Pre-screening photos - fsx98

fsx98 · Tue May 28, 2019 7:28 pm

I have photos from my LA trip for feedback please:

N526VL:

VH-ZNC:

B-LJC:

N183DN:

N642FE:

D-AIMH:

jelpee · Tue May 28, 2019 11:33 pm

My thoughts:

Volaris A320: Underexposed; Be careful when adding the brightness since it may blow the highlights on the nose. Angle of lighting is tricky.
Qantas 787: OK for me.
Cathay Cargo 747: Angle of light is rendering this under exposed.
Delta B763: Angle of light is rendering this one underexposed as well. A bit over sharpened and could use more contrast.
FedEX MD11: Top light is rendering the nose as underexposed.
Lufthansa A380: Looks good to me.

Jehan

fsx98 · Wed May 29, 2019 12:27 am

Thanks Jehan; will keep the QF 787 and LH A380 in queue and fix the remaining ones.

While I fix these photos, I also have some photos that I would like feedback on:

N775UA window:

N910DU (a long-shot attempt):

N941LT (fixed halos and noise rejections):

N258NN:

N237NN:

N216UA:

airkas1 · Wed May 29, 2019 9:59 am

Qantas is low contrast/weak blacks and a bit iffy quality-wise, but still your best bet. All others are rejections for me, sorry.

Volaris: UE, marginal quality
Cathay: UE, poor quality
Delta: OS (very jaggy), marignal/poor quality
FedEx: blurry front half & engine
Lufthansa: blurry, oor/unbalanced crop

Wingview: very noisy, dirty above the wingtip, poor quality. Phone photo?
Delta: very blurry aft section, dirty above the "E", poor quality
941: still noisy/marginal sky, light halo around the wingtip(?)
258: heat haze, marginal quality
United: blurry, quality

fsx98 · Wed May 29, 2019 11:30 am

Thanks Kas; some of these photos are long-shot chances, in which are unlikely to be accepted anyway, but gave them a shot; will bin some from the queue completely and then fix some that may be fixable.

As for the wing view, it was taken from a DSLR, so I'll see how far I could fix this one, otherwise I'll bin this one completely as well.

I have two more photos in the upload queue for prescreening feedback:

N478WN:

VH-OQK:

Crosswindphoto · Wed May 29, 2019 4:54 pm

Southwest 738: Blurry/soft, slightly OS.
Qantas A380: Heat-haze, jpeg compression, also maybe a tad OS.
Southwest might be passable at 1024 but I don't think Qantas has a chance.

fsx98 · Thu May 30, 2019 8:02 pm

Thanks Tim; will try to fix the WN B738 and probably bin the QF A380; may give it another shot at a smaller size.

I have some long-shot photos in the queue that I would like pre-screening feedback on (and by long-shot, I mean photos less likely to be accepted, but to point out if there is anything that warrants a rejection):

C-GBIP:

N149AN:

LX-VCA:

HB-JNB:

N669NK:

Let me know what you guys think!

jelpee · Thu May 30, 2019 9:14 pm

Unfortunately, I don't think any of these would will approval from the screeners. From what I can see:

C-GBIP:Heat haze; blurry on the right side of teh frame).
N149AN:Heat haze and low contrast
LX-VCA: Underexposed, compression, blurry, slight green color cast
HB-JNB:Underexposed, noise, soft, blurry nose
N669NK:Underexposed; low contrast; noise

Jehan

fsx98 · Thu May 30, 2019 11:00 pm

Thanks Jehan; I figured these were long-shot attempts, since I feel they aren't likely to be accepted; will bin all of these from queue and maybe fix on N669NK.

I have several more photos in the queue that I would like pre-screening feedback on:

N409AS:

N7737E:

N974AT:

N202NN:

VH-VPF:

N384HA:

N27205:

VH-ZNC:

fsx98 · Tue Jun 04, 2019 11:58 am

In addition to the photos on the previous post, I have one more photo for pre-screening feedback:

N840AN:

Crosswindphoto · Tue Jun 04, 2019 4:13 pm

N409AS: maybe a tad underexposed, but otherwise ok.
N7737E: heathaze/Jetwash, also a tad UE.
N974AT: Might be ok.
N202NN: Looks ok.
VH-VPF: a tad soft at the nose, slight heat haze, might be ok at 1024.
N384HA: Jpeg compression, heat haze/jet wash, OS, Light is also kinda harsh.
N27206: Heathaze, might be ok at 1024.
VH-ZNC: Soft, doesnt look recoverable IMO.
N840AN: A tad soft, might be ok at 1024.
Wait for a screeners input.
Tim

fsx98 · Tue Jun 04, 2019 9:05 pm

Thanks Tim; will wait for screeners input for all but for the time being will keep N409AS, N974AT, and N202NN in the queue.

fsx98 · Tue Jun 11, 2019 8:52 pm

Update:

N237NN rejected for color, motive, noise, and UE with the following personal message:
"Too distracting glare on the fuselage."

