(arora7dm) - prescreening request / editing advice

[arora7dm]

Hello everyone:

For this rejected photo, I got the comment that it was Over Processed / Bad postprocessing and later that Editing halos were visible. I need some help on editing halos (understand where they are) to clean this up. Any help would be appreciated. It is not because of the small size that I had to compress it to post? Is it because of doing sharpening? Thanks!

https://www.jetphotos.com/viewreject_b.php?id=7476107

[dp.aviation02]

Hello everyone:

For this rejected photo, I got the comment that it was Over Processed / Bad postprocessing and later that Editing halos were visible. I need some help on editing halos (understand where they are) to clean this up. Any help would be appreciated. It is not because of the small size that I had to compress it to post? Is it because of doing sharpening? Thanks!

https://www.jetphotos.com/viewreject_b.php?id=7476107

There are halos around the aircraft. Not much you can do.

[Quebec Golf]

Hello everyone:

For this rejected photo, I got the comment that it was Over Processed / Bad postprocessing and later that Editing halos were visible. I need some help on editing halos (understand where they are) to clean this up. Any help would be appreciated. It is not because of the small size that I had to compress it to post? Is it because of doing sharpening? Thanks!

https://www.jetphotos.com/viewreject_b.php?id=7476107

How did you bring the contrast up? Was it with Curves or some sort of automated tool?

Alex

[dlowwa]

Hello everyone:

For this rejected photo, I got the comment that it was Over Processed / Bad postprocessing and later that Editing halos were visible. I need some help on editing halos (understand where they are) to clean this up. Any help would be appreciated. It is not because of the small size that I had to compress it to post? Is it because of doing sharpening? Thanks!

https://www.jetphotos.com/viewreject_b.php?id=7476107

With halos that severe, you must really be hammering it with something. You can either reprocess from the RAW file, or start from scratch with a different file. Make sure the D-lighting is turned off in your Nikon, and don't use any tools like clarity, vibrance, de-haze, shadow/highlight, etc.. when editing, and you should be able to avoid them in the future.

[arora7dm]

Thank you everyone for your comments. I was using Darktable and used the basic group exposure and highlight reconstruction. Here's another image where I just lowered the exposure. I have D-lighting off, but shoot in raw, so it should not impact, right? Can you please let me know your thoughts?

Thanks again.

[LX-A343]

Thank you everyone for your comments. I was using Darktable and used the basic group exposure and highlight reconstruction. Here's another image where I just lowered the exposure. I have D-lighting off, but shoot in raw, so it should not impact, right? Can you please let me know your thoughts?[ATTACH=CONFIG]27183[/ATTACH]

Thanks again.

Doesn't work for me. The photo is too dark and shows some signs of vignetting.

[dlowwa]

Thank you everyone for your comments. I was using Darktable and used the basic group exposure and highlight reconstruction. Here's another image where I just lowered the exposure. I have D-lighting off, but shoot in raw, so it should not impact, right? Can you please let me know your thoughts?[ATTACH=CONFIG]27183[/ATTACH]

Thanks again.

As Geri said, dark and vignetting, but editing halos still visible (though not as strong as previous version), and white balance is also off.

[arora7dm]

Thank you everyone for helping me learn and understand this. Can you please review 2 additional pictures as well? One is the same as the previous one, without any changes (just cropping) and the second one is a different image. If both of these are bad, then I will need to take some classes to understand how to do this the right way. This time instead of dark table, I am using Nikon's Capture-D. I did lens correction, so vignetting should be off and left the white balance at auto.

[dlowwa]

Thank you everyone for helping me learn and understand this. Can you please review 2 additional pictures as well? One is the same as the previous one, without any changes (just cropping) and the second one is a different image. If both of these are bad, then I will need to take some classes to understand how to do this the right way. This time instead of dark table, I am using Nikon's Capture-D. I did lens correction, so vignetting should be off and left the white balance at auto.
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1. dark/contrast, centering, vignetting, borderline overprocessed
2. dark/contrast, vignetting, dirty, borderline overprocessed

The overprocessing in this case is relatively minor for both (very light halos visible top of fusealge). The vignetting and flat light/underexposure would be the real killers if you were to submit the images.

[arora7dm]

Thank you again. Is it possible for me to attach my raw image and for you to really quickly show me some tips? I thought I would not have any vignetting because I cropped from the middle. In any case, I have decided to give up on this image. I will attach a different one for feedback.

[dlowwa]

Thank you again. Is it possible for me to attach my raw image and for you to really quickly show me some tips? I thought I would not have any vignetting because I cropped from the middle. In any case, I have decided to give up on this image. I will attach a different one for feedback.

You can contact me directly, and I can give you my email address if you'd like me to look at one of the RAW files.

[arora7dm]

(arora7dm) - prescreening request / editing advice

Hi:

I am starting a new thread because before I didn't have the right title. I will keep all future images to this thread, unless there's a way for me to change the subject of my other thread. This was my older thread:
https://forums.jetphotos.com/showthr...ost-processing

Can you please share your thoughts on these images? Thank you so much.

[dlowwa]

Hi:

I am starting a new thread because before I didn't have the right title. I will keep all future images to this thread, unless there's a way for me to change the subject of my other thread. This was my older thread:
https://forums.jetphotos.com/showthr...ost-processing

Can you please share your thoughts on these images? Thank you so much.

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1. vignetting, color, borderline dark/soft
2. contrast, centering, dirty
3. contrast, soft, dirty

[arora7dm]

First of all, thank you for combining the 2 threads together. And thanks for the feedback. I have tried to fix 1 and 2, please let me know the thoughts. 3 is soft, so cannot fix that. Also, can you please elaborate on dirty? I looked at the upload guidelines and was looking for sensor dust spots in the sky.. I have also added one more picture. Is this soft as well?

[dlowwa]

First of all, thank you for combining the 2 threads together. And thanks for the feedback. I have tried to fix 1 and 2, please let me know the thoughts. 3 is soft, so cannot fix that. Also, can you please elaborate on dirty? I looked at the upload guidelines and was looking for sensor dust spots in the sky.. I have also added one more picture. Is this soft as well?
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1. soft
2. contrast/dark. not fixable.
3. contrast, dark, soft. not fixable.