Post Your Recent REJECTIONS!

[gonzalu]

Another one bites the dust... I really thought this one would get me in to A.net :-(



However, another unlikely entry did make it... I'd love to read the minds of the screeners some titmes :-)

[seahawks7757]

What was the reason?

[gonzalu]

Sorry Brandon, didn;t see this until now :-( ... well, they said, NOT CENTERED, GRAINY... but I did not think that sshadow noise would be that big of a deal. I think that was with the D2Xs which is noisier in the shadows, even at ISO 100 ... I think they are taking your pics and zooming in to about 400% to look for details not vvisible at 100% zoom. So you live and learn :-) Now I denoise to the point of plastic.

As for the centering, well, I clearly wanted to show the wingtips. I am not sure about this ever because I feel that if I crop to center the frame, I will get rejected for clipping the wing. No worries, I have a new crop / cleaned version to submit in my next oportunity. Trying to get at least two in so I can have a larger queue.

[gonzalu]

Reasons: Too Much Oversharpened dark contrast personal



The contrast did bother me but oversharpened? hmmm... the other entry did make it through though ;-)

[MarkLawrence]

I was a little uncertain of this - I didn't think it was dark - comments??

http://www.airliners.net/addphotos/r...a-11272010.jpg

[gonzalu]

Mark, it's happened to me. I think the problem is that they look at not just the top of the plane in this pic which is properly exposed but the rest of it looks like, well dull? Is that a good way to put it?

Here, I did a few edits to my taste. Let me know if you like them... if so, I'd be glad to do them for you on your original RAW file and then submit back to you for cropping, metadata whatever and re-submit ... :-)

All I did was tweak the curves a bit to move the histogram more to the middle. Then I played with the overall saturation and specifically boosted the yellows (no, Grass is NOT green) to boost the color of the grass which looked a bit pale (heck, it may look like that in real life, but we want our images to pop!) In a real edit I would also mask the whites out to not contaminate them with the saturation tweaks.



Your original is at the bottom

[MarkLawrence]

Wow Manny - quite a difference - I'll have a look at the editing and see if I can follow what you did! Thanks a lot!!!

[gonzalu]

I re-submitted the image of the Cathy Cargo above that was rejected and it got approved. I also cleaned it up a bit

[MarkLawrence]

Ok - I tried editing it a little more based on Manny's ideas - does this work Manny? Or is it now overexposed?

[gonzalu]

Mark much better... definitely less dull :-) It does not look overexposed to me. I say give it another whirl ;-)

[gonzalu]

Reason was "Centered" ??? I mean, yeah, I know... that was the whole reason. I figured it was a strong candidate because it was well exposed, it popped and it was sharp! I really have a problem with the centered rejections

[gonzalu]

Reason for this rejection was

Dirty Scan / CMOS Dust spots

Can someone help me "spot" the dust? I can't see it at all :-(

[eric8669]

Reason for this rejection was

Dirty Scan / CMOS Dust spots

Can someone help me "spot" the dust? I can't see it at all :-(

Open up the image in photoshop and duplicate layer then Equalize. if there are are dust spots you will see them.

[gonzalu]

Hey Eic, I know.. .you actually do not need to duplicate it to do so.. .:-) besides I do it a different way to get it which is histogram compression... in any case, that's what I meant, there is nothing I can see... oh well

[gonzalu]

Rejected for color, appealed, rejected for color again :-( They claim a yellow overcast? I know the back of a lot of these United planes are dirty and oily, but is there an overcast?