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c2.beverly:
Any suggestions on how not get "noise/gain" QA hits from a glacier or ice close up picture (other than converting to photo to a blurry water color by removing too detail with noise reduction)?  Alaska glaciers are granular at any distance from micro to telephoto and I can't seem to get an accepted by the QA folks.   


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Brasilnut:

--- Quote ---Any suggestions on how not get "noise/gain" QA hits from a glacier or ice close up picture (other than converting to photo to a blurry water color by removing too detail with noise reduction)?  Alaska glaciers are granular at any distance from micro to telephoto and I can't seem to get an accepted by the QA folks. 
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That's a bummer, must be really noisy since Alamy QC is really slack. Perhaps don't crop as much? Don't open shadows too much?

Sometimes you just have to let go of some images and move on, which sucks in this case since not like you're gonna go back to Alaska anytime soon.

ShadySue:
Like BN says, their QC doesn't tend to be all that tight, but they do have some little bugbears, it seems.
Have you thought of posting on their forum?
Without seeing your image, it's hard to give any sort of advice, though. It must be possible to get them accepted, as searching for Alaska, glacier throws up 24,952 hits.

pancaketom:
submit a few in the middle of a stack of other submissions - don't they only look at one image per submission? I have had that problem with SS - digital noise rejection in pictures of sand dunes - no reviewer, what you see are the grains of sand. Some things just have grain.

BaldricksTrousers:

--- Quote from: pancaketom on September 13, 2017, 16:01 ---submit a few in the middle of a stack of other submissions - don't they only look at one image per submission?

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If you fail a submission they will start looking more closely at your subsequent submissions, as well as delaying the approval process. So it's not a good policy to try to hide stuff in the pile if you know it is sub-standard.
I don't understand why glaciers would look "noisy" unless they do have "noise" in them, or why there should be a problem shooting them without under-exposing - but then there aren't a lot of glaciers to experiment with in Arabia.

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