I'm really surprised to have anything to enter. I went to the airport to get a shot like this, but arrived just after the sun had gone down, and it was a clear blue sky. No interesting clouds and it was getting too dark to take much that wasn't very noisy. This was the second shot I took.
As I flipped through them, I really didn't see much worth pursuing. Then I came back to this and there was just a faint bit of pink in the lower left corner. Hmmm ...
To my pleasant surprise, deep colors emerged after a LOT of heavy curves and multiple noise reduction passes, plus a selective color layer to further push the colors. Oh, and I used the healing brush to get rid of one dust spot just above the plane. The "vignette" came naturally out of the editing; I didn't even do anything in the RAW conversion. Crop, resize, add the frame, and submit.
So I agree completely with the folks who complained about the lack of sharpness and other stuff around the airplane; in advanced editing I would've cleaned it up. :)
I also have no trouble with some people thinking the colors are over the top. I actually considered reducing the saturation, but I like it this bold.
Oh, and it's a commercial 20-seat-or-so plane, not a private jet; none of those went by when I had decent light.
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It is amazing what you accomplished in post processing considering what you started with. You almost turned a piece of coal into a diamond. Sorry this critique doesn't contain more substance but you got everything out of this image that could be got. Nicely done.
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Great colours, don't like the plane - coulda been bigger, crisper - but it's a difficult shot - and you got it! Real crap submitted in this challenge. I'll give you a 9 'cause yer welcome relief!
If someone was to hang this photo with the label 'Wealth' under it - people would make the connection. Great concept, and nicely done (technically) overall. Good luck in the challenge.
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