For the photographers who wants to upload cloudy photos, check out the airliners.net .
Its a hardest website to upload but they accept cloudy photos “if the photo is well edited“
It’s worth trying because they accept photos which got rejected from PS,JP
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Theo_L
October 9, 2025, 3:29pm
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The histogram actually looks ok. This is the bottom photo.
However the shadow doesn’t need to be that dark.
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Theo_L
October 9, 2025, 3:31pm
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Sounds good. Is backlit allowed by any chance and what makes it harder than JP?
I mean cloudy ones not backlit
but I rarely see backlit photos which are newsworthy
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The screeners use their first glance, not histogram, in most situations.
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How long does it usually take them to respond, or how do I know my photo has been accepted or rejected?
Menu->Photos->manage queued photos
It usually takes 20~30days to get screened.
You can check results sent to your email
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I remember the good ol’ days when it was like 5 days
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Kamryn
October 21, 2025, 3:30am
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1/100 shutter on a beautiful sunny day is a bit low. Try running something higher, maybe 1/1250 and F/9. You’ll find much better sharpness and less motion blur.
This is not the same quality as the one I have submitted since this one’s on my phone, but do you guys think this will be accepted? Or, is it too heavily edited? Which, by the way it’s not edited that much. I just turned down the lighting a bit so the sun wouldn’t heavily reflect.
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Yeah, it might be underexposed but first of all, the aircraft isn’t centered so it’ll be rejected anyway. It also looks soft.
Okay, although I have turned sharpness quite a bit. I believe it just looks soft due to the quality my phone can display.
How about this? These are just screenshots so the quality is low, I apologize. I checked the horizon and center and it seems to be in order.