That totally depends on what is causing the quality problems in the first place, which could be any number of things: poor lens, atmospheric conditions, shooting through glass, etc...
Second one is a little bright but should otherwise stand a good chance. The first has issues with contrast (low) and sharpening (too much), while the third is pretty badly backlit and probably not fixable.
JKPhotos From Germany, joined Nov 2011, 108 posts, RR: 0 Reply 16, posted (6 months 4 weeks 1 day 21 hours ago) and read 1049 times:
The light (bad weather) won't work for the last 2 (Thai & JAL).
As this is not fixable they probably don't have a chance of acceptance.
So better leave it for good and try to catch them again with more favourable conditions.
The first one looks okay to me, but my monitor is terrible, so better wait for another opinion.
25 DL747: Looks better to me, but the titles might be a bit oversharpened (for my taste, anyway.) But, I a still fairly new at this, so let Dana have a look.
26 SGAviation: The link in Reply 24 is broken now. I unsharpened it a little now: http://i1205.photobucket.com/albums/bb429/747-412/IMG_4020.jpg How are these two pi
27 dlowwa: You unsharpened it? Being soft implies that you should sharpen it more. In any case, the quality still looks borderline, as you can see it gets soft
28 SGAviation: I sharpened it after your comment in Reply 23. The link in 24 got broken, then after DL747 commented, I unsharpened it very slightly. I guess it is t
29 dlowwa: Better crop, but again not the best light, which makes it a bit dark/contrasty. Looks like you sharpened more than just the edges of the frame. See h
31 dlowwa: Both are neither outstanding nor really terrible, so I guess proceed how you best see fit.
32 SGAviation: Alrighty. I guess I'll try my luck and upload the QF A332. The Air Berlin 737-700 got rejected for: "Green/cyan cast" I have one spot left in the que
33 dlowwa: Very poor light/contrast, and not that rare, so I would pass on it.
34 SGAviation: Aww... ok. This one? http://i1205.photobucket.com/albums/bb429/747-412/IMG_8514.jpg
36 SGAviation: http://i1205.photobucket.com/albums/bb429/747-412/IMG_8514-1.jpg How do you fix editing halos? I just made the "Shadows" back to it's original 0%.
37 dlowwa: Impossible to say without knowing what you are doing to introduce them. Halos are still pretty strong.
38 SGAviation: Hmm, well I just shot normally in 'Automatic' mode. Didn't do anything out of the ordinary. Edited again: http://i1205.photobucket.com/albums/bb429/74
39 dlowwa: Halos still obvious, and looks like you've tried to clone them out; don't do that, as you will get a warning/ban for bad editing.
40 SGAviation: Omg, ok. I don't know what I did during editing to cause those halos. (Maybe I shouldn't have played Beyonce's 'Halo' on repeat) I think it was becau
41 dlowwa: Yes, the shadow/highlight tool will certainly introduce halos. No halos, but slightly red cast and harsh contrast. Very soft, almost blurry. Also, lo
42 SGAviation: How about now? Scrapped the tail shot. http://i1205.photobucket.com/albums/bb429/747-412/IMG_85142-1.jpg 2 more shots as well: http://i1205.photobucke
43 SGAviation: The Kalitta 747 was accepted. The Singapore A333 was rejected because of the sky being grainy. If I sharpened the sky, would it work? The Emirates A33
44 SGAviation: How about this one too? http://i1205.photobucket.com/albums/bb429/747-412/IMG_1542.jpg
45 dlowwa: A bit flat. Also some moiré on the cheat lines, but that's hard to avoid with such liveries.
46 SGAviation: Thank you. How about this one? http://i1205.photobucket.com/albums/bb429/747-412/IMG_4352.jpg
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