Post Your Recent REJECTIONS!

[moose135]

Talk to Cary. He'll tell you all about yellow cast photography...
:-0

[gonzalu]

Sergio, all of them have a yellow or magenta cast... definitely easy fixing. If using Photoshop, use the LEVELS tool and while the midtones eyedropper is selected, click on a neutral color like white or black or gray. That is one easy way to see the color go neutral... you may have to manually tweak the results. I do it on a separate layer and mask it in or out as needed.

[Delta777LR]

thanks Manny!

[sdspinelli2]

One of my first attempted uploads to A.net. Go figure! http://www.airliners.net/addphotos/r...irlines747.jpg
Reason - Poor crop motive

[Jared Blech]

steven, theres alittle more than poor crop motive there, but looking good considering you are just starting. It is somewhat blurry and grainy... easy fixes!
Pointers
1. If you are going to crop, crop all the way
2. make sure you get some noise reducing software, I use noiseware, I don't like photoshops in house noise removal too much.
3.ASK ANYBODY FOR ADVICE AND POST YOUR PHOTOS IN THE PRE-SCREEN THREAD!!

[Roush6NY]

One of my first attempted uploads to A.net. Go figure! http://www.airliners.net/addphotos/r...irlines747.jpg
Reason - Poor crop motive

Here is an example of the type of crop you are trying to go for:

[sdspinelli2]

Thanks for the input guys.

[RomNYC]

Pink cast/soft



Pink cast



Not argueing, although I see more softness on the TAM than the Air India... Now, pink casts. I get automatically pink casted on every upload to Anet. I do my levels in each channel individually, and still don't get the result I'm looking for. I try tweaking the color balance but am unable to decide where the sweet spot is... Can anyone help with an EFFECTIVE method to send casts to hell (hint Cary)? Thanks.

[JDANDO]

.....Now, pink casts. I get automatically pink casted on every upload to Anet. I do my levels in each channel individually, and still don't get the result I'm looking for. I try tweaking the color balance but am unable to decide where the sweet spot is... Can anyone help with an EFFECTIVE method to send casts to hell (hint Cary)? Thanks.

I am in the same boat as Romain, any shot in the morning/evening, etc. usually gets yellow, pink, orange cast rejection. No kidding the photo has a color to it, it was taken when the sun imparts a color to a white plane. That is how the picture really was. Rant mode off......

[RomNYC]

In all honesty, I see the pink casts clearly. Especially on the TAM... not so much on the India, but the cloud gives it away. Removing the cast is not a problem, unfortunately everything I tried gave the photo a very un-natural, fugly look. Help?

[moose135]

Did you shoot it in raw, Rom? It's a simple white balance adjustment if you did. If not, you can still adjust white balance, but you don't have as much room for adjustment.

[RomNYC]

Yes I shoot in raw. Changed the WB to daylight as I like the effect on the sky, but it does warm up the picture as well. This is where I'm having trouble. When I leave the WB at "as shot" I generally get blue casts, and a sky that is way too blue for my liking. Now "daylight" WB doesn't work either.

I've come to a point in my learning process where I am able to see that something's wrong, except that now, it seems that every correction I make looks wrong as well haha! Even when playing on the tint and temp, I don't seem to find something acceptable (to me, let alone Anet).

Can't blame Anet here though, it DOES have color cast.

[wunaladreamin]

What was your white balance set to in camera?

[RomNYC]

What was your white balance set to in camera?

Auto.

[moose135]

Don't know what raw converter you are using, but in Adobe Camera Raw, I would use the WB eyedropper and click on a white portion of the fuselage, rather than just picking one of the presets. It may be a bit cool for your liking, but it should give you a good starting place.