The Pink P-40---your opinions?

[swmdrayfan]

Ok, here's one I did late last night. This plane (actually pink), hangs from the ceiling inside the entrance of the Kalamazoo Air Zoo. I cut and pasted the image onto a picture of some clouds I took a couple of years ago, and added a melted glass frame in MS Dig Im Pro 9. The colors may not match, but I wanted to see if I could use that plane in a different way. Feel free to let me know how you feel about it.
John

[payn817]

John, we gotta give ya a thumbs up for creativity.

At first glance it looks great, but after looking harder some things become noticible.
Couple things...
Perhaps personal, but i HATE frames ;)
Your lights sources (which you couldn't control) is directional, and from multiple directions, therefore do not work with the sky.
On the tail area, you can still see a bit of the wires.

I hate to be so negative, but it's just from personal experience shooting at our local air museum. Your framing and colors are great, as is your creative drive. It is really a tough situation to shoot in though, and make it not look like a museum.

One thing I find this type of work useful for is stock use. You can white the entire BG and use it as a commercial "cutout", but you have to get permission from the museum director.

Keep it up, they are getting better.

[swmdrayfan]

John, we gotta give ya a thumbs up for creativity.

At first glance it looks great, but after looking harder some things become noticible.
Couple things...
Perhaps personal, but i HATE frames ;)
Your lights sources (which you couldn't control) is directional, and from multiple directions, therefore do not work with the sky.
On the tail area, you can still see a bit of the wires.

I hate to be so negative, but it's just from personal experience shooting at our local air museum. Your framing and colors are great, as is your creative drive. It is really a tough situation to shoot in though, and make it not look like a museum.

One thing I find this type of work useful for is stock use. You can white the entire BG and use it as a commercial "cutout", but you have to get permission from the museum director.

Keep it up, they are getting better.

LOL..........I keep forgetting how much people hate frames;) . Well, like I said, It was late, and I didn't really pay attention to detail....it was mainly for effect. I mainly wanted to see how such a photo would work pasted into a different scene. These are things I can improve on, to be sure......and I need more sky pictures;)
Thanks payn

[payn817]

You did a great job on the cutout. One thing that you have to think about when doing that kind of thing is the direction of light, and the shapes of that light.

As I mentioned, at first glance, it looked impressive. To some it may work, but since I have shot in those situations, and am into planes, it is easier to find simple flaws.

You are heading in the right direction though.

[dbutler]

WOOHOO! Well done John. Hey, for a first attempt, I think you did a bang up job. And not everyone hates frames (remember, I use them!). Just don't use them here. Otherwise Payn will...well...be a pain!

I agree about the lighting. I don't know if you have a lighting filter in your program, but if you do, you might be able to play around with it to get a more natural effect. Just a thought.

[swmdrayfan]

Well, the big problem was of course, the lighting. In the original picture, light was coming from the outside onto the left wing, so there's that problem, then I had the light coming from the overhead, so there was another. Throw in the selection I used of some clouds...well, those weren't the best. I played around with a couple of different ways of doing the picture this afternoon. It was mainly fooling around to see what I could do, so I really had no master plan. It is something to remember for future reference however, and I thank you payn and D for the comments. Here's a different look-----

[GB1]

I'm tempted to send this to my ex-Navy-Figher-Pilot boss, but I'm not sure how he'd take it.

The effect is pretty well done, though you can tell it isn't real. Sort of like Pop Art. I think it's successful. Well done!

GB

[swmdrayfan]

I'm tempted to send this to my ex-Navy-Figher-Pilot boss, but I'm not sure how he'd take it.

The effect is pretty well done, though you can tell it isn't real. Sort of like Pop Art. I think it's successful. Well done!

GB

Thanks GB. I need lots of work on my cutout skills, so I practice when I can.
John