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Nice to see the old girls still flying. If you are going to clip off the tail, however, I would crop even further, say to right behind the tip of the far wing, so that the aircraft fills the frame more.

Nice looking jets. A good camera repair person may be able to fix that uneven illumination.

 

It sure is a handsome car. Guard chains and car-show background clutter are alwasy so difficult to deal with in these photos. Here you could clone out at least the chain behind the car in order to clean it up a bit, but the one in front crosses a lot of detailed areas of the car and would require major work. The way the white pavilion in the background blends with the top of the car is unfortunate.

This passes for air-to-air better than most ground-to-air shots because the direct profile view conceals, to some extent, the characteristic compressed look of long lenses that makes most fake air-to-air shots easy to detect. It's a nice clean flattering photo too. I find the crop uncomfortably tight. Also the way the upper prop blade disappears into the sky is a little disconcerting; I know it really was this way, but if preparing to make an expensive big print out of this photo, I would select around the upper prop blade and lighten it slightly to differentiate from the sky.

 

Pretty nice balanced composition and far less overcooked than some of your others. The lack of saturation in the greens is a little unnatural, though, and perhaps there's still too much halo around the tailplane. Quite good anyway.

 

I'd have preferred a little more restraint on the aging/damage pp. Also, it's probably the wrong photo for this treatment because in that era, aircraft were almost never photographed with a lens of such long focal length. So it is immediately obvious that the underlying photo isn't vintage.

 

Aha, I see. Knowing it is part of the plane makes me feel a little better about it. I'm not sure how I feel about the new pic. You lose that nice negative space on the bottom with the crop.

I love the right 75% of this picture. Good sense of the sensual surfaces and good attention to tonality. But then that dark sharp thing on the left jars you because it's angular and it is ambiguous what and where it is in relation to the rest of the plane. Plus when your eye follows the highlight down the length of the fuselage from right to left, BAM it runs into that little mountain. I'm giving it a chance to make the picture more interesting but no, I think it just spoils the harmony of the rest of the image.

 

Excellent composition. I think the ugly brown color really emphasizes the jumbo-ness of it. The lighting and reflections define the improbable contours of the airplane. Very well done.

 

Fun image! One of your most creative, I think.

Nice sky and lighting and an unusual angle.

I guess it must be airshow season down south.

 

This is my favorite of the recent batch you have posted for critique. I like the strong lines, the human interest and the yellow scarf.

 

Nice to see a little human interest in an airplane shot.

 

The muted color treatment doesn't do anything for me. Also the yellow blob intruding into the frame from the right is unfortunate, and would be difficult to clone out.

 

Those faults aside, it's a well balanced composition of the plane.

 

Nice and well seen abstract. Good impulse control not to cram too much into the picture. The purity of it is a bit spoiled by the shadows, especially the one at lower left, but still the sensuous geometry of lines and circles comes through.

Maybe that's what the slug is thinking, too.

 

Anyway, a keenly observed and thought-provoking pic.

First really cold day of the winter today. Thoughts turn to last summer...

I like the soft tones and limited DOF effect. They really bring out the detail in that poor abused airplane!

 

It's a very nice atmospheric picture, a real rarity for a classic car shot. The monochrome (green) aspect to it is nice. My only nit would be that it looks tilted 1 or 2 degrees clockwise; I would turn so that the trees are standing straight up and the telephone cable is horizontal.

It's a nice pic, interesting plane too. Here's the thing though: it's so easy to take a picture of a small plane in a big sky that to really drive home your theme of "alone" and make an exceptional picture, it helps if there's something unusual going on, most often a very dramatic and perhaps threatening cloudscape. Also, the most successful "alone" shots are usually taken from behind the aircraft, effectively allowing you to put yourself in the place of the airplane and see the void ahead, rather than flying by beside you.

I think the composition is very well done, with the 3 circles and the converging lines making for a very harmonious image. However, the composition distracts from your theme of the death of the car. I prefer to enjoy the picture by ignoring your title and comments and taking pleasure in the abstract form you have presented. If you really wanted to make your point about the sad death of the car more of a "straight" or documentary photo would have been better.

I like the perspective. The contrast feels a bit low. I would certainly clone out that white wing sticking into the frame on the right.

 

Not sure of its aesthetic qualities, but it succeeds at being a disconcerting image.

Interesting slice of life type of shot. I wonder if, had you taken it more from beside the airplane, the guys' faces (even though both are masked) would have been more clear, and you could have established more of a connection between the two, which is the thing of most interest about this photo. The way the cord leads from the erk to the plane and points directly at the pilot really adds a graphic dimension to the link between the two, but it takes a moment from this angle to notice that the pilot is even there.

Decent picture Brice. Hard to convey speed without a blurred background or something to underscore the point, but a nice sharp capture anyway. For what it's worth, "he" is a very talented lady named Julie Clark.

 

Much better!