On of the difficult things about Microstock is the level and talent of the reviewers. It is difficult to say what will be accepted and what will be rejected.
On of my favourite Snow Monkey images was rejected on iStock… for bad lighiting. The lighting is back lit and the expression on the monkeys face is great. This was also one of the images I had submitted to get accepted at Shutter Stock.
The image was accepted at Shutter Stock. It was also my first sale ( within 12 hours of being submitted.)
Being accepted at Shutter Stock, and starting to make ( small) sales I think I can say I am on my way. Now comes the hard part…..
This is the carts of images and acceptence at different sites.
| # sub | # accept | Stock | editorial | Rejected | Accept ratio | ||
| A | Shutter Stock | 10 | 7 | 7 | 3 | 70.00% | |
| A | iStock | 50 | 29 | 29 | 0 | 21 | 58.00% |
| A | bigstockphoto | 65 | 36 | 32 | 4 | 29 | 55.38% |
| A | fotolia | 18 | 4 | 4 | 0 | 14 | 22.22% |
| A | Canstock | 166 | 109 | 109 | 0 | 57 | 65.66% |
| A | Dreamstime | 72 | 19 | 14 | 5 | 53 | 26.39% |
| A | 123rf | 102 | 93 | 77 | 16 | 9 | 91.18% |
| A | Veer | 20 | 10 | 10 | 0 | 10 | 50.00% |
| A | photodune | 123 | 105 | 105 | 0 | 18 | 85.37% |
| W | Pond5 | 10 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | |
| W | panthermedia | 10 | |||||
| x | Alamy | 8 | 0 | 8 | 0.00% | ||
| 654 | 412 | 387 | 25 | 222 | 64.98% |
