Hi there,
I have recently joined Adobe Stock Contributor community and I got 4 out of 50 photos accepted, which is a decent approval ratio for a beginning. However, I am curious why 2 of these 4 photos got rejected:
Photos were rejected with this reason:
"Common issues that can impact the technical quality of images include exposure issues, soft focus, excessive filtering or artifacts/noise. "
There was no filtering other than regular cropping and photo editing in Lightroom.
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So in other words @daniellei4510, when an image is rejected, there is no "other opinion" but rather "take it as it is" and try re-submitting?
By @nikola_3087
Yes, but you should address the issues in your asset before resubmitting.
I've checked your second, and found several issues, each of them may trigger a refusal. The most obvious one, when looking at 100% at your asset: you have massive artefacts and noise that needs absolutly to be addressed.
In addition, the ice cream is overexposed, you should get the exposure down. And you have sensor dust (upper area, near the border of the picture). This will need to be addressed for some pictures. It's an easy fix, if there are not to much stains. If you have a lot of this, you should consider a sensor cleaning.
Before submitting an asset, you need to check it at 100%, sometimes 200% and fix errors you see. After a while you will know where to look at first. As an example: high ISO shots wich are underexposed will show always a high noise level, and depending of your autofocus, may also experience focussing issues.
As a side note: You can forget the boiler text of the refusal, that is never targeted to your asset, but is always the same. The only thing the moderator select is the refusal reason: Quality issues, IP violation, Commercial appeal, ... Similar assets. And even sometimes, they err in that selection. And they refuse on the first error they see, so there may be many, and there may be many different reasons.
Hello,
You may well disagree, but the white balance is off. The picture is too yellow, as if it were taken under artificial light; it's too yellow!!
Something like this, I think, would be better.
White balance is a part of the quality rejection reasons!!
The composition could be better in these two shots as well.
However, this is just an opinion.
One big piece of advice, shoot video of as much as you can...
By @ZALEZPHOTO
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Blanket advice is useless. Many contributors don't have the requisite equipment, skills or software for making videos.
Better advice is to do what YOU do best. 😁
Submit only highest quality content.
By the way preview is not working:
It won't be fixed due to the fact that the platform is moving to a new platform.
Regarding still and shooting video - different horses for different courses, as the idiom goes!
And in this case, 'one size fits all' doesn't always apply!
Newer iPhones have an UNBELIEVABLE stabilizer built in for video, that takes care of the huge camera shake impediment.
Too bad the video doesn't play, it's only 6 seconds of a wave runner at full speed from the 17th floor with the telephoto lens on my iPhone.
By @ZALEZPHOTO
Sure, the iPhone is better in video than in photo, at least for stock requirements. That is because moving objects "hide" the flaws of the small sensor.
But I don't know of any TV series that was filmed with an iPhone. Some series have been filmed with a camera, however, since Canon started delivering good quality images at a relatively affordable price with the 5D Mark II. Nevertheless, a cameraman is a cameraman and a photographer is a photographer, and not every photographer feels comfortable operating a film camera.
But yes, if you have the tools, you can try it. It's OK.
It seems to me that you're oblivious to insisting on pushing your beliefs and opinions onto others.
By @ZALEZPHOTO
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The pot calling the kettle black.
YOU WROTE: "One big piece of advice, shoot video of as much as you can..."
Stop preaching the gospel according to Francisco. You're not going to convert the choir.
Still photographers, 3D & vector graphics artists aren't giving up what they do best to shoot video. Nor should they.
Your narrow world view isn't applicable to everyone. Contributors come from many different disciplines. Accept it and move on.
Nancy, I know photographers who 25 years ago were in their 60's and decided they would never
try going digital. I bet today there're are photographers in their 60's saying they will never use AI tools for editing.
By @ZALEZPHOTO
There are photographers who say that they shoot JPEG and don't edit their photos, because they are proud to get it "right in the camera". The pictures are accordingly. 25 years ago, I did not go to digital, because the quality was less good then what I got from my film camera. But digital was used, and I hired photographers with a Hasselblat and a digital back for doing quality pictures in digital.
Did you know most cinematographers have roots in still photography?
By @ZALEZPHOTO
So what?
Shooting video is a natural progression for any still photographer, and Every contributor shooting stock today already has the equipment to shoot great video, and AI tools capable of editing flawlessly.
By @ZALEZPHOTO
Having good pots and pans does not necessarily mean you are a good cook.
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