Kris VC - Pre-screening/Editing advice

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Hi,

Are belly shots like these acceptable? Thx for your advice.

[dlowwa]

Hi,

Are belly shots like these acceptable? Thx for your advice.

It is possible to get shots from this angle accepted, but these specific ones would not be due to softness and the poor light.

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OK thanks for the info, the picture below is with a similar angle, but in my opinion with a much better quality, even at 1920 px? Any chance to get it accepted like this?

[dlowwa]

OK thanks for the info, the picture below is with a similar angle, but in my opinion with a much better quality, even at 1920 px? Any chance to get it accepted like this?

This would be rejected for contrast, soft, and overprocessed.

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Hallo,

I would like to receive some advice to prevent/reduce jpg artifacts. After more than 4k photo's uploaded and an acceptance ratio > 97% over the last year it seems that my workflow (which didn't change) is not the right one and I have no clue how to improve. The past week 10 of my photo's were rejected and big part of them bcs of jpg artefacts. I tried several things like remove JPEG Artifact via reduce noice filter in PS, change the quality of the export in jpg etc, noise reduction, less sharpening... Nothing helps.

When I open my raw photos (CR3 & CR2) via Lightroom or Photoshop and I save them without any manipulation in jpg (different quality's, two examples with 250 and 500 pixels per inch) the artefacts are clearly present.

So pls advice how to improve








My status over the past year with the recent rejects included

Below the photo that was rejected and the comment of screener in appeal.

[mmgmdrunen]

Kris

Please check the way you import Raw files. Look at the bottom of the raw import screen what does it read ?

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HI,

Not sure what I need to look for, but this is how it looks like:

Br

Kris

[mmgmdrunen]

look at the bottom where it reads sRGB ................... I highlighted it in grey.

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To have the info displayed, I needed to open the file directly from the sd card.

[mmgmdrunen]

in photoshop go to edit---preferences---- camera raw -----workflow what is the color space ??

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Changed the format to SRGB IEC6 1966-2.1 - 16 bit. Saved as jpg, without other manipulation, but the problem persists.

[mmgmdrunen]

can you see any difference with the pictures you showed before

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I tried it with 2 other pictures also, unfortunately no improvement.