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Image rejected due to quality issues ... seriously

Forum|Forum|2 years ago
November 8, 2023
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Hello every one. Received a refusal due to quality issues. I can't see those issues. Thanks everyone for the answer.

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Correct answer Ricky336

Hello,

Your composition is messy - rather too much clutter! Reds are too red. I also think you could make a slight adjustment in the colour balance; it is just a bit too yellow/green.

Read this about the histogram:

https://www.adobe.com/creativecloud/photography/discover/how-to-read-a-histogram.html

RALPH_L

Community Expert

Why doesnt someone mention that the red tone is oversaturated. View the water cooler at 250%. Do you see how blurred the edges are? Notice the halo arount the white water spout on the cooler?

Abambo

Community Expert

Why doesnt someone mention that the red tone is oversaturated.

By @RALPH_L

@RALPH_L ,

you did not read the prior messages: https://community.adobe.com/t5/stock-contributors-discussions/image-rejected-due-to-quality-issues-seriously/m-p/14221541#M72287

https://community.adobe.com/t5/stock-contributors-discussions/image-rejected-due-to-quality-issues-seriously/m-p/14221565#M72288

(not to mention mine, 15 minutes before yours! 😂)

ABAMBO | Hard- and Software Engineer | Photographer

Ricky336

Correct answer

Community Expert

Hello,

Your composition is messy - rather too much clutter! Reds are too red. I also think you could make a slight adjustment in the colour balance; it is just a bit too yellow/green.

Read this about the histogram:

https://www.adobe.com/creativecloud/photography/discover/how-to-read-a-histogram.html

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H_VojvodaAuthor

Inspiring

Thank you for your advice. I changed the overal color balance by lowering the green and yellows. For the reds I just want to tell you my discovery. I explained the same issue to "Abambo".

I didn't know about this issue, but it's the origin of the problem. And maybe it can help some other photograpehrs, My original picture is a psd file with some layers to control highlights, contrast, sharpness,.... It is a 7016 x 4682 px file. Red color is between at the highest R: 220 and R: 177 at the lowest (with PS dropper tool), high but not oversatured ; color profile ProPhoto RGB. So for me my file is OK.

I then only downscale the image at 6000 x 4000 px directly in PS, I change to 8 bits. And everything's fine so far. It's when I change the color profile to sRGB or Adobe RGB that my Red color climbs to R: 255.

Abambo

Community Expert

As a side note: You don't need to repeat what you've written somewhere else in the flow. That clutters the thread with duplicate information. If you want to address specifically someone, you can use the @ and select their screen name. Like @H_Vojvoda! That user will get notified.

ABAMBO | Hard- and Software Engineer | Photographer

Jill_C

Community Expert

Definitely over saturated !

Jill C., Forum Volunteer

Nancy OShea

Community Expert

I'm of the opinion that no one should sleep where they eat when camping. Anyway, enough about camping safety

Composition is a technical issue. You have too many competing elements here. It confuses the viewer's eye. I honestly don't know what the main focal point is. Choose one keyword that best describes your subject. Remove everything else. Keywords are essential because that's how Stock customers find the images they want to buy.

Maybe break this out into 2 or more separate images. Fix the other technical problems mentioned above and resubmit.

Hope that helps. Good luck.

Nancy O'Shea— Product User & Community Expert

George_F

Community Expert

I agree with @daniellei4510 on the blown highlights and oversaturated reds. When I zoomed in to 100% view, many red surfaces and white surfaces like the coolers were missing texture/detail. If you zoom in on the cooler on the right, it appears skewed and in need of geometry correction. From a composition standpoint the ground pads entering the tents look dirty, and the entrance to the tent on the right side should either be closed or open instead of in-between.

I hope this perspective helps 🙂

George F, Photographer & Forum Volunteer

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H_VojvodaAuthor

Inspiring

Thank you for detailled feedback. The cooler indeed is missing texture. I had to take away logos and handwritten with a black marker and the ground pad entering the tents is dirtty of course, it's a campsite in the tropical forest 🙂

daniellei4510

Community Expert

"the tents is dirtty of course, it's a campsite in the tropical forest "

It could still use some cleanup. Reality sometimes has no place when it comes to stock photography. I have no qualms about turning someone's brown eyes blue if I think it might improve salability. 🙂

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daniellei4510

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Blown out highlights, shadows could be opened up, and over-saturated reds.

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H_VojvodaAuthor

Inspiring

Thank you. But this is my Lightroom histogram

daniellei4510

Community Expert

And this is what Lightroom shows for me, with the shadows and highlights still needing some attention. As for the descripency, maybe @Abambo can chime in. He understands histograms far better than I do. In any case, one doesn't need a histogram to notice the over-saturated reds. In fact, they register as R: 255 with the dropper tool.

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