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Quality issues with my photos.

Forum|Forum|1 year ago
October 25, 2024
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I'm excited to be an Adobe Contributor. I use an iPhone 13 ProMax, and shoot everything in AppleRaw. (I also have a Canon Mark 3 that I am getting back into using) The cat cleaning herself on the stairs was excepted. All the other photos were rejected on Quality Issues. . I use iPhotos, and did some edits. Can someone tell me if that was the wrong thing to do? Should I just submit photos as they are shot? The photo of the cat sleeping on the stairs was shot within minutes of the cat cleaning herself, that was accepted, both have similar edits, what are the quality issues with that one? I didn't make notes of what my edits were, I know that with iPhotos I can 'revert' to the original. Please be constructive, tell me what doesn't work and how to fix it; what works? I'm just starting out, this is the very first submission. I do have Photoshop and Lightroom. I just fool around with those, but if they are better I'll learn. Thank you all for your time and comments. I look forward to chatting with you.

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Ricky336

Community Expert

Hello,

To improve your photos, I strongly recommend reading more about composition.

Secondly, read about white balance,

Thirdly, think about your exposure.

As you took this in AppleRaw, then it is easier to make corrections.

Adobe Lightroom is a good tool to learn how to use:

https://helpx.adobe.com/lightroom-cc/tutorials.html
https://helpx.adobe.com/lightroom-classic/how-to/quick-tips-lightroom-classic.html

White balance:
https://www.adobe.com/creativecloud/photography/discover/white-balance.html

Exposure:
https://www.adobe.com/creativecloud/photography/discover/exposure-in-photography.html
Composition:
https://www.adobe.com/creativecloud/photography/discover/photo-composition.html

Jill_C

Community Expert

IMG_8849.jpeg - depth of field is too shallow - very little is in focus.

Jill C., Forum Volunteer

RALPH_L

Community Expert

The first thing that I notice is exposure. Your highlights are overexposed. Well seen in the second photo.

daniellei4510

Community Expert

Cats are a hard sell for a number of reasons. First, do a search for cats, and you'll find there are over 6,500,000 already available online. Secondly, look at some of the cat photos submitted and compare them to yours. And yes, you SHOULD edit your images to sharpen, color correct, bring out details, etc. However, Photos is probably not the best place to do it in.

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antonymatthews

Participating Frequently

Honestly, you're probably better off just not even bothering with images anymore. It's such a weird place right now. I had four images rejected, one of which I had previously accepted, but deleted and reuploaded to which it got rejected. If I upload any drone videos, they're almost immediately accepted. I haven't had a single video rejection on Adobe Stock. Yet images are turned down for such odd reasons.

One thing I'd suggest if you still insist on uploading images is to look up the same type of subject already on the platform. But that's not much use as even then you're still likely to get rejected where someone else got approved. Images seem like a genuine dice roll. I'd say your gear doesn't even matter at this point. It's really just whatever they consider "top tier" for their data mining AI stuff.

Jill_C

Community Expert

I don't agree with your assessment. I'm getting close to 100% of my photographs (taken with a Canon 5D Mark IV) accepted, though it can take months to get them reviewed.

Jill C., Forum Volunteer

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antonymatthews

Participating Frequently

You must be one of the lucky ones then. I have images that were previously accepted getting rejected, as well as images that sell on other agencies getting rejected. No matter whether it's a drone photograph or mirrorless camera. Either way, my focus is on video at this point. Not much reason to put in all that keywording effort just to train ai or make a few cents per image.

Review times for images is also pretty insane at the moment. Two month review times are becoming the norm.

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