Thank you for your time Jacquelin! Alas, I'm pretty familiar with my camera, I shoot in manual with minimal ISO (as much as I can get away with given the light), and I quit submitting edited photos, just take my RAWs, convert to JPEG, make sure the white balance is reasonable, and submit. I've also read through the Adobe recommended reading, and I implemented what I needed to based on that before choosing what to submit. I'm still struggling to form a mental map of what's going to be accepted and what won't before I invest the time to keyword and title photos. I was looking for measurable things because I'm getting an unclear message. If I was only getting "exposure problem" rejections, I would think my means of measuring my exposure was malfunctioning, either my shutter speed, aperture, or ISO were being reported back to me by my Sony body incorrectly. But instead, photos out of the same set might be accepted, rejected for exposure, rejected for artifacts (if I resized the image down below 45mb), rejected for being out of focus despite the object of the image being in focus (I shoot a lot of animals with a wide open aperture, so I have submitted shots with face in focus and body not as much), rejected for technical issues, and rejected for aesthetic appeal. Again, photos from the same set which wouldn't look out of place beside each of those rejects have been accepted. It's beginning to feel like I'm at the mercy of the moderator du jour. The MP and MB parameters provide me concrete, actionable decision protocols when I'm going through my photos (not that any of my photos falls outside of 4-100MP), and the rest of what I've been able to find from Adobe hasn't changed my experience when I submit photos. I'm a little dejected, Ashton
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