Merrillie Redden

I only ever upload to Shutterstock once, the same photos are accepted at all my other stock sites. The AI is all over the place with Approved / Not approved. It probably doesn't help that the majority of my photos are shot in low light conditions. Shutterstock doesn't pay enough to worry about resubmitting it. When they changed the payment structure I added 2 more stock sites to my portfolio and both are doing well. I took early retirement last month thanks to covid redundancies at work and will work on branching out my stock sites and perhaps do more events and family shoots in my local

Curious is anyone that successful on here that they can sell over 25,000 images in a year? It has taken me since 2017 to reach 1571 sales in total. I retired last week and will have time to branch out with other photography. Oviously we will need content that goes viral or was that covid lol. Level 6 Over 25,000 40% https://submit.shutterstock.com/payouts

It looks in focus to me, maybe my eyes need sharpening

It is so random, it wasn't that long ago I hardly ever got rejections and the same photos are accepted by my other stock sites with very few rejections and then they are usually only because of something they decide needs a model or property release. Here I get one batch accepted, then the next with a lot of Focus messages I refuse to resubmit. Their lousy payments only get one chance at the image it will sell elsewhere. Now instead of having the most photos on Shutterstock I have more photos elsewhere.

I just made level 4 for the next month, not that it will make any difference to all those friggin 10 cent sales. I will review my site come January,