Rejected

You know the reason for the rejection: technical issues, but you can't allocate the diverse possible faults to your pictures, I suppose.

First: Portraits (including animals), need to be crisp sharp around the eye area. For most portraits, I shoot multiple pictures, just to get the eye right, as even the smallest movement or focussing error will bring the eye out of focus. I select those that with the initial processing don't need additional sharpening for the eyes. The smaller the DOF is, the most important this is.

Second: If you go high in ISO, and I know that wildlife photographers are going high on ISO, pictures get more and more out of focus, probably because of two factors: the inability of the camera's autofocus system to work under low light conditions and the noise affecting by definition the apparent sharpness. So, you should be at the lowest possible ISO. This helps also to address the noise level (luminance and colour noise) as stock assets need to be “clinically” free of noise.

Third: You absolutely need to address optical errors that are present in all lenses, even the best. The easiest to address, but also the most forgotten, is chromatic aberration, especially if you are photographing trees and bushes against sunlight. Also, when you shoot against the sun, you have lens flare, which can add to the mood, but if it hits your main subject (swan), it's getting disturbing.

Chromatic aberration (arrow) and noise:

Colour noise:

Sharpness, noise:

I think you have the right camera and lens and a good eye. You still need to take pictures at lower ISO using all possible tricks like image stabilization and mono- and tripods. Stock is very demanding on image quality, and some of the best photographers would not be able to contribute their award-winning pictures here. So getting a refusal says very often nothing about your photography qualities. Examine your pictures at 100% and 200%, and try to limit the post-processing to the minimum.

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