I don/t see it as soft and I don't see any grain as posted. Contrast is perfect taking into account a mostly white aircraft. I do see a halo on the cheatline though.
Best,
JASPC
Thanks for the input joshu, I did just that with curves for the final image.
Best,
JASPC
Vikkivyk asked so here is the raw file as a screen capture. If you look at the right hand side of the screen there are no adjustments whatsoever. Didn't touch it because it was at good as it gets - "as is". This is what has me so confused.... <a href="http://www.josesuroeditorial.com/photos/i-RjKrmc...
Jump to postThanks vikkyvik. Appreciate the input. I think it's a great photo but I wont appeal it. Too many strikes against it for whatever reason. We get some incredible light here in Florida in the spring and it is quite unusual in other parts of the world (that's why the beach shots look so incredible). Thi...
Jump to postOn the first image I see the jaggies easily on the "N" of the main Logo and also see a small halo on the cheatline. I see no grain whatsoever.
On the second one my experience is that it is easy to get a soft rejection on shots from behind. Why? I have no clue.
best,
JASPC
Thanks so much Spompert. I can't see the noise myself. I'll have to look at the full res shot now. It is doubtful because this new Nikon D750 has zero noise all the way up to about ISO 1600 and this was shot at 200. Also, it's close to a full frame (75%) shot.
Thanks again!
JASPC
I would try high res images with smaller aircraft closer in where there is ample detail. Large aircraft have to be shot further away from the camera and this reduces detail. It's simple, the detail size is the same on both large and small aircraft so a smaller aircraft shot closer shows more of it. ...
Jump to postHi All, This one has got me really confused. The screener pretty much threw the whole book at this one. The rejection criteria was" "A comment from the screener regarding this upload: "pseudo hdr" Quality <a href="http://www.airliners.net/faq/rejection_reasons.php#quality" target="_blank">http://www...
Jump to post<table border="0" align="CENTER" width="95%" class="quote"><tr><td><font size="2" face="ARIAL, Helvetica, Geneva" color="#9A9DA0">Quoting <a href="/profile/Joshu" class="quote" target="_blank">Joshu</a> (<a href="#1" class="quote">Reply 1</a>):<br/><i>The tug seems fine. It is a clean image but you ...
Jump to post<table border="0" align="CENTER" width="95%" class="quote"><tr><td><font size="2" face="ARIAL, Helvetica, Geneva" color="#9A9DA0">Quoting <a href="/profile/vikkyvik" class="quote" target="_blank">vikkyvik</a> (<a href="#23" class="quote">Reply 23</a>):<br/><i> You might be surprised....there's a rea...
Jump to post<table border="0" align="CENTER" width="95%" class="quote"><tr><td><font size="2" face="ARIAL, Helvetica, Geneva" color="#9A9DA0">Quoting <a href="/profile/redstone0878" class="quote" target="_blank">redstone0878</a> (<a href="#17" class="quote">Reply 17</a>):<br/><i>In general: go for the shutter s...
Jump to postHi All, I know this probably has little chance of getting through but I thought it worthwhile to know what you all think. This image was made in twilight just before sunrise, hence the dark category. You can see the predawn light reflected on the fuselage. It was actually much darker than this to th...
Jump to post<table border="0" align="CENTER" width="95%" class="quote"><tr><td><font size="2" face="ARIAL, Helvetica, Geneva" color="#9A9DA0">Quoting <a href="/profile/angad84" class="quote" target="_blank">angad84</a> (<a href="#9" class="quote">Reply 9</a>):<br/><i>The last mode (Auto/AI Focus) is a hybrid of...
Jump to post<table border="0" align="CENTER" width="95%" class="quote"><tr><td><font size="2" face="ARIAL, Helvetica, Geneva" color="#9A9DA0">Quoting <a href="/profile/dstc47" class="quote" target="_blank">dstc47</a> (<a href="#10" class="quote">Reply 10</a>):<br/><i>Wow - If you can, but not really an option i...
Jump to post<table border="0" align="CENTER" width="95%" class="quote"><tr><td><font size="2" face="ARIAL, Helvetica, Geneva" color="#9A9DA0">Quoting <a href="/profile/alevik" class="quote" target="_blank">alevik</a> (<a href="#5" class="quote">Reply 5</a>):<br/><i>It's no trouble appealing - usually (when the ...
Jump to post<table border="0" align="CENTER" width="95%" class="quote"><tr><td><font size="2" face="ARIAL, Helvetica, Geneva" color="#9A9DA0">Quoting <a href="/profile/vikkyvik" class="quote" target="_blank">vikkyvik</a> (<a href="#5" class="quote">Reply 5</a>):<br/><i>That will work at high shutter speeds (you...
Jump to post<table border="0" align="CENTER" width="95%" class="quote"><tr><td><font size="2" face="ARIAL, Helvetica, Geneva" color="#9A9DA0">Quoting <a href="/profile/vikkyvik" class="quote" target="_blank">vikkyvik</a> (<a href="#6" class="quote">Reply 6</a>):<br/><i>Can anyone point out where the soft parts ...
