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July 27, 2021
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Image declined do to technical reasons

  • July 27, 2021
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All of my images were declined due to technical reasons without specific reasons. What could be the reason (uploading some of them in low res)?

 

Regs,

Branson

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Correct answer Abambo

I'm away from my workstation and won't be able review these in detail, but I thought it was worth noting the differences in the histogram between the original overhead boat photo and both of these.  Both of these show on the histogram that the exposure is more or less correct, and the original shows overexposure.  

 

I think it could go either way on these, but my gut is telling me that 2 is the one that was rejected.  In my opinion, 2 needs straightening and some of the boats are only half in the frame.  But the sun spot in 1 appears prominent and distracting and could be considered a composition issue.

 

Thanks for letting us review your photos!

 


Quite a good analysis. Both pictures are giving problems, 2 could be better framed and one has this disturbing highlight spot. So instead of accepting one and refusing the other, why not to refuse both?

 

OP needs to understand, that quality assessment is complex, and moderators do a good job most of the time. I would have, indeed, refused both.

 

Lack of transparency is just because the moderator does not point out the exact portion of the picture he sees in error. But it is not the aim of Adobe stock to provide accurate feedback to the contributors, but to provide high quality pictures to the buyers. If the buyer is not happy, Adobe has a problem. If the contributor is not happy, there is no damage done.

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Abambo
Community Expert
Community Expert
July 28, 2021

I've looked into your pictures 1+3. They have problems with overexposure at least. as you submitted here only small images, I could not really look into other problems, but I suspect some other troublemakers as I've detected hints of noise in the shadows and artefacts around hard borders.

ABAMBO | Hard- and Software Engineer | Photographer
Participant
July 28, 2021

Thanks everyone for the feedback. I don't really agree the colors look unnatural (I was there), or the boats lack sharpness, or there is problem with the white balance, but there is not point to argue 🙂 In actual fact, 2 weeks ago I got several images accepted and as you can imagine they were edited in the exact same way, shot with the exact same camera/drone. I find it extremely funny that all picture in the first batch i uploaded were accepted, and all were rejected in the second batch (30+ pics) with no reason. 

Abambo
Community Expert
Community Expert
July 28, 2021

Technical reasons are reasons. If you are new to stock, you should consider these resources: https://helpx.adobe.com/stock/contributor/tutorials.html
Please read the contributor user manual for more information on Adobe stock contributions: https://helpx.adobe.com/stock/contributor/user-guide.html
See here for rejection reasons: https://helpx.adobe.com/stock/contributor/help/reasons-for-content-rejection.html
and especially quality and technical issues: https://helpx.adobe.com/stock/contributor/help/quality-and-technical-issues.html

 

Vetting is done by humans, it may be that the first one did let pass, abd the second one thought that the editing was too strong.

ABAMBO | Hard- and Software Engineer | Photographer
Participant
July 28, 2021

Thanks Abambo, that's what i don't like - this subjectivity and lack of transparency and clarity. I've attached 2 new pics - one accepted, on not. Can you guess the accepted one, and tell me what are the difference (don't look at my account for clues haha)?

jacquelingphoto2017
Community Expert
Community Expert
July 27, 2021

Hi @Branson_RandomNumber ,

The colors of the images are not looking natural. I cannot imagine drought so bad to make all big tree totally brown. In addition to the unnatural color, all three images have white balance issues that produce an aqua color cast.

Best wishes

JG

Photographer and Nutrition Author

Known Participant
July 27, 2021

In the first photo, there are incomprehensible cut wires. It is better to remove them. The colors are unnatural, Adb doesn't like that. The buyer will decide for himself with the colors in accordance with the design of the publication.

George_F
Community Expert
Community Expert
July 27, 2021

Greetings!

Resolution could be part of it.  I spotted a few things.

 

The one of the boats struck me as being overexposed, having washed out colors, and in need of some sharpening.  I think it would be worth giving this another once over and resubmitting personally.

 

The one of the island had a blue color cast and some noise.  

I noticed there details in the boat in the foreground appeared pretty soft here.  Not sure if that was it or not.

I hope that helps!

-George Folster

 

George F, Photographer & Forum Volunteer
Jill_C
Community Expert
Community Expert
July 27, 2021

The first image seems to lack sharp focus on the boats; the second image seems to have a white balance issue, and the 3rd image - I'm not sure. Was the 3rd one rejected for technical issues or IP violation? Uploading low res images makes it impossible for the Community members to properly evaluate the quality of the image and provide an opinion.

Jill C., Forum Volunteer