Looking for feedback on rejected photo

Forum|Forum|1 year ago
October 3, 2024
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Hi wonderful community - how can I improve? This was rejected for quality issues.

Thank you for your help and advice.

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daniellei4510

Community Expert

There are AI enhancements apps that will help salvage images, but they come with a price and aren't always accurate.

Adobe Community Expert | If you can't fix it, hide it; if you can't hide it, delete it.

Ricky336

Community Expert

Hello,

You have used ISO 10000, which is pretty high! Therefore, you don't have so much of a focus issue, but as this was taken in low light, high ISO, it has rather muddied the pixels to a degree, rendering the image soft. Also for this camera, you have a small sensor, so the problems get more noticeable when the image is enlarged.

What can be fixed though, is to increase the brightness, decrease the highlights, and warm the image up a bit by slightly increasing the colour temp. Increasing the noise reduction. You don't have to use AI Denoise in Lightroom - I wouldn't! It's not that type of shot.

However, if you do all of this and resubmit, it still might not pass the quality standards, as it is not a clean, sharp image to begin with.

Jill_C

Community Expert

It's a lovely image, but quite noisy - particularly noticeable in the sky.

Jill C., Forum Volunteer

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lori_3007Author

Participant

Thank you! I suspect it isn't something I can fix in post?

It was worth a shot. I admit it was hand-held in a car.

Jill_C

Community Expert

You can try using the Denoise feature in Lightroom Classic or Photoshop; however, since the image is already in soft focus, it may make it worse in that regard. Try it out anyway just to find out how it works.

Jill C., Forum Volunteer