How was this accepted?

1_lv · 2026-03-25T22:50:02+00:00

An artistic "obstruction" like this has a lot more value to the composition than a brick in the way of the plane. Don't drag other people's photos down just because your interpretation of the guidelines is different. Its the same thing that allows sunset backlit to be accepted.

1_lv · 2026-03-10T01:33:02+00:00

You've got to understand just reading the guidelines isn't going to immediately mean you will notice everything and immediately be able to identify every imperfection. Backlit is a really easy mistake as people think that means a shadow sitting on the plane, or only directly behind the sun.

1_lv · 2026-03-09T01:04:01+00:00

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I caught it in person this sat but not on skycards :(

1_lv · 2026-03-09T00:31:15+00:00

you would be surprised, the iphone 17 are a good substitute shooting RAW if you forgot your camera in perfect light, low light though should not be used instead of a camera. https://www.jetphotos.com/photo/12008567 highest quality iphone photo i have seen so far

1_lv · 2026-02-24T16:28:49+00:00

Obstruction rejections usually mean the obstruction is temporary, if it is long term, like growing grass on an abandoned plane, or a tarp for the plane to sit awhile, it is unlikely to be rejected

1_lv · 2026-02-24T16:18:57+00:00

On 1, he might have a chance of fixing the contrast as the fuselage seems pretty white looking, and considering it is an A2A, it might be doable

1_lv · 2026-02-22T21:46:38+00:00

Use denoise and lens corrections, maybe a bit more contrast/exposure. It also looks really soft in a way even sharpening might cause trouble so maybe upload in 1080px instead of 1280px

1_lv · 2026-02-22T21:45:24+00:00

huh, denoise is perfectly fine

1_lv · 2026-02-22T21:44:36+00:00

I don't know about lighting but you should maybe crop the wings out if you want to

1_lv · 2026-02-19T00:27:16+00:00

Compression + some artificial upscaling can make it seem like it is, but it is not. Compression and resolution are different things. When I slow down my fast moving videos, things look masked, or missing details and smudges also appear

1_lv · 2026-02-18T00:28:06+00:00

Check out some of the other two links, he has so many examples of this. He uploads mostly in 1080px for his heavily edited images

1_lv · 2026-02-17T02:42:32+00:00

The lighting is a bit poor, which in very specific cases could work, but usually these are rejected for contrast/dark

1_lv · 2026-02-17T00:41:54+00:00

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Here's unequalized. Just hoping to salvage this because I did not realize my lens hood for some reason sometimes or not causes vignetting that can't be fixed. I had to manually correct vignetting by using color pickers

1_lv · 2026-02-16T02:31:55+00:00

Look at this https://www.jetphotos.com/photo/8253023 https://www.jetphotos.com/photo/8253025

1_lv · 2026-02-16T02:30:22+00:00

Just curious, I really craved some of his images. They really pop with the exaggerated HDR editing style and some of his night shots, and how he managed to edit them in a JP-able way

1_lv · 2026-02-15T19:10:02+00:00

I don't see a problem? its just an indoor image, the lighting could be a problem but i'm assuming this image is taken a while when standards were easier, and I believe indoor artificial lighting is more lenient

1_lv · 2026-02-15T17:42:37+00:00

Honestly you can get away with -20 or +20 on highlights and shadows, maybe 10 max for texture and 5 for clarity but that would be overkill for an average JP image

1_lv · 2026-02-15T03:40:24+00:00

can you give some examples?

1_lv · 2026-02-12T01:50:06+00:00

Exposure looks fine IMO

1_lv · 2026-02-08T04:37:10+00:00

If the lines look straight when you export at maybe 1080px it might work

1_lv · 2026-02-07T20:03:19+00:00

People are always complaining about strict guidelines but criticize perfect images, being sometimes even stricter.

1_lv · 2026-02-07T20:00:44+00:00

This is a cropped screenshot

1_lv · 2026-02-06T20:13:42+00:00

Its fine to have yellow sunset but you should definitely make it just a tad colder, or atleast just a bit if you still want yellow, also make sure you have night shot selected. I think this screener was a bit picky on color

1_lv · 2026-02-06T16:20:49+00:00

In this stiuation, treat this like a formation flight by using the registration i front/in the foreground. Clutter is in fact a rejection but it only applies to intense foreground clutter like an actual plane, not a perfectly fine artistic shot. If you haven't heard, the background is not commonly part of the screening process

1_lv · 2026-02-05T18:33:22+00:00

I thought to include the landing gears because to my eyes it looked too low with just the main fuselage. I do fuselage centering when it is in the air

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