Over processed.

[Bart Bandy]

http://www.jetphotos.net/viewreject_b.php?id=1486816

Any advice? Outside of normal stuff(crop, dust spots, levels, sharp and contrast), I did nothing special to this photo. Advice appreciated.

Cheers

[seahawk]

Looks like overuse of shadow/highlight tool, as can be seen by the halos around the gear (dark) and tail (Bright). Also looks a bit overfiltered.

[Bart Bandy]

So Seahawk, we meet again. Your advice on F-stop for the 50-500 zoom was very helpful. I think the quality is better even if the acceptance rate isn't. I didn't use shadow/highlight tool. I used "magic-loop" to sharpen only the aircaft and avoid bringing out all the grain in the sky. Perhaps a bad idea. Could you please further explain the "overfiltering"?


Thanks

[seahawk]

The sky looks a bit iverfiltered to me, on first look I would say noisefilter use, but maybe the magic loop trick made it look that way. However I can only say that there are halos around the plane as described above. Usually this comes from the shadow/highlight tool, but can be caused by other errors in processing as well.

[Bart Bandy]

Different reason; same problem?

http://www.jetphotos.net/viewreject_b.php?id=1486822

[seahawk]

Exactly what the answer to your appeal said.

[Bart Bandy]

Haven't seen it yet. Can't get through the filters at work. Will keep working at it.

Cheers