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March 18, 2025
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One set of uploads completely accepted while other set of uploads completely rejected.

  • March 18, 2025
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So I am uploading photos in a batch od 10 photos per upload and last week I uploaded 10 photos and that set of uploads, 9 out of 10 photos got accepted (for some reason it looks like one photo is stuck and still in pending status)
And this week I uploaded another batch of 10 photos, and this last batch all 10 photos got rejected. All of them were recorded with same settings and location, all photos are animals from the zoo. 

Why is it that one time i upload all photos got accepted, and another time all got rejected, while the same photos on other stock sites were all accepted.
I couldn't upload all 20 photos so first 5 photos are from previous week and second 5 photos are from this week upload. 

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Ricky336
Community Expert
Community Expert
March 19, 2025

Hello,

First image of bird - dsc0003- 

The histogram shows underexposure.

Underexposed, a bit too yellow and chromatic aberration - green edge around the bird.

 

You have to increase the shadows, increase the exposure and decrease the highlights to maintain the detail in the feathers:

e.g

 

Learn about the histogram among other things:

This shows how your pixels are displayed from dark to light.
https://www.adobe.com/creativecloud/photography/discover/how-to-read-a-histogram.html

 

jacquelingphoto2017
Community Expert
Community Expert
March 19, 2025

Hi @aleksandarfoto,

You needed to increase the exposure of the first file.

The composition of the second file is not good. You should include more of the chick and place him in focus. There is also color fringing on that photos. You'll find it at the top of the chick.

The third file composition is not good. You have too much negative space and just a tiny bit of the chick's head. The image seem slightly dull posibly due to either lighting, highlights, exposure or blacks adjustments needed.

The fourth image has purple color fringing.

The fifth photo has color fringing also. 

Zoom in on the rest of your images at between 100 and 200% to check for color fringing, white balance and exposure issues.

Best wishes

Jacquelin

 

 

Abambo
Community Expert
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March 19, 2025
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Why is it that one time i upload all photos got accepted, and another time all got rejected, while the same photos on other stock sites were all accepted.


By @aleksandarfoto

It was never an argument by saying that the assets got accepted somewhere else. Moderation is done by humans, so different moderators or even the same moderator at a different time in the workday may take a different decision. 

 

But mostly, fir pictures presented here in this forum, they have been rejected for reason. Rare are the situations where we can't explain one or the other, mostly multiple, errors with the asset.

 

People only complain, when they got refusals, never erroneous acceptances.

 

I did a quick check on all 10 assets uploaded here, I would have rejected all of them for bad composition. Most of your assets are obviously ill cropped, I suggest you read about composition. Contrary to comon believe, composition is not an oppinion matter, but there are well established rules that even the old masters in painting followed. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Composition_(visual_arts)

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Golden_triangle_(composition)

Some of your assets have multiple issues, however. 

ABAMBO | Hard- and Software Engineer | Photographer
Nancy OShea
Community Expert
Community Expert
March 18, 2025

Different reviewers make different judgments.  Work is rarely examined by the same reviewer each time.

 

Technical Quality = ALL aspects that contribute to a photograph's visual clarity and accuracy. Composition, focus, exposure, lighting, color balance, contrast, and the absence of technical flaws like noise or artifacts.


Read the Contributor User Guide for more tips.

 

 

Nancy O'Shea— Product User & Community Expert
Legend
March 18, 2025

None of these should be accepted because of bad cropping and bad composition. And one seems to be shot through a window.

daniellei4510
Community Expert
Community Expert
March 18, 2025

Well I can't tell from how the images are laid out which ones were accepted and which were not, but in this example, the problem is poor cropping.

 

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Jill_C
Community Expert
Community Expert
March 18, 2025

DSC_0022.jpg - that ugly fencing sort of ruins the composition; have you tried removing it?

DSC_0015.jpg - nothing in sharp focus and not well composed (should be cropped)

DSC_0020.jpg - DOF is too shallow, affecting the focus

DSC_0024.jpg - not well composed, and the fence ruins it

 

Most zoos do not allow commercial use of images taken onsite. So, if you really want to submit such images to Adobe Stock, perhaps in violation of the zoo's regulations, you must make sure they do not look like they were taken in a zoo. Thus, no fences.

 

 

 

 

Jill C., Forum Volunteer