Do you need any Pre-Screening? - Limited to CREW reply ONLY.

[Billsville]

The onus is on the uploader to get the information about the upload correct. If as screeners we had to go through and tick the missing categories the screening process starts to slow down. Then people will ask us if we can do the categories why cant we correct wrong or missing info as well . Then we will head down a slippery slope that none of the screeners wants to go down.

Just before you hit the submit button, double check everything. If you have pics in the queue, you can modify info, so if you think you've missed checking something, just modify the info and you will see if you have done the right thing or not.

Hope this helps
Steve Brown

[brianw999]

When it's obvious, why doesn't the screener help by ticking on the "cargo" instead of rejecting the photo.

Stephen hits the nail on the head with his answer. It should also be noted that screeners are human as well and will occasionally miss the fact that the category box has not been ticked and accept the picture ( he said...blushing furiously !...guess which screener he's talking about ) This results in a perfectly good picture being added....but without the info for a search.

Let me give you a good scenario for checking and getting it right....

A magazine publisher wants a picture for a middle page A3 size feature picture. He searches JP using "cargo" for his search criteria. You have an absolutely cracking picture that fills his need perfectly...but you didn't tick the cargo box and the screener had a bad day on his ambulance at work , missed the missing category and accepted the picture.

Result ?

Bang goes that very lucrative sale, not to mention the opportunity to really get your name known in the aviation media photographic fraternity !

Prior to becoming a crew member I used to think the same as you Maxpower. I occasionally missed the category box and got a reject. I now realise that the few rejects got my attention and I carefully check the upload before hitting the final button.

[MaxPower]

Thanks guys, Steve and Brian.
I am so ashamed for my post. I simply asked too much and forgot you guys are only human. Like Brian said.
I apologize for my "whinin". I promise I shall whine no more and be more observant to the details next time. Peace be with you all.

[z740]

Here's my edited version of the previous picture:

Look good?
EDIT: Another couple of photos that I recently edited.

and


-Chris

[AlejP]

I removed the red cast and brighten up... there's still noise (I don't have any noise reducer software).

[z740]

[I removed the red cast and brighten up... there's still noise (I don't have any noise reducer software).

I had a go with it too, any better?


-Chris

[Will_Power]

I have this picture and was wondering if there were too many flaws with sharpness, cropping, motive, etc. The engine seems blurry, but the town and mountains behind are sharper, is this ok?

[Greg]

Looks fine to me Will.

[AlejP]

I had a go with it too, any better?

It's still dark and grainy imo. Brighten it up by using levels. Also Try to remove the red cast by adjusting color levels, the blue-red composant.

I have this picture and was wondering if there were too many flaws with sharpness, cropping, motive, etc. The engine seems blurry, but the town and mountains behind are sharper, is this ok?

Shooting at f2.8 will reduce the depth of field Will. Hence your blurry/soft engine.

[ryan]

Prescreen

Here are a few more from MAN.

I knew the photos are not the best to start with as the weather was not that good.

http://www.jetphotos.net/viewqueued_b.php?id=1813775

http://www.jetphotos.net/viewqueued_b.php?id=1813779

http://www.jetphotos.net/viewqueued_b.php?id=1813783

http://www.jetphotos.net/viewqueued_b.php?id=1813785

http://www.jetphotos.net/viewqueued_b.php?id=1813788

http://www.jetphotos.net/viewqueued_b.php?id=1813791

http://www.jetphotos.net/viewqueued_b.php?id=1813792

http://www.jetphotos.net/viewqueued_b.php?id=1813795

http://www.jetphotos.net/viewqueued_b.php?id=1813799

http://www.jetphotos.net/viewqueued_b.php?id=1813807

[brianw999]

Ryan,

I'm on a crappy works monitor at the moment but just about all of them have contrast issues or horizon ...or both.

Panic not though......from what I can see they should be recoverable.

Check the horizon for level and then check the contrast using Image....Levels tool to look at the histogram. I don't have any processing tools available right now but I'll lay money on you needing to adjust the dark and light tones in the histogram. You'd be amazed how much a small change makes.

[ryan]

pics

Brianw999, I did use auto contrast on some of them. I thought if I increased the contrast too much it would blow the sky etc out.

[Will_Power]

I have a few more pictures that I am unsure about.

[PP-VRA]

Hey guys, I was wondering if these two shots would make the cut for the db:

Shot #1

Shot #2

What do you say? If not is there anything I can do for them?

PS: The versions I'd send to JP don't have that small watermark, naturally.

[brianw999]

Ryan,

Don't use "Auto" anything when processing. Photoshop is a very powerful tool but if you use auto adjustments it will only ever give you an average in that particular process.

An early part of your workflow should be to go to "Image"....."Adjustments"...."Levels". This will bring up the histogram. The left third of the histogram relates to dark tones, the middle third to midtones and the right third to highlights. The height of the graph in any particular third indicates the amount of that particular tone in the picture. If there is a space at either end of the graph then you need to move the end arrows in to touch the base of the graph.
This histogram shows that the image has a high level of dark tones, a good level of midtones but a low level of highlights. The fact that the highlight part of the graph does not even reach the the right side of the baseline indicates that this picture will look dark and washed out due to the loss of highlights, and therefore contrast, against the higher level of dark tones.



See those three arrows at the bottom of the graph ? They are handily coloured black, grey and white to indicate the dark tone, midtone and highlight areas. In this case you would need to left click and hold on the white highlight arrow and drag it to the left until it touches the base of the graph. This will add some highlight, and therefore contrast to the image.

This is how it looks....



....and this is the picture that it relates to. *Copyright Arjo Stok* I use Arjo's picture as an example and this is in no way intended as a negative comment on his skills. The light bars in the picture show how a small adjustment can make a huge difference to a picture.




Finally, now you've set the histogram, have a play with moving the middle arrow. Moving it to the left will brighten the image and to the right will darken it. You can do a great deal to improve an image with this adjustment of the histogram.