Will most likely be binning this one for good; I have this DL E175 that I would like pre-screening feedback on:

N605CZ:

airkas1 · Wed Jun 12, 2019 7:21 pm

605CZ: blurry/OS.

fsx98 · Wed Jun 12, 2019 7:27 pm

Thanks Kas; I have a similar shot of this aircraft in the same sequence for prescreening feedback; any better from the previous photo?

fsx98 · Thu Jun 13, 2019 3:36 am

Updates:

N478WN rejected for blurry and soft; re-uploaded w/ smaller size:

N57852 rejected for blurry, yellow cast color, and UE; re-uploaded w/ downsized photo, corrected color, and increased exposure:

N642FE rejected for Low Contrast and soft; re-uploaded with increased contrast and an extra kick of sharpness:

N647QX rejected for low contrast and UE; re-uploaded w/ increased contrast and exposure:

VH-ZNC rejected for low contrast and soft; re-uploaded w/ increased contrast and an extra kick of sharpness; also removed is the accidental cloning of the antenna while attempting to remove dirty spots:

N27205 rejected for noise, UE, and quality w/ a personal message of backlit conditions; binning this one for good

Including the above re-uploaded photos, I would also like pre-screening feedback on the following photo, please:

N127AA:

fsx98 · Thu Jun 13, 2019 11:26 am

Update:

N941LT is in the database!

Here's another photo I would like pre-screening feedback on, in addition to the six re-uploaded photos from my last post; it may be a long-shot attempt, but was wondering if this photo would make it:
N263AK:

jelpee · Thu Jun 13, 2019 11:55 am

Looks a bit over-sharpened to me (main titles). I would also prefer it lower int he frame. Especially from this angle, the tail dominates the frame and presently looks too high in the frame for me.

Jehan

fsx98 · Thu Jun 13, 2019 12:38 pm

Fair enough; will lower the aircraft in frame and take it easy on the sharpening with the main titles; thanks Jehan!

fsx98 · Thu Jun 13, 2019 1:15 pm

I have another photo of B-LJC from my LA trip that I would like pre-screened:

Crosswindphoto · Thu Jun 13, 2019 5:01 pm

Cathay Paciic ( :p ): Yellow/brown colour cast, also looks a little noisy and Os to me.

fsx98 · Thu Jun 13, 2019 5:53 pm

Thanks for the feedback Tim!

I have just uploaded N750SK for pre-screening feedback:

jelpee · Thu Jun 13, 2019 11:01 pm

Looks over sharpened to me. I see jaggies on the outer edges of the tail, fuselage, wings and titles.
Your CP Cargo also looks over sharpened.

Jehan

fsx98 · Fri Jun 14, 2019 12:01 pm

Thanks Jehan; I have adjusted these photos and was wondering if these are any better now:

B-LJC:

N750SK:

N263AK:

And some updates:
N7737E rejected for color, dark, and soft
N974AT rejected for dark and UE
N409AS rejected for dark, halos, and UE
VH-VPF rejected for common, dark, and soft; may have to bin this one
N202NN rejected for halos, UE, and vignetting
N384HA rejected for dark, OS, and UE

N202NN is most likely fixable, while everything else (except VH-VPF) will also be a make-or-break fix attempt.

spompert · Fri Jun 14, 2019 3:56 pm

B-LJC is not centered properly (too much to the left). If I were you I would cut off the wing just behind the tail.

fsx98 · Fri Jun 14, 2019 4:48 pm

Thanks for the feedback Stephan; here's a cropped version of B-LJC; how does this look?

spompert · Fri Jun 14, 2019 5:22 pm

Hmmm, the front looks a bit soft to me while the wing and wheels are a bit oversharpened in my opinion (some jaggies visible). Personally I would crop tighter on the right side, but I understand you loose a lot of pixels and thus quality.

airkas1 · Fri Jun 14, 2019 5:25 pm

The right wingtip is cut off (motive). It also needs a cooler white balance. But honestly, the quality is not good enough and it's backlit. I would let it be.

airkas1 · Fri Jun 14, 2019 5:26 pm

750 looks blurry/soft, Alaska has a blurry/out of focus windowline it seems.

fsx98 · Fri Jun 14, 2019 5:28 pm

Thanks Kas; will bin this cropped version and maybe even the original version of B-LJC; will also bin the Alaska and probably upload a different angle of N750SK.

I have a couple more photos that I would like to have pre-screened:

N41135:

Here's a different sequence of N750SK:

VH-OQK:

fsx98 · Sun Jun 16, 2019 6:11 pm

In addition to the three photos from my previous post, I would also like to have this re-upload pre-screened please:

N840AN (reuploaded w/ a downsized photo to mask blurriness and heat haze):

spompert · Sun Jun 16, 2019 8:56 pm

Hi, I see heathaze on the left wing. Don`t think it`s acceptable like this. Fuselage (American text) looks a bit soft to me.

fsx98 · Sun Jun 16, 2019 9:38 pm

Thanks Stefan; kind of disappointed about the heat haze on the left wing, as I was looking forward to having my first Dreamliner photo on the database; guess I'm binning this one for good...

