Nicely done, Ray. I think the plane pops nicely when much of the background is stripped away.
The use of the gradient background is genius. It allows the "floating" tail to retain the 3D effect while minimizing ghosting. I imagine a pure mid-to-dark grey background would accomplish the same thing.
Nice work
-- Mark
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I worked off and on for a couple of days on this one. The ambient light was pretty dim, resulting in a 4 sec exposure (-at-) f9 and ISO of 100. Used a Nikon D7100, sporting a Sigma 8-16mm lens set at 8mm. With the exposure compensation set at -.7 to avoid blowing out the reds and the artificial ceiling lighting, the resulting image was still fairly dark, but was fixed in camera raw. Several
reflection conflicts between the two images were fixed in Photoshop.
Taken earlier this month at the Air Zoo in Kalamazoo, Michigan, this is a French Spad type VII world War I Fighter.
Please take a peek:
https://www.flickr.com/photos/pics-by-ray/14503757904/in/photostream/lightbox/Ray
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