Rejected for out of focus

[davidh86650626]

This photo was rejected for being out of focus when viewed at 100%.  Frankly, I don't see anything but sharp even when zoomed in 200%.  How is a "sharp focus" defined for the Stock reviewers?

[v.poth]

Hi,

please take a closer look at the rocks in the background and the nets between the masts. Here are some areas that are "muddy" and blurred.

Possibly something has been done in the image processing and appears as jpg after compression as an image error. I can't really explain these irregularly distributed blurred areas.

Greets,

v.poth

[joanH]

Very interesting photo. As a potential buyer, I could not use this until the background was separated more from the foreground - too many confused lines to see the central interest - boats - well enough to use it. I wonder, can you blur the entire background or somehow contrast it enough to separate the many confusing lines in the center? Some bits of a blur but not the only reason I see to refuse the photo.Regards,

JH

[davidh86650626]

Thanks so much for your quick response. I have to say that your

explanation certainly drew my attention to those faults. I can see the

loss of sharpness, which is very disturbing. The photo is a few years old

and I am hopefully more aware of this in my photos, which gives me an

opportunity to review future submissions more carefully.

Dave

[ricky336 · Accepted solution]

Did you use noise reduction in post processing? If you reduce the noise too much - luminance noise for example, this can give a 'painterly' kind of feel to the image. And that is the feeling I get from looking at this. In your other images be careful on how much noise reduction is used - especially luminance noise.

[davidh86650626]

Ok, thanks for the tip. I'm pretty sure luminance, vibrance, clarity, and

other adjustments were used. Perhaps I can do all that for my own personal

preferences as I see fit, but I should preserve the original image with

only minor touch-up for submissions to Adobe Stock. Your submission

criteria does recommend pretty much leaving the photo in its original state

so the buyer can do what THEY want, not getting what I already did to the

photo. Thanks again for the help. We'll see if future submissions work

out better.

Dave