Photos rejected quality issues

Forum|Forum|1 year ago
April 10, 2025
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Yup, me again! I am really having a hard time with these photo submissions. I do the adjustments, and double check everything, but still they immediately get rejected, its so disheartening.

Contributor critique

jacquelingphoto2017

Community Expert

Hi @storm_42 ,

The first picture is a bit too saturated.

The second photo is noisy - both chromatic and luminance. Details are lost in the tree shadows.

Best wishes

Jacquelin

Abambo

Community Expert

Sure, but you see at the first sight that the first picture is ill exposed:

You should add blacks (left) and whites (right). That will enhance the contrast. In addition, I think that you have colour clipping in the blues, so I suppose that you did a huge amount of editing to this asset. BTW: clouds do not sell!

As for your second asset: did you check it at 100%? You would have seen quality issues with that without any difficulties:

ABAMBO | Hard- and Software Engineer | Photographer

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storm_42Author

Known Participant

Thank you, ok noted, no more clouds lol. I think i just enhanced in photoshop, and maybe saturated it more for bluer sky. But if i did editing to it before when the photo was taken (the one with balloons was taken a few years ago) maybe i did something there, that i didn't notice. Ok so will basically scrap this one, as you said, clouds don't sell, and dont really want to be wasting my time on something that doesnt sell.

Abambo

Community Expert

You should shoot raw if your camera allows that. That will allow you to make more adjustments, with fewer issues. And just to say, cat images do not sell either. But you need to start somewhere.

ABAMBO | Hard- and Software Engineer | Photographer

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