Taken at the 2010 Wings Over Houston Air Show. It is resorted Japanese "Kate" Dive Bomber.
Photo was taken handheld and has no crop and was at 500mm focal length.
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- Used Auto Enhance in Aperture
- Increased saturation of orange to bring out the color in the smoke
- Changed the hue in the reds to get them back to red (where showing up as more of a purple)
- Decreased saturation in the reds because after the change in hue they were to bright.
- In RAW conversion increased sharpness
- Noise Ninja to reduce noise
- Vintage preset in Aperture
- Output at 800x800
- Imported into CS5 to sharpen before posting
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Brings up a point. I've always been a bit concerned about Mitsubishi automobiles. Would you buy a car built by a company that used to make suicide aircraft?