Uploaded the attached and it was rejected as "out of focus." Idea was that the birch tree in the foreground would be in focus and the rest a blur to set off the birch tree in the foreground. Constructive criticism is welcome. Thanks.
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The entire image is out of focus. It's just that the bit of the birch you thought you had in focus is actually less out of focus than the rest of it. Here's a 100% crop to prove it:
For stock photography, your work needs to be sharp as a craft knife. This doesn't qualify. When I started out, this kind of stuff was my biggest issue. Still is actually and I often ruin great images because I didn't think through focus more.
Few other things:
- If you want an image that says "birch" then you want all of
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The entire image is out of focus. It's just that the bit of the birch you thought you had in focus is actually less out of focus than the rest of it. Here's a 100% crop to prove it:
For stock photography, your work needs to be sharp as a craft knife. This doesn't qualify. When I started out, this kind of stuff was my biggest issue. Still is actually and I often ruin great images because I didn't think through focus more.
Few other things:
- If you want an image that says "birch" then you want all of the birch in focus.
- For composition, eyes usually move left to right but you have your subject on the right with nothing leading to it. The eye starts with a blurred background and doesn't know what to do. So, this would probably be improved by being flipped around. \
- This was shot, by the looks of it on an overcast day with your white balance on auto (go on admit it!) That's why the image looks kind of flat. It could do with the whites being lifted.
- Finally, there's something strange going on with a pink blocky colour on the right. Not sure what's going on there...
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