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Wed Feb 27, 2008, 4:30 PM
Warning: pathetic and very negative entry ahead. Read this at your own risk. (I know a train wreck is hard to ignore, but think of the poor mangled bodies you'll be haunted with!)

So yesterday when I was on here trying to catch up on stuff I ran across *hougaard's journal entry about how much he has earned on on shutterstock . . . (I'd link to the journal, but I can't seem to find it now.) Anyway, I suddenly got all excited because I've been toying with the idea of doing stock photos before, and i felt like I had a lot of stuff that already would work for this type of thing . . . I actually joined Istock last year, but I chicken out and never uploaded anything because I didn't like the way they wrote out their terms and conditions . . . it was way too technical, it felt like they were trying to con me. But I'm paranoid so who knows . . . anyways . . .

I read through everything on shutter stock and I just had a much better feeling about it, and their legal documentation was much easier to understand. So I went ahead an joined! I totally dropped everything else I was doing and went through all my photos and chose the ten required and waited to see what if they were approved.

I'm not a photographer . . . They said all my pictures had problems, except for the one I was least excited about. Duh! Why am I trying to fool myself that I have any artistic ability? They said they all had too much noise! I worked especially hard to avoid that when I chose my submissions, because I read that they would reject anything with too much noise. But apparently I still suck. *gah!*

Also, there were a couple that I tried particuarly hard to color correct and white balance and they said they weren't white balanced! Everything I tired to do to improve my work I apparently failed at!

I know that I don't technically have to earn money with my art . . . I know my husband doesn't expect me to help him with the bread winning, but dang it! Why did I pay for all those years of school? So I could have a neat little hobby?

Sorry, I guess I'm really ranting now . . . But this has been becoming more and more of an issue for me . . . I keep trying to figure out why I feel the need to be artistic when obviously I'm not any good because I'll never make a cent off of anything I do . . . Apparently the only God-given talent I have is making cute chubby babies!

I guess that's my only contribution to human kind . . . :tears:

Man . . . I hope no one finished reading this . . . I'm so pathetic!
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~draekko:icondraekko: Feb 27, 2008, 4:48:57 PM
:hug: :smooch: a lot of that could just be the camera, i don't know what you have but it could just be. As to practice i try to take at least from 80 to 200 pictures a day in different conditions to try to get better i'm also reading and damned if i'm not learning :)

Then again maybe they are just too damned picky :)

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Disclaimer * I on only play an amateur photographer in real life :)

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~slightlyoff-beat:iconslightlyoff-beat: Feb 27, 2008, 5:56:27 PM
:glomp: Don't let the people on this shutterstock website get you so discouraged. Everyone has their own taste and I don't think a couple people's criticism should have to make you question your ability because there is always room for improvement, always something that could have been done different. =) Just gotta take it in stride.

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~Firebyrd:iconFirebyrd: Feb 28, 2008, 2:07:22 PM
I don't know what pictures you were using, but if anything was from your Canon S1 IS, I'm betting that's the problem. I love my S3, but even with all its improvements over the S1 and S2, it starts getting noise at about ISO 200. So, basically, unless you were always making sure to be at ISO 80-100, you probably /did/ have noise issues.

I can't speak for your Rebel, of course, but I've seen amazing pictures taken with them, so I doubt anything taken with that in decent lighting has any noise issues unless you've reduced the size of the original file.

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~Xenithar:iconXenithar: Feb 28, 2008, 6:06:08 PM
:hug: it's okays ^.^ I don't know much about photography, but I'm sure you'll be able to use that talent of taking pictures for much good someday.
~Taelifoe:iconTaelifoe: Mar 3, 2008, 10:48:14 AM
Cheer up, friend. I agree with the earlier comment that everyone has their own tastes. I try to avoid following all the rules for things like photography (I follow some, mind you) because I always see this incredible art that people create, whether it be filming, photography, painting, sculpting, what have you - and people always complain about how it looks too this or it seems too that, and I'm lost because I think it's wonderful.

(Getting to the point) So if YOU don't enjoy your work, then what good is it? I mean that in that you should not give up just because one place or person may not favor what you do. I'll get off my soapbox now. *hug*
~TheIcePixy:iconTheIcePixy: Mar 6, 2008, 12:47:47 PM
I couldn't submit anything from my old camera because they don't accept photos that small anymore, so it was all from my rebel . . . I do have some noise, but honestly I don't think I ever noticed it before because my old camera was so much worse. I forgot that higher ISO settings create more noise, and as most of my recent stuff has been indoors I was using higher ISOs to compensate for the lack of light. So yes, they were right, but it's just so frustrating to think everything I've ever done is worthless. At least to them.

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~Firebyrd:iconFirebyrd: Mar 6, 2008, 1:26:22 PM
What you need to do is get a good flash. I haven't researched your Rebel, but I'd be shocked if they don't have external flashes available for them. My dad does that with his Nikon-he points his external flash up at the ceiling, so the light bounces and is more diffuse, and the pictures are incredible. That will give you enough light to use lower ISOs while giving you nice, crisp photos with great color. I've not been impressed with the internal flash on the Rebels at all-the pictures Bill took at Thanksgiving of Enoch were very washed out-our flash does a better job!

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~TheIcePixy:iconTheIcePixy: Mar 8, 2008, 11:38:19 PM
Jake and I have some external flashes, we just need to figure out how to slave them to my camera since they're kind of older . . . But yes, I just need to take the time and effort to use all the lighting equipment that we have. (I don't like my internal flash much either.)

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