Quality issue

Question

Can you please help me to understand what is wrong with these photos? Thank you so much.

Nancy OShea · Accepted Answer

Well, this is a smartphone. But screenshot is just screenshot, and it is always not sharp, I don't want boring photo. And this is not boring, it is an example that you can grow them in the garden. On my computer is pretty sharp. Is it something happening after I am saving them. I really don't know what is going on.

Good photography begins with proper lighting and equipment.

While you can, under ideal conditions, get decent photos with smartphones, more often than not they are just snapshots. That might be OK for posting on social media & email but that's not what Stock customers pay for.

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If you plan to be a Stock photographer, start budgeting for an entry level DSLR camera (new or used) and some lenses, filters and tripod.

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That won't make you an instant photographer but at least you'll be on a level playing field with your competition.

Hope that helps.

Abambo · Answer

Sandstone texture:Exposure: blacks (left) are missing, also parts of the whites (right of the histogram). Normally, this should result in a picture with missing contrasts:You have the painterly look of an over processed, small sensor picture. There are no fine structures left. I suppose that even your whites are missing on the histogram, that the light part of the picture has been clipped (overexposed). As for JPEG artefacts, to bring them out clearly, I've magnified the picture to 800%. They are, however, visible also at lower magnification scales:a) sharpening artefactb) compression artefact—visible in the darker parts of the imagec) colour noise introduced by the JPEG compression. That is visible in all the light parts of the picture. The most damaging effect of this picture is the painterly look, where the camera software has wiped out all fine structures. Turf, …:Disturbing patches of out of the focus elements:They are all over the picture.The painterly look is also visible here, your in camera optimization has optimized details away.If you look at your histogram, you see that here too, the whites are missing.The biggest defect here is certainly that the blades of grass are out of focus pretty much everywhere in the image. This makes the whole picture look blurry. This is followed by the painterly look of the details.

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