Tornado

banehawi (Critique Team)

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9 Feb 2012 - 10:38 PM

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Welcome to Ephotozine Gary, hope you enjoy the site.


This is a nice first upload, - and also brave to dive right into a critique. You have provided great information, and all the exif details, so thats a very good start.

There are many on this site that tend to specialize in this area of photography, - and I sure some will pitch in with comments.

Theres one thing you need to know and make sure of when you re size an image for the web, - and thats, after re sizing, and saving the newly sized image, - DONT upload it yet! Open it, check sharpness, and add as required. Many images can lose sharpness due to file compression.


I think theres a little of that here, - especially if your original looks sharper. The Tornado itself if underexposed, so you will likely need to use exposure compensation of perhaps +2/3 or so with a shot like this, - simply to compensate for the fact the subject will be darker as your shooting into the sky.

I would think that this is a crop from a larger image, and you have composed it well. I do like the clouds slightly blurred. Since its a crop, - one thing you might notice is thats there some visible noise, thats not likely there in the full size image. This can be reduced using a noise software like Noise Ninja, - which I used.


So, - to show what I mean, Ive loaded a mod, and heres what Ive done. Ive adjusted exposure as its a little underexposed according to the histogram; I used the shadow tool in CS5 to lift the detail thats still in the plane; I used Noise Ninja to reduce noise; and I cropped and tilted the framing so the plane is a little lower and further right, and angled a little more.


I hope this helps, and enjoy the site,



regards



Willie

paulbroad

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10 Feb 2012 - 7:59 AM

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Composition good, but you are a bit under exposed and the aircraft needs to be rather sharper. Panning is a skill which comes with time, but I would never go as low as 1/30 with a fast jet. You also appear to have used auto exposure with this. It will then be under exposed - the camera is trying to compensate for the sky.

Check the exposure from a similar coloured object on the ground receiving sunlight as would a flying aircraft and set the exposure on manual, or dial in compensation so the camera gives the same exposure pointing at the sky as at the 'test' object.

Paul

canon50d

11 Feb 2012 - 12:12 AM

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Thank you all for the suggestions and advice, i have taken into consideration everything that was said. Thankyou to Willie for showing me the modification, which was excellent.
If in the future I could be half as good as any of you, i will be very happy. Thankyou for all the help.