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I got registered with crestock about 3 weeks ago and I have been uploading photos inspite of no download yet. I understand that I am not a professional in photography field but I get a decent download in other stock sites. In my recent upload a lot of my photos got rejected giving me a feel that photos are just getting rejected for no reason. I uploaded a Singapore Marina Square photo last time and the photo got rejected because of visible brand names, I fixed the photo and uploaded again, and it got rejected for techincal reasons. (Funny explanation: The image appears to be out of focus) I am surprised because the same photo is my highest seller in other sites( 26 downloads in just 11 days ). The photo was quite appreciated in 2 local competetions also.The reason I am contributing to Crestock is because I feel you guys are maintaining a standard and not allowing every junk to get into the site, but there should a defined criteria for uploads, not the reviewers momentary decison. I am unsure now whether I am investing or wasting my time here.
[Last Modified: 11/13/2006 8:03:05 PM]
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I know the feeling, 9 rejections today... I may just stick to holiday snaps im obviously not upto taking 'nice' pics. I actually preferred some of these rather than some of mine that have been accepted, but what do I know :crying:
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Must admit to having the same problem with Crestock.I'm with a number of agencies and some of my best sellers have been rejected here. I accept that the Crestock boys must know there market and also that they are the deciders of what is good
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True. On the other hand, if you sell elesewhere what crestoc does not accept I don't see where is the problem. BTW, although you have only three photos I find them beautiful.
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ColH
Odiham, United Kingdom
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 I have just had this image rejected for being out of focus, the image is titled "The Business End" and the description clearly states that it is a close-up shot of the roller ball of a pen. Could someone please clarify the policy here for image acceptance/rejection as I have seen multiple posts on the forum that mirror my own experience - images that have been accepted/sold on other sites being rejected here for reasons that make no sense whatsoever. Cheers C.
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i have the self problems. All my images are rejected. Crestock is dead for me.
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We are brand new here. We are working with 6 different stocksites and we are very surprised to see our best selling photo of all these site rejected at Crestock, is there a way in which I can contact anyone to reconsider?
IWe are talking about this image
http://www.dnf-style.com/recent/d/1448-2/060603Thalia10Ev02web.jpg
without the text ofcourse ;-)
With regards,
Frenk and Danielle
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DNFStyle (1/24/2007)
We are brand new here. We are working with 6 different stocksites and we are very surprised to see our best selling photo of all these site rejected at Crestock, is there a way in which I can contact anyone to reconsider?
IWe are talking about this image
http://www.dnf-style.com/recent/d/1448-2/060603Thalia10Ev02web.jpg
without the text ofcourse ;-)
With regards,
Frenk and Danielle Know the image well and I guess that clinches it for me. If they don't want that image they surely don't want mine.
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Whatever, we are gone here. Sadly enough about 95% of all photo's (all accepted at bigger stocksites) were rejected by crestock a week ago. Now after one week still no answer on our question why. It costs us too much effort to take the risc of doint it all for nothing. Shame on Crestock. :crying:
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Here is my lowdown. Crestock started as "alternative" to other sites. I have been among the first to upload photos here. At that time the rate of acceptance of my photos was quite good (Guess: they had no other photos?), then it went progressively down (in contrast to all evolutionary theories I became a worse photographer in time). Now, no matter what I submit, it gets rejected, which besides being frustrating is becoming paradoxical, because the other photos already accepted are (slowly, of course) selling, one by one. At this pace, though, considering that I have no chances to increase my portfolio here (and, of course, other sites are quite welcoming) I should reach the sales for $ 100 in six to eight years. I guess it is time to retire all the pictures that have not sold (yet). Conditions have changed abruptly here (even in compensation), and I am not planning to submit "hot" subjects. Game over, I guess. Could anybody at Crestock instruct me on how to get back my unsold photos? Thanks.:ermm:
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ColH
Odiham, United Kingdom
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I found a thread in another part of the forum about the Out of Focus rejection issue and emailed the site with the image ID's that I had an issue with. Logged on earlier today to discover that all the images that I had highlighted have now been accepted so I guess I'll upload a few more and see what happens.
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Just needed to reply to this post, because I feel bad about all your rejections.. I'm a stockphotographer myself, and know the feeling of all these rejections.
Crestock is a great and very high-quality site - the search results you get here are always near perfect and all the photos looks lovely. They're just trying to keep a standard higher than many other stocksites, and that also includes beeing very picky with what comes though and what doesn't. They need to have something special to compete with all the other sites. You should all be very proud to get your images accepted at this site, because it shows that your technical skills are in the high end.
That said, today good quality cameras are much cheaper than just a few years ago, and the technology just keeps evolving - and therefore the stocksites are constanly raising their acceptance quality - but they all focus on different things when looking at quality/stockmaterial.
It's very hard to make the perfect image with no noise, artifacts, banding, purple fringing, the perfect isolation, composition and sharpness. But it's needed for all of you guys to keep competing with all the other photographers. And most important, Crestock is ofcource trying to have 100% satisfied cusomers.
My advice:
- Always go though your pictures for sensor dust
- Avoid a very shallow depth of field, or you risk getting rejection for out of focus
- Always shoot with ISO 100 and ISO 200 is you really need to
- If you are doing handheld shots, make sure your shutter speed i fast enough to avoid shaken pictures.
