Not a good day
I've had a crap day today. I've been to see a specialist about a recurring health problem I've been having and the guy turned out to be a TOTAL loser... he ignored what I was saying about my own body, and when I said that something that physically disproved his opinion of what was wrong, he simply put it down to "coincidence". And to top it of he was weird in an unpleasant, creepy sort of way. I'm not going back that's for sure. Since the health thing has been getting in the way of my life for months, this was really a low blow.
I've also had a stack of istock rejections today - which to be honest doesn't happen much that more - so I got sort of confused about that - about 15 images from a shoot were rejected, where all the others were accepted - and the reasons were strange - keywording, isolation and lighting - for a studio set up where the background was blown out. Yes, I've written to scout, but I still go through the agony sometimes of "what if I'm not good enough? what if they start rejecting all my images because I'm not very good at lighting". I guess I'm just down.
I've also been really tired lately - and getting up enough enthusiasm to actually achieve anything is hard.
To top it off, I've been waiting 2 weeks for a wide format printer that they promised would be only 2-3 days, and today they rang to say that they'd "misplaced it" and so it's going to be another week or so :(
Maybe I should just go to bed early today. Might help with the headache ;)
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I'm sorry to hear you had such a bad day, Amanda. :( I hate to hear about your experience with the doctor. Are you able to get in to see someone different soon?
I was actually surprised to read about your rejections! I had a bad run of rejections a while back so I haven't uploaded much since. It was really frustrating and disheartening. I hope Scout overturns them for you, but please don't let this get you down. It sounds like you are worn out and just need some sleep!
*smoosh*
You not good enough? Excuse me for a second while I laugh myself sick. You're the one everybody looks up to. You are not the only person, especially amongst the exclusives, that is having very confusing rejections that make no sense. This seems to be a serious problem at iStock at the moment. I no longer upload to them for this reason. Take a look at this shot. There are some thing in it that I cleaned up before submitting. It was rejected on the grounds of it being a poor isolation. How anybody could have through that was an isolation is totally beyond my comprehension. Scout overturned it, but it was still very confusing and too far too much time to get it online....where it does not sell. It does sell on other sites. Good luck, but please don't doubt yourself.