williamstown air show, newcastle, australia - 2010 Afterburn - F1-11 (best viewed larger)

F1-11 Fighter Bomber - during final days of active service with RAAF

Williamtown Air Show, Newcastle, Australia - 18th September 2010

Thanks for looking...

Cheers

Mike

Mike, I like it. But can you tell why that shine around the plane appears? Perhaps from postprocessing?

All the best,

VS

Hi VS

Do you mean the bright back edges on the wings and elevators?

If so, I believe these are mostly due to burnt-out specular reflections on the sharp edges. The relatively little amount of sharpening will be adding to this of course. The reason I think its mostly highlights is because it is far stronger on the trailing edges nearest the bright sunny side.

By comparison, if you look at the small fin on the port engine that is in shadow, the edge highlight is a lot weaker and this highlight will be due both to sharpening and also just the optical contrast between the dark surface and bright cloud.

Of course that could all be wrong and it might just be due to sharpening :)

All the best

Mike

Mike: How are you, I have seen you here in a long time?  Good photo, just wish the image was larger.  Tom

I’m well thanks Tom – just sidetracked with other things for a while. I hope all is well with you.

Yes I agree, most of the images on PN do look better larger. The problem is the variability in screen size. My home computer has a large screen so the images I post, even full size, only occupy a relatively small area of the screen. But they fill my work screen and on my laptop, where I do a lot of editing, I have to reduce them to fit.

Cheers,

Mike