I received the status of my initial shutterstock submission recently and it does go to show that they will not accept just any picture! Needless to say, I didn’t do very well. All but 2 of my 10 submitted images were rejected. Unfortunately, due to Shutterstock rules, I didn’t get to have my two approved images uploaded onto Shutterstock because I needed to get at least 7 approved!

What makes the whole thing even worse is that for my next submission, I’m not allowed to use the 2 pictures which I know for a fact would definitely be accepted by Shutterstock. Shutterstock clearly states that I would need to submit 10 brand new images.

Anyway, brief reasons for rejections were given for each image (eventhough I don’t necessarily agree with some of them…)

So there you go! Granted these pics aren’t the best I have taken and some of them were taken with my old Panasonic Lumix point and shoot. I have to admit, it was quite disheartening finding out that none of the images I submitted were really good enough.

Does it take a certain kind of photographer to take stock photography? Cause if these 10 images were anything to go by, I’m certainly not one of them…