Orange Elephant Posted November 16, 2014 Share Posted November 16, 2014 When uploading shots to Stockimo, accepted shots will offer a score. Rejected shots show nothing other than a "rejected" message. Is there some way to find the reason for rejection? My wife has been uploading to her own Stockimo account & with only a single accepted shot, she has noticed that she can get a rejected message almost immediately after upload. I was wondering therefore if Stockimo shots were QC'd by a software programme? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
dustydingo Posted November 16, 2014 Share Posted November 16, 2014 Despite what you may occasionally read here, QC is not done by software . . . in fact, I'd like to see the software that could consistently check sharpness vs deliberate unsharpness vs common-sense point of focus vs deliberate blurring vs shallow-depth-of-field hitting the sweet-spot vs birds-in-the-distance vs dust-spots etc etc. . . well, you get the picture :-) As I understand it, stockimo is judged on content/presentation/impact etc. dd Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Andy Holmes Posted November 16, 2014 Share Posted November 16, 2014 Despite what you may occasionally read here, QC is not done by software . . . in fact, I'd like to see the software that could consistently check sharpness vs deliberate unsharpness vs common-sense point of focus vs deliberate blurring vs shallow-depth-of-field hitting the sweet-spot vs birds-in-the-distance vs dust-spots etc etc. . . well, you get the picture :-) As I understand it, stockimo is judged on content/presentation/impact etc. dd Pre QC "processing" is software controlled though and rejection is reported rapidly. It might be a result of settings problem on the phone. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
John Gaffen Posted November 16, 2014 Share Posted November 16, 2014 I don't know if its a phone-related problem or not, but I do know that Stockimo are looking for the more quirky, unusual, abstract, manipulated, enhanced, filter-treated, retrofired, images. What I'm trying to say is that they do not go for the more traditional "good stock photograph". Hope this helps a bit? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Orange Elephant Posted November 16, 2014 Author Share Posted November 16, 2014 Thank you for your replies. With a rejection of within a couple of minutes during the weekend, makes me think that some of my wife's shots failed a pre-QC check. She has been cropping some - it may be that. I will pass on to her the information about Stockimo requirements. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
John Gaffen Posted November 17, 2014 Share Posted November 17, 2014 I do know that the Stockimo app will not upload an image if it is too small, as it responds with a message "Sorry the photo is too small. Photo must be at least 900pixels in height and width". I also know that some of the photo apps I have been using downsize the original file to below the acceptance limit, so triggering the message. But it is possible to check the image size before you try to upload via the app. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Orange Elephant Posted November 17, 2014 Author Share Posted November 17, 2014 Thanks, I have noticed that. However many of my wife's images are rejected with a minute or two of a successful upload. In those cases, the image size is fine. They are not getting through some sort of filter, I think. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Betty LaRue Posted November 17, 2014 Share Posted November 17, 2014 I can attest to Stockimo preferring the quirky. My quirky, filtered ones pass, my "stock" ones don't, period. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
mickfly Posted November 17, 2014 Share Posted November 17, 2014 What are the sales figures for Stockimo? Anyone getting sales? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
dustydingo Posted November 18, 2014 Share Posted November 18, 2014 What are the sales figures for Stockimo? Anyone getting sales? Yes. http://discussion.alamy.com/index.php?/topic/3043-post-your-stockimo-sales-here/ dd Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
John Gaffen Posted November 18, 2014 Share Posted November 18, 2014 Just another thought, It may be worth deleting the Stockimo app and reinstalling it again, just in case its got corrupted in some way, failed to update properly,or just did not install correctly the first time? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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