Lavi From Finland, joined Jul 2012, 9 posts, RR: 0 Posted (9 months 2 days 23 hours ago) and read 1128 times:
Hello,
As the headline says, I'm new into photo editing, although I have been taking aircraft-related pictures for my own albums for some years now. After a few rejections, I decided to post here before uploading a few new ones, and hopefully get some hints at what I am doing wrong (and what I should be doing instead).
So here are my three premier candidates at the moment:
teopilot From Italy, joined Jul 2010, 527 posts, RR: 2 Reply 1, posted (9 months 2 days 21 hours ago) and read 1110 times:
Unfortunately The El Al picture has several issues:
First, standards here would require a slightly tighter crop than the one you have done.
Then, along with this, several other issues are present... such as grain.
Also soft is present, which tends to turn into a blur on wings, engine inlets, nose and tail.
I am quite sceptic on the possibilities to recover this picture, to be honest...
then a few opinions that you have to take with care, since I am not a screener or an expert in this sense as others over here are.
As far as the Extra 300 shot is concerned, personally I like it and it is definitely better than the other two ones in my opinion. A bit soft in certain parts, but I think it may worth a try after a further USM pass.
I can't tell you if there are other issues along with this one.
For the F-16 picture... I would let other people give you a word of advice, since I would risk to tell you something wrong.
vikkyvik From United States of America, joined Jul 2003, 8200 posts, RR: 28 Reply 2, posted (9 months 2 days 19 hours ago) and read 1094 times:
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1.) Looks soft, and maybe the contrast is a bit strong?
2.) Overexposed, color (parts of the plane look yellowish), blurry....doubt it has the quality for here.
3.) Looks a bit dark to me, and soft.
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vikkyvik From United States of America, joined Jul 2003, 8200 posts, RR: 28 Reply 7, posted (9 months 2 days ago) and read 1031 times:
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Quoting dlowwa (Reply 6): Quoting Lavi (Reply 5):
the Extra
Oversharpened.
There are also giant sharpening halos at all the high-contrast edges. I'm guessing you were using a large radius for the sharpening; you'll want to avoid doing that. I usually use 0.3 or 0.4 pixels.
Actually, I can see them on the F-16 too, though not as obviously. You may get an editing rejection for that.
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dlowwa From Canada, joined Apr 2005, 7238 posts, RR: 32 Reply 11, posted (9 months 22 hours ago) and read 964 times:
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Quoting Lavi (Reply 10): Okay, let's make another try
Now you're starting to get some editing halos on the F-16 shot. There are halos around the tail & treeline. Likely an editing rejection for that. Second one looks better, but it will always be difficult to get the sharpening balance right with cheat lines like that.
Lavi From Finland, joined Jul 2012, 9 posts, RR: 0 Reply 12, posted (9 months 21 hours ago) and read 956 times:
Okay, so I oversharpened the Extra again? Should I try to use one level of sharpening on the cheat line, and another on the rest of the aircraft?
How is this version of the F-16? Basically I rolled back to the second newest version and only cleaned up all dust spots I could find and made it lighter. Did it become too light? And I am somewhat worried about the tint (green-ish?).
I still seem to get the editing halos. What can be done to try to avoid getting them (I assume not getting them in the first place is easier than trying to correct them afterwards...).
vikkyvik From United States of America, joined Jul 2003, 8200 posts, RR: 28 Reply 19, posted (8 months 3 weeks 5 days 10 hours ago) and read 824 times:
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Just to provide some info regarding this question:
Quoting Lavi (Reply 15): I still seem to get the editing halos. What can be done to try to avoid getting them (I assume not getting them in the first place is easier than trying to correct them afterwards...).
First thing to do is determine what step in your editing process is causing them. Then solutions are generally easy to determine. Typical questions I would ask:
Is it occurring during sharpening? Are you using the shadow/highlight tool? Are you doing any other selective editing aside from sharpening (that is, selecting only part of the photo and editing it)?
But basically, just find out at what step of your editing they are appearing.
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