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Aviation Waffle / Re: Manx Metroliner crash at Cork Airport

« on: February 10, 2011, 03:21:39 pm »

Terrible tragedy,

Thoughts are with the crew and passengers who didn't survive, may they rest in peace. lets hope for the best for the survivors and may they make a full recovery.

Regards,

Paul

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Military Photography / Re: Machloop October 2010

« on: January 23, 2011, 12:46:36 am »

Fantastic photo's Machlooper! 

Regards,

Paul

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Aviation Waffle / Re: Seasons Greetings

« on: December 26, 2010, 09:01:07 am »

Merry christmas all,

Regards,

Paul

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Aviation Photography / Re: 30,000 and climbing

« on: December 07, 2010, 04:44:55 pm »

Good evening all,

Just noticed we are back above the 30,000 mark with the photo count standing at 30,074 photo's!

Well done again lads. Didn't take long to get back up there!

Regards,

Paul

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Aviation Photography / Re: 30,000 and climbing

« on: November 07, 2010, 09:40:30 pm »

All I can say is unbelievable! but as Short Final's says, the decision lies with the photographer. What a waste of time and effort!!

On the other hand us regular photographers who can understand criticism and take the "no decision" without having a hissy fit and acting like a spoilt child will just have to soldier on an keep this website full of good quality photo's, and hopefully attracting more members at the same time. Bring on the 30,000 mark again and the next 10,000!!

Regards,

Paul

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Site Information / Re: Photo screening decisions, opinions please.

« on: November 07, 2010, 04:17:13 pm »

I 4 one think your doing a great job  and will not be asking you to remove my photo's, only 5 more to go before I hit the 2000 mark!!!!

Regards,

Paul

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Site Information / Re: Photo screening decisions, opinions please.

« on: November 04, 2010, 11:55:54 pm »

Good evening Steve,

I in response to ur request for opinions on the BMI Baby shot, as a future screener I have to say that I would have declined your 1st photo also. To be honest I am quite surprised that you would argue this one as I thought it was obvious the aircraft was not centered and given that you have over 500 shots on the site, I would have thought you wouldn't upload it as is, never mind argue that it was rejected.

Just my humble opinion,

Regards,

Paul

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Aviation Waffle / Re: Spotting at Dublin in the early '80s

« on: November 02, 2010, 09:09:54 pm »

Nice shots short finals!!!

Regards,

Paul

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Aviation Waffle / Re: Spotting at Dublin in the early '80s

« on: November 02, 2010, 03:35:56 pm »

Hey Thurian,

I remember this well. It used to be called the "Link" building. It's were i started spotting in 1992 and met up with a few spotters who are now close friends and who I still meet up with when I get up to DUB. It's also when I discovered the old Ops office and you could get iut onto the ramp for some photo's!! Back in the day eh!!!

Regards,

Paul

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Site Information / Re: Photo screening decisions, opinions please.

« on: November 01, 2010, 10:18:05 pm »

Evening Andrew,

Totally agree with you on that photo. However, that photo was added 4 years ago when the site was fairly new, and even I had a few dodgy photo's accepted. Now I could stand corrected on this but Frank has only taken over the site since 2007, and since then has tried to raise the quality of photo's on the site. Of course, no offense again to the photographer of the photo in question, but by the standards Frank is trying to outline, that photo would not get passed nowadays. And I'm sure if you looked at all photographers photo's from the oldest addition to the newest addition, you would probably see a vast improvement of their shots online, I know mine have improved.

I think it's a bit unfair to point out photo's that have been accepted years ago to make a point about  inconsistency on the website nowadays. Now, if you can find a similar photo added in the last 3 years when Frank has taken over and tried to make the site known as a site with good quality photo's online, then I stand corrected.

Best Regards,

Paul

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Site Information / Re: Photo screening decisions, opinions please.

« on: November 01, 2010, 08:39:51 pm »

I think the inconsistency of what passes for a good shot is what most users of the forum will find annoying. For example, I've had a few shots which I considered to be perfectly adequate rejected and then seen shots appear on this site of aircraft where the software used by the photographer has actually removed the airline titles and registration of the aircraft!
There is however, one very easy way to bypass this problem. I set up a fotopic page and I'm the arbiter of what appears on my pages and this works very well for me.
The page is at andrewmartin.fotopic.net if anyone is interested and the basic set up is free! 

Andrew,

I'm afraid I have to totally disagree with you on your point. The website is a quality website with good photo's from all photographers that contribute. If your photo's were rejected, instead of getting into a hump about it why don't you take the advise and try to improve whats wrong. I have to say that ypu do have a great selection of shots on the site and would hope that you keep uploading.

With regards to shots were the software removing the titles and logo, i hope you don't mean this shot!

http://www.worldairpics.com/photo/1038241/M/Boeing-737-8AS/EI-DAV/Ryanair-FR--RYR/?&sid=4384325913&sp=0

  Only a bit of light humour !!! No offense intended!

Regards,

Paul

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Site Information / Re: Photo screening decisions, opinions please.

« on: October 26, 2010, 01:56:08 pm »

Thanks Frank,

That would be great! Didn't even know you could sharpen certain parts of the pics!!

Regards,

Paul

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Site Information / Re: Photo screening decisions, opinions please.

« on: October 26, 2010, 12:10:53 pm »

Good morning Frank and all,

I think this is a great discussion to have to iron out any questions that any uploaders may have. After looking at my stats, over the last 5 years of uploading to the site i have 632 declines out of 2608 uploads. I have probably seen all your decline reasons and you prob made up one or two reasons for some dodgy photo's aswell. Over the last 5 years I have matured from just dumping all my photo's into the que and hoping for the best to actually spending some time on the photo and making sure that I think it's ok.

In my opinion, thats the whole point of the rejection process. You get to learn where you are going wrong. If you take Frank's advise and go back to your photo you will prob see something that you wouldn't have noticed before. Now while it appears that I am brown nosing the site owner just because i've volunteered to be a screener, that is not the case, just speaking from experience. Now i do still have issues with regards to the ramp at Cork not been level and not my photo's, but they have started to re-enforce the ramp at Cork recently, must have seen my moaning!!!!

However, on a serious note Frank there is one rejection that I can't get my head around, even after 5 years. The whole picture sharpness thing. As a general rule of thumb recently, i have been using Adobe photoshop 7 and just upgraded to CS2 and when sharping the pic or ( unsharpening) i use a value of 125%, and it seems to work for screening purposes.

So my question is really, is there a general rule of the thumb sharpenning % to use or do you have any hints when sharpening the picture Frank?

Thats it really,

Best Regards,

Paul

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Aviation Photography / 30,000 and climbing

« on: October 22, 2010, 06:56:50 pm »

Good evening all,

You may have noticed that the photo database now stands at 30,003 photo's. Can I just congratulate Frank and all fellow uploaders to the site. It's a great milestone and I for one enjoy checking the site for new photo's and of course to check my hit count. Let's hope for many thousands more of uploads for the future.

Just a thought!

Regards,

Paul

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Irish Air Corps / Re: PC-9 265 anniversary

« on: October 12, 2010, 10:08:54 pm »

Very hard to believe a year has passed already.

May they rest in peace