World War II Spitfire

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This was made at a local airshow recently, other pictures can be viewed at airshow presentation

-- Julian Radowsky (julianr@iafrica.com), November 15, 1999

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OOPS, here is the image Spitfire at 
Ysterplaat open day (Cape Town, South Africa)

-- Julian Radowsky (julianr@iafrica.com), November 15, 1999.

Third time lucky?

Spitfire at 
Ysterplaat open day (Cape Town, South Africa)

-- Julian Radowsky (julianr@iafrica.com), November 15, 1999.


It doesn't do much for me. While it isn't a bad snapshot, the strong ground shadow, the missing wingtips and the in focus background prevent me from getting more excited.
On your mentioned page, however, I do like http://photo.net/photodb/photo.tcl?photo_id=2377 and http://photo.net/photodb/photo.tcl?photo_id=2351 The first shows some planes in formation doing what planes are made to do. The curving smoke trails give some sense of time and path, and the sky is undistracting. The second is a Spitfire doing (I am guessing) a low fly by. Not too exciting, but much less cluttered than the first shot.
Back to that first image. You couldn't exactly change the time of day (to allow for a different ground shadow), but I think it would have been much improved with a shorted depth of field so there was less bakground distraction.

-- John Thurston (john_thurston@my-deja.com), November 18, 1999.

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