I don't have any rejections. Acceptance is 100%. How, you may ask? Well, no uploads to Shutterstock solved all the problems.

Apparently SS does not accept graffiti as editorial for whatever reason and requires a property release on it for commercial, even though that doesn't totally make sense either since graffiti is mostly done illegally.

https://forums.submit.shutterstock.com/topic/88144-update-to-our-graffiti-policy/

Stop deleting my posts, this is pathetic!

Quote from: christiano on April 23, 2020, 16:46

Quote from: komikmiha on April 23, 2020, 14:41

I don't have any rejections. Acceptance is 100%. How, you may ask? Well, no uploads to Shutterstock solved all the problems.

Funny answer for a guy who left this comment on April 9 ...troll alert :

"komikmiha Reply #36 on: April 09, 2020, 03:24 �   

SS rejections are beyond my understanding of common sense. I uploaded some clips with graffiti on wall and put them under editorial. They got rejected with Not Editorial: Clip does not fall under one of our acceptable editorial categories or it may have been incorrectly tagged as editorial.. Then I resubmit clips and mark them as commercial. They got rejected because: Missing Artwork Property Release. Then I tried the third time, again under editorial and guess what, rejected because Not Editorial. Now let's see what will happened the forth time. And fifth time. And I don't think this is the work of AI, I would say there are some naive or greedy humans involved. And I hope SS goes down.

My post was deleted. I was uploading to SS but I stopped. Admin is this ok with you?

Yes, your post was removed for rude sarcasm.  I sent you a DM explaining.

Not to lose the mood of the thread, and just in case everyone doesn't read everywhere. 



Sorry I left out similar but every spin of the wheel, the image gets rendered with the new text and it was starting to get fuzzy.

haha - I *LIKE* that... yes, that is EXACTLY what shutterstock reviewers are using to decide if a clip gets through

And yet in the ss forums some users defend the ss with a passion.msybe these are also reviewers? Xmmm

And yet in the ss forums some users defend the ss with a passion.msybe these are also reviewers? Xmmm

Defend for what? That's a very broad statement.

Defend rejections for similar, I probably will. Defend rejections for graffiti? Yup. Defend for rejections for many other choices that SS makes over what they want and what they don't, legal or not. Yes.

Defend for vague rejections, like focus, probably not. Defend for soft, grain, noise, artifacts, trademark... depends on the image. 

Hey while I'm writing, this is mostly for fun. I haven't done one of these in eight years: here's what the buyers see. The ones with the basil and spices have been up front for a long time.





So that's the best of the best for sliced tomatoes? All 768 thousand of them to pick from.  Look at the 4th one in 2020, it's top row in 2015. Are the newest 600,000+ anything worth ranking for buyers, in fact was 55,000 of these enough?

Makes me want to go out and buy some tomatoes to slice and shoot? Doesn't this motivate anyone else? Really, make money from shooting things in the kitchen, sliced vegetables. Who believes that?

If you think I'm being sarcastic and absurd, you're right. Because how does anyone think that uploading more of anything else that has hundreds of thousands of choices and good ones at that, lead to making any money from Microstock?

Yours... Mr. Cheeseburger, I'm still shooting them. 

150,161 cheeseburger stock photos Why would anyone even take the time to shoot and upload yet another cheeseburger photo? What's the point?

In my case I want to know I have the best, most perfect stock photo of a cheeseburger that I have ever made. I don't expect it to make me rich. I do expect to eat the burger, right after I take the pictures. How often can you buy lunch, and have it pay for itself?



Bought at the food stand, took one shot, uploaded. "Free Lunch"

Quote from: Uncle Pete on May 10, 2020, 16:22

150,161 cheeseburger stock photos Why would anyone even take the time to shoot and upload yet another cheeseburger photo? What's the point?

because MY picture of the cheeseburger is the BEST. and EVERYONE needs to buy it!

That's right and what we should think, but the facts and reality of too many (fill in the subject here) doesn't support our confidence or personal opinions. 

I could do this every day. I mean point out something I have and the competition:  946,965 sunset panorama stock photos but then when I use a better search with one more word, it doesn't look quite as terrible. 2,395 sunset panorama corn stock photos, and many don't actually include corn, so it's not so bad?

I just had this photo below rejected from SS. they said keywords need to be in english............america, architectural dome, building, capital, Capital Building, capitol, capitol building, congress, cupola, dc, debate, democracy, democrat, dome, Federal, federal building, government, governmental, historical, House of Representatives, independence, landmark, lawmakers, Legislation, legislature, Nancy, patriotic, pelosi, politic, political, powerful, Representation, republican, Rotunda, senate, Senator, sightseeing, symbol, tourist, trump, united states congress, united states senate, Unites States, us, US Capitol, US Capitol Building, usa, vote, washington, washington dc capital

Capital Building is not English. Capitol Building is English. US Capitol is not English. US Capital is English. I also don't see a tourist or a senator for that matter.

Where is Trump? I cannot see him!

Rotunda might is a problem?
https://www.google.com/search?q=Rotunda&oq=Rotunda&aqs=chrome..69i57&sourceid=chrome&ie=UTF-8