Questions on Some jp.net Rejections

[moose135]

Got this one rejected for undersharpened (which I can see - thought I might get an overexposed rejection) but also for "Similar photo uploaded". I have another photo of this a/c on approach, shot May 2006, from the other side (that one is at http://www.jetphotos.net/viewphoto.php?id=5725832) Any ideas on why it's a "Similar" rejection?

http://www.jetphotos.net/viewreject_b.php?id=1352086

Got this one rejected for "bad framing / aircraft not centered" as well as "Horizon unlevel" - there is no horizon, only blue sky. Yes, the a/c is in a nose low attitude - that was the way it looked on approach.

http://www.jetphotos.net/viewreject_b.php?id=1352087

Any thoughts would be greatly appreciated (I'm looking at you Tommy :D )

[lijk604]

Moose, I've gotten the same unleveled rejections, mostly on the CRJ200's. And you know how they look on approach! They want you to rotate them unnaturally so they are straight I guess.
Picky screeners. ;)

[NIKV69]

Moose,

As for the Airbus I have to admit that looks a little too nose down for an arrival on that aircraft. I am assuming you shot that from the same spot as I shot this.

http://www.airliners.net/open.file/1167581/L/

I feel it does need some rotation in PS, the way it is now it leaves too much space on top and thus the badcenter reject.

As for the sharpening issue on the 767 I am on a bad monitor will look later.

[T-Bird76]

Holy Hell John that is some angle of attack you got going on there...lol yeah def rotate the A340 about 1.5 CCW and I think you should be fine. The other pic could use a touch more sharpening, otherwise its pretty good.

[uplander]

It seems like 99% of photos have to add sharpening to get accepted. I think everyone is adding sharpening to everything, and sometimes it's overdone too.

What do you think about setting sharpening in camera? Would that generally be enough to avoid post processing? (Assume you're out spotting from a set location, i.e. same distance to subject for all shots, and you set sharpening in your camera to an acceptable level.)

Another question is should sharpening be added after any cropping or reduction?

[moose135]

Just about any shot from a digital camera needs some sharpening. I agree that sometimes, to get a shot accepted on the popular sites, they need (to my eye at least) to be oversharpened.

Sharpening is one of the last things I do, after cropping and other corrections.

[Tom_Turner]

Crop & resize first. Then add sharpening after.

I tried "in camera" sharpening once long ago. It worked out very poorly - -- for me at least anyway.

Save that for post processing.

Tom

[NIKV69]

It seems like 99% of photos have to add sharpening to get accepted. I think everyone is adding sharpening to everything, and sometimes it's overdone too.

What do you think about setting sharpening in camera? Would that generally be enough to avoid post processing? (Assume you're out spotting from a set location, i.e. same distance to subject for all shots, and you set sharpening in your camera to an acceptable level.)

Another question is should sharpening be added after any cropping or reduction?

You should turn off all in camera image optimization. All sharpening should be done in PS and should be done last.