Quality issues?

[Dominic-Meijers]

Hi, can someone tell me why these pictures don't meet the standards? I've attached two pictures for future.  For future reference 🙂 

[daniellei4510 · Accepted solution]

No details in the shadows perhaps, and blown out highlights. I assume you provided a model release as well.

[Dominic-Meijers]

I added a release so that couldn't be it. I allways try to correct all highlights and shadows starting with the auto setting in Lightroom. After that I useally darken my shadows and add a bit more light as my default style. But I will change it and upload it again. See what happens. Thanks for your feedback Daniell

[daniellei4510]

When it comes to style, I'd say save your personal style for your personal work, not stock. If your images get sent to a moderator who automatically checks histograms first thing, you'll get a rejection. 

[Abambo]

Missing releases would be an additional issue. Generally you get a strike on quality, then, after fixing that, you get a different error. As long as we do not have confirmation, we check with  all possible errors.

[Ricky336 · Accepted solution]

Hello,

Shadows are too dark - look at the histogram - you have clipping in the blacks!

I don't think you should darken your shadows, because there should be some detail in the shadows for a good print.

Otherwise, it will be just a solid black!

[oleschwander]

The reviewer thinks there may be problems with permission to photograph for commercial use in Ben Youssef Madrasa.

[Abambo]

The reviewer thinks there may be problems with permission to photograph for commercial use in Ben Youssef Madrasa.

By @oleschwander

That may be the case, but if the refusal is quality issuse, we should look into qualitiy issues, too.

[Jill_C · Accepted solution]

The first image has lens spots in the sky, an easy fix. 
The second image is quite beautiful; you really nailed the symmetry. I don't see any obvious quality issues here, perhaps a bit of noise in the deepest shadows, and the woman is not tack sharp, but I had to zoom in quite far to detect that.