Author Topic: Queries on many aspects (Read 9693 times)

aly · « **on:** December 07, 2013, 19:00 »

I am grateful for nay suggestions as to how I may overcome the following critique in SS. Thanks.

Focus--Image is not in focus or the focal point is not appropriate for the composition.
Overuse--Image has excessive noise reduction and/or excessive sharpening effects applied.
Poor Lighting--Image has exposure issues and/or incorrect white balance.
Composition--Image is poorly composed and/or poorly cropped.

aly · « **Reply #1 on:** December 07, 2013, 19:08 »

Focus--Image is not in focus or the focal point is not appropriate for the composition.
Overuse--Image has excessive noise reduction and/or excessive sharpening effects applied.
Composition--Image is poorly composed and/or poorly cropped.
Another panorama with above critique from SS.
How I may improve will be appreciated. PS- picture is as shot apart from panorama stitch.

fritz · « **Reply #2 on:** December 07, 2013, 19:16 »

First and most important ask yourself who and why would buy your duck. There are 45,857 results on SS and the answer on your question is there. Compare your duck with others!

http://www.shutterstock.com/cat.mhtml?lang=en&search_source=search_form&search_tracking_id=9lOcXITvG9gaxXUGkxN0qQ&version=llv1&anyorall=all&safesearch=1&searchterm=duck&photos=on&search_group=&orient=&search_cat=&searchtermx=&photographer_name=&people_gender=&people_age=&people_ethnicity=&people_number=&commercial_ok=&color=&show_color_wheel=1

aly · « **Reply #3 on:** December 07, 2013, 19:18 »

Another pic with critique from SS.
PS-Image was shot in raw and minimal changes applied.

Poor Lighting--Image has exposure issues and/or incorrect white balance.
Focus--Image is not in focus or the focal point is not appropriate for the composition.
Composition--Image is poorly composed and/or poorly cropped.

How may I fix it? Thanks.

tickstock · « **Reply #4 on:** December 07, 2013, 19:19 »

aly · « **Reply #5 on:** December 07, 2013, 19:31 »

Shot with Canon EOS 600D lens 55-250mm in RAW. Minimal processing. I have sold many images of melaleuca trees.

jatrax · « **Reply #6 on:** December 07, 2013, 19:49 »

Sky is full of noise and the image looks over-sharpened, almost crispy. Hard to tell much from the small image but the noise easy to see.

pancaketom · « **Reply #7 on:** December 07, 2013, 21:44 »

assuming there is actually something wrong with the images and you haven't been hit by Atilla the reviewer, you might want to investigate camera settings and the automatic settings for bringing them into PS - often there is some default sharpening and possibly color saturation settings that you might want to dial back.

aly · « **Reply #8 on:** December 07, 2013, 21:49 »

yep Attilla has been saying the same things for virtually everything submitted lately.I will just have to keep on tying and hope I get another reviewer as I am getting pretty fed up last few weeks .

JPSDK · « **Reply #9 on:** December 07, 2013, 23:34 »

All 3 images are simply of far too low quality.
The duck has so much noise that a lot of details are lost.
The landscape is meaningless. There is no composition.
The tree... composition again. The whole tree, and nothing but the whole tree.

aly · « **Reply #10 on:** December 08, 2013, 03:45 »

Thanks for the comments everyone.The landscape in Yallingup is devoid of trees owing to westerly wind gales. Yet re duck last week had 3 collages of ducks accepted. Just a bit confused as some days images accepted other days similar ones fail. Will have to be more creative and adventurous.

Beppe Grillo · « **Reply #11 on:** December 08, 2013, 09:30 »

The fact is that on Shutterstock the reviews are sometime right (most of the time) sometime wrong…
But very often inconsistent…

BTW your photos, even seen in little size, looks very noisy, and I just can imagine what will see the inspector @100%

aly · « **Reply #12 on:** December 08, 2013, 18:58 »

I enlarge every image to 100% before submitting and have a new wide screen monitor. There is not much more I can do but must soldier on if I want to reach my $500 sales target in first year.

JPSDK · « **Reply #13 on:** December 08, 2013, 19:42 »

Have you looked at the duck in 100%

aly · « **Reply #14 on:** December 09, 2013, 08:55 »

Of course as I said I enlarge every image to 100% BEFORE submitting.If it is not sharp clear and detailed I do not submit.

tickstock · « **Reply #15 on:** December 09, 2013, 09:04 »

JPSDK · « **Reply #16 on:** December 09, 2013, 14:19 »

Quote from: aly on December 09, 2013, 08:55

Of course as I said I enlarge every image to 100% BEFORE submitting.If it is not sharp clear and detailed I do not submit.

Then you have problems seeing noise. And it is something you will have to learn to see.

The duck image is totally disturbed by HEAVY noise, I can only imagine how it would look in 100%.
See this, which is not a perfect picture, there is noise and DOF is not wide enough:

aly · « **Reply #17 on:** December 09, 2013, 23:47 »

ISO = 100. Is that too high? I thought that was ok?

JPSDK · « **Reply #18 on:** December 10, 2013, 02:37 »

Iso 100 is fine! When exposure is correct. The above duck is done with iso 400, on a nikon d 200, which is why the photo only holds water in a small size.

Was your duck done with iso 100? And what size of a crop is it?

aly · « **Reply #19 on:** December 10, 2013, 02:50 »

My duck was done with 100 ISO and NO CROP at all. Canon EOS 600D with 55-250mm lens.

ACS · « **Reply #20 on:** December 10, 2013, 03:24 »

Quote from: aly on December 10, 2013, 02:50

My duck was done with 100 ISO and NO CROP at all. Canon EOS 600D with 55-250mm lens.

It looks like as if it was taken at iso 3200. Very noisy even at thumbnail size.

stocked · « **Reply #21 on:** December 10, 2013, 05:58 »

Time for a new agency: Shutterduck !

JPSDK · « **Reply #22 on:** December 10, 2013, 10:46 »

Quote from: aly on December 10, 2013, 02:50

My duck was done with 100 ISO and NO CROP at all. Canon EOS 600D with 55-250mm lens.

Are you sure? What settings do you have?

Else there must be something elsae wrong, like it was very underexposed and you have lifted it much.

aly · « **Reply #23 on:** December 10, 2013, 19:13 »

Virtually no post photo processing shot in raw. I am still learning about raw but am very loathe to change settings much. Just a tad where needed like colour or light etc. Isn't the histogram supposed to be a curve upwards??

hellonxf · « **Reply #24 on:** December 10, 2013, 23:35 »

I think this photo is very common. I think at first you can learn the composition from others and later shooting situation, color...

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