Even if you’re images are technically perfect they might be rejected if they are useless for commercial reasons.
Here’s a simple checklist with common commercial issues that could get your image submission rejected:
- Inappropriate images (pornography, glamour etc.)
- Images with no demand
- Images they already have too many of
- Bad composition
- Tight cropping and framing
- Images outside the agencies target market
Always read the submission guidelines carefully and weed out images with questionable commercial value.
Note: here you should put the highest priority on images that falls within the market you identified in step #1-4.
Previous posts in this series:
- Microstock Photography Tutorial
- Types of stock photography
- STEP #1: Research hot selling markets
- STEP #2: Leverage on your strength
- STEP #3: Research for lame and lazy competition
- STEP #4: Determine A Niche For Your Microstock Photography
- STEP #5: Shortlist Microstock Photography agencies
- STEP #6: Select one (1) microstock photography agency
- STEP #7: Select stock images with good technical quality











