Thanks Peter for your quick reply.

For me it gets more and more difficult to figure out the difference between an acceptable pic simply without sun and a dull weather pic.
Of course sunny pics are more attractive, but for rare visitors you cannot chose the light.

A few month ago I made the suggestion, that for really rare movements at one specific airport the screeners could think about the following rule:
A specific number of pics of different angles should be accepted for documentary reasons with the extra comment of the screener:
"Accepted depite dull weather, etc. for doucumentary reasons only. Future uploads will be rejected."
I use the DB also for searching specific rare visitors. If you have no pic of that vistor in the DB at all, it would be incomplete.

In the case of the Mint 757 at DUS fortunately one pic can be found in the DB. IMO maybe one or two more could have been added by different photgraphers.

What do you think?

Comet
  

not much I am affraid  Sky is white, contrast is bad, if you adjust it, it will look like backlight.

Anything I can do? IMO not that bad.

http://www.planepictures.net/showreject.php?id=1282945690

Comet

Now that is a good answer.......thanks alot..........

Hi Tony,

there are three issues with your picture which I would correct:

1) the contrast is slightly too high
2) overall the picture seems to be too bright - try to reduce the gamma a bit
3) the picture suffers from a strong cyan cast - this should be easily fixed by increasing the red tones

Pale colours is a very interesting reason rejection ... How do you correct it?

It has the potential to be used for everything if dull weather doesn't apply because a shot is taken in sunny conditions.

This photo was rejected for "pale colours", is this a new reason for rejection?


http://www.planepictures.net/up/in/1282919581.jpg


even if bad contrast/balance is the real reason for the reject, I can´t really see any difference in other Saudi A/C that I have in the Database. Looking forward to a halfway reasonable answer from someone who knows what they are talking about..................

No. A plain white sky means that it is heavily overexposed. That is exactly the reason why "backlit" exists as a rejection: backlit shots have very strong contrasts (dark plane vs. very bright sky) which results in a wrong exposure of either or even both of these areas. It is very challenging (sometimes even impossible) to expose the complete photo correctly.


You're right that dull weather is used pretty randomly (even for shots in sunny conditions) by the screeners at times, but dull weather isn't dull weather. Of course it is something completely different whether you have a cloudy approach shot of a common plane at a popular airport or a the mentioned Air Cargo Germany freighter at Mumbai with a very interesting background.

It depends on the motive, call it the big picture.

The background of the airplane are the trees, and they are dark. So a dark background.
A plain sky means very white high clouds.

By the way, many of my photos are rejected for dull weather , but now I see again a photo at the homepage of an Air Cargo Germany Boeing 747 at BOM Mumbai (Bombay) In very dull weather and this one is accepted. What are the rules??? It seems that the screeners accept dull weather photos and if that is the rule, why reject photos for dull weather even when it is not dull weather. I have examples of such photos.

Yes - have a look at the sky, it is almost plain white with absolutely no details. Appeal doesn't make sense here at all.