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Thanks every one for all your comments, all crit is taken on board hopefully next image will be better.
Hey Mandy
Think you have covered yourself for yum, as you say it is very hard at times to get insperation, well lit though, and I could do with both items at the moment
Loud - Liking the shape of the speaker, a little tidy up with the background RH and cable would easily improve it, as it has a nice shine and good detail, DoF looks nice too
AND 2 shots box's ticked
Hi Mandy
Loud has possibilities...... looks fairly sharp viewed larger on flickr , love the trails off the wing tip n & you've kept some detail in the sky which is all good Needs a little more exposure for me on the jet to pull it out of the clouds & to be less central...smidge off the rhs & stick it on the lhs to give the jet room to fly in to
YUM.....a bit late to the party on this one so apologies if repeating comments....lower POV would feel better to me, not much just a smidge , turn the muffin so the sticky up edge of the paper case is out of view & straighten the image ( maybe the shooting angle causing the bg to look wonky ?
Loud.....I'm sure it is..screen filling close up might make it pop more ?
Hi Mandy, that horrible grey sky that kills air show pictures. Ask Paul (@pjm1) nicely, and he might even stick it on a blue sky for you
Definately looks like it needs a crop, and maybe a shadow lift to try to bring some detail into the underside of the jet.
But I will agree, definately LOUD!
Hi Mandy ....we can't control the weather....worst luck. The plane fits loud perfectly, well frozen in the sky and even if they are a bit feint I like the smoke trails (?)
Here you go Mandy... at the very least this gives me more PP practice!
(I promise am going to get round to catching up with my comments at some point this weekend...):
pjm1's not quite perfect sky replacement for Mandy
Edit: btw Mandy, I like your original pic and grey skies are often what we have... hey ho. The jet itself seemed quite noisy (not "loud" noisy!) - was it at high ISO? (I can't remember the EXIF settings now I'm typing this).
Hi Mandy, its already been mentioned about lifting the shadows for some more detail to the bottom of the jet
the sky is rather grey but then we have to take what we are given really, a bit tighter with the crop might have helped a little
Hi Mandy - bang on theme, obviously. I guess you're limited by the position you can get yourself in... after all, it's a show full of people and barging others out of the way isn't really done!
Good capture (focus, timing etc.). Composition could be improved IMO, but given the restrictions above, you've done well. Perhaps a touch more space for him to hop into on the right? Shallower DOF would cerrtainly help as well, as Richard suggests.
Hi Mandy ...it certainly fits the theme well....a nice frozen action shot.
HI Mandy - Skill - nice shot excellent detail certainly on theme , crowd / DOF been mentioned
hope you find your mojo again for the next theme
Hi Mandy, yep, certainly plenty of skill needed to do that, I like the shot , every thing else has been said
HI Mandy
I really must get to see Steve Colley at some point...the control he has over the bike is just amazing !
To the shot.... Not gonna comment on the framing/position etc because I know how hard it is shooting at these events with people getting in the way all the time......bloomin frustrating to say the least !
Were you shooting in to the light ? I ask because the light seems really harsh partic on the faces of the crowd , the blacks look a little too black/harsh if that's even possible ! Maybe oversharpened or too much contrast ? The white of his shirt has also gone a bit blue ( or was it blue to start with ) yet his boots seem perfectly white I'd also have tried to clone out the little bit of the red box creeping in to the rhs of the frame . Sorry if this sounds harsh , no offence intended
Hi Mandy,
Yum...Magners and a choc chip muffin don't go together very well for me, but each on its own fits the theme
loud...speaker fits the theme the Aircraft is much better
Nice one Mandy... perfectly on theme.
Exposure: looks good, white plane is white! Nice saturation on the green grass and blue hangars. Could maybe bring out a tiny amount more shadow detail from the trees but that is a super quibble!
Focus/DOF: looks spot on to me.
Straightness: hard to judge but looks to my eye pretty good with maybe a small CW tweak... very happy to be told to go back in my box on that one though as I'm far from convinced myself!
Composition: a fair take... other than getting further back and being able to frame it within the hangar, hard to see how to improve. Could maybe have a touch more space in front (left)?
Overall: very good shot. I like it.
Thanks for the comments I have to admit I had my 70 - 300 mm lens on and because I was able to get so close I should of gone for my normal kit lens. But I have to sadly admit I was not functioning all that well that day, but we live and learn.
Hi Mandy,
Skill... archive or not, a cracking image,
Rich...fits the theme really well, Paul has done the crit comments on the image for me,yes you would need to be pretty rich to fly one of those
Hmmm, not exactly a Learjet is it - more small business owner than Arab oil sheikh Good shot of the plane though. Only thing I'd change would be to possibly get rid of the blue sign growing out of the wing which I find a little distracting.
Hi Mandy, certainly out of my price range, it could do with filling the frame more to lose some of the BG distractions or as said above maybe a wider shot
Hi Mandy - Rich looks great to me some issues with composition as already pointed out but I imagine you were restricted to where you could get the shot from. Everything is week focussed and exposed so good job