BigPhilNYC From United States of America, joined Jan 2002, 4073 posts, RR: 56 Posted (7 years 7 months 3 weeks 4 days 18 hours ago) and read 1328 times:
I got two rejections recently that I wonder about.
Now, if Anet just doesn't allow it, I understand, but I was using a polarizer and took the following photos:
The sky is the color it is because of the polarizer. The plane itself, I think, is of the exact color and contrast as reality. Personally, I think it should be accepted. The sky happens to be very rich. The sky was extremely harsh that day so I used a polarzer.
WakeTurbulence From United States of America, joined Apr 2004, 1288 posts, RR: 18 Reply 1, posted (7 years 7 months 3 weeks 4 days 17 hours ago) and read 1318 times:
Hey Phil, looking through those two it seems the contrast between the sky and white of the aircraft is too much. It almost started to hurt my eyes. The white in the CO and especially the AS are too bright. The sky itself looks fine to me. Look forward to meeting you and everyone else at LAX next weekend.
-Matt
Flyfisher1976 From United States of America, joined Jan 2005, 802 posts, RR: 2 Reply 3, posted (7 years 7 months 3 weeks 4 days 17 hours ago) and read 1295 times:
In the future, I would avoid using the polarizer filter and make adjustments in post-processing if necessary. The colors in these shots just don't look natural.
BigPhilNYC From United States of America, joined Jan 2002, 4073 posts, RR: 56 Reply 5, posted (7 years 7 months 3 weeks 4 days 16 hours ago) and read 1289 times:
If you took that plane...and added it to the hazy sky that actually existed....it would look like shit. The plane is exactly what it SHOULD look like. The ONLY difference is the rich color of the sky. If I didn'tuse a polarizer, you'd see a crappy hazed out blue that woudl get rejected for bad quality or whatever.
Hisham From Lebanon, joined Aug 1999, 701 posts, RR: 12 Reply 6, posted (7 years 7 months 3 weeks 4 days 16 hours ago) and read 1282 times:
The sky looks great! I think the badcontrast is for the dark belly of the aircraft not the sky.
The fact that the plane actually looked like that is besides the point.
Dehowie From Australia, joined Feb 2004, 1044 posts, RR: 38 Reply 7, posted (7 years 7 months 3 weeks 4 days 15 hours ago) and read 1264 times:
G'day Phil
I really like the deep blue you get with using a Polarizer it is outstanding.
I have a 77mm for my 100-400 and 70-200 and got some excellent results with hazy skies and even on a clear day at really helping bring the blue out in the sky.
It is also excellent at bringing out the underside detail without giving that overexposed look to the top side of the aircraft.
But I think the problem then is to ensure that the darker areas that will be created by the filter (due to the fact it takes 2+ stops off the exposure) are brightened. That is what I see as the problem with these photos - they are, in effect, too dark.
So I would agree with the comments above that the dark undersides need to be brightened.
BigPhilNYC From United States of America, joined Jan 2002, 4073 posts, RR: 56 Reply 9, posted (7 years 7 months 3 weeks 4 days 6 hours ago) and read 1169 times:
So a baddark would have been understanable. Why the badcontrast?
Thanks for the input, guys. Just wanted to know also that I wasn't alone in the polarizer world.
Hisham From Lebanon, joined Aug 1999, 701 posts, RR: 12 Reply 10, posted (7 years 7 months 3 weeks 4 days 3 hours ago) and read 1130 times:
Baddark means the whole photo is uniformly underexposed. In this case the upper fuselage is correctly exposed. Adding more light may have resulted in overexposing the upper fuselage. You were dealing with a contrasty situation that's difficult to meter. What's the contrast setting on your 10D? I usually keep it at zero.
Hi Phil! I agree with the first posts, looks too contrasty in my eyes, but I think you can solve that with a different editing and still keep the sky looking good.
I use a circular polarizer with mixed results; I like the way I can pump up the contrast in a lot of situations (not only sky shots, try using it so that the runway appears real dark) but I think quality and sharpness suffers, sometimes so much that it would ruin the shot.
Got several shots from MEX right now in the queue, all of them shot with my polarizer, I hope they make the cut
Cheers
j
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Norfolkjohn From United Kingdom, joined Jan 2005, 251 posts, RR: 8 Reply 13, posted (7 years 7 months 3 weeks 3 days 21 hours ago) and read 1065 times:
Hi,
The actual reason for rejection of each shot has not been mentioned although the general assumption seems to be contrast and or dark. I do think the level of contrast is excessive in both shots but I have to say that I would have though the Alaska 737 would have got NOA_Quality. Apart from the contrast issue, what are those white marks below the rear fuselage ? Not to mention the ghost of a winglet between the wing tip and vertical tail fin. It looks to me like some dust spot removal may have gone wrong. Looks even more peculiar if you equalize the shot. I would also say that this shot is slightly over sharpened - jaggies on tail, winglet and top of fuselage.
If you are looking to re-edit this shot I think there are more areas to be looked at than just contrast.
Good luck.
John
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BigPhilNYC From United States of America, joined Jan 2002, 4073 posts, RR: 56 Reply 14, posted (7 years 7 months 3 weeks 3 days 18 hours ago) and read 1050 times:
Good point John.
I had a lot of trouble with reflections as well.
I had my UV Filter under the polarizer, and it seems as though light was bouncing aroudn creating strange glare in several of my shots. I didn't even notice it in this one.
Jakbar From United States of America, joined Oct 2003, 442 posts, RR: 27 Reply 16, posted (7 years 7 months 3 weeks 3 days 1 hour ago) and read 966 times:
Quoting BigPhilNYC (Reply 5): If you took that plane...and added it to the hazy sky that actually existed....it would look like shit.
Phil, I was standing right next to you and wasn't using a polarizer. I simply shot RAW and edited as needed in Photoshop. I don't think my results are quite on the level of "shit".
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