A rejection from Emily that feels unjustified

I recently came across a well placed in the courtyard of a residential villa. The place has many different mailboxes, so it shouldn’t fall under SFPRP, and I tried making it clear for reviewers in the secondary infos section. Except it never made it to reviewers because Emily rejected it in under 24 hours both times I nominated it. I don’t want to waste an appeal on this, can anyone help me figure out what I’m doing wrong? Is it a poor picture? Am I using some trigger words? Is this well just too plain to be a poi? Sound off and let me know


If its been rejected before, some people have suggested using a different picture and text from previous attempts.

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I don’t know if ML takes this into account, but the thing being nominated should show up in the second photo in full or in part.

I agree that a new photo from a different perspective may be better.

Edit: Oh, I see it waaaaaay behind the gates. Yeah, I doubt ML can process that.

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I am wondering if the fountain blends into the building for the ai … the base of the fountain and the building are both grayish, and the windows and the top of the fountain is metalwork. Maybe try an angle that gets the faces of the critters at the base looking straight ahead. That would still have the gray stripe across the bottom, but no windows to blend into. A sunny day may help the contrast, too, but I understand that waiting for a sunny day is not always possible. I think the way you have the focus on the fountain is good.

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Yeah. This is not anything official, it’s just something I “feel” like I’ve learned through my experience.

The computer’s eye needs to be able to:

  1. know what the object is, so it needs to be front and center
  2. distinguish it from the background, so how can you make AI realize there is depth in this image? Change of lighting, shadows, different textures on the ground between the item and the background, etc.

This is all just me thinking about images based on my photography experience - what makes something “pop”?

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Yeah it’s way deep in the background, there was no other angle where I could get both the well and the mailboxes in the picture, and I needed the boxes to prove it’s not a single family residence

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I thought it might be something like this, on the second nomination I tried zooming in even more but it didn’t work

Guess I’ll just wait for the sun to come out

i also think those bars on the window are may be confusing the ML model. see if you can take it facing the other wall. you clearly know how to make the fountain the focus of the photo.

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Are you able to get inside the courtyard or are you doing a long zoom from outside the gate? Zoomed photos are lower quality.

The gate was closed unfortunately, so I had to stand outside and zoom. I’ll try taking a picture from the other side like cyndie suggested