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can you tell me why my photos were rejected and what should i be doing to better improve the quality, thanks.

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AbamboCorrect answer

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Logos and clip art need to go.

These portrait mode errors are probably on all your pictures:

Detail has been optimized out, and makes the pictures incorrigible:

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Nancy OShea

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All these images look the same to me. Do not spam the system with multiple images of the same things. Diversity is key. Decide which one is your best image.

After a photo shoot, carefully examine your images and select the best ones. Edit imperfections if you can in Photoshop or Lightroom. Discard the ones you can't fix.

Compare 5 of your best images with other Stock Inventory. Ensure that yours are as good or better than what Stock has.

If it's not good, don't submit. That will cut down on your rejections and reduce wait times in the review queue.

Hope that helps.

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Abambo

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There is a difference, but also in my eyes 3 pictures would do it. But anyway, doing serious stock photography with an iPhone in portrait mode? I suppose that is the main problem.

A neutral clothing, a correct camera, correct lightning, and it would be a decent photo session. Not that it will sell, but it will probably be accepted.

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Olexandr22522449d3x6

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As for me, one of the reasons is insufficient sharpness.

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RALPH_L

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Looking at the first photo. It is not sharpo and has artifacts. Y ou need a model release for the model and a property release for the apron.

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DK Palm Bay FlAuthor

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i have a release

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You have both releases, two different ones, for the model and the apron?

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Ricky336

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Hello,

Exposure issues would be one reason. The collar of the lady's shirt is overexposed. You should bring more detail here.

E.g:

All of the photos have overexposure in the collar area.

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DK Palm Bay FlAuthor

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Can you explain the exposure issues? how can i resubmit this?

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Abambo

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You need to lower the exposure when you edit the picture. If the highlights are not blown out, you can lower the exposure (making the overexposed part of the image darker).

When you made the corrections, you can upload again, but because you used the portrait filter on your phone, you have errors in your picture, that are incorrigible.

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Abambo

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You tell us why they got rejected. There are several rejection reasons.

Quality issues or IP would be my best guess at the moment.

For your first, you have optimized out the fine details and used that fake portrait mode of your iPhone. That doesn't work well and does not produce quality pictures fit for stock.

In addition, you should not upload pictures that are too similar. Select the best and upload only that. 7205 and 7204 are basically the same, as well as 7201. I didn't look the others.

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DK Palm Bay FlAuthor

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thank you for the feed back, it would be nice to know these things when the photo gets regected, the portrait mode on the i phone blurs out the background so that wouldn't be the focus just the main image is there an option in photo shop that can do that without using the potrait mode on the iphone? Can you tell me which of the 6 photos i can resubmit and how can i resubmit them?

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Abambo

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Contributors are supposed to be seasoned photographers, and the moderation is done to protect the buyers from bad assets and not to show photographers, what they can do better. Indeed, if moderators would need to check your picture thoroughly, they would not check many pictures. So, your pictures get refused at the first error in sight, and not as we do, after an analysis and looking in depth into your pictures.

As for the pictures, you can resubmit: You need to collect what all of us are saying, and you have to check your assets the same. Looking at them at 100% (one pixel on the screen is one pixel in your image, you can appreciate sharpness) and 200% (you have an easier look at the artefacts).

You can resubmit, when you have applied the corrections that are suggested. In your case, above, I think, however, that some errors are incorrigible. So, there is probably no need to invest much time into trying to correct.

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