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Sun eclipse pictures with quality issues

Forum|Forum|6 months ago
December 19, 2025
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I uploaded three pictures of a partial sun eclipse. After six months (!) of review time, these have now all been rejected due to quality issues.

Due to the nature of these pictures, they have clouds covering the sun and make it shinhing less bright. I love this totally natural effect, but for sure clouds have soft areas which may lead to some "quality issue"?

To be honest, I do not see it. Can anybody support me?

I embed one of the images directly here (quality was a bit reduced bcause of the 10 MB size limit here), since there was some picture viewer issue reported here? Anyway, I also attach the origina lfile directly.

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Thank you
Miguel F.

Troubleshooting

Correct answer Jill_C

There's also a bit of chromatic aberration along the right edge of the sun.

Abambo

Community Expert

Noise, chromatic aberration, white balance: all quality criteria that need to be adapted. The image may also have a lack of sharpness.

ABAMBO | Hard- and Software Engineer | Photographer

ZALEZPHOTO

Inspiring

Miguel, sometimes adobe's moderator claims quality as reason for rejections... and everyone here has expirienced it. The fact is that this photo is one that has been taken a million times, and yours look just like photos I have taken, and got also rejected.

Just move on to creating photos that will have more demand.

ZALEZPHOTO

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Miguel.FAuthor

Participating Frequently

Thank you for your kind and so true words, Francisco.

Jill_C

Correct answer

Community Expert

There's also a bit of chromatic aberration along the right edge of the sun.

Jill C., Forum Volunteer

Ricky336

Community Expert

Hello,

For stock purposes, the quality isn't top-notch. There are exposure issues, as well as white balance issues. You may have a different opinion, but for stock, the requirements are different.

I am sure improvements could be made in Lightroom/Photoshop, for example, or other photo editing software.

The artefacts pointed out are pixels, not blurriness caused by air. They are two different things.

RALPH_L

Community Expert

There are a few problems.
1. Exposure. You have detail loss in the shadows and highlights. This can be seen in the Histogram.

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2. There are artifacts between the highlights of the sun and the shadows of the earth and the clouds.

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3. There is too much blue.
4. You need to zoom in. Your subject makes up too little of your photo. Use the Rule of Thirds.
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Miguel.FAuthor

Participating Frequently

I do not think that for this very spcial subject some minor underexposure of the very dark clouds and some minor overexposure of the (for sure) very bright sun is doing any harm or makes the picture technically inadequate. If even more emphasizes the dramatic setting.

What you call artifacts between highlights and clouds is some blurriness caused by air. And if it's too much blue, this depends on one's personal feeling. The white balance was left unchanged from what the camera decided, and for me it matched quite well the visual experience.

I explicitly wanted to leave the image size as it is, so that everyone could use the part of it that he/she wants to.

Looking at similar pictures in Adobe Stock, they look pretty much so (e. g. image #359189189).

The picture was taken with Canon EOS R5 and adapted Canon EF 100-400 f/4.5-5.6L IS II USM.

Anyway, thank you for your explanations.

daniellei4510

Community Expert

I would recommend that you try editing the image as per @RALPH_L's suggestions and resubmit. His points are valid. This is stock. The goal is to get your image accepted and potentially sold, regardless of one's (also possibly valid) arguments to the contrary.

Adobe Community Expert | If you aren't submitting your assets in sRGB, you probably didn't read the rules.

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