Help with rejected Cargolux photo

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[dheald]

Thank you Wallace and Gerardo. I used your suggestions and re-uploaded it.

http://www.jetphotos.net/viewqueued_b.php?id=1205367

Dean

[LX-A343]

I tried that selective sharpening mentioned by Wallace on your photo. USM settings were 300 / 0.2 / 2. The result was perfect IMO. Give it a try. I spent less than a minute

Gerardo

[wwshack]

Interesting one there. It looked like the forward fuselage and engines were soft.

Try some selective sharpening on the forward fuselage and engines, this was the tutorial that I learned the technique from http://www.ophrysphotography.co.uk/p...sharpening.htm
It looks complicated but with practice it can be done very quickly.

It may boil down to a depth of field problem, the sun angle looks to be reasonably low so perhaps your camera was set on speed priority and it selected a wide aperture?
If you are a Canon user, Canon's Zoombrowser EX has a facility where you can inspect which AF points were selected, this feature comes in very handy at my photo postmortems.

Personally speaking it is a nice picture, a nice impression of taking off into the sunset.

[dheald]

This photo was rejected for Underharpeend (soft):

http://www.jetphotos.net/viewreject_b.php?id=1199567

Can any of the screeners provide comments or help?

Thanks in advance,
Dean