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The horse is too closely cropped. The horizon is slanted in the example below. I don't think your phone is capturing the detail Adobe looks for when it comes to stock. Viewed at 200%, details become kind of mushy is some areas, and I personally feel that if a buyer should want to enlarge an asset, details should still hold up to some extent. The barn with saddles, for example. There are burned out highlights (that might be recoverable), but it also seems to scream to be a horizontal image rather
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This blocky look, and the general lack of detail, is usually what makes images from small sensir cameras, I.e. phone cameras, unacceptable for stock. The image also has chroma noise in the sky.
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The horse is too closely cropped. The horizon is slanted in the example below. I don't think your phone is capturing the detail Adobe looks for when it comes to stock. Viewed at 200%, details become kind of mushy is some areas, and I personally feel that if a buyer should want to enlarge an asset, details should still hold up to some extent. The barn with saddles, for example. There are burned out highlights (that might be recoverable), but it also seems to scream to be a horizontal image rather than vertical. And you're correct. Shutterstock's buyers are different from Adobe's buyers, who are largely corporations and businesses looking for extremely high-quality assets pertaining to same. Phone images DO get excepted here, but I think it's relatively rare in comparison to images taken with actual cameras.
This blocky look, and the general lack of detail, is usually what makes images from small sensir cameras, I.e. phone cameras, unacceptable for stock. The image also has chroma noise in the sky.
This is what you're competing with in Stock inventory. This is bold & dramatic photography worthy of commercial use.
- Stock customers expect commercial quality assets for use in professional projects — print, digital and textile.
- Your competition is using dedicated 20-40 megapixel cameras.
- That's not to say you can't get decent snapshots under ideal conditions with a 12 megapixel smartphone, but it's much harder to do because your equipment is so limited.
If you're serious about becoming a Stock photographer,
1. Enroll in some photography courses to learn the basics.
2. Join a photography club for practice & feedback.
3. Start saving for a good entry-level camera (new or used) + lenses & tripod.
Hope that helps.
I'm just doing it for fun as a hobby. 🙂
By @Mountain Girl Forsch
As a lot of us do. However, the users of the stock databases are professionals and expect professional quality. From my experience, Adobe is more stringent with photography in terms of quality than most of the other stock sites.
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