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October 6, 2023
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Unsure what is wrong with my rejected photos

  • October 6, 2023
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The following photo is one of a batch that was rejected for not meeting quality standards. It is 8 meg, seems clearly focused to me, and is unmodified. I'm confused by how to adjust my submissions to get more acceptence. Can someone look at it and tell me why it got rejected?

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Correct answer Ricky336

Hello,

Well, you're shooting a grey wall, and a dark grey gate, so not much colour!

Your perspective could be improved somewhat! You have to straighten your lines.

Commercial value is a big question mark. How could this be used, I wonder. What did you want to show - a grey wall? A back entrance to a warehouse? You could also run into property rights issues!

 

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Ricky336
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Ricky336Community ExpertCorrect answer
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October 10, 2023

Hello,

Well, you're shooting a grey wall, and a dark grey gate, so not much colour!

Your perspective could be improved somewhat! You have to straighten your lines.

Commercial value is a big question mark. How could this be used, I wonder. What did you want to show - a grey wall? A back entrance to a warehouse? You could also run into property rights issues!

 

Nancy OShea
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October 6, 2023

It is RGB color but mostly desaturated.

Underexposed, missing highlights.

Also the camera angle is off kilter.

 

As a customer, I'm not sure what I could use this for commercially.

 

 

 

 

Nancy O'Shea— Product User & Community Expert
Abambo
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October 6, 2023

the size of 8mb is not exactly a quality indicator. It's kind of saying that a heavy car is better than a lighter car.  Unmodified is not a quality guaranty, neither. The asset clearly requires some geometric corrections. Indeed all good pictures from the great masters are modified. You wouldn't buy a car without paint, just to stick to the car analogy.

 

I will need to load the picture to Photoshop for an in depth analyses. But it is surely not a monochrome image, as @Jill_C suggested, even that the colour is not very prominent. So that can't be the refusal reason, IMHO.

ABAMBO | Hard- and Software Engineer | Photographer
daniellei4510
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October 6, 2023

Just some guesses. I like this piece as being an interesting composition artistically speaking, but it may be lacking in commercial value. Also, while I realize it's a color photo, it comes across as black and white and B&W is rarely accepted by the moderators. There's some clean up that could have been done on the fence door (the white specks) and it could use some sharpening. Again, just guesses. A sharpened example is attached, assuming it doesn't lose detail during the upload.

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Jill_C
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October 6, 2023

Monochrome conversions are not accepted by Adobe Stock.

Jill C., Forum Volunteer