I have been uploading under the creative shot category for quite some time now, and most, if not all of my shots under this category are nighttime panning shots taken around ISO 1000 and at a shutter speed of around 1/4 seconds. I had no problem in the past, apart from some shots being "de-creativised" and moved into the regular screening queue such as the following:
Shot at ISO 800, 1/13 seconds, f/5.6:
Shot at ISO 3200, 1/13 seconds, f/5.6:
I thought maybe these images had too high a shutter speed and had little motion blur in the background, hence the "de-creativisation". However, I am starting to get the nighttime panning shots de-creativised as well:
Shot at ISO 1250, 1/4 seconds, f/5.6:
Shot at ISO 1250, 1/4 seconds, f/5.6:
I am quite surprised since up till now, I had no problem uploading the nighttime panning shots under the creative category such as these:
Hence, I am wondering if there were any changes recently made to the creative category guidelines? What ISO is high enough and shutter speed low enough to make it into the creative guidelines? Do slow-moving aircraft shot at night with high ISO and slightly higher shutter speed (e.g. the QF Oneworld A330 earlier) due to the angle fall under the creative category?
Cheers,
Yang