I have an Alaska A320 photo that I would like to have pre-screened:

N626VA:

jelpee · Mon Jun 17, 2019 11:57 am

The AA 787 also looks over-sharpened (visible along the window line and leading edge of vertical stabilizer).
The Alaska A320 looks blurry to me; not a fan of the lighting which is rendering the bottom half of the fuselage dark. Also looks yellow.

Jehan

fsx98 · Mon Jun 17, 2019 12:51 pm

Thanks Jehan; I have already binned the AA 787 and will probably bin the Alaska A320 from queue.

I have a 10-year old photo taken from my old point-and-shoot camera days that I would like pre-screened:

Crosswindphoto · Mon Jun 17, 2019 4:52 pm

OS, blurry, backlit, quality.
In general point and shoot photos wont be acceptable on JP.

fsx98 · Mon Jun 17, 2019 11:29 pm

Thanks Tim; I may try this one again in a smaller size and further reduction of shadows later.

In the meantime, I have a FedEx B77F photo that I would like to have pre-screened, please:

Crosswindphoto · Tue Jun 18, 2019 10:12 am

Shit, I said JP and not airliners lol.
Fedex: UE, and backlit.

fsx98 · Tue Jun 18, 2019 11:27 am

Thanks Tim; I have another photo of the FedEx B77F in a different angle for pre-screening:

spompert · Tue Jun 18, 2019 3:27 pm

Underexposed, blurry (cockpit, wing tip, text), oversharpened, not fixable if you ask me.

fsx98 · Tue Jun 18, 2019 4:35 pm

Thanks Stephan; will probably bin this one for now - may downsize the photo later...

I have an El Al Dreamliner photo that I would like pre-screened:

310815 · Wed Jun 19, 2019 6:26 am

as for the El AL Dreamliner:
It is quite underexposed, oversharpened and looks afftected by heat haze. Also has a blue cast.
I would spend my time on other shots to be honest.

fsx98 · Wed Jun 19, 2019 11:30 am

Thanks for the feedback! I have another AA Dreamliner photo at LAX that I would like to have pre-screened:

jelpee · Wed Jun 19, 2019 11:54 am

Looks heat hazed to me. Lighting is not the best with the left side being in the shadows. Not a fan of this composition either since the background and all its clutter) is competing with the aircraft. Overall quality is marginal at best. Sorry for the harsh critique

Jehan

fsx98 · Wed Jun 19, 2019 12:57 pm

Thanks Jehan; will bin this one completely.

Here's an EVA Air B77W photo that I would like pre-screened, please:

310815 · Wed Jun 19, 2019 12:58 pm

Yes, it is quite heat hazed. Please try to shoot objects that are closer to you when shooting aircraft on the ground, Otherwise you will always face heat haze, unless on a really cold & clear wintersday or very early in the morning / very late in the evening.

As Jehan noted the quality is not there for airiliners, I am afraid.

Julien

fsx98 · Wed Jun 19, 2019 2:10 pm

JKPhotos wrote:
Yes, it is quite heat hazed. Please try to shoot objects that are closer to you when shooting aircraft on the ground, Otherwise you will always face heat haze, unless on a really cold & clear wintersday or very early in the morning / very late in the evening.

As Jehan noted the quality is not there for airiliners, I am afraid.

Julien

Thanks Julien; these photos were taken around 8am in cooler conditions at Imperial Hill, using a Nikon 70-300mm VR lens; yet the morning hours were the only time of the day that I could plane spot at LAX, as I had other plans for my Los Angeles trip that day.

As previously said, I have binned the AA Dreamliner photo and uploaded the EVA Air B77W for pre-screening; not sure if you have pre-screened the EVA Air B77W as I was wondering if you were referencing the heat haze to just the AA Dreamliner photo at the time of your previous post.

jelpee · Wed Jun 19, 2019 3:41 pm

Shooting aircraft on the ground at LAX from Imperial Hill typically results in heat haze for a number of reasons including distance (as Julien said) , tarmac temperatures that are higher than the air temperatures (regardless of time of day or season) and also from heated exhaust from other departing aircraft (on the south runways) that linger. I've gotten lucky with some shots of aircraft on the ground from Imperial Hill...but most have been heat hazed.

Your Cathay B777 has many of the same issues as the AA B787.

Jehan

fsx98 · Wed Jun 19, 2019 4:06 pm

Thanks Jehan; looks like I'm binning this one for good; I have bunch of photos shot from Imperial Hill but will evaluate them for heat haze and see if they are worth uploading or not.

Here's a long-shot attempt of this photo but was curious if anyone can pre-screen this one:

N711SY:

310815 · Thu Jun 20, 2019 12:34 pm

A tricky one: The aircraft looks dark, but that comes from the unfavourable sun angle (shining somewhere from behind the plane or above). Brightening it further would make the sky loo blown out, though.
The aircraft also shows quite some jaggies, as result of heat haze (and maybe also ovesharpening). For example the cheatline and the horizontal stab both look heavily heat hazed.
I am afraid, but this one would also be for your personal collection.
Try to shoot with the sun being more in your back, and preferably not around midday during the warmer months.

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