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marko_not_polo
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Feb 26, 2026 12:31 PM UTC
Question

critique of a image

What would be a possible reason for rejection of this image? Sky or ?

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    jacquelingphoto2017
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    Feb 28, 2026 2:09 AM UTC

    Hi ​@marko_not_polo ,

    It is underexposed.

    Best wishes

    Jacquelin

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    Nancy OShea
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    Feb 26, 2026 8:20 PM UTC

    In simplest terms, there’s not enough light. 

    A Levels Adjustment Layer can help. 

     

     

     

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    Nancy O'Shea— Product User & Community Expert
    Ricky336
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    Feb 26, 2026 2:41 PM UTC

    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.

     

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    daniellei4510
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    Feb 26, 2026 1:07 PM UTC

    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
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    Feb 26, 2026 7:05 PM UTC

    This is not the original image in the post. 
     

     

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    daniellei4510
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    Feb 26, 2026 7:15 PM UTC

    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
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    Feb 26, 2026 12:57 PM UTC

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

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