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critique is welcome

Dan,

 

Hmm, there is a lot going on in this picture. Composition-wise, it has a few issues. The sunlit yellow/black horizontal stab tends to attract your eye and keep it glued there. I find it difficult to get past that and take in the whole image. Compositionally, there is not an obvious center of interest. The checkers create a lot of lines but they don't lead anywhere.

 

I like the bright yellow but some of the other colors come off a bit too garish, e.g. the magenta in the dirt, the orange in the sunlit part of the flap, the purple in the fuselage and lower part of the sky. Did you boost the sat on this after scanning? If so, a suggestion would be to select only the yellow color channel for pumping up.

 

Not at all a bad picture but complicated! I like the checkertail paint job but I can't help thinking that a plain tail would have made for a less busy and more readable photograph.

 

August, thank you very much for your thorough insite. Do you think perhaps bringing back the magenta cast would help at all or is that elevator just too big in the photo?

I think the elevator is just going to dominate this picture no matter what you do. It's so big and bright and has the same colors as a highway warning sign, there's just no taking your eyes off it to appreciate the whole image. Not that I'd throw away the shot or anything, it's actually quite nice, but so difficult to enjoy in its fullness.