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.....assa
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March 20, 2023
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Quality issue

  • March 20, 2023
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Can you please help me to understand what is wrong with these photos? Thank you so much.

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    Correct answer Nancy OShea
    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.

     

    Adobe Stock customers expect the highest visual and technical quality for use in commercial projects.  Posters, billboard & TV ads, high quality printed merchandise...   see links below.

     

    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.

    https://www.techradar.com/news/best-entry-level-dslr-camera

     

    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.

     

     

     

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    Abambo
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    AbamboCommunity Expert
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    March 20, 2023

    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 artefact

    b) compression artefact—visible in the darker parts of the image

    c) 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.

     

    ABAMBO | Hard- and Software Engineer | Photographer
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      .....assaAuthor
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      March 20, 2023

      I like this elements sorry, it gives pictures atmosphere.

      Abambo
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      AbamboCommunity Expert
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      March 20, 2023

      You can like them, but they are disturbing. And they will lead to a refusal, as far as I know. And sorry: they don't give atmosphere.

      ABAMBO | Hard- and Software Engineer | Photographer
      Ricky336
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      Ricky336Community Expert
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      March 20, 2023

      Hello,

      Your grass photo is pretty much out of focus. There is no clearly defined subject. Even the Venus flytraps are out of focus.

      What is the main subject?  Regarding quality issues, I think the main reason here is focus!

      For the sandstone photo - artifacts and exposure.

      You can begin to see the image becomes pixelated when enlarged to 100% or more.

      By the way, to ask for feedback, use this forum - Stock Contributors.

       

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      .....assaAuthor
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      March 20, 2023

      What kind of artefacts because I played with exposure here and that was the best what I get, 

       

      Ricky336
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      Ricky336Community Expert
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      March 20, 2023

      JPEG compression artifacts. The highlights are also a bit overexposed.

      kglad
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      kgladCommunity Expert
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      March 20, 2023

      in the future, to find the best place to post your message, use the list here, https://community.adobe.com/

       

      p.s. i don't think the adobe website, and forums in particular, are easy to navigate, so don't spend a lot of time searching that forum list. do your best and we'll move the post if it helps you get responses.

       

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      .....assaAuthor
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      March 20, 2023

      I really don't understand, what do you mean? The question was in the quality issue forum. I searched for this forum a while. Where is it now?

      kglad
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      kgladCommunity Expert
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      March 20, 2023

      you posted in "using the community" which is a forum for questions on how to use these forums.  it's been moved to the "stock contributors" forum.

       

      if that's not where you want it, where do you want it?

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