Jump to postI did a lot of research on this. Even if your camera is in perfect focus there are at least 10 possible motions that could still blur your images. Five of those are with the camera: un-commanded (up, down, left, right) jerking motions, and panning speed. The other five have to do with the aircraft: ...
Jump to post<table border="0" align="CENTER" width="95%" class="quote"><tr><td><font size="2" face="ARIAL, Helvetica, Geneva" color="#9A9DA0">Quoting <a href="/profile/Bogac" class="quote" target="_blank">Bogac</a> (<a href="#1" class="quote">Reply 1</a>):<br/><i>I see some jagged lines especially at the N of U...
Jump to postLatest rejection. I have been getting quite a few rejections for "over sharpened". I have made it a point to not submit anything that is not super sharp in the original. This image was barely sharpened. And I can't see where it went wrong, except that I submitted it as a 1600 pixel image instead of ...
Jump to postThe way they look at the images I think that the first one is borderline (it's not really backlit it's top lit). the second one is not backlit at all - great slow shutter speed image. They might reject it for contrast though.
Jump to postIt probably has to do with the ladder attached to the cockpit. That said I don't see anything wrong with the image, I like it a lot. Also, did you submit this as a bigger than 1200 pixel image? In my experience they don't like that at all - probably has to do with bandwidth costs. A.net upsizes imag...
Jump to postI've had rejections very similar to your first one. I think the screeners don't like shots where the aircraft are not in direct sunlight. The image itself is not dark IMHO, my guess is it's the lack of direct sunlight. As for softness. I think the Air Asia in the front is sharper than the THAI A340 ...
Jump to postThanks all for your time and the kind suggestions. They are much appreciated. I rechecked my NEF (RAW) metadata and I was a bit in error. The shot was not made "just before sunset" (which I figured from memory), but more like 45-minutes before the actual sunset. This might be the reason why there is...
Jump to postLatest one to get rejected. The reason: "Reject reason: Yellow cast. dark contrast colour personal " I did note on the comments: "Captured on short final to 19R in the warm evening light just before sunset. Nikon D750, Sigma 70-200 <acronym title="Falcon Air Express (USA)">F2</acronym>.8. " This ima...
Jump to postAnd I forgot to mention something important. Because these images are substantially reduced, and based on my experience doing that, I set my in camera settings 2-steps down in sharpening so that when the images are reduced there are no artificial halos created by the downsizing.
Jump to postI am puzzled about this one. First, I process my images pretty much all the same. That includes minimal sharpening. If an image is not sharp at 100% I throw it out. This image was rejected because: Reject reason: Blur at nose end, oversharp to compensate blurry oversharpened personal This is the ima...
Jump to postThanks Yang. So it is the crop that is important as in your crop the aircraft is neither horizontally nor vertically centered....
Jump to postHi All, Newbie here. I read the rejection criteria and I am confused when it comes to centering/cropping aircraft that are not shot on profile. I guess this has to do with the horizontal stabilizer, wings and vertical stabilizer, and how those affect the crop. To me centering is placing the aircraft...
Jump to post<table border="0" align="CENTER" width="95%" class="quote"><tr><td><font size="2" face="ARIAL, Helvetica, Geneva" color="#9A9DA0">Quoting <a href="/profile/len90" class="quote" target="_blank">len90</a> (<a href="#1" class="quote">Reply 1</a>):<br/><i>The screener, in your case, took time to send yo...
Jump to postHi All, New here (going on two months), with only 1 image accepted. For this go-around I decided to set a baseline so I submitted a 1600 pixel image straight off the camera, no sharpening. The little camera I'm using is VERY sharp - trust me on that if you will. Just look at the <acronym title="Norm...
Jump to postThis is a 100% size image cropped to the aircraft otherwise unedited for forensic reasons. Doesn't look like it belongs on the windshield. The aircraft tail number is N213JQ. It is a Delta Connection flying for Shuttle America Corp. The image digital record shows the time was 10:28am on the 17h of J...
Jump to post<table border="0" align="CENTER" width="95%" class="quote"><tr><td><font size="2" face="ARIAL, Helvetica, Geneva" color="#9A9DA0">Quoting <a href="/profile/Kulverstukas" class="quote" target="_blank">Kulverstukas</a> (<a href="#3" class="quote">Reply 3</a>):<br/><i>Does <acronym title="Ogden - Hill ...
Jump to postThanks all for the feedback. scbriml - Wow that is a LOT of contrast and color. It's really punchy in a good way, but not what my eyes were seeing - especially the sky. And I guess that's the point - no camera sees what we see. We have to rely on tested filtering techniques for film and in post proc...
Jump to postHi all, I've been posting images here for a little over a month. That's about ten images when you first start out because of the post limits and week long queue. My rejection rate is about 90% - every reason known to man. That's all cool - I'm a photographer and comfortable with my success as such. ...
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