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Challenge: Free Study 2007-10 (Advanced Editing V)
Camera: Canon EOS-400D Rebel XTi
Lens: Canon EF 70-200mm f/4.0L USM
Location: Miramar Air Station, San Diego, Ca
Date: Oct 14, 2007
Aperture: F6.3
ISO: 100
Shutter: 1/800
Galleries: Military
Date Uploaded: Oct 30, 2007

Taken at the MCAS Miramar Air show in RAW, adjusted brightness, saturation, hue, applied some Lucis to plane, adjusted curves added border and saved for the web.

POST: Thanks all for the kind comments and votes. Here is the original shot. I couldn't crop it too much differently to get more blue in front of the plane as some suggested. Maybe next year ;-)




Statistics
Place: 23 out of 521
Avg (all users): 6.6299
Avg (commenters): 7.1538
Avg (participants): 6.4747
Avg (non-participants): 7.1786
Views since voting: 1981
Views during voting: 233
Votes: 127
Comments: 18
Favorites: 6 (view)


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05/30/2008 11:58:04 AM
I have to say, that this is an excellent image of a F-15E Strike Eagle from Seymour Johnson AFB, North Carolina, or as we call it, Stinky J. The only drawback that I noticed right off the bat is since you reveresed the direction of the plane the SJ on the tail doesn't look right. Being in the AF, I saw that and had to look twice to figure out that the SJ was reversed in order to realize the plane belonged to Stinky J. Still this is a phenominal in flight capture of this deadly machine of war. I love the afterburner effect off the tail fo the plane and the sense of motion is second to none!

I can tell you as a kid I always enjoyed the Miramar Air Show. In 14 and a half years of being in the Air Force, I have yet to see an air show that was as top notch as the Miramar show was. Of course it is a shame that they had to move Fightertown USA from Miramar Naval Air Station to Fallon, Nv, but life goes on. The crying shame of it all was when it went from being Miramar NAS to Miramar MCAS. Soemthing about that just isn't right.

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11/08/2007 11:23:21 AM
Wow, amazing capture. I would love to see more blue in the front of the plane.
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11/08/2007 07:06:13 AM
ahhhh i heard about this airshow that was going on. i know like 30 people stationed there. adding this to my favs

nice finish!
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 Comments Made During the Challenge
11/07/2007 10:28:59 PM
Very cool! is that the F-15D there?
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11/07/2007 01:07:09 PM
Last minute bump.
pretty much the baddestass photo in this challenge

good luck
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11/07/2007 10:18:10 AM
Wow! Great detail.
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11/04/2007 07:36:31 AM
Quite brutal, a lot of grain action at the front of the plant, but otherwise 6.
11/04/2007 07:18:01 AM
Ooo. Can't help wonder about the composition 'adjusted' somehow to give this a little extra - maybe even a bold horizontal type crop, but your call. Nice capture.
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11/04/2007 06:08:53 AM
Excellent capture, looking forward to seeing the settings you used :)
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11/03/2007 08:58:20 AM
very cool
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11/03/2007 02:20:07 AM
Interesting treatment. Well done!
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11/02/2007 10:45:30 PM
is that a F15???
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11/02/2007 10:05:14 AM
Nice feeling of movement in the smoke. A little washed out, but great capture.
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11/01/2007 11:47:35 AM
Worthy of a recruiting poster. Sell this puppy!
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11/01/2007 07:41:54 AM
Simply amazing!
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11/01/2007 03:10:48 AM
wow...great action shot! you musy have had a high shutter speed and a great eye to catch this
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11/01/2007 01:55:01 AM
Good Capture!!!!!!
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11/01/2007 12:06:19 AM
SWEET
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