Quality Issues

If your image is not printable you will receive an email message from FAA to upload a better file before the sale.

they are mostly looking at large flat areas. this won't print. the sky is very noisy and it blotches when it's smaller. at the very least the sky must be smooth.


you'll want to smooth the sky in this as well

oh and you might want to add some paragraph breaks in the bio, it's kinda hard to read in a massive block.

anyway, the site doesn't want to see - noise, shifting blur, blocks, stretching, bad crops, etc. mostly your skies are effected here.


---Mike Savad
MikeSavad.com

Danny, for sizes you do not want to sell, if there's a blank box to insert the price, just leave it blank and that/those sizes will not show for sale. Do not put zeros in the box, just leave it blank. Hope that helps with the pricing question.

No caveats. It automatically puts a bad feeling in prospective buyers minds. Upload only top notch quality work. Personally speaking, I never upload anything smaller than 20 inches at the largest and still often feel uncomfortable doing that. If it can't print larger than 8X10, then I would reshoot.

Another thing to consider about your bio, if you are going to go third person, consider refering to yourself as last name more than "he." Just my own suggeation

Thanks for all of your replies. Jessica pulled up the one I was most concerned about. I will delete that one as beyond help. Next I will I delete the other two at least for the time being and see what I can do. I am an old film photographer who hasn't seriously been working with lightroom and photoshop all that long. I also appreciate Greg, Joseph's and Mike's suggestions. and will take a look at my bio. I now realize I need to look at what I can or should be offering for sale in the way of print sizes. I didn't realize I could leave print sizes blank. You have all been very helpful. Sometimes it pays to ask questions. Thanks again.

Danny;

It's an ongoing process here. I know more now than I did when I first joined and I hope I'll know more in a year or two. The forums have been a big help to me, too.

Thanks for that Joseph. There are advantages and disadvantages to being self taught. This time I was saved from embarrassing myself by kind and thoughtful people. Even if I can't save those images I will keep copies for example and comparison purposes.

Don't remove them, that can hurt links and ranking....

You can hide them in a private gallery but the reality is this is not that bad. Yes, the sky can use some smoothing but it should print fine up to at least 30 inches if not 36

Danny,

Nice images and keep uploading them, just don't sharpen them before you upload them,unless it's just in ACR, Adobe Camera RAW, since the printer will sharpen "to size" when the image is sold and printed..............

Rich

You might want to run the Despeckle filter in Photoshop. It works well for graininess like in the image above without killing the sharpness.

You can get a good idea of how an image will look enlarged using a home printer.

If you have a 5x7 print, measure one inch on the print lengthwise and make a mental note on what part of the picture falls within that one inch. Then go to your computer and select a rectangle that includes the exact same portion of the image. Copy and paste that segment into a new image and print it at at 5x7. What you'll end up with is essentially a segment of a 49" print (one seventh of a seven inch print blown up to seven inches).

With a little math you can mimic other sizes as well. For example if you measure 2 inches on the original, and print that at 7 inches it's equal to a 24.5" print. (7 divided by 2 = 3.5. 3.5 x 7 = 24.5.) It's kinda confusing to spell out but once you try it it's easy.

Never really like the loupe and do not think this is a real representation of the image. It appears the loupe magnifies the low res image and not the original? If so this is like enlarging photos in editing software. I see a lot of comments on printability but how can one make that assumption based on a lower resolution image and not seeing the original?

The loupe shows the full resolution.

OK thanks for clearing that up for me.

Thanks to all who have contributed to this discussion since I last had time to look. Rich, Murray, James, Lady Isabella, Duane. I see there is a tab for the person who started a discussion to end it. I considered ending it yesterday but am glad I did not. Even though I plan to be out with a camera today instead of head jammed in a computer I think I will l it run a little longer.
I cannot express how helpful you have all been. I have one of the higher end Epson computers, recently acquired, and have burned through a lot of ink and paper testing and printing. I need to learn more about how to interpret what I see in the loupe on the site or in Adobe as it applies to a print. All of your comments will be of help in learning to do that. I went to work on one of images in question {the fishing boats).
I have not yet replaced it on the site with a new one. What has already come out by starting fresh is a better tonal range and apparently decreased noise in the sky. In the old film days there was a saying about doing as much work in the camera as possible because we were limited with what we could do with a negative and printing in the darkroom This is one of those that had exposure issues to begin with. The scene depicted has cultural and emotional importance to my family and I and will never be seen again as it was that day. You can understand why I wanted it to be seen Thanks again.