Most of my photos are rejected

Thank you for sharing your photos with us for feedback. Once you improve the technical aspects of your photography, start thinking about what your stock image is representing. What is it trying to say or convey? Remember the old saying, “a picture is worth a thousand words.” These two images are of subjects that are commonly found—it seems you happened upon them on a walk or something. That’s fine, but don’t just snap the photo. Find a way to present the star of your photo in lighting and settings that does them honor and distinguishes them. Spend as much spare time as possible studying photographs by professionals of all types but also find a subject matter that interests you and then look at images of the same subjects for ideas and inspiration as you learn the craft. For example, if botany is of interest to you, search for photographers who specialize in flowers and plants and study their methods or take a class with them. Find a mentor who will guide you if possible. Join a photo club or camera walk for instant feedback and tips. Most of all, try to have a purpose when you take every photograph and spend time to perfect the scene through lighting, framing, lens choices, filters, and RAW processing. Keep shooting!

Hi @vietnameselovelylife,

Adobe Stock customers expect the highest visual and technical quality for use in their own projects. Ask yourself if customers will buy this instead of what is already represented in Stock.

See links below.

• 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/user-guide.html/stock/contributor/help/photography-illustrations.ug.html

• https://helpx.adobe.com/stock/how-to/tips-stock-image-acceptance.html

Better luck with your next submission. 🙂

Your pictures need to be in focus and correctly framed (arrow: the leave should not touch the picture border). Please note that you always can crop slightly, but rarely you can add missing parts. A picture that is out of focus is impossible to be corrected. As for the rest you can add some tweaks to get a better overall look:

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Both photos have a focus issue and need to be sharpened. Use a smaller aperture to increase the depth of field.

The first photo does not have a focal point. Where should the viewer look? The leaf or the drops of water? Niether are in focus and the leaf is cropped at the top of the photo. The second photo the sky is overexposed and all details are lost. Here you have to either: expose for the sky and lighten the rest, or crop out the sky (see photo below), or fill in the sky. 

Here is an example of your photo edited in LR.

In the future, if you want feedback on why a specific image was rejected, be sure to upload that exact image for the Community to review. It sounds like what you're saying above is that you actually edited these images differently than those that were submitted and rejected. Nevertheless, these would have been rejected also. The first image suffers from soft focus and lack of contrast. The black point also needs to be set appropriately - the image looks washed out. The second image also has soft focus; all of the petals of the flower/fruit must be in focus. The composition could also be improved to bring more attention to the pink fruit and less on the background. For instance, crop it tighter to eliminate the gray, washed out sky. Good luck !