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I am a contributor since 2018 with very few rejections over the years. Recently I had a batch of 15 photos rejected for quality reasons. Here is one example from the batch. Please help. Thank you

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Jill_CCorrect answer

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It appears that, due to achieving the right exposure on the bright white buildings, the rest of the frame has been underexposed. I would mask out the land / building area and lift the exposure in the sky and foreground.

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Thank you for the valuable feedback I have received. The photos were taken with a polarizing filter. It took away all the glare but also made the coulours more saturated and a slight increase in contrast made it worse. I shall be more careful next time and let me see what the result will be.

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Abambo

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You're welcome. You may correct, what can be corrected: exposure in limits, saturation, contrast, and resubmit. If pictures are out of focus, there is no need to resubmit.

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I'm also having issues with rejection for Quality issues as of last 2 weeks or so. I've been submitting since 2018, with a good acceptance rate. Occasionally I'll get a few rejected- but lately I'm having whole submissions being rejected for quality- even though the images come from a large batch of similar quality that were all accepted each time in the past (I submit big batches over many months to spread it out). They were fine before- but all of a sudden it's a No- and btw, it's not every submission, as some are all making it through every other time. It's like there's one particularly strict reviewer who is just hitting reject to easily. frustrating.

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Jill_C

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If you upload a few of the rejected images here, members of the community will provide their opinions as to the reason for rejection. It is rare to find an image unfairly rejected. If your premise that a strict reviewer is hitting the button too easily, which is doubtful, upload smaller batches. I upload 4-6 images at a time, and if any are rejected, I carefully review to determine whether they can be re-edited and resubmitted. I never get an entire batch rejected.

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It appears that, due to achieving the right exposure on the bright white buildings, the rest of the frame has been underexposed. I would mask out the land / building area and lift the exposure in the sky and foreground.

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George_F

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I think this was mostly an exposure issue. It appears underexposed to me and the Histogram confirms it. You may be able to correct this, but I was unable to get a decent result with a quick attempt.

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Abambo

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Without looking into the histogram, my first thought was: underexposed. And yes. I agree.

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