Red Arrows

[ash]

This was taken last year at Silverstone and scaning through my pics tonight decided to have a play with it because I did not wan't the classic bright red jets on the lovely sunny blue sky that there are so many of.
Ive spent about half an hour on this which is alot for me, am I on the right lines or do I need to start again

[ekkl]

Re: Red Arrows

Hi Ash.

Would it be possible to post the 'before' pic?

[ash]

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No problem.

[ekkl]

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Seeing what you have done now I like it. The only thing I don't like, but it is not that big of a deal, is the smoke trails look too overdone if you know what I mean.

I took some of the reds at Eastbourne a few weeks ago. It's hard getting it right and making them look different than the millions of pics as you describe, the reds against the blue sky. I either end up overdoing them or they look bland! It's good to see what someone else does.

[ash]

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Cheers, have you got one from Eastbourne?
I have loads from various airshows but I won't bore you with anymore!

[ekkl]

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Feel free to have a play with this. All I have done is give it a bit of a contrast boost but I wanted to do something to make it more dynamic, cropping it maybe, am not sure but it needs something done to it I think but not sure what to do.

It was taken hand held and manual focusing as you can tell!

[ash]

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Thats an awsome action shot, will have to have a play tommorow, need some kip Im wacked!
Ash.

[ash]

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Ive had a little play, I think it would probably benefit from a crop but Ive left as is as I think you have some muck on your sensor top left there are 3 spots.

[Jocelyn Walker]

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Not really my cup of tea! I find the added specular effects rather distracting! The sky colour a tad unbelievable! The smoke plumes nearest to the planes overdone on the contrast! Maybe if you have one that's inbetween what you term 'classic' & this example to show us!

[ash]

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Maybe this is more up your alley Jocelyn

[Caz]

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Personally, I like the edited versions. I liked Ash's first edit of his shot, and think both versions of ekkl's shots were good.

The last one is good on the rules (thirds/leading lines) but it doesn't grab me like the others.

However, if we all liked the same thing it'd be rather boring......