"Quality Issues" in aerial photo

Jean, how many photographers does it take to change a lightbulb?

10! One to change it and 9 who insist they could have done it better.

The fact is everyone here is well intentioned. Yet more are preoccupied with their personal opinions, than clear objectivity.

My take is simple. 30+ years working as a professional comercial photographer, and over 2.5 million shots taken in my career.

I already gave you my opinion and suggestion on your aerial shot, now I encourage you to ignore the noise and become the absolute best critic of your work… and remain patient with rejections that have gotten out of control recently.

Cheers!

You asked about reasons for Stock refusal, which you have received here.

Questions about technical correction can be posted in Photoshop, Camera Raw, Lightroom or Lightroom Classic forums. 

https://community.adobe.com/community

This will definitely be refused for Privacy Violation. To use this photo commercially, you’ll need signed model releases from all people on the beach. 

Stock Reviewers are not allowed to check more than one refusal box per submission, even when multiple reasons apply.  You’ll need to fix this before you submit a 2nd time.

If you crop out people and focus on kayaks. it might be OK for use. But the long shadows might be a challenge for buyers.

This is what you’re competing with in drone kayaks:

https://stock.adobe.com/search?k=kayaks+beach+drone

Hello,

I don’t think overexposure is an issue. The highlight is a recovery tool, so one can even recover even it if it is -100! (Provided there is still enough detail to recover!!)

A possible issue is rather - I think - related to the sensor size. A small sensor as on a drone, is not as good as a ‘full frame’ sensor on a DSLR. So, when enlarged, problems appear. The same reasoning as with using film. A small film e.g. 110 film that was used last century! 😁vs 120 medium format film.

You should remove the distracting elements (people) - that will help. However, having people in it, will cause other problems! So, you could have a beach shot, summer holiday with no people!!😁

You could lighten it overall a bit as well.

Fair enough about distractions. As for the photo temperature - it was shot at sunset time, so colors should be warm IMHO :) Thanks for your example!

Personally, I find it a bit strong on the yellow and I would have eliminated the bottom distraction at the very least.

I tend to agree with you on the sharpness. I have a mini 3 and mini 5, the difference is huge. All the mini 3 photos I ran thru Topaz Sharpen or Denoise, and the vast majority accepted.

My offer stands!

Cheers!

Is this the original size?
The highlights seem a bit blown out.

If the person's face is recognizable, a model release is also required.

A few months ago Adobe changed how we attached photos in the forum, and I keep saying it’s impossible to tell if the photo is in focus or not. What drone are you using?

One option is using Topaz Labs tools to sharpen. Lately Adobe Stock is rejecting most of what I upload, then approve in the second batch.

I am extremely frustrated with this situation, but my sales keep increasing so it’s something I’m willing to put up, believing it will get solved. 

Save your titles and key words, so that all you have to do is copy and paste.

Let us know what happened when you resubmit.

Best of luck!

ps. if you don’t have Topaz tools, DM me so I can show you what it does.

Happy Monday!

Francisco