WOW! Thank you everyone for all the helpful input! I sincerly appreciate all the comments!
I do tend to underexpose my images, its my understanding they hold the detail better than on overexposed image, so I will work on getting it right! As well, I will work on my focus and overall coloring!
Correct. However, it's still better to correctly expose your images. With moving assets, it will be more difficult, but with static or near static objects, bracketing is a great solution. You did not include the EXIF data, so I could not check other settings, like the camera, lens, ISO, exposure time etc. But noise is an issue in your pictures, and lifting the exposure is also lifting the noise level. If you are interested in high-level noise reduction, check this out: High ISO noise reduction.
The jumping girl's exposure would have needed probably a good flash to correctly expose the girl, without destroying the light mood. I highly suspect this picture to be a snapshot of your daughter. Sometimes, snapshots are what they are: nice snapshots for the family album. If she loves posing for you, try to plan such shootings.
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ABAMBO | Hard- and Software Engineer | Photographer
1950: nice colours, great action, but out of focus. I also would guess that the image is underexposed. The girl's head is cut off, that's unfortunate, as some potential use makes using this asset difficult. There is a certain noise level, that will make it difficult to correct the exposure.
2066: the rendering reminds me of old colour prints. Detail is gone in the girl's t-shirt. Whatever you cleaned up to the right and left, you need to do that in a manner, that the editing is not seen. It's obvious here. You need to train your photoshopping ability. The sky is noisy and deep blue, I would think that you pushed the saturation. The shadow on the left is strange in colour and exposes also noise. Overall focus is missing, that adds to the old colour prints impression.
2219: Nice pets, but the contrasts are very hard. Highlights are overblown, shadows are very pronounced. You have chromatic aberration in the reflections:
It looks like you used a direct flashlight. The highlights are also quality issues on it's own, even without the aberration.
Generally speaking, I like the pictures. You have an eye for the situation, and your framing is great, except for the girl's head. But you are, IMHO, combining camera setting and postprocessing errors. On social media, you will get many likes but for general stock use, they are not good enough.
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ABAMBO | Hard- and Software Engineer | Photographer
Regarding the girl in the sand, for me, it is quite obvious what she intends to do. No explanation is needed. A sled for sliding down snow, in this case, sand dunes. It's called tobogganing in the UK. I think the photo is too over saturated, somewhat under exposed. As there is a lot of light reflection, you have to be careful about exposure.
The girl jumping, generally speaking, it's too dark. You should include the girl's head I think.
The alligator photo, again too dark, too contrasty.
IMG_1950.jpg - the picture of the girl is just too blurry; and as @George_F mentioned, you've cut off the top of her head. There is something about the toe of the girl's left boot which is typical of Generative AI images...
IMG_2066.jpg - again, the main subject of the frame, the girl, is just too blurry. The blue object behind her is distracting.
IMG_2219.jpg - not in sharp focus, artifacts that look like chromatic aberration around some of the bright spots.
Are these AI generated images? When zooming in on the details, I see a lot of changes of texture and some odd structures here and there.
With the girl in the rain boots, her head is cut off at the top. This image is also a little dark.
For the person walking in the desert, there's a very odd red structure at her feet that doesn't make any sense and there's a lot of blurriness around the person.
The alligator photo looks dark to me, and shows underexposure on the histogram.
@Chantal31180276uvo1 I appreciate your kind response! We are always happy to weigh in.
You are right! It is blue and not red! I wasn't even close, haha. The photo makes so much sense knowing those are sleds for sliding, and a general purpose of why all the people are there.
With composition falling under Quality Issues/Technical Issues, this could also cause a photo to be rejected. It's a really cool photo once you know the backstory, but the photo should be composed in a way that clearly depicts the event or idea without the need for an explanation.
This is a unique concept definitely worth exploring more. Is this a common activity?
I hope you have better luck with your future submissions 🙂