Post Your Recent REJECTIONS!

BTW sharpening was a simple two pass of USM at 200,0.2,0

Nice work Manny. I appreciate the side-by-side shots to see the affect of the edit.

Thanks for the advice and the visuals and how you edited. I am always scared of pulling the marker on the highlights side of the levels all the way to where the data on the histogram begins because I think it would create a overexposure on the airplane itself. I got another picture approved today on jetphotos.net.

Does anyone see where these are very grainy??

http://www.nycaviation.com/hosting/2...99img_5548.jpg
http://www.nycaviation.com/hosting/2...34img_5570.jpg
http://www.nycaviation.com/hosting/2...95img_5459.jpg
http://www.nycaviation.com/hosting/2...51img_5568.jpg
http://www.nycaviation.com/hosting/2...25img_5572.jpg

Oh, this is sad. I don't see any grain... Butt these are Beauitful pictures.

Yeah but theres always a possibility.. Thats what the rejection is about.. Maybe NickV or Manny might be able to see what the problem is..

Not seeing the grain on my laptop. But then again this monitor is :rolleyes:

From JFK I assume?

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Originally Posted by JDANDO

Not seeing the grain on my laptop. But then again this monitor is :rolleyes:

From JFK I assume?

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Yes this was at JFK.. But still I don't see how they are very grainy..

Not seeing much grain but all are very soft and I don't like te contrast on the DL747. What settings you using?

then why is it im being said that they were very grainy?

Sergio, sadly, yes, there is a lot of noise in these images and it is visible. I believe you overcompensated for underexposure :-( I am more than happy to help if you allow me... feel free to post an original here or send me one via E-mail and I will edit for you to A.net standards...

I blew up two of the ones above to show the noise and also equalized to show the amplification effect of compensating for underexposure.

http://manny.smugmug.com/photos/1185689289_bpdRs-O.jpg

http://manny.smugmug.com/photos/1185689293_zkqZy-O.jpg

http://manny.smugmug.com/photos/1185689331_NAGeb-O.jpg

http://manny.smugmug.com/photos/1185689358_uStJo-O.jpg


Nick is also right about the softness...

My E-mail if you want to let me give it a shot, is in my profile... or manny (at) manny (dot) org :-)

I tried to salvage the first image to my taste color balance wise and contrast wise... and also reduce noise to a more tolerable level.. note the difference in the equalized image.

First, your original above for comparison

http://www.nycaviation.com/hosting/2...99img_5548.jpg

and a simple color balance using levels in Photoshop.

http://manny.smugmug.com/photos/1185700372_7M5CE-O.jpg

http://manny.smugmug.com/photos/1185700403_C9beQ-O.jpg

Thanks for the help Manny!! PM me your email when you can.. I still got some originals..

Sergio check your settings because you can save a ton of time editing by just getting better captures with the right settings. It looks like you have your ISO high and your shutter fast which will give you these grainy, noisy, flat shots. On days with good light your caqptures should only need a level, crop, clean the dust spots and maybe a slight boost of color before USM.

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Originally Posted by NIKV69

Sergio check your settings because you can save a ton of time editing by just getting better captures with the right settings. It looks like you have your ISO high and your shutter fast which will give you these grainy, noisy, flat shots. On days with good light your caqptures should only need a level, crop, clean the dust spots and maybe a slight boost of color before USM.

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I kept the ISO on 640 .9 I dont see what mistake this was though