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Then in LR I'd either adjust the Clarity slider or the Dehaze slider (they more or less do the same thing) to reduce the mist and increase contrast.
By @John PDX
Texture, Clarity and Dehaze sliders all work differently. That's the reason, why there are three sliders and not only one. Occasionally, you can interchange texture and clarity. Texture works nicely on the skin, where clarity enhances the overall micro-contrasts. To quickly enhance the skin, I often move the texture slider to the left and the clarity slider to the right.
Dehaze can be used in lieu of the contrast slider because basically that's what it does: it modifies the contrast of the image. You also may use curves for that. Frequently, I use a mix of all to get the edit I want.
I didn't mean to imply they are identical, but rather work in a similar fashion. Both are micro contrast adjustments. According to Adobe:
"Both Clarity and Dehaze modify aspects of the contrast and, in some cases, the saturation of colors. (...)"
By @John PDX
Clarity and Texture are using a different algorithm, but they are similar in some aspects. As I said, Texture works particularly well for editing skins. Dehaze can be used as a different method to increase the contrast (even with no fog in the image).
Your first: the spots are really disturbing and well visible. They need to be edited out. The histogram shows missing blacks and partly also shadows, but also a tiny part of missing whites. This makes that flat look. For stock, you need to correctly expose the pictures. In your case, this will increase the contrast.
I suppose you are aware, that the watermark is not allowed.
Your second: Blacks are missing here. Check the histogram to correct that:
This could pass with little editing.
Your third: Noise, out of focus and also blacks missing in the histogram. The bird needs to be crisp sharp for this one.
Your forth: Noisy, out of focus, and guess: blacks missing. If you take pictures at ISO1250, you need to have an excellent noise reduction.
Your fifth: noisy, out of focus.
Your sixth: You really need a nice sensor cleaning, as the eagle pictures also exposes sensor spots (I've seen at least 2).
It's very out of focus, also noisy and this time it's underexposed as shown by the histogram:
Highlights and whites are completely missing.
Your last: Playing a bit around with the exposure (highlight shadows, compensate the blacks) and adding a small amount of sharpness, texture or clarity and keeping an eye on the whites and the noise could get this image passing. Check for sensor spots, I think there are some hidden in the bokeh.
Please post next time only one or two images. After some counsel, you can mostly do self assessment on the rest. It helps us, and analysis on a single image may be more precise and extended.
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