Dirty Soft.

Na – the white spot is an aircraft flying left to right – a very high passenger plane, impossible to identify.

The black spot is Dr Who’s Tardis.

A.Net enquiry(Reply)

Hi Arthur,

Thanks for a good honest answer in your return post.It definitely seems seems to be a doubled edged sword and one that you so rightly pointed out is a voluntary kind of smile or frown experience.

I suppose its all down to the content of the image and if choosing the path to supply the site is to have a good look round and see whats what with the image and its content.

Its all good fun anyway and it appears to me to be a bit like a competition and if you manage to get accepted the wow factor suddenly comes into it.In all though it must serve to improve your own skills and change a few habits of a lifetime to move with the times and see whats hot and not.
I probably like many others keep taking the same side or three quarter front or back shots that are a bit tiresome too often.

So now maybe I,ll try and see that little bit differently to try and come up with something thats ,(new Saying) “outside the box”.Thanks again for replying.::)

I haven’t made that much from sales but I have had a few published, some for money, some not. I upload to airliners.net to share pictures – to get an e-mail from a crew chief after he has seen a a picture you’ve taken of HIS aircraft is quite satisfying. I’ve had comments from pilots and cabin staff who ask for prints as they were on board that day. I like that better than money (mostly:))

The standards are a pain sometimes but nobody forces anyone to upload there anyway.

A.net info

Hi Dan,
The info was spot on and just about 10% sales from your efforts was well worth your input.”Well done” and after looking at some of your images on the A.Net site I can see why you achieved the result.

Good colourful well composed shots with some nice angles, it all in all inspired me to try my hand at sending in some photos to A.net and shall keep you posted as to how my first attempts went .Also I will lookout for a nice wide angle lense for those nice close ups similar to the monarch airlines shot coming in to land at Lanzarote.Thanks again.:cool:

Richard, I think your question has been answered.

I’d agree with Arthur on that…I don’t have quite so many as him on a.net (around 350) and still seem to get a fair number of oversharp/soft rejections which to me all look about the same!

I know airliners.net is a good place to showcase your work and my question relates to this site.I read that on Authur Pewteys reply that he had 1500 images on the site and wondered how many hits for image sales he has had since putting this amount on the site.

The aviation photography market is hugely competetitive, and with sites like airliners.net / jetphotos.net I’d say that aviation has become one of the most widely photographed subjects on the internet. However, out of 350 photos or so I think I’ve sold atleast 30 from airliners.net to various sources, which to me sounds pretty good especially for a website which is free to use. Despite jetphotos.net now being the bigger site in terms of photos, it seems that airliners.net still seems to get more hits and media attention (in comparison, out of over 2000 on jetphotos.net I’ve only sold a handful).

Cheers for the responses guys. 🙂

Soft, Un-sharpened, Blurry they all mean the same in their books. The cockpit looks to be out of focus, there is another word, but I can’t be sure because the the image size.
I noticed the white mark, it may even be another aircraft in the blue sky.

BA aircraft are notorious to get right, the British Airways titles either show up as not sharp or over sharpened.

This is an idiots guide to a.net rejections – http://planecatcher.com/IGRR.htm I will desist from saying who is the idiot. Just remember that an a.net rejection does not mean that you are a bad photographer, just that you don’t meet their standards.

Airliners.net?

I know airliners.net is a good place to showcase your work and my question relates to this site.I read that on Authur Pewteys reply that he had 1500 images on the site and wondered how many hits for image sales he has had since putting this amount on the site.

I just want to know if its all worth doing the same thing and some kind of ratio of image sales to images supplied and time it took to get things moving.I know some sites are based on vanity views only and some kind of pattern of how the A.net site works would be helpful.

Thanks in advance for any up and coming replies,I just want to save myself any hasstle if the site is a slow mover, as the photographic streets are quite busy and if its one of the only ways to get stuff out I,ll just have to hustle along with the rest.:confused:

cheers Arthur. 🙂

They are two separate rejections.

The black mark above the cloud mentioned before and the white mark ahead of that will get a dirty rejection. It only takes a couple of seconds to clone those out. If necessary equalize the image to show up any dirty marks.
Soft I can’t comment on as it looks OK on my LCD screen. Maybe soft around the nose. Some parts look oversharpened to me but a.net has a fine line between soft and oversharpened.

I have over 1500 photos on airliners.net and still haven’t sussed the soft/sharp thing.:confused:

cheers for that Adam, but it is odd, but i can’t see where it’s dirty and soft. Maybe it’s my eyes. :rolleyes:

Maybe it means dirty and soft?

I can see where the confusion comes, when I have had rejections before it appears on the email as: ‘Bad Colour Overexposed Unlevel Bad Colour Crap Photo Try Again You’re Rubbish etc etc’
When it fact it is just a list of reject reason just piled together. I am sure it means dirty and soft.

Oh right, Cheers though Sam. 🙂

I think the dirt is the little black spec above the cloud – Harsh though.

Yeah it’s dirty soft.

i think it’s dirty soft, i’ll have a look on my email.

That’s a new one on me, and I thought I’d seen all of the A.net rejection reasons. 😉