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[Phillip273825145ug4]

"Thanks for giving us the chance to consider your image. Unfortunately, this image doesn't meet our quality standards so we can’t accept it into our collection.

Common issues that can impact the technical quality of images include exposure issues, soft focus, excessive filtering or artifacts/noise. Learn more about our technical requirements"

[Phillip273825145ug4]

I have tried uploading the reject images but for some reason I am not having any luck with that process

[Henrik Heigl]

Hi,

can you give us the Image so that we can check.

Also before you submit, please review the submission guidelines carefully and compare your work with other Stock inventory.

https://helpx.adobe.com/stock/contributor/help/reasons-for-content-rejection.html
https://helpx.adobe.com/stock/contributor/help/quality-and-technical-issues.html
https://helpx.adobe.com/stock/contributor/help/photography-illustrations.html
https://helpx.adobe.com/stock/how-to/tips-stock-image-acceptance.html

Hope that helps.

[Test Screen Name]

Please try different ways. Or tell us the errors you get when uploading. For sure, we can't comment on your pictures until we can see them...

[Ricky336]

Hello,

Are you trying to upload your rejected photos to your post?

Have you tried this method?

Use the picture icon to upload to your post.

[Phillip273825145ug4]

I had to switch off my anti track software

[Abambo]

You need to upload the file, as submitted to Adobe stock so that we can analyse it. Either you use “Insert Photos”, or you use the drag-and-drop area of this forum. But please don't attach more than two or three pictures.

If you are new to stock, you should consider these resources: https://helpx.adobe.com/stock/contributor/tutorials.html
Please read the contributor user manual for more information on Adobe stock contributions: https://helpx.adobe.com/stock/contributor/user-guide.html
See here for rejection reasons: https://helpx.adobe.com/stock/contributor/help/reasons-for-content-rejection.html
and especially quality and technical issues: https://helpx.adobe.com/stock/contributor/help/quality-and-technical-issues.html

[Phillip273825145ug4]

[Abambo · Accepted solution]

Sharpness is not great, but it's OK. The histogram shows a highly underexposed picture.

Whites and highlights are missing.

Your framing is not great. You should have put the whole chain in the frame, instead of having cut off elements to the right and lower border. The shadow in the upper-left corner is disturbing.

You can try to correct the exposure and crop out the shadow and resubmit.

[Phillip273825145ug4]

Thanks for that advice, where can I learn more about histograms and how to use them?

[Abambo]

Get a look into this: https://photographylife.com/understanding-histograms-in-photography

The basic idea is that you should, for a correct exposure, have information from left to right. If you have a flat curve, like with yours on the right, it indicates under exposure, if you have a flat curve to the left, it indicates overexposure. And if there is a peak left or right, chances are high, that image information got clipped and is missing.

[Phillip273825145ug4]

Abambo, you may not have heard this expression before, but "your blood's worth bottling" it is a complement.

[Abambo]

Abambo, you may not have heard this expression before, but "your blood's worth bottling" it is a complement.

By @Phillip273825145ug4

They don't want my blood. Too much iron… 🙂  But thanks. From where is that expression?

[Phillip273825145ug4]

Australia, it is part of the colonial vernacular, which is sadly disappearing.

[Phillip273825145ug4]

[Abambo]

Blacks are missing and whites are clipping:

The red area is showing the clipping:

In the darker area, you see that it is a bit flat. That are the missing blacks.

Very often, with such pictures, I use bracketing, taking pictures underexposed, correctly exposed (as measured by the camera) and overexposed. At home, I select the picture with the best exposure (as indicated by the histogram) or I combine different exposures (HDR). I also did combine different exposures manually, by example when photographing a (relatively) dark room and a (relatively) light window. Exposing both correctly gives combined a good picture, with no clipping.