Open, crop, arbitrary rotate to get the plane level, channel mixer (to replicate velvia), curves to enhance contrast, USM 110%, 1.3, high pass filter radius of 37.1.
The last step give it the zing.
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sorry, but the haloing on this is just too much. if you have an image where basic editing constraints leave it looking like this, you probably would be better off sitting the challenge out.
A High Pass Filter on a Low Pass Flight...
2 things that bother me, focus and too much fliter effect. Fliters should be used to enhance a photo, not to save it.
Validated or not, I just don´t really care for the "look" of this image or what you did with it in post processing, just wanted to explain why I only gave it a 4. I would have rated it a 6 or even a 7 if the plane had been sharper and you would have had a clear deep blue sky in the backround, not this grayish haze.
Oh Wow! THIS is a cool capture!!!! With the smoke trails. I absolutely love this. It's just a tiny bit blurry, and that's the only thing that keeps it from being a 10, but I love it so much anyway!!! 9
I'm sure others have mentioned the Halo around the plane and the fact that it is slightly OOF. I'm sure the halo comes from the shadow/highlight adjustment, if so when u use it adjust the pixels to 0 and it should get rid of that halo. Its a good shot that could be much better. Good luck.
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