Hi all,

I was thinking a while if I should bring this topic up and finally decided to do so (for the sake of AF's quality claims)

First of all let me explain the reason for this question here: I recently had a rejection of an aircraft which was standing half in the shadow. It was a stored one and the first shot from that side - but I can live with it not having it in the database.

But recently I see here and there photos showing up with large parts of the airplane cut off.
Parts of propellers missing, tails clipped, and so on... In my opinion this is neither fish nor fowl...
I do get the point if the photo shows some kind of special marking or can be judged as 'artistic', but what about half fuselages and so on? [Usually these aircraft would fall out of the sky ]

Continuing this I might try to cut of the shadow part of my previous mentioned photo and upload it again to circumvent the previous rejection which I will not do btw...

What's your point-of-view on this subject, and maybe even more important, what's the opinion of the screeners??

Best regards

Andreas

I go with Andreas here. I see no reason why there is only half of the aircraft on the photo. The example which is posted showing the Greek Rhino is definitely something different than the middle section of an Swiss F-5 landing. Sorry Martin but this is my personal opinion.

Sometimes an up-close nose or tail shot is ok, but generally I don't like them. For me there has to be a really good reason to have the tail cut off, or to even have half the tail cut off. Otherwise, I consider it a poor crop. Of course, we have to take into account how rare the photo or aircraft is, what's the circumstance, etc. For example, I rejected these two photos for poor cropping:



He turns around and immediately reuploads the same shots only to be approved by another screener who is more lenient than me. To me that's just foul, and still a poor crop of a plane that we have close to 300 photos in the DB. Was I wrong?

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Thanks for your comments and clarification regarding "the site's view"!

Andreas

Not in this case. A cut is not a cut, it depends on where it's cut. Look at the examples I posted above. Definitely cut at the wrong place.

To me there is no problem in "chopping" parts off, if it is done in the right place and context. I have no issues at all with Andreas' images above.

I do have to agree with Ray that the two examples he posted are not good crops, the symmetry of the image is off and it just looks like the lens was too big for the situation and the images uploaded as shot. If not then I would seriously consider re-editing them and choosing a different crop point.