(arora7dm) - prescreening request / editing advice

[arora7dm]

How about this one?

[dlowwa]

Can you please provide details for #3 Avianca and #4 Virgin Australia? Is it soft on #3 and backlit on #4? Thanks!

3. soft, contrast, centering, compression, vignetting
4. dark/contrast, centering, horizon

[arora7dm]

Can you please provide details for #3 Avianca and #4 Virgin Australia? Is it soft on #3 and backlit on #4? Thanks!

[dlowwa]

Please provide your thoughts on these images. Thanks!

These would all be rejected for various reasons.

[arora7dm]

Please provide your thoughts on these images. Thanks!

[dlowwa]

Thanks. I thought same too. But I wanted to know how do pictures like these are accepted? Doesn't this have a flat light problem? Is it because the content they show is unique in some way?

https://www.jetphotos.com/photo/9581932

I love this image, but want to understand the criteria in the spirit of learning.

The light in that image is much better than in yours.

[arora7dm]

Thanks. I thought same too. But I wanted to know how do pictures like these are accepted? Doesn't this have a flat light problem? Is it because the content they show is unique in some way?

https://www.jetphotos.com/photo/9581932

I love this image, but want to understand the criteria in the spirit of learning.

[dlowwa]

Thanks. How about these ones?

As with the SQ above.

[arora7dm]

Thanks. How about these ones?

[dlowwa]

Please provide thoughts on this. Is this flat light and therefore not good?

Correct.

[arora7dm]

Please provide thoughts on this. Is this flat light and therefore not good? Thank you.

[dlowwa]

OK. I added some CR. Is it better or too much?

They would be ok for me.

[arora7dm]

OK. I added some CR. Is it better or too much?

[dlowwa]

Thank you. Please see below the updated pictures. For horizon, in the top picture, I used the vertical black line (shadow) on the control tower. For the bottom one I used the building's edge. Before I was using runway marking lines, but I read the guidelines again and it said use vertical towards center of the frame rather than horizontal.

Better, but both might still need a touch of CW.

[arora7dm]

Thank you. Please see below the updated pictures. For horizon, in the top picture, I used the vertical black line (shadow) on the control tower. For the bottom one I used the building's edge. Before I was using runway marking lines, but I read the guidelines again and it said use vertical towards center of the frame rather than horizontal.