This was the first Jpeg I have taken with this camera. I will check tomorrow.

 

I just checked 2 images I have taken today. Same image, same position, same focus. One in Jpeg one in RAW. The jog is razor sharp. The RAW has this softness and the stone wall at lower part of image looks very, very soft. Maybe I should shoot JPEG instead of RAW.

Fudio, that is interesting, I never thought about exposure time because I use a tripod. Oh no, now that I am writing tripod.....this is one of my old photos before you told me to switch off image stabiliser. I think I need to go through my old ones with 200% zoomed in. I haven't edited them all yet. Best is to throw them all. However, I took a really soft awful one of the pier in the golden hour with Steady Shot off and a tripod. Shot against the sun and it's just horrible. Is anybody living near Cardiff, willing to give me some paid lessons? I never knew I need them. Images taken with my old 15MP camera in Jpg never get rejected. Apart from for noise at the beginning when I just started with microstock. Then I bought the Sony RX100M3 and my misery started. My old camera shoots would shoot such images with ISO125 and not make more noise. I would love to buy the Sony A7Rii but that's just too much money. And soooooo difficult to hold. And heavy. I will try setting ISO higher. My shutter speed is often about 1/15 inside but of course a lot higher outside. Doesn't make a difference to noise.

I cropped it but could only save it with 40% quality.

Wow. The one in the kitchen I edited today. They don't have that yet. The other one had enough light. The golden hour photos look bad. But I have to set the slider always between 50 and 70. I used Affinity Photo before for editing. Well, I don't know my noise becomes visible at ISO 80 even in daylight. I shoot in RAW. Sony says it's a 1 inch sensor but it's only 0.8.

Rejection reason: soft focus. One photo got rejected for still having noise even though others have accepted it and I didn't see any noise in it. Had to zoom to 200% to see maybe a tiny bit. I removed that last bit and image was accepted. The sunrise images are bad. This was taken with less light in my kitchen. ISO 80. I never higher.

Thank you for the link to the list. Meersburg castle is not on it but was rejected for Intellectual property law. I thought they want photos of street signs and a ll sort of signs. I have a photo of a British post office box in a stone wall. Is that also  copyright? I did see a photo of one on a microstock website. Now I am not sure if I should upload it.

Does the name has to come off Penarth Quay Marina? That's like a town name. What about the restaurant name? Strange, they accepted an image of the Esplanade which has only 4 very identifiable unique houses in the photo.

Thank you. I just checked. One boat has a name written on it. To the left where they lift boats in it says Penarth Quay Marina but there is also a sign with Volvo written on it. Shall I paint over it and submit it as commercial again or is it better to submit as it is as editorial? Why didn't they change the category? DT did that once for me. They didn't reject image but put it under editorial. SS wrote Image/Metadata intellectual.....what is it I shouldn't write in metadata?

Hello, Shutterstock rejected this image for possible Intellectual property law.....
I read that cars fall under that but not boats. Can I upload it again but this time as editorial or does the same law apply? I have another image with sailing boats but no houses. Can that be uploaded or also not?

Fudio, my tripod has no ballhead. It's easier without one for me. Thank you for the links. I will look into it.