Image rejected because of "post processing and/or noise", but its unaltered

Report · Feb 26, 2017

I captured an (according to me) amazing image, but it was rejected because "it features excessive post-processing and/or noise", of which I haven't altered it. It was captured on my phone, using HDR mode. How can i get it to be accepted, or maybe there is something I am missing, since I'm a fairly new contributor to Adobe Stock??

Report · Feb 28, 2017

HDR is post-processing. Your phone is doing the post-processing and it's not you, but it's still post-processing. Also, there may be noise. Without seeing an example, we can't say.

Report · Feb 28, 2017

Okay. I think I understand now. So, that basically means I cannot upload photos taken in HDR mode...????

One of the rejected photos is shown below:

Report · Mar 01, 2017

It would seem so. It probably depends on how unnatural it looks though. I mean, that sunset image just looks wrong. The sky is way too dark, saturated, and contrasted compared to the ground. It almost looks like two different images pasted together (which it kind of/almost is).

Report · Mar 03, 2017

Szalam Thank you. Thats really helpful.Will try to upload a photo not taken in HDR mode and see if it makes a difference

Report · Mar 06, 2017

Hi, some of my pictures were rejected because of the post-processing and/or noise" too....will that help if I just remove the noise and upload the image again?

Report · Mar 06, 2017

marla599 wrote
Hi, some of my pictures were rejected because of the post-processing and/or noise" too....will that help if I just remove the noise and upload the image again?

I don't know. It depends on what the image looks like after you remove the noise. I haven't seen your image, so I've really no idea.

Report · Mar 06, 2017

How about this one for example ? The first image was rejected and the second one is after the noise has been removed.

Report · Mar 06, 2017

That is definitely too noisy.

But in the de-noised version the background trees and hills are so smeared they look like they've been painted. That would probably get rejected too.

But I wouldn't really worry about that either. The quality of the image doesn't look very good regardless of the noise. I mean, look at the grass near the camera and the village in the distance. I mean, really look. I don't know if it's low quality optics in the lens, some motion blur from pushing the shutter, or a combination of the two, but nothing in that image is very crisp.

It's not a very compelling composition either.

The road leads your eye immediately outside of the photograph. That's bad because you automatically look away from the photograph.

There is no point of focus for the eye to land on in the photo either. You just have a lot of blank road, blank field, blank sky, and blank water with no lines leading to the village (which is also fairly dull from this angle).

Changing the framing, the height of the camera, and the composition in a few different ways would have made this much more compelling.

What I'm saying is, even if it were crisp and noise-free, it's not a very useful photograph for a stock library.

I wouldn't recommend putting any more effort into it.

Report · Mar 06, 2017

Right,I see.. and I know what you mean,Thank you for help and saving my time as I was ready to "fixed" them all and now I know it doesn't make sense.I will choose different type of photos with better quality and I'm going to learn how to take better shots Thank you.

Report · Mar 06, 2017

You're welcome. I hope you have fun taking more pictures.

Happy snapping!