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Taken at Duxford. Comments welcome.

an awesome shot, but the planes are in shadow, espicially the trailing one. A shame because this would be such an awesome picture if the planes turned the other way in a similar formation.

Yes, but then he's get their bellies :)

 

This is actually harder than it looks - good choice of exposure, yes, the airplanes are a touch dark, especially the trailing plane - but there IS detail in all the shadows, they are far from featureless blobs, and the lead plane being more detailed than the trailing one actually works with your eye. Add to that a great composition, the most beautiful subject matter possible - and I think its an excellent shot.

One has to keep in mind that it is exceedingly easy to end up with "silhouettes" in such shots, and then one is forced to use many large words to explain to one's friends why that was intentional and how they don't understand art:) Not that I'd know... or anything... uhm... yes - moving along.

Actually the shadows on the planes serve a useful purpose here because they obscure the fact that the roundels on the wings of the two planes do not match. (You would think restorers would be getting this right by now - in this case I don't think either of them is correct.) I have seen some pics on fencecheck of these two at the same display, and when the wings are well lit, the inconsistency is noticeable.

 

ok, points taken and i guess i'll take back my original comment...

August, I didn't even notice! Wow, especially the trailing plane is waaaay out. Its almost disturbing! The lead plane is a lot closer in blue-to-red proportions at least!

The red is supposed to be 40% the diameter of the blue; I think the trailing plane has them too large but the lead plane has them considerably too small.