Tony Dunn

If you put selective focus Or bokeh background in the keywords they should get accepted If not just downsize to 4K or even half like firn said & save on your editor. sometimes AF on a lens can focus on the wrong point & or the aperture is too wide. If you can use focus peaking on your camera use that as a guide.. But they are rejecting my pictures for noise at 200 ISO which is incredible on a sony mirrorless camera.

True and SS will have to accept smartphone images because that's the only cameras most newbie's will have. Who on earth would want to buy decent gear with these payments? And banning people from the forum for telling the truth. Do these tech companies want to take over the world?

SS rejected mine aswell. There are other sites which accept scans of old photos. I submitted some of my old slides to a site called A_ _ _ _ _ _ scanned on my old nikon scanner & they still accepted them even though they're very grainy

there are human beings at least management are but they have very poor people skills - probably normal in the tec world.

you can't even buy a packet of peanuts for 34p yet alone 34c

I agree. The other sites apart from AS have very poorly designed upload pages & take some getting used to. Besides to get the same number of sales on those you probably have to upload 10x more images to equal the sales on SS.

that's way more than 100%

SS must either be incredibly bad at sums or have no common sense what so ever.. Is there an authority in the USA (SS is an US company) that you can report SS to for unfair trading practices. If they are losing money on subs then they are spending too much on something else. BUT in no circumstances should they bite the hand that feeds them ie. us contributors. Wake up shutterstack AND DO THE RIGHT THING NOW!.

I think I'll go back to busking with a friend if we're even allowed with lockdown. Collecting coins doing that was much better & more fun but the beggers pretending to be homeless (those doing nothing) get way more money.

Yes it can't be a person rejecting photos for grain at 200 iso on a quality mirrorless camera.

same here I have some of my best photos rejected on here that are accepted on other site. But being accepted & then only getting a dime for a download is an insult. SS probably don't need us anymore.

But we don't have a choice until we get to the payment threshold so either: have to quit & donate our earnings to SS or 'sweat it out' on here until we can cash out. so it is sweatshop labor until then. However if SS allowed us to cash out before $35 then it would be fine. They should allow people to cash out early

Oh it was a sweatshop today 30c 86f heat in my town