reason of rejection

First the good news:

They are great pictures and I love them...with some remarks. Most have been placed also by ricky336​ and jacquelingphoto2017​.

The bad news:

I'm sure that some pictures like this (very styled) get through, but they need to be perfect as the market for such pictures is very limited. Your chances would be much bigger if the raven would be visible with all his structure (foreground lighter an "correctly" exposed). The reason here is, that anyone low-talented Photoshop guy could get your look out of a correctly exposed picture but the inverse is not true even for the most talented of us.

In addition you have some things on your image that need to be addressed:

• colour correction and exposure has been named
• you have lens vignetting
• there is a dust mark in the middle of the picture
• as for the blur on the foreground rock, it's disturbing because you do not see the reason of that blur.

For camera settings I have the following remark:

• ISO should be lowest possible value (normally 100) if possible.
• The sweat point of lenses is around f8 (where the lens is sharpest). Such apicture could easily be taken at f8 and the background would still blur out.
• you have plenty of reserves as your exposure time was 3200/s. You should be able to get a sharp picture of this at much lower exposure time.

Hi ppphoto,

We would really like to help, but you have omitted uploading copies of the photos you speak of as being rejected for technical issue.

To upload the image click on the seventh (7th) icon from the left of the reply (post) text box menu bar. When you hoover over the icon you will see "Insert Image"; that's the icon you click on to upload the images for us to view them.

Regards

JG