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Dan,

Good crisp details!

I like this composition, but I like Civilian Aviation.

Regards always,

Jim j.

I would consider cropping the wing of the foreground ‘plane: it is distracting.

There are semi-hard shadows from the propeller, but the image on my monitor is not as vibrant as what I would expect and it lacks the mid tone contrast I would expect to see, for that sunlight (early morning or late afternoon sidelight sun).

I reckon you might be a tad underexposed.

My gut tells me for any photo taken at latitudes between the two tropics, in that side lit sun, I should be around F/11 @ 1/100 @ ISO100, maybe even open ½ stop more.

And you pulled: F/13 @ 1/160s @ ISO100.

Did you use TTL metering and was the exposure automatically set by its reading? If so I think the meter was fooled, by about 1 stop or a bit more, underexposed.

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