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April 26, 2023
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Refused for technical reasons.

  • April 26, 2023
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Hello community. Refused for technical reasons. Thank you all in advance for your advice.

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Correct answer Ricky336

Hello,

Even though you intentionally underexposed this image to highlight the walnuts (?), it doesn't work. Can't see anything! It's a black mess with some bright spots. This image wouldn't print well, there's just too much black!

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Nancy OShea
Community Expert
Community Expert
April 26, 2023

You don't know what your customer's want.   The long shadows and insufficient exposure ruined this image for commercial use.   Save the experimental stuff for galleries and photo sharing sites. 

 

Stock is neither a gallery nor a photo sharing site.  It's a business. If your photo isn't fit to print on posters, t-shirts, calendars, magazines or billboards ads, it will never be accepted by Stock.  Sorry if that's not what you want hear. But at least now you know what customers expect from contributors.

 

Hope that helps.

 

 

 

Nancy O'Shea— Product User & Community Expert
Legend
April 26, 2023

If you shoot a photo with a defect, and have to explain the defect, your photo is already failed for stock. There is no way to explain about your artistic intention. Good art may sell well, but it must be technically perfect in the conventional way.

Abambo
Community Expert
Community Expert
April 26, 2023

First sight critique: Highly underexposed.

ABAMBO | Hard- and Software Engineer | Photographer
Participant
April 26, 2023

that's what this photo was about

Abambo
Community Expert
Community Expert
April 26, 2023

So, you intentionally underexposed the picture and Adobe moderators did not accept the asset for that reason, because they want correctly exposed pictures in their database. 

ABAMBO | Hard- and Software Engineer | Photographer