Image quality

[hiebertsteve]

I'd love to know why these images are being rejected besides "Image Quality Issues"

[Abambo]

It's an exposition error: you have no highlights.

You may also take down a little the colour temperature, add some contrast, texture and clarity. It's a nice picture, I think you will get this accepted.

You should, however, also edit out those “defects”.

[ricky336]

Kia ora,

Your photo is somewhat flat. Try to bring out the stamens more - make them pop!

Perhaps something like this:

[hiebertsteve]

I'll take a look at the image again... this would definitely be over edited as it's not remotely close to the actual flower... this is where it gets confusing becasue they say not to over edit but then you suggest over editing to have it become accepted.

[Nancy OShea]

Natural photos are preferred, yes.  But the final photo must be visually appealing.  Otherwise, nobody will buy it.  The best selling Stock photos have wow factor.  The colors pop and the image says something to viewers. 

Cameras rarely if ever deliver perfect images. If they did, we wouldn't need Photoshop & Lightroom.  All digital photos require some editing to compensate for the camera's limitations and other faults.   The extent to which you must enhance colors, light, shadows, etc... depends entirely on the quality of photo you have to work with. 

Unfortunately, your flower (although very nice) is not going to make you many sales because Stock already contains over 27 million flowers. Yours will probably never be seen.

https://stock.adobe.com/search?k=flower

Look for more unique subjects to photograph. Before you submit, compare your work with other Stock inventory to ensure yours is as good or better than what's already there.

Hope that helps.

[Abambo]

Between editing and over editing, there is a big difference. @ricky336 says your picture is a bit flat, I say you should increase contrast, texture and clarity, which is the remedy against a flat picture. If I correctly look at Ricky's edit, he also made the asset a little cooler.

I agree with @Nancy OShea that sales on this asset will be low, but it's one of the better assets that I've seen until now, so try the corrections and resubmit.

[ricky336]

This image isn't over edited. It was using the auto correction tools in Photoshop. That is the result. Probably needs some fine tuning though. It was a basic example of what can be done. Not a finished product.

[Nancy OShea]

Have you calibrated your monitor?  Maybe what you're seeing on your computer display isn't as acccurate as you think it is.

[hiebertsteve]

Yes it's calibrated.  Thank you.