some rejects, some not, all from the same shoot

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YawningDog
Bethel, United States
Posted September 22, 2007 02:12 Report | Quote
I've just had six of a dozen images rejected that are all from the same shoot, same day, same lighting (a series). The rejection reasons are confusing me because I wonder if two different inspectors were working the queue, perhaps.

Here is one the accepted: http://www.crestock.com/image/338146-Art-Model-Books-g.aspx
and one of the rejected in which only the pose but nothing else was changed:
http://www.crestock.com/rejected-image.aspx?id=338148 for "harsh shadows."

A few of the others rejected in the same series also had "bad isolation" as a reason, but these images aren't isolated. I brightened the b/gs to make any possible isolation easy but did no other real isolation work on them. In the "bad isolation" rejections there are faint shadows present.

This image http://www.crestock.com/rejected-image.aspx?id=338141 was rejected for "over/underexposed" while this one http://www.crestock.com/image/338140-Art-Model-Books-a.aspx in which (again) only the pose but nothing else was changed, was accepted.

Can someone from the inspection team help me to understand this?
Thanks!
:)
Kate
joshDK
Århus, Denmark
Posted September 24, 2007 16:12 Report | Quote
YawningDog,

Thanks for your uploads and our apologies for what seems like a simple case of human error.

It seems that some were approved and the other were meant to be rejected due to similarities, but it just came out as something else. We approved a couple more, but left the others rejected due to similarities.

Hope that clears it up. Keep uploading!
YawningDog
Bethel, United States
Posted September 24, 2007 17:17 Report | Quote
Hi Josh, thanks so much for the clarification. :)

I 100% agree with any site's right to reject for similarities, though I think that particular rejection reason can be subjective at times. I think this may be the first similarities rejection I've ever had from any site, for any set of shots. When shooting this series I tried to be careful to avoid the similarities pitfall by not having the same pose with the same book: trying to give designers alternate color, object, and pose options to hopefully avoid someone thinking, "I'd love to use that photo, but only if it had the beige book instead of the blue one, and I don't want to buy both and cut and paste."

Anyway, trying to read designers' and inspectors' minds is a crap shoot for me. :D

Thanks again.
:)
Kate
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