Please help with this rejection...I'm new here

Hi Stephen,

This is what I think the reason is. The structure which is at the forefront is cropped. The windsock, which is your subject is too small. Probably if you had included the entire structure and windsock in portrait, it would be acceptable. Another thing, I believe you should remove the prints. I hope this helps.

Best wishes

JG

I've found the reviewers don't like a lot of negative space in the photos. I've had a few rejected either as technical or exposure issues.

I think much of the time they review based on the histogram rather than the artistic merits of a photo, so with a lot of sky, the blue part of the histogram will be way up at the top end I suspect... which may flag to the reviewer there's something technically wrong with it.

From a negative space POV, I would say that the framing looks a little odd as it makes it look like the clouds or the windsock could be the subject. With the metal work falling off to the left, I'd like to see more of that fill the image than sky... that would be my personal preference. Framing of a shot comes under Technical, so maybe try a different crop and see how that goes

The only slightly other picky thing I'd say is that the structure looks as though it's leaning over to the left a little i.e. not straight in the photo. If you look at the bottom-most part of the structure, the horizontal line almost enforces that it's not straight.

Difficult to say:

Compression is quite high, but that may be the web effect.

There are scriptures on the picture, but that is not technical reasons.

It's a little bit washed out

It's not very high resolution

...but all in all, I do not see a valid reason to refuse.

To put it that way: it's not a great picture, but there are worse in the stock...