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Photograph Information Photographer's Comments
Challenge: Hot (Basic Editing)
Camera: Canon EOS-40D
Lens: Canon EF 100-400mm f/4.5-5.6L IS
Location: Farnborough Air Show
Date: Jul 20, 2008
Aperture: f/5.6
ISO: 400
Shutter: 1/2000
Galleries: Action, Military
Date Uploaded: Jul 21, 2008

 This is a Lockheed Martin F-16 Fighting Falcon on display at Farnborough Air Show.

Shot @ 400mm

Cropped, highlights / shadows, levels, curves, increase saturation of Orange slightly, noise ninja, resize, usm, sfw

This is my favourite of the possibles but I wish the aircraft was just a tad sharper

Statistics
Place: 33 out of 167
Avg (all users): 5.7553
Avg (commenters): 6.7500
Avg (participants): 5.3529
Avg (non-participants): 5.9051
Views since voting: 1196
Views during voting: 361
Votes: 188
Comments: 6
Favorites: 0

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AuthorThread
 07/30/2008 06:58:37 AM
Very underrated , this is an excellent shot. Crop a little too square.
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 07/30/2008 06:28:11 AM
Cool shot. I'm not crazy about the square crop in this photo since it weakens leading lines and the sense of movement, which this subject could use more of not less.

As for the low votes I would just forget those. If you notice the ribbon winners all filled most of the frame with the challenge theme and little else was included. It's called hitting the voter over the head. If they can only see "hot" AND little else is there to distract their minds then they can't possibly screw up interpreting your photo. You failed to do that here. It's good that you didn't (you're a better overall photographer for that) but bad for your score. I'm sure in your case some voters felt you tried to shoehorn the entry with that clever title. Nevermind that you also included actual fire in the shot but since it doesn't fill 99% of the image area it probably was lost on some. There's also the 'vehicle of destruction' aspect and some probably was offended by your audacity to photograph it. Whatever the reasons I doubt you'll want to alter your approach based on them.

Message edited by author 2008-07-30 06:32:19.
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 Comments Made During the Challenge
07/25/2008 02:18:13 PM
Nice point of view.
  Photographer found comment helpful.
 07/25/2008 12:23:02 AM
nice capture
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 07/23/2008 07:48:06 PM
Neat image, great idea, 9.
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 07/23/2008 01:43:40 AM
Is that you Blackbox? Awesome capture!
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