From my seat aboard a 747 looking back over the tarmac. Now that I think about it, not sure how we ended up in that position. The flight time was 8am out of DFW.
Post processing -- rotated, cropped, adjusted contrast using levels. Then, did an adjustment layer for curves, and was simply going to use an "S" shaped curve to enhance the contrast a bit, but clicked on a fourth point and when I bumped it, I got the colors in the background. Boosted saturation to get them a bit *more* then ran a touch of neat image cause there was some grain in the shot.
Shot with my itty bitty new sony, though it will say rebel until I remember to add the sony to my profile. :/
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when i voted, i gave this a 4. though there are aspects i liked, i felt the discolouration and fringing in the sky and on the near wing to be excessive. the smoggy haze, the brownness of the runway, and the look of the other aircraft in terms of angle, lighting, feel, are all really good. it's the sky, plus that really bright reflection on the tail, that lets you down.
I don't think you could have chosen tougher lighting conditions to capture this image under. Although the fake rainbow and the glare off the tail wing are interesting to some degree, this image is hard on the eyes and not very engaging to look at.
As I view this on my monitor, there are some bizarre artifacts of light in the sky. Lens flair? Whatever they are, they distract from an otherwise super photo.
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