Quote from: gnirtS on December 17, 2012, 19:08

I had 4 isolation images (of 4 different animals) all rejected for composition last week.  I think its just a reviewers "i dont like that" personal preference and a random reason from there.

Now why do they not just put a %&^%$#@#$ review note on their list which states "Rejected: Personally I just think your picture sucks. If you want, submit again, but if you get the same response again, your picture sucks." 

That would be a lot easier to work out what they do and don't want at times rather than misleading focus etc (which stand a much higher chance of being re-uploaded once "fixed"!)

Ive not seen them use the LCV reason for ages now.

Interesting thread.

I keep a list of all the rejections and reasons (yes im that sad) and something changed a few months ago.  Previously rejections were  a fairly even spread of lighting/composition, noise and so on, no real one reason standing out.  Suddenly a few months ago "focus" started happening and looking at the stats since October onwards for me 75% of all rejections have been for focus.
Nothing has changed with my setup since then and a lot of the images were taken as part of large shoots a while ago and others from that shoot were accepted.
If it ISNT automated screening then something somewhere has changed.
Some do seem to be maddeningly inconsistent though for example 1 accepted another taken some 3 seconds later (tripod, locked exposure, locked focus, bright sunlight, fast shutter, infinity distance non moving subject) rejected.  A blue background image accepted whilst a white background made from the same photo rejected for focus and so on.
It's almost like a reviewer gets bored and rejects photos they dont like by just clicking "focus" as he goes through without really looking sometimes.
That said they really do seem to dislike blurred background shots even if the main subject is razor sharp- more often than not those get rejected for me.

The vast majority of the time i'll resubmit the rejected focus ones (no note left, done as a new submission) and they'll be accepted.