Sunset photos

[flyKSU]

Hi folks

Was hoping sombody would be able to give me some pre-screenings on a fiew photos that I'm not quite shore will make it.

First one:
http://www.jetphotos.net/viewqueued_b.php?id=1661114
Maby a little to much stuff in the background, but I was hoping for it to get accepted anyway. Nice sunset colors though

Second one:
http://www.jetphotos.net/viewqueued_b.php?id=1661230
I guess it's kind of noisy, and low in he frame, but I thought the skies should be included in this shot.

What du you guys think?

[magic48]

I just had a look at the histograms on both shots and all I can say is that they are both really contrasty. What did you do to adjust contrast and lighting?
Number 2 is blurry too which makes it a lost cause.

Can you post some originals?

[flyKSU]

I'm sorry to say that I don't have the originals. I used the following editing:
Courves adjust
Unsharp mask
Hue/saturation
Contrast

Can one of them be saved?

[magic48]

How you mean you don't have the originals? By 'originals' I mean the unedited versions of your photos.....

[flyKSU]

That's the problem. - I uploaded the pics from my camera, and when I started editing them, I saved the editied versions as the same name as the originals, and that way the original version of the photo got replaced with the edited version.

[magic48]

Eerrrm.......yea.....I guess you learned your lesson. Have you checked if they are still on the memory card of your camera?

[flyKSU]

I guess you learned your lesson.

Hehe... well - I guess I did

Have you checked if they are still on the memory card of your camera?

I guess you're not that suprised to hear that I deleted all the photos in my camera this morning...

I usually save the originals and editied versions in seperate files, but for some reason I didn't do that this time. I don't know exactly why

[RingwaySam]

First one is unlevel and soft aswell.

[flyKSU]

Thanks for the help
Do you think I should pull it out from the queue?

[flyKSU]

While talking about sunset photos - Could this have a chance to get accepted:
http://www.jetphotos.net/viewqueued_b.php?id=1663538

I know it's kind of noisy, but anyway - could it?

[magic48]

Nice lighting on this shot, the huge amount of noise kills it though....