Knight Hammer-Prescreening/Editing Advice

[dlowwa]

I'd like a prescreening for a re-upload. Most notably advice on contrast / dark tones. The image was re-edited.

Contrast is weak. Compare to left side:

[Knight Hammer]

I'd like a prescreening for a re-upload. Most notably advice on contrast / dark tones. The image was re-edited.

[dlowwa]

Greetings! I'd like a prescreening for these two images, particularly about the partial heat distortion issue. In both cases the horizontal stabilizers seem to be slightly affected by the heat generated by the engine or the APU. I'd like to know if they're within an acceptable level or I need a smaller resolution to hide it. Thanks!

Indeed, quality not really there for 1920pix, especially the first. Second also dark.

[Knight Hammer]

Greetings! I'd like a prescreening for these two images, particularly about the partial heat distortion issue. In both cases the horizontal stabilizers seem to be slightly affected by the heat generated by the engine or the APU. I'd like to know if they're within an acceptable level or I need a smaller resolution to hide it. Thanks!

[dlowwa]

Would like a prescreening for this one, especially about the horizon. Currently, I use the lamp pole for vertical alignment but it seems weird. Should I use the vertical edges of the power unit instead or other references?

Can't tell for sure, but the verticals do seem to be leaning a bit to the right.

[Knight Hammer]

Would like a prescreening for this one, especially about the horizon. Currently, I use the lamp pole for vertical alignment but it seems weird. Should I use the vertical edges of the power unit instead or other references?

[dlowwa]

Would like a prescreening for this one:

Borderline soft.

[Knight Hammer]

Would like a prescreening for this one: The halo effect was present on the original image before any editing and lens correction was off. The issue appeared on this image only. The histogram also looked quite weird to me, so I'd like your opinions. Thanks for the help.

[Knight Hammer]

Quick question: for ITA Airways aircraft still in Alitalia livery should we upload as ITA Airways or Alitalia? It appears that ITA Airways aircraft with Alitalia livery are still being uploaded as Alitalia while those with updated livery are uploaded as ITA Airways.

[dlowwa]

Would like an editing advice on this one:
The image shows up as overexposed on the histogram as I upload (it is withdrawn from queue now):

Yet I'm unable to determine where or how is the image overexposed as the histogram appears fine on my editing software (Photoshop 2021).

It gets worse when I apply a 40% 0.4 pixels USM sharpening which I usually do after cropping the image. Wonder what could be causing the problem and how could I fix it.

Histogram is a guide. Overall, the image's exposure looks acceptable to me.

[Knight Hammer]

Would like an editing advice on this one:
The image shows up as overexposed on the histogram as I upload (it is withdrawn from queue now):

Yet I'm unable to determine where or how is the image overexposed as the histogram appears fine on my editing software (Photoshop 2021).

It gets worse when I apply a 40% 0.4 pixels USM sharpening which I usually do after cropping the image. Wonder what could be causing the problem and how could I fix it.

[dlowwa]

Would like a prescreening for the horizon leveling for these ones: which background object should I use for vertical alignment? Or should I have leveled with horizontal references (fences or runway)?

Verticals in the background should be used. Last one might need a little CCW, but otherwise don't see any major issues with horizon on these.

[Knight Hammer]

Would like a prescreening for the horizon leveling for these ones: which background object should I use for vertical alignment? Or should I have leveled with horizontal references (fences or runway)?

[Knight Hammer]

Image was accepted via appeal. Please ignore prior posts.

[Knight Hammer]

The contrast base on the histogram it didn't span the entire bar, on the left there is little none

Further increasing contrast (even by a lot) doesn't yield much difference on the histogram. Let's wait for a screener to explain.