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I assume you're asking why this image was rejected. The quality issues are Exposure, focus and composition.
I would add the white balance to @Jill_C 's list.
With the composition (quality refusal) as is, this picture does not have commercial appeal (independant refusal).
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(...) the person's creativity doesn't count?
By @cristiano91248605
Sure, it counts. But stock photography is a craft, not an art. Your pictures need to be technically correct. Then, if they are also creative, they will sell better.
If you design a stool on which nobody can sit, it can be as creative as it can be, nobody will buy it. If it is correctly build to be very comfortable, and if in addition, it is more beautiful than the competition, it will sell in great numbers. That's craft before art.
They must be totally flat photos. The exposure is something that everyone uses to their liking, so, what photo and how can they be loaded or be commercial moivo?
By @cristiano91248605
What bis a flat photo? I understand enough Spanish to read your remark in Spanish, but I do not understand what you mean with that.
The exposure is not something that you like or not, it's based on the histogram of the picture. The histogram needs to cover the whole spectrum, but there should be no clippings at the ends. But to be clear, you can do selective exposure adjustments in your pictures to enhance the overall apearance of a picture. That is part of the preprocessing steps that you should do, before submitting. And that is also part of what has been done during all the times that photography exists.
The same with the composition. There are theories about how the human brain processes visual information and based on those theories there is a guide about how composition has to be. It's, however, astonishing (or not that much astonishing) that the old masters did exactly follow those composition rules in their paintings.
Commercial appeal is based on Adobe's experience on how the assets sell. In your case, the dove, the towel and the tight cut make this asset unattractive and the overall impression is that it would be difficult to sell. But that should not discourage you, I have assets in my portfolio that do not have a high commercial appeal but do sell in low numbers.
I don't doubt your knowledge of Spanish,
By @cristiano91248605
My Spanish is basic, but when I read flat colours, that may mean something different to you, in Spanish. What it means to me is that the blacks and whites are getting squeezed so that the colours are flat, but that is not what stock wants. Stock wants a histogram that is equilibrated with brilliant colours, but as natural as possible. And they want correct exposure, so no flat colours.
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