Taken at a small desert airstrip nearby which is also a mini boneyard, with a bunch of retired aircraft and tons of random parts lying around.
RAW converted twice, once for highlights then for shadow detail, and merged in PS CS3. Levels Adjustment Layer to reduce midrange (0.63), cloned out sensor dust specs, slight crop, NR with Noiseware Pro, Smart Sharpen (185% @ 0.9, basic mode, lens blur) then size for web and convert to 8-bit sRGB before saving out as jpeg.
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