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The ultimate in refusals, a Free image rejection...
posted by billdayone - 15th of march, 2011
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I am a bit confused.
I researched how to upload a couple of images to the Free section. I followed the instructions to upload by activating the option, that if an image is not approved for my portfolio, it could go to the Free... More... 
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Why do I like DT...
posted by igordabari - 3rd of march, 2011
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We all are human beings. We all can be tired. We all are not able to be always right. But we all can speak to each other politely and constructively trying to explain what we think and what we want. Respecting each other. And DT, on... More...
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Keep it clean ... or not
posted by p0temkin - 17th of february, 2011
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Yesterday I got almost 2$ for a small download of this image, one of my first uploads to DT and 6 downloads so far:
Now I went kinda far off post-processing this one, skewing colors, blowing out highlights and creating a strong... More...
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Some trick for noise rejection
posted by igordabari - 16th of february, 2011
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Lately I took a set of pictures with night urban scenes. Such a subject requires relatively long exposures and ISO should be in most cases high enough. All this stimulates noise and so, normally night photos contain a good deal of noise... More...
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One year in DT, some considerations
posted by fra73 - 2nd of february, 2011
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A year ago I bought my first reflex. I had everything to learn. I joined just to have some free advises about my pictures from professionals. After some rejections due to all kinds of technical problems I understood how to improve the... More...
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Acceptance of who you are; photographically speaking!
posted by visceralimage - 15th of january, 2011
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Lately, these seems to be alot of whining on the message boards about images not accepted, editor choices, acceptance ratio, etc. I have been thinking about these comments and I decided to reflect of my own progress.
Let's establish... More...
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50 images online!
posted by trevorb687 - 26th of november, 2010
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Hi all
I started with Dreamstime back in 2007 and after a series of submissions where everything was rejected I kind of gave up . A few months ago I decided to have another go and now seem to be making a bit of progress !! I`ve even... More...
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Rejection
posted by annaskahill - 11th of november, 2010
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After some hard work getting new shots and uploading them to the site, I was rejected, every single one. Any advice on what I could do to make my work more successful? Here are some admitted images to give u an idea of what i like to... More...
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not as smooth as we hoped :)
posted by robseguin - 29th of october, 2010
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First of all thank you so much for the nice comments, it means a lot to us.
Got our first rejections this week (not 1 but 7...ouch), didn’t feel that good, but taught us a lesson, that we have to do a better job. So, that’s... More...
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110 Approvals in 10 days
posted by bcritchley - 28th of october, 2010
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After a great 14 day trip, time to chill out, relax and get away from everything I decided to upload a few shots on my return and see how things went.
To my delight I have now had 110 images accepted in the last 10 days with an... More...
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Recently hit $2000
posted by davidwattsjr - 5th of october, 2010
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I just recently hit $2000 in sales. I'm grateful to all the buyers that have found my work useful.
Many of you are reading this and are just starting out. My message is simple: keep shooting, keep learning, keep growing.
Virtually... More...
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Read those rejection notices
posted by mvogel - 6th of september, 2010
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For those of you that are new to DT, make sure that you read the rejection notices. My last three rejections came with notices that said I could fix the image and resubmit. I read the notice, fixed the images, just a little bit of... More...
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It's a Rough Road at first!
posted by jurphotography - 1st of september, 2010
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Geeeeezzzzz... Ok So has been a rough road here for me at dreamstime. Some really harsh rejections from the admin peeps. A super low approval rating, not many downloads, and a huge reality check. All of witch have contributed to... More...
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Most people like their images rejected.
posted by petarneychev - 25th of august, 2010
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Yeah, right... and I'm the president. (whispering in excitement to my wife: Sweetie, come here. Quick, quick... Look! The president 's reading my blog!!)
Hmm. Let's try it again. Favorite starting line of an email...? "Our agency... More...
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No Surprise
posted by djk - 11th of june, 2010
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There are times when you or I submit a photo which you KNOW is a good stock photo. When it is rejected you feel a surprised disappointment. After re-evaluating it, you can usually see the reason for the rejection.
I have been... More...
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5 Months dreamtime
posted by tonlammerts - 30th of may, 2010
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After 5 months at dreamtime I decided to write my first blog. First impression was a cold shower after approval of only 5 of my 50 images. Reading through the comments and trying to work to it worked. I hardly get rejections due to... More...
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Attitude is EVERYTHING!
posted by novembergale - 15th of april, 2010
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After nearly two years of dabbling in stock photography, I finally feel like I've made it through the learning curve as a contributor. My acceptances and sales are picking up and I decided to work exclusively with Dreamstime.... More...
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Poetry for the Struggling Microstocker
posted by komar - 2nd of april, 2010
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If we submit images, inevitably we are going to get rejections. From these rejections we learn how to improve and our acceptance ratio over time, should start to increase. However, this process for many of us is a tough one, as there... More...
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wisdom behind rejecting too many
posted by tan510jomast - 1st of april, 2010
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Those of you who has followed my blog will know that most recently I have attained my first Level 3 image . This is the one shown here aside .
I also noticed that as the Level increases, the earning for each download increases... More...
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My first steps II
posted by jdanne - 12th of february, 2010
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After reading plenty of blogs about beginners' frustration I was warned but couldn't imagine that it would hit me so intensively: Rejection after Rejection. Probably I didn't leave any reject reason out - at least not many.
The comment... More...
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