Introduction to Microstock Photography – Other Reasons for Rejection
In my previous post I started to discuss what types of things will result in a rejection. I started with copyrights and in this post I will cover noise and focus. Many of these will affect how you take the picture in the first place and in theory should improve the quality of your photographs.
I will start with a discussion of noise. What is noise? Noise are those little out of color specs that you see in an image. It is most common in pictures with a high ISO and an underexposed image. All microstock sites are uniform in their hatred of noise. While in some print and display formats (such as video) noise is sometimes desired, in stock photography it is universally despised. All images must be free of noise. The easiest way to avoid noise is to not take the picture with noise in the first place.
Read on for how to do this as well as avoid other common rejection reasons.