- Never sharpen your pictures, it doesn't look good and the quality of the file is lowered. The customers will sharpen the images themselves if needed. If your pictures just can't get perfectly focused, you really need some new equipment.
- Be very careful when isolating - it's difficult to learn how to do this perfect
- Avoid too many confusing objects in a picture, objects that the customer cannot see what is just makes the image look messy and confusing. This could give you a composition rejection.
And always be very hard on yourself when deciding what to upload - what can the image be used for? Should focus have been somewhere else? Is the quality of this file as good as I can make it?
Even if you have taken some stunning images, if the quality is not good enough, you need to just give up on that file - it hurts but it's your job as a photographer :)
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Hi one and all,
I'm not sure this is the done thing, it may even be unique. But, as the most senior inspector at Crestock, I want to take the time to encourage all disgruntled uploaders. And, furthermore, I want to encourage your criticism, which seems for the most part, of a positive and progressive nature.
I've only recently started looking at the criticism on the Crestock forums, and criticism is, i feel healthy. Its healthy for the development of Crestock, which is in the best interests of every one of us. The inspection team that I work closely together with, regularly take the time to go through each and every disputed image together, discussing the pros and cons of rejecting or approving those tough images. Our decisions are under constant scrutiny, and, in that way, we strive to improve, to be fair and to uphold the standards of Crestock. But, as is the problem in so many areas of our existence, we are human. We make mistakes. After going through a good few hundred pictures (sometimes from the same photographer), one or two pictures can just accidently be mis-inspected. It happens, but also there are standards that in almost every case we must adhere to. I'm not going to name them all, because I'm sure they've already been mentioned/discussed before.
I know your pictures well, I imagine I've probably inspected for all of you at some stage. I recognize a lot of the names. I want to encourage all of the serious few that take the time to view the forums and become involved in Crestock. And, furthermore, I challenge you to enjoy what you're doing, regardless of the inconceivable rejections. I challenge you to take pictures that are original and that improve the standards of a very new industry.
Keep being critical, its what makes us better at what we do. All of us.
Best Regards,
Josh
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joven
Fitchburg, United States
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I'm another new contributor to Crestock. I've read through several threads complaining about rejections. It seems to me the main complaint is that Crestock has a higher quality threshold than other stock sites. From what I've read about Crestock as a company, that's their main selling point. They may be small, but their image collection is top notch. Rather than complain that Crestock rejects many photos that other sites accept, why not pride yourself on the photos Crestock accepts? In my first upload I got 6 rejections and 2 accepts. After looking through the feedback and critically examining my own work, I agree with their assessment and take pride in the two that were accepted.
- Andy
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You took the words right out of my mouth :)
Good luck to you Andy, good work and good attitude ;)
joven (4/28/2007)
I'm another new contributor to Crestock. I've read through several threads complaining about rejections. It seems to me the main complaint is that Crestock has a higher quality threshold than other stock sites. From what I've read about Crestock as a company, that's their main selling point. They may be small, but their image collection is top notch. Rather than complain that Crestock rejects many photos that other sites accept, why not pride yourself on the photos Crestock accepts? In my first upload I got 6 rejections and 2 accepts. After looking through the feedback and critically examining my own work, I agree with their assessment and take pride in the two that were accepted.
- Andy
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I really don't see any facts proving that Crestock has such a high quality standard, or that it's such higher quality than anyone else. High rejection rate does not equal high quality, and high prices do not equal high quality either. The prices here are several times what prices are on sites selling equivalent work, and yet the contributor makes less money. Sometimes I too got fooled and thought it was a "quality" thing... but how are you judging quality? Just because 95% of the images are bright, colorful and all composed with the same old boring traditional "golden rule" doesn't mean they're all high quality. Sometimes people should be allowed to break out of the box, and the designers would thank you.
Most of my rejections are what I (and a lot of other people) consider to be just as high quality as my accepted images. In fact, if creativity and uniqueness is what Crestock claims to want, then I'm even more baffled by the rejections, because nearly all of them were more original than the accepted images. I would really like to see more well-done "rule=breakers' make it here... then maybe we could talk about quality and originality and really mean it. These long strings of rejections really wear a person down. If the admins want to console people, you need to tell them something better than what they heard in that last post, because it really doesn't explain the high RATE of rejections.
Rejections for good reasons are one thing. But when the RATE for acceptance is so ridiculously low, then people need better reasons.. not individual reasons only, but collective reasons for why the acceptance rate is so low. If it's going to continue to be so low, then people should just be allowed to upload an image and not go through the whole process unless it's approved. To upload hundreds of images, get only tens approved, and have only a few dollars to show for it is depressing.
One more thing... "a new industry"????? Stock???? What does that mean? There's nothing new about it... even the online stock phenomenon is not new.... I'm confused. Microstock, stock, it's all been around the block for quite some time.
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Thanks aardlumens! Finally somebody wrote things that make sense!:)
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I have to agree with aardlumens as well. I've liked Crestock from the beginning and have bounced from uploading to I'm not going to upload here again several times. ;)Right now I have some boring background/texture shots in the queue..in fact, they have been there quite some time. Now, I fully expect them to get rejected but I've decided I'm just going to upload what I do and they can take it or leave it. I don't do fancy studio work or people. My images sell for me 'as stock' everywhere else so I know it's not my work or my abilities. I'm always amazed when I look at my rejected folder. Yikes!
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