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My photos were rejected due to quality reasons. Can you help me?

Community Beginner ,
Jul 02, 2025 Jul 02, 2025

Can you guys dive me some hints about what is wrong?

 

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Community Expert ,
Jul 02, 2025 Jul 02, 2025

Hello,

In my view, your images are too dark! And probably, the toning in the landscape picture.

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Community Expert ,
Jul 02, 2025 Jul 02, 2025

Examine the histogram from your photos. The pixels are shoved to the left. That means underexposed. That does not mean rejection but, the shadow clipping indicator is "on". That is a reason for rejection.

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Community Beginner ,
Jul 03, 2025 Jul 03, 2025

the image was built to be that way. the contrast. parcial light, ofcus in a couple of details.

some parts are ment to be dark.

can't we?

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Community Expert ,
Jul 04, 2025 Jul 04, 2025
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Images with clipped areas aren't commercially viable. Large areas of solid black don't print well.

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Community Expert ,
Jul 02, 2025 Jul 02, 2025

Underexposed.

 

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Community Beginner ,
Jul 03, 2025 Jul 03, 2025

yes it is. 

on purpose. this photo was taken 6am. winter night. it is intended to be key photo, as we don't have sun. just the street lamps on the right.

can't we publish low key images?

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Community Expert ,
Jul 03, 2025 Jul 03, 2025

I can only repeat what I said. It's underexposed, and moderators will generally reject underexposed images. This might have a place in an art gallery or on stock sites that sell the same, but Adobe stock is looking for assets that are technically correct with respect to exposure, composition, a lack of noise and grain, etc. 

 

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Community Expert ,
Jul 04, 2025 Jul 04, 2025
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yes it is. 

on purpose. this photo was taken 6am. winter night. it is intended to be key photo, as we don't have sun. just the street lamps on the right.

can't we publish low key images?


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Be that as it may, it's still too dark. And one can also argue about the colour temperature. These photos are for stock, not an art gallery.

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