Steve Worner - prescreening request / editing advice

[steveworner]

Thank you, understood and appreciated.

Can I ask you more broadly about dust spots? I do dust removal detection and removal in Lightroom and it's a good function, but the 'check for dust' function for queued photos in JP seems to pick up spots that Lightroom doesn't. It may be because the spots it's finding are more transparent and have no border (oil spots maybe). Of course JP's 'check for dust' function is only useable for photos once they are in the screening queue, and I've put all my queued photos through this today, found some had previously undetected spots and taken them out of the queue. Are there any other methods you know of for dust spot detection, short of uploading a photo to the screening queue and checking it there?

And... my camera's having a sensor clean today!

[dlowwa]

Thank you, understood and appreciated.

Can I ask you more broadly about dust spots? I do dust removal detection and removal in Lightroom and it's a good function, but the 'check for dust' function for queued photos in JP seems to pick up spots that Lightroom doesn't. It may be because the spots it's finding are more transparent and have no border (oil spots maybe). Of course JP's 'check for dust' function is only useable for photos once they are in the screening queue, and I've put all my queued photos through this today, found some had previously undetected spots and taken them out of the queue. Are there any other methods you know of for dust spot detection, short of uploading a photo to the screening queue and checking it there?

And... my camera's having a sensor clean today!

Equalize function in PS, or just old fashion grab-and-drag (just click on the image and drag it in circles around your screen. Makes any dust spots stick out a lot more).

[steveworner]

Thank you for the suggestion. Can I get an opinion on this image? I'm unsure if having the skyscraper in the background of the B206 would work against it. I've also had rejections on my other B206 images due to dust spots.

[dlowwa]

Thank you for the suggestion. Can I get an opinion on this image? I'm unsure if having the skyscraper in the background of the B206 would work against it. I've also had rejections on my other B206 images due to dust spots.

Should be ok.

[steveworner]

Thank you, I'm pleased to report that got accepted very quickly as a 'first registration'.

Can I get an opinion on these A330s please?

[dlowwa]

Thank you, I'm pleased to report that got accepted very quickly as a 'first registration'.

Can I get an opinion on these A330s please?

With some sharpening and dust spot removal, should be ok.

[steveworner]

Thank you! Can I get an opinion on this QF 787? I'm concerned I may have over-processed it.

[dlowwa]

Thank you! Can I get an opinion on this QF 787? I'm concerned I may have over-processed it.

Same as the previous two.

[steveworner]

Thank you. Can I get an opinion on this B777? as you can see, lots of black and white but not much in between, while I tried to keep PP to a minimum.

[dlowwa]

Thank you. Can I get an opinion on this B777? as you can see, lots of black and white but not much in between, while I tried to keep PP to a minimum.

Borderline soft/contrast, but would be acceptable for me.

[steveworner]

Thank you. The image below is the same aircraft, some hours later. It's obviously high ISO - does it have JP potential?

[LX-A343]

Thank you. The image below is the same aircraft, some hours later. It's obviously high ISO - does it have JP potential?

A bit too dark.

[steveworner]

Thank you. Can I get an opinion on this F100 please?

[dlowwa]

Thank you. Can I get an opinion on this F100 please?

This would be rejected for dark/contrast, and possibly centering, though the latter is more of a minor nitpick.

[steveworner]

Thank you. Can I get an opinion on these 737s?