Rejected photos for 'low quality'

[Tetie]

Recently I submitted five photos to the queue to be screened. At around place ~16k in the queue I got an email telling me all the photos have been rejected for quote "low quality", and "not meeting our criteria". For two photos this was understandable, the angle and lighting conditions weren't quite right. However, the other three seem of good quality and to me look like they do meet the criteria. I did not get any hint to what I did wrong in these images and would like feedback on them to know how I can adjust them in order for them to meet the criteria, or avoid such mistakes in the future. The mail they sent does not help me to improve my photos or give any concrete reason as to why they have been rejected by the screening team.

Below are three of the five images I submitted which I think should match the criteria. What have I done wrong?

https://imgur.com/a/u3CQh4C

[JamesDC152]

If you read the photo guidelines, which have a link clearly visible on the upload page, you will see why your photos are so poor quality that they were all instantly deleted. This document has been put together to give everyone an understanding of the minimum quality that is expected if you wish to have photos on the database. If you can't find that or choose to ignore it, then you will get no sympathy. Please read the guidelines: https://www.jetphotos.com/uploadguidelines/

[newton606]

Recently I submitted five photos to the queue to be screened. ...

Below are three of the five images I submitted which I think should match the criteria. What have I done wrong?

https://imgur.com/a/u3CQh4C

All the pictures are backlit, dark, soft, some blurred and have contrast issues. As James has already said, check out the upload guidelines.

[Tetie]

All the pictures are backlit, dark, soft, some blurred and have contrast issues. As James has already said, check out the upload guidelines.

Thanks for the help, unlike James... That aside, I will try to address these issues next time! If you can (but you're all good if you don't want to!), could you give me some editing tips or refer me to further improve my next photos? For example, how does good contrast look, how much difference between lights and dark is acceptable?

[Wheat]

Cargolux A380? Is that a joke?

[Tetie]

Cargolux A380? Is that a joke?

You saw absolutely nothing ... I would never make such a silly mistake

[Wheat]

If you want to know what good lighting looks like, it’s simple look at the other photos accepted to this site. My account dreamriser, my friends flying C, Howard Wang. Other examples; you can look at a latest photos.

The histogram also helps. If the spikes are in the middle, the contrast is usually good (with the exception of cloudy days, but even then those photos are sometimes acceptable too)

[Tetie]

Thanks so much! I'll try to match my photos more to existing ones. The histogram tip is really useful—for most of my images the histogram is pretty separated towards the light and dark edges, so that might do some heavy lifting. I'll just have to wait until later in the year to prevent backlighting because of the layout of the runways for now. I'm satisfied, thanks!

[flyetty]

Thanks for the help, unlike James... That aside, I will try to address these issues next time! If you can (but you're all good if you don't want to!), could you give me some editing tips or refer me to further improve my next photos? For example, how does good contrast look, how much difference between lights and dark is acceptable?

James was in fact being helpful, he told you that you must look at the guidelines, if you don't bother to do this, you won't get a good understanding of what creates an acceptable photo.

[zomeu]

Before editing, you'll have to take editable shots...
As first steps and at least for what concerns the particular requirements of JP (except night shots...), two elementary rules :
1/ No sun, no photo,
2/ If you can see the sun just by turning your head, no photo...

[Felipe Garcia]

Recently I submitted five photos to the queue to be screened. At around place ~16k in the queue I got an email telling me all the photos have been rejected for quote "low quality", and "not meeting our criteria". For two photos this was understandable, the angle and lighting conditions weren't quite right. However, the other three seem of good quality and to me look like they do meet the criteria. I did not get any hint to what I did wrong in these images and would like feedback on them to know how I can adjust them in order for them to meet the criteria, or avoid such mistakes in the future.

So this sounds like entire queue deleted due to low quality, basically means none of the photos can be salvaged in any way. In your case, those photos you showed all appear to be backlit, the E190 it's not too obvious, but it is entirely in the shadow due to a cloud and the contrast is very poor.

The first thing you have to do is to shoot with the sun behind you. Once you fix that, everything else can be addressed.