Man or machine?

[JesperEdvardsen]

Dear Adobe and/or some photo software,

I'm a bit puzzled by the rejections I've had on some of my submitted photos. Artifact problems...? Out of focus...? Hmmmm, I don't quite follow you, and would even say: I disagree.

Is it just a piece of software that analyses the photos, or is someone made of flesh and blood also involved in the proces?

Who can help me answer some questions about these specific rejections? I would like to understand it, if I'm to consider using Adobe Stock to sell photos in the future.

Thanks in advance

Regards

Jesper Edvardsen

[v.poth]

Hi,

there is no way to ask Adobe support about rejections. In principle, such questions will not be answered.

Two ways to get more information about the reasons for refusal are 1. to look at this guide:

https://helpx.adobe.com/stock/contributor/help/reasons-for-content-rejection.html

2. to post your rejected pictures with the respective reason for refusal here, and you can get opinions/evaluations from experienced providers/ forum participants.

Greets,

v.poth

[ricky336]

I have been contributing to Adobe Stock for just over a year now and this question has been asked multiple times.

This was an answer given a while ago in a post about noise:

'Best way to remove noise and artifacts' October 5 2016

MatHayward​

Without the image number it's difficult for me to speculate. Artifacts isn't specific to noise, ther...

So, there you go. A real human does the reviewing!

And as v.poth says, post your photos here and you will get pretty good feedback!

[JesperEdvardsen]

Thanks for your answers!

Ok, here goes; these two photos got the label "Out of focus". I don't see that, so to speak - do you?

[v.poth]

Hi,

in the resolution in which you uploaded the pictures, no one can really judge the sharpness exactly. But it seems that nothing in these pictures is really sharp. An aperture of 6.3 or 5.6 is certainly not the best choice for landscape photography.

In general, everything should be sharp in landscape photos unless you focus on a specific and expressive content of your image to make a conceptual statement.

There are a lot of tutorials about landscape photography in the net.Youtube is a friend here....

Greets,

v.poth

[JesperEdvardsen]

Hi v.poth,

Unfortunately, Adobe has set a limit of 900px on the longest side, when you upload photos to this forum, so that’s why they aren’t bigger and nothing seems sharp here. (How you then manage to determine, that nothing seems sharp I can only wonder).

Thanks for your input.

[v.poth]

Hi,

there is no limit for a picture upload here. You can insert pictures in any resolution here.

My assumption that you have used a much too large aperture and therefore your pictures cannot be sharp enough is a possible reason and can be judged independently of the published picture size.

I recommend to inform you about the basics of photography.

Greets,

v.poth

[JesperEdvardsen]

When uploading, it said the photo could only be 900px, and if it was any larger it would be resized.

[JesperEdvardsen]

[joanH]

To my artist's eye, the first photo is spoiled by the dark blue foreground. Maybe crop that out and save the sharper center.

The second photo also looks hazy in the foreground and the sharp part of the photo is more at the center.

Buyers would find these difficult to work with. Hence, no market. Interesting shots, however. JH

[v.poth · Accepted solution]

Hi,

ok, it's limited to about 9 MB, but this is certainly enough for a good image size to analyze images. But you misunderstand the explanation of the image size, I think. The height/width of 900 px is the scaling factor for displaying your image in the comments area so that it doesn't take up too much space. But it isn´t a generel size limit.

Greets,

v.poth

[JesperEdvardsen]

I think you're right there - thanks for your replies 😉

[ricky336]

Looking at your images I would say that it could be a depth of field problem hence not looking sharp. V.poth is right in saying for such images it would be better to have a smaller aperture. F8/11 would be a better start. However if light is low you of course would need a lower shutter speed, which in turn means you need a tripod, and the list can go on...