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February 8, 2023
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Flower Photo rejected

  • February 8, 2023
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Hi everyone

Would love to know why this photos was rejected due to quality issues. Would love input. Thank you

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Correct answer Nancy OShea

The wasps are somewhat intresting but the flowers not so much. 

 

Adobe Stock contains millions & millions of flowers, every  shape, size, color & variety.  Your chance of selling a flower image are about the same as your chance of winning the lottery.   Find other subjects to photograph that will generate sales for you.  🙂

 

See discussions below.  They may help you.

 

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INGE28320857jvqcAuthor
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February 9, 2023

Thanks everyone.

I am not going to give up - going to try again.

 

Jill_C
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Jill_CCommunity Expert
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February 9, 2023

Good attitude. Getting images accepted, and being able to recognize the flaws in our images, is a learning process. My initial rejection rate when I started years ago was 30-35%. It's now less than 5%.

Jill C., Forum Volunteer
Nancy OShea
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Nancy OSheaCommunity ExpertCorrect answer
Community Expert
February 8, 2023

The wasps are somewhat intresting but the flowers not so much. 

 

Adobe Stock contains millions & millions of flowers, every  shape, size, color & variety.  Your chance of selling a flower image are about the same as your chance of winning the lottery.   Find other subjects to photograph that will generate sales for you.  🙂

 

See discussions below.  They may help you.

 

Nancy O'Shea— Product User & Community Expert
viridianvagrant
viridianvagrant
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February 8, 2023

Not sure if this is the same version you submitted but they will reject anything that has a watermark or copyright on it and it seems like both images has that. Hope that helps!

Abambo
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AbamboCommunity Expert
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February 9, 2023

Watermarks are “Non-Compliant Image” refusals.

ABAMBO | Hard- and Software Engineer | Photographer
Jill_C
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Jill_CCommunity Expert
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February 8, 2023

1. flowers are not in sharp focus and parts of the image are underexposed.

2. depth of field was too shallow, causing too much of the insects to be out of focus.

Jill C., Forum Volunteer
Abambo
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AbamboCommunity Expert
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February 9, 2023

For 2 I would to add this:

You can have a quite narrow DOF, if it helps the picture, but when doing so, you still need to get the right parts in focus. With portraits of humans and animals, you need to get the eyes in focus. In your image, you narrowly missed the eyes (arrows) and have other body parts in focus (clouds):

 

ABAMBO | Hard- and Software Engineer | Photographer
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