quality issues

Forum|Forum|10 months ago
June 3, 2025
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The following photo is rejected for quality issues. Can you help me to understand this issue in details.

Troubleshooting

Correct answer RALPH_L

This is your histogram.

Notice everything is pushed to the left with nothing to the right which indicates overall under exposure.
The shadow "clipping" indicator on the left side has thrown a warning that some shadows are overexposed. Not necessarily a bad thing because some details are present.

The highlight "clipping" indicator, on the right side, on the otherhand, shows a clipping error. The few highlighted areas are overexposed without any details available. This will result in a "Quality" rejection.

Nancy OShea

Community Expert

Examine subject at 100-300% magnification. You have some focus issues on wings and flowers.

Nancy O'Shea— Product User & Community Expert

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sibymanuelAuthor

Known Participant

thank you

ZALEZPHOTO

Inspiring

I have some general advice.

-always shoot Raw

-make the habbit of always shooting in manual mode... and you decide what is your priority.

-bracket as much as you can, in this case the butterfly will remain still in the stem, so bracket with your shutter speed one up to 1 stop up and down.

-us a tripod as much and as often as possible, it is probably the most under appreciated tool in your photo kit

Your shot is great and almost there. the background highlights throws the eye off. Edit the raw file again, and make it brighter keeping an eye on the histogram... Using AI denoise software will also help you clean it up, and increase your chances of getting approved...

(Just one more thing... I magine there are already tons of butterfly photos in adobe's library)