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Hello,

I think for your egret, you have darkened the river way too much. It's 'hanging' in mid-air. You should also show the legs. The egret needs some context. - as over a river.  The way you have shown it, there isn't any context at all!

So, for the egret, exposure issues will come under the heading of quality issues!

The Egret: If you get to a nicely exposed picture, I'm confident that it can get accepted. You should only submit well exposed assets with a nicely equilibrated histogram and let the buyer take the decisions for extreme editing.

Maine power plant: You should only submit one of the two pictures, as they are very similar. As for the editing: see my remarks above.

Morning web: Nice picture, but if you look into the details, you see problems ahead:

(yes, I did extreme pixel peeping at 500%, but only, because I saw at 100%, that something was not OK)

You should leave the colours naturally, to create a creepy atmosphere should be let to the potential buyer.

You should also watch your histogram:

This histogram shows a highly underexposed picture. The whole right part of the information is gone. The histogram needs to be well equilibrated, as said, the buyer can modify that to their needs. As soon as the picture is as destroyed as this one, there is very little that can be done to bring it back.

The first photo has underexposed shadows and some overexposed highlights. Also the face needs to be sharpened.

Hi @CSM ,

The first file looks like a composite where you superimpose the bird taken with bright exposure over another bird with dark exposure. Except for the wings and head of the bird, all else is too dark.

The second and third images are underexposed and noisy with out of focus elements in the forefront. Details are lost in the dark.

The fourth image is underexposed with chromatic noise. The subject is not in focus.

Best wishes

Jacquelin

What rejection reasons did Adobe Stock give you? 

Quality,  IP, commercial appeal or something else?

The Egret doesn't look real to me.  Is this a photograph or generative AI illustration?

The Maine power plant is mostly under-exposed (too dark). The foreground contains no details.

Please re-read your Stock Contributor User Guide.  It contains valuable information to help you.

• https://helpx.adobe.com/stock/contributor/help/reasons-for-content-rejection.html
• https://helpx.adobe.com/stock/contributor/help/quality-and-technical-issues.html
• https://helpx.adobe.com/stock/contributor/user-guide.html/stock/contributor/help/photography-illustrations.ug.html
• https://helpx.adobe.com/stock/how-to/tips-stock-image-acceptance.html