The elephant in this room

[iggy photog]

As n professional photographer for 30 years I have a fairly good idea on quality and a pretty solid with composition. If Adobe can use less Ai to judge images with actual soul..

Adobe, GIVE US A BREAK!!!!

[daniellei4510]

What was the purpose of this post? Was this image rejected? Do you need feedback? As a professional photographer for 35 years, I have a pretty good idea of what it takes to make quality AI. 

[RALPH_L · Accepted solution]

I think focus is the issue here. The edges of the main bird do not look sharp. Looking at the water at the same depth I still think it looks not very sharp.

By the way, Adobe tells us that no AI is used to rate photo quality.

[George_F]

The chromatic abberation alone would be enough for a Quality Issues rejection.  I'm with @RALPH_L about the focus as well.

A piece of art can have many technical flaws.  I would likely admire this if I saw it hanging on a wall, but I certainly wouldn't purchase it for a commercial asset to use in a project.

 

[Nancy OShea · Accepted solution]

Agreed. 

And this image wouldn't print well as it's more than 75% black.

[ImaRetiredTeacher]

Hello,

Seeing as how I'm new here, I have a Q about the sample image. Would the brightness of the water and it's lack of detail be a problem? I'm not sure how much I need to tone glistening down...like, if there is no Highlight notification from LRC, is it acceptable to ADOBE? Glare/reflection is a normal part of the real world, but I hate spending time editing just to have my image refused on something easy to fix.

Thanks

[Abambo]

If there is no clipping either in the whites nor in the blacks, then you should be OK. A small clipping is acceptable. The lack of detail is a question of the image. It can't be answered without seeing the image. Lack of detail for the subject is not acceptable.

[ImaRetiredTeacher]

Well thank heaven. That will save some time to be less paranoid about reflections/glistening, etc. Sometimes I tone things down due to distracting from the subject, but sometimes out of caution. I will be more relaxed now.  Blacks? I sometimes clip blacks on purpose, depending on the image. I don't think it's been a problem...??? Thanks for your input.

[ricky336]

Hello, but haven't you posted this photo a while ago. I have seen this photo before. 

What elephant in the room by the way? 

[Nancy OShea]

 If Adobe can use less Ai to judge images with actual soul..

Adobe, GIVE US A BREAK!!!!

By @iggy photog

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What proof do you have that Adobe Stock uses anything other than human reviewers?   I want to know.

Also, what has SOUL got to do with this?  Either your Stock submissions are commercial-ready for use or they're not.  This isn't a religious experience nor is it an art gallery.  It's a business opportunity to sell Stock photos to millions of global customers and get paid above average royalty fees & bonuses for doing it.  Good lord, what more of a BREAK do you want?

[Abambo]

Why do people always think that their pictures got refused by AI (not Ai, as that is a shorthand for Adobe Illustrator!)?

I'm now a professional photographer, designer and computer engineer for 38 years and I get refusals. That's part of the game (and I rejoice each time, a picture passes).

[ImaRetiredTeacher]

Me too, LOL. As a matter of fact, I'm shocked that I scored two downloads with less than 35 images in my portfolio!  I look at each rejection (and I've had plenty in the few months I've been learning LRC), as a chance to learn something new in the hopes I'll not repeat the mistake. It does sting sometimes, but I'm developing thicker skin already, ha!

[Abambo]

I'm now a six year contributor and I get rarely rejections today. (I do not upload much, but what I upload gets accepted). When I get a rejection, I usually get the same asset rejected more than once, when I do not really understand the cause of the rejection. I never resubmit unmodified (I did for non-compliant assets twice months appart, just to check if a different moderator would reject the same, they did…). Very often I upload specific themes, like sunrises/sunsets in difficult light situations, just to check the unfounded assumptions that moderators reject them blindly. They don't. 

I admit, that most of my refusals are for reason. Very few could be argued about. Two lone refusals, I do not understand. But well, the sun revolves around the earth if you believe that. So it be. With or without Elefant.

[ImaRetiredTeacher]

When I scrutinize, I usally find an artifact I missed, correct, resubmit and have it accepted. But I have had a couple where I found none, resubmitted and, I assume, a different moderator accepted. It only makes sense that there is some subjectivity, since humans are not robots, yet, haha

[ricky336]

...since humans are not robots, yet, haha

By @ImaRetiredTeacher

Give it time...

[ImaRetiredTeacher]

Yes, I fear there are some scary things on the horizon! Good luck to all of us...

[ricky336]

Hi, perhaps ask Apple support! 😃

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[jacquelingphoto2017]

Hi @iggy photog ,

It's underexposed, has color fringing, not sharp and also with color noise.

Color noise

Color fringing

Regards

Jacquelin

[Abambo]

@ricky336 is correct. 

The elefant is probably getting this picture refused twice: https://community.adobe.com/t5/stock-contributors-discussions/crisp-picture-no-filters-5000-glass-is...

[ricky336]

Thought so! Same answers as before!