone does not assure good quality images. A bad lens will make images soft, bad settings or resaving jpg files can cause artifacting, and too high iso or too much postproduction will cause noise.

Regarding some of your rejections that are accepted elsewhere. Every Agency that has the customer in mind and wants to succeed in the longrun, sooner or later has to go only for the really best quality. We decided to start that way rather than perhaps having a need for weeding out images that are out of focus, noisy, etc. later on.

Producing the best quality for the customers is also fairest for contributors. I guess everybody will agree to that. Crestock isn´t a gallery to show ones portfolio, it´s a stockagency that wants its customers to return and buy again.

Hope that helps a bit!

Thanks for taking the time to respond. I appreciate it. It doesn't really help me with specifics about accepted but resized pictures individually but I know that would eat up a lot of peoples' time.

I think you misunderstood one point. Yes, Crestock is on the tough side, but I was referring to images accepted here, but rejected at another big stock site that is not too discerning (rather than the other way round - pardon the pun but that part of your reply sounded a bit like a stock answer). ;)

sorry if it sounded like a stock answer - in fact it was not. It takes quite some time for me to write my answers because usually if I do something, I want to do it right - or better leave it.

There sure are those occasions where we accept images that are not accepted elsewhere. One reason might be the ability to resize an image, that other stocksites don´t have. If we didn´t have that we would reject a lot more images because of quality issues.
And then there sure are errors, that one shall throw the first stones who is without - finally we are humans.

Regarding the specifics about individual images. If you name one or two numbers we might help, but as you say it eats up quite some time and all of you - and we - sure are happy if the inspection time is as fast as possible. In the time we write an answer to a post we I´d estimate we would be able to inspect around 10-20 images.

But we are here to help wherever we can.

Well, I certainly do appreciate your efforts here and in the inspection process, so thank you.

;-) - thank you too (that one was short)

I think the answer to why Crestock would accept a file that had been rejected from another site IS the reduction in size.

Crestock is the only site I have found that will do that for you, so that your file is acceptable.