I hope to contribute many exciting images here.

I have found it very difficult to find "acceptable" stock images from my previous images.

The first issue is image quality my previous camera was a Canon Powershot s80. And while the images are very nice when blown up to 8x10, you can definitely see a difference in quality between the rebel Xti even with the kit lens.

The second issue is content. I previously wasn't really shooting for microstock (I only became aware of this market in early January).

So far, this is the only accepted image that I had previously shot that was considered acceptable for microstock.

I know it is verboten to use your dog in stock photography. I was pleasantly pleased when this one made it through the review stage. it depicts my beagle running away from the huge mouth of a Australian Shepard.

I like the composition in that there is definately a diagonal line and the flow is right to left. I might mirror it to go right to left just because to me right to left flow is more natural.

I really struggled with these dried chillis. I mean they are just too smoky and dark to really pop off the page.

I was concerned that dark chipotlese were not marketable and hard to see.

However, the image i was worried about turned out to be my first Dreamstime sale!

yeah!

This image was taken on a a very bright day at 800 iso. The sky looked very noisy. I found a simple trick for noisy skies, just select the entire sky and use Noise/Median (2-3) pixels to smooth out the jaggies.