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Re: Rejected for submission by 500px
« Reply #20 on: December 23, 2018, 12:47:14 pm »

I like the image. You are to be commended for not overcooking it. I appreciate photographers who show some restraint.
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Re: Rejected for submission by 500px
« Reply #21 on: December 26, 2018, 08:41:10 am »

I personally like your shot of the Nubble..

I don't want to imagine what they would have say about my rendition..


This is amazing! Love it! Were the seagulls there or added afterwards?

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Re: Rejected for submission by 500px
« Reply #22 on: December 26, 2018, 08:46:43 am »

I bet this is in fact what happened. We're at the point where algorithms making value judgments in various realms is a thing and yet the algorithms are so not up to the task. Witness *flickr's Tumblr's recent embrace of the New Puritanism: after this went down NASA's HiRISE flickr Tumblr account had several image posts removed due to "inappropriate content" or some similarly-worded reason. These were photos of the surface of Mars!  ;D  The folks using the code know it's profoundly stoopid (for now anyway) so they configure it for high/maximal rejection to cover their tushes.

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*Ack, wrong e-deficient content-hosting site!


Sounds like you are right.. Could be analytics making the calls to automate the process. I imagine they receive a lot of submissions. At least with Getty, you have to be accepted through a vetting process before you are accepted as a contributor.
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« Reply #23 on: December 26, 2018, 08:53:23 am »

The bulk of the image and thus the subject in a manner of speaking is mostly dull blue gray mottled areas with the buildings composed almost as an afterthought (whether it was or it wasn't). I can definitely see why reviewer wouldn't take it  - "most of the time" the preference is for tighter compositions with the subject "graphically front and center" and more dramatic as in some of the examples posted by others. That is not to say that the image is not valuable - just not necessarily commercial. Maybe if the sky was a "dramatically orange sunrise or sunset" e.g. and more "brightly lit" - maybe that would have tipped it in your favor with this wide composition


Well written! I agree with your points and often my images are front and center.. but in this case I wanted to show the dramatic clouds,  the sense of isolation of the island, while showing the hope if you will of the warm lights decorating the scene. As I said, I don't think the image is all that powerful, but rather get feedback and state the lack of consistency with 500px and i's parent Getty Images..
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Re: Rejected for submission by 500px
« Reply #24 on: December 26, 2018, 08:54:52 am »

Hi Stephen,

It could be as simple as the flag is at half mast. It may have limited appeal.

Peter


I hadn't considered that Peter.. Thanks for pointing that out.
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Re: Rejected for submission by 500px
« Reply #25 on: December 26, 2018, 08:58:28 am »

I like the image. You are to be commended for not overcooking it. I appreciate photographers who show some restraint.


Thank you so much for that feed back!
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Re: Rejected for submission by 500px
« Reply #26 on: December 26, 2018, 02:32:22 pm »

Were the seagulls there or added afterwards?

Nope.
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Re: Rejected for submission by 500px
« Reply #27 on: December 26, 2018, 03:02:39 pm »

This is amazing! Love it! Were the seagulls there or added afterwards?
Nope.

Has to be one or the other, surely  ;) Or perhaps both, I suppose.

Jeremy
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Re: Rejected for submission by 500px
« Reply #28 on: December 26, 2018, 03:19:40 pm »

Nope.


Has to be one or the other, surely  ;) Or perhaps both, I suppose.

Jeremy

too funny... my mistake, I somehow read past to the end as "were the seagulls added".. they were there..there was a fellow that showed up with popcorn and stirred the gulls up while I was photographing the lighthouse...
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