Until Friday, I had never, ever heard of vignetting. I see that it is a new rejection reason. Had to go look up what it is. It seems to be something rarely mentioned on both JP and A.net.
So from what I can tell after searching various photography sites, it is a result of any digital camera, some more than others, but there is no way to prevent it from happening. I spent the last two days trying to edit one photo and fix it, and have found it is impossible. There is simply no way to edit it without it looking like garbage unless perhaps going pixel by pixel, which is obviously not going to happen. Maybe if I had the recent, full version of Photoshop, but that's more than I can really afford for the small amount I am able to shoot.
And the whole "Vignetting not allowed" sorta makes it sound like the photographer was trying pull a fast one and sneak in a bad photo. Reminds of when I did too much editing once on some photos, and got a note that said continued use of such "digital manipulation" would result in a ban. Perhaps that could be reworded a bit.
Since I see no way to avoid this problem or fix it with the software I have, and an 80% or higher rejection rate is a waste of everyone's time, I guess I'm probably done shooting and uploading until I find some why to get back to my previous acceptance levels.
So from what I can tell after searching various photography sites, it is a result of any digital camera, some more than others, but there is no way to prevent it from happening. I spent the last two days trying to edit one photo and fix it, and have found it is impossible. There is simply no way to edit it without it looking like garbage unless perhaps going pixel by pixel, which is obviously not going to happen. Maybe if I had the recent, full version of Photoshop, but that's more than I can really afford for the small amount I am able to shoot.
And the whole "Vignetting not allowed" sorta makes it sound like the photographer was trying pull a fast one and sneak in a bad photo. Reminds of when I did too much editing once on some photos, and got a note that said continued use of such "digital manipulation" would result in a ban. Perhaps that could be reworded a bit.
Since I see no way to avoid this problem or fix it with the software I have, and an 80% or higher rejection rate is a waste of everyone's time, I guess I'm probably done shooting and uploading until I find some why to get back to my previous acceptance levels.
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