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marko_not_polo
Participant
February 26, 2026
Question

critique of a image

  • February 26, 2026
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What would be a possible reason for rejection of this image? Sky or ?

    5 replies

    jacquelingphoto2017
    Community Expert
    Community Expert
    February 28, 2026

    Hi ​@marko_not_polo ,

    It is underexposed.

    Best wishes

    Jacquelin

    Nancy OShea
    Community Expert
    Community Expert
    February 26, 2026

    In simplest terms, there’s not enough light. 

    A Levels Adjustment Layer can help. 

     

     

     

    Nancy O'Shea— Product User & Community Expert
    Ricky336
    Community Expert
    Community Expert
    February 26, 2026

    Did you take this with a drone camera?

    If so, due to the fact that drone cameras have small sensors, when enlarged to a large screen/printed, compression artefacts can be seen. However, here it is hard to tell as it is already compressed to WebP format in this post.

     

    daniellei4510
    Community Expert
    Community Expert
    February 26, 2026

    This is a 500% magnification, but I suspect a full-sized version would still begin to show noise and a lack of sharpness at normal size.

     

     

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    marko_not_polo
    Participant
    February 26, 2026

    This is not the original image in the post. 
     

     

    daniellei4510
    Community Expert
    Community Expert
    February 26, 2026

    This looks a little better, but it’s still to small to really determine what might be wrong. And the new forum limit of 5MB doesn’t help much, either. 

     

     

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    Abambo
    Community Expert
    Community Expert
    February 26, 2026

    The image is too small for a serious investigation, but I suppose that it shows artefacts that are typical for small sensor cameras.

    ABAMBO | Hard- and Software Engineer | Photographer