Some places don’t understand art

I sometimes forget this concept. Not every site where you can market your work recognizes art. They only market stock images, which have to meet “their” standards, which doesn’t allow for anything artistic. I don’t mean to imply that stock photography can’t be artistic, but you can’t have a soft focus or artistic lighting (must be evenly lit). So if you only light your subject using “advanced” lighting equipment it is often considered by “the expert” to be unevenly lit or poor lighting. If it has a soft focus it is posterized.

I’m not sure when the last time the “reviewers” were deep in the woods but guess what, there is uneven lighting even in nature. With this “rejection” based on the “criteria” given for the rejection I actually had to laugh.

Don’t let the rejection of a submission worry you. They don’t get art. A perfect example is having a photograph of a glass with soda in it that was accepted. Now, I haven’t sold a single license to the soda glass image but it met the “standards”. It’s their loss, not mine as some of the images have already been selected by a local business to promote an event.

Keep producing art. If buyers come, fantastic. If they don’t you’ve still got your art. After all, this is where the term starving artist comes from.