Hi all,

I'm brand spankin new to this site.  I should have found you before I started attempting SS submissions :-(

Can any of you offer advice about my first attempt submissions?  Maybe a summary of tricks?  for example... I heard that submitting the shots smaller increases chances of them missing noise.....

I just got rejected my 3rd time... getting frustrated but I will keep trying. 

My system:

I shoot with a D70s and mostly with my 18-200 Nikon lens.  I open my images in bridge, wean out the obvious bad stuff... then I open the potentials in camera raw... I adjust exposure, white balance and saturation here.  i also delete any other obvious ones at this stage.  Once I've adjusted my batch, I then process them all to jpeg.  At this stage I apply a light noise filter (noise ninja) and sharpen it a bit using the unsharpen filter.  I delete any last ones that might have too much noise to fix.

Anyone see any problems with this?  Could I do something extra or less in order to avoid getting rejected by SS?

Thanks for your time and help.

Regards,

Nelson Cardoso