Post Your rejected Photo that have sold elsewhere

If I cried over every rejection at any agency, I would be totally dehydrated at this point. I look at the reason, make note of it and move on. Why get an ulcer over something that you may or may not be on control of? Perhaps if one thinks about why some agencies accept and others reject, one may figure out the strategy of the agency and make wiser decisions on what to deliver to what agency. Just a thought. :)

As a retired Art Director, I have vast experience buying stock video and still images. In the case of video, I would purchase only raw unedited footage so it could be color graded from scratch! Over edited and over processed video is a no no to buyers... Its the same with stock photographs. You see so much editing with HDR. Its overdone! Stock buyers want imagery thats on the flat side! This gives them room to process the image for the look they want for their Ad Campaigns. Photographer's scratch their heads when they look at stock images that sold that look average in creativity and say, my images look better than that! Why don't my photographs sell?

(Video:) I only increase brightness and maybe white balance correction if needed. I try to get a decent video from the camera a leave color correction to "experts." This makes my footage look less appealing in p5 previews compared to others. In other agencies they saturate the preview file. Nevertheless I understand the position of artist who sell photos in Alamy and their photos are rejected here.

I rarely do any color grades on my footage any more. However I do have quite a bit of heavily graded footage from my early days and funny enough some of those are my best sellers.

"some of those are my best sellers."

Interesting ! There are lazy customer who do not want to do any correction, or not so professional to do such correction.