Levels
Selective Color to add some darkness to the blues and reds
Add a layer with black oval, gaussian blur twice and set opacity to 75% and Fill to 25% - provides a vignette effect
Copy background Layer apply radial zoom blur apply layer mask and remove blur from nose cone. Set opacity to 45%
On original background layer use dodge/burn to bring up the reflections in nose cone, also use saturation sponge to bring up the colours in reflections.
Cloned out the red and white tape in the background.
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Place: 4 out of 253 Avg (all users): 7.0636 Avg (commenters): 8.5000 Avg (participants): 6.7946 Avg (non-participants): 7.3426 Views since voting: 8064 Views during voting: 543 Votes: 220 Comments: 57 Favorites: 29 (view)
This is really great Keith! Congratulations on 4th place here! The motion effect here is so strong--I see you added motion blur, so I'm curious if the jet was moving at the time? Anyway, it's fantastic and going into my favorites.
first look makes you think the jet is moving, but a closer look at the nose clarifies. If the jet was moving, the numbers 2,4 reflected in the jet will have motion blur which they don't. That says motion blur was added in photoshop.
This is really great Keith! Congratulations on 4th place here! The motion effect here is so strong--I see you added motion blur, so I'm curious if the jet was moving at the time? Anyway, it's fantastic and going into my favorites.
Very creative idea and interesting composition. I love seeing photographs of this caliber with difficult technical elements to them. Kudos for pushing the envelope a bit. =) a 9 from me
I'm stunned at this shot. It's beautiful. I'm guessing that you did a motion blur to make it look like the plane was moving....Or maybe I'm wrong...anyway, 10 from me. I want it framed in my living room.
Did you delete your reflection out of the picture? Was the plane sitting still when you took the picture then you Photoshopped all the blurs? This is really good. One of the better shots in the challenge. It's in my top four...10.
This is the best of the movement images in the challenge. I love the still reflection of the number 24 on the nose cone. And the bit of blue in the upper corner is good since it makes this a bit less symetrical.
I really wish they had a "Great Shots That Don't Fit In Any Challenge" challenge every week. This is a super capture, but I don't get any feel that you utilized the wide angle for this. I'm going to defy The Challenge Police and give you a 6 because I think it's so neat.
I'm guessing you zoomed as the plane was moving. Whatever you did you did it very, very well. This is a very balanced, and dynamic shot. The viwer's attention goes straight to the middle and doesn't want to leave. Congratulations.
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