I recently decided to add some more photos on Dreamstime, because I never really took advantage of it for its revenue potential. Since I'm currently not offering any image exclusively anywhere (other than free images on morgueFile that would probably never be accepted on microstock sits), I picked three of my best-selling photos on Shutterstock and uploaded them to Dreamstime.

It turned into a good example of how the different microstock sites have different ideas about what makes a good photo. Remember, these were among the best selling photos on Shutterstock. So what happened with Dreamstime? Two were accepted -- OK, that's cool. The other one, which has a longer history on Shutterstock and has sold more than any of my other photos there, was rejected for multiple reasons. They didn't like the composition, they didn't like the lighting...

What I've done in the past is upload to Shutterstock first and then later, maybe, upload to other sites, partly depending on whether Shutterstock accepts or rejects the photos. I think I'm going to change this to what I think others tend to do -- that is, upload to all of them at once, and don't worry about individual site rejections. That should help both in building up my galleries and also putting an end to the "if it sold OK on site A, it should do OK on site B" line of thought!