r/jetphotosrejects

First submission to jetphotos, not sure if it’s worthy…

Link here: https://www.jetphotos.com/viewqueued\_b.php?id=13359425

As the title says, this was my first time spotting for JP and consequently my first time getting rejected. Let me have it, I welcome all feedback and advice. I am still getting used to my new camera so I know this isn't great, I also didn't quite have the zoom I wanted from this spotting area and had to crop significantly. Don't even get me started on editing - I have absolutely no idea what I am doing here either. The pictures you see are exactly what got sent in just without the watermark. Pics taken at Nartia in the passenger terminal, Nikon Z50, DX 50-250mm.

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Any tips for editing these? The weather wasn’t the best that day.

It is a learning curve I guess, took a lot longer than I thought. At least, I can end the month with a small victory. My first shot in Singapore. First photo I edited using Olympus RAW files. Beautiful.

https://www.jetphotos.com/photo/12069400

So my photos were rejected for softness/unsharpened (sir Baltic was also rejected for horizon but I remember I did struggle with that one) also Pegasus is still in the queue and Lufthansa wasn’t uploaded but I think they’re also pretty good examples of my issue - my photos were pretty sharp before I resized them to 1280x720. I’m using Lightroom mobile if that matters. I’ve seen a lot of people say “this is not an issue. Resizing does not reduce image quality/sharpness” but in my case it does so I must be doing something wrong. How do you all make your photos so sharp at 1280/720 and/or what am I doing wrong?

Is it worth appealing these?

Both rejected for soft

I searched bad motive as meaning not aviation related enough for jetphotos.. it a helicopter, also under exposed and too much/little contrast,, can someone explain

Well finally, I managed to catch this beautiful 777. Is there anything I need to update for sending it to the queue?

Editing information - Lightroom.
Exposure: 0.4
Contrast: 5
Whites: 30
Blacks: -20
Sharpness: 110
Masking: Full
Denoise: 30%

Additional Info:
Lightroom Camera profile switch from in-built to a Tamron 50-400mm, just incase the vignetting getting bad.
yes, reddit compression is really bad so judging the sharpness for this won't be easy.

Any changes needed lemme know. :)

Just wondering if this would be rejected for backlit if I edit it properly. They’re 3 approach schots in reverse chronological timeline but the last one (first part of approach) is probably backlit, but the other 2 might not be.

Would these potentially get dinged for being dark? I think the Dash 8 would probably be fine since it seems similar to other accepted dusk photos I've seen. I'm least sure about the Cherokee and Cessna

https://www.jetphotos.com/viewqueued\_b.php?id=13393928

https://www.jetphotos.com/viewqueued\_b.php?id=13402499

Cessna hasn't been uploaded because I'm out of queue slots