A few weeks ago, Susan mentioned that she was going to submit some photographs to ShutterStock. ShutterStock is a website where people can purchase stock photography to use for their websites. You, as the photographer, get 50% of the purchase price. Before being accepted, you must submit 10 photos to ShutterStock and 7 of them must be accepted. For fun this week I decided to dig through some of my old photos, submit them to ShutterStock, and see if I could get accepted. Let’s see how it went!<\/p>\n

\nShot at the Surrey Hills Park.<\/i><\/p>\n

This picture was rejected<\/b> for the following reasons:<\/p>\n

– Image contains excessive noise, grain, artifacts, and\/or is poorly rasterized.
\n– Subject is blurry, too soft, or out of focus when viewed at full resolution.
\n– Image is poorly composed and\/or poorly cropped.<\/p>\n

Yikes. Let’s try a different picture of fruit!<\/p>\n

\nShot at Pike’s Place in Seattle.<\/i><\/p>\n

This picture was rejected<\/b> for the following reasons:<\/p>\n

– Image contains excessive noise, grain, artifacts, and\/or is poorly rasterized.
\n– Image has exposure issues, unfavorable lighting conditions, and\/or incorrect white balance.
\n– Subject is blurry, too soft, or out of focus when viewed at full resolution.
\n– Image is poorly composed and\/or poorly cropped.<\/p>\n

That’s worse than the first one! Maybe I’ll move on to boats!<\/p>\n

\nShot in Seattle.<\/i><\/p>\n

This picture was rejected<\/b> for the following reasons:<\/p>\n

– Image contains excessive noise, grain, artifacts, and\/or is poorly rasterized.
\n– Image has exposure issues, unfavorable lighting conditions, and\/or incorrect white balance.
\n– Subject is blurry, too soft, or out of focus when viewed at full resolution.
\n– Image contains color fringing and\/or inappropriate lens flares.<\/p>\n

Maybe a bigger boat?<\/p>\n

\nShot in Alaska.<\/i><\/p>\n

– Image contains excessive noise, grain, artifacts, and\/or is poorly rasterized.
\n– Image has exposure issues, unfavorable lighting conditions, and\/or incorrect white balance.
\n– Image contains color fringing and\/or inappropriate lens flares.<\/p>\n

No luck with water. Maybe concrete?<\/p>\n

\nShot in OKC.<\/i><\/p>\n

– Image contains excessive noise, grain, artifacts, and\/or is poorly rasterized.
\n– Image has exposure issues, unfavorable lighting conditions, and\/or incorrect white balance.
\n– Subject is blurry, too soft, or out of focus when viewed at full resolution.
\n– Image potentially infringes on intellectual property rights.<\/i><\/p>\n

Intellectual property rights? What the heck?<\/p>\n

\nShot in St. Louis.<\/i><\/p>\n

– Image contains excessive noise, grain, artifacts, and\/or is poorly rasterized.
\n– Image has exposure issues, unfavorable lighting conditions, and\/or incorrect white balance.
\n– Subject is blurry, too soft, or out of focus when viewed at full resolution.
\n– Please provide a property release signed by the artist for any scanned\/photographed artwork.<\/i><\/p>\n

Yes, indeed. If anyone knows who the artist of this graffiti near the St. Louis Arch is, please have him contact me. <\/p>\n

While you’re at it, I’m also going to need property release forms from every building in this picture.<\/p>\n

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Here are the final 3 pictures I submitted:<\/p>\n

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In all, all 10 were rejected:<\/p>\n

– 10 for “noise”
\n– 9 for “poor lighting”
\n– 8 for “focus”
\n– 4 for “lighting problems” (which is different than poor lighting)
\n– 2 for “composition”
\n– 1 for “dust and scratches”
\n– 1 for “trademark”
\n– 1 for not including a property release signed by a graffiti artist.<\/p>\n

I believe my dreams of becoming a member of ShutterStock just came to a crashing halt.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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