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Challenge: Planes, Trains and Automobiles II (Basic Editing)
Camera: Nikon D50
Lens: Tokina AF 12-24mm f/4.0 AT-X Pro DX
Location: Tillamook, Oregon
Date: Mar 19, 2010
Aperture: F4.5
ISO: 100
Shutter: 1/640
Galleries: History, Fish Eye
Date Uploaded: Mar 23, 2010

 The Tillamook Air Museum is one of the largest wooden structures in the US, situated near the Northwest coast of Oregon it boasts an entire WWII era Aircraft museum, complete with blimps, all kinds of Allied, Nazi and Japanese vintage airplanes. It is also near the Port of Tillamook Bay's local Railyard, suffice to say it was difficult coming to a decision on which one to enter. I liked this one the best.

Blew the colors and details out a bit using Bridge & CS4. Added border and did a little cropping.

Statistics
Place: 30 out of 90
Avg (all users): 5.8950
Avg (commenters): 6.8889
Avg (participants): 5.5714
Avg (non-participants): 5.9718
Views since voting: 941
Views during voting: 335
Votes: 219
Comments: 10
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 04/05/2010 08:03:16 AM
Greetings from the Critique Club

Oh, man! What a grand old warhorse you found here. Great shot and excellent processing.

Yeah, a bit of nit-picking in that it would have been nice to get that complete wing in the picture, but hey, even fish-eye lenses can only do so much.

You caught the mood and time of that machine just beautifully and as I said in the opening, your processing was just about spot-on with only a tad of haloing, IMO.

You scored well among remarkable competition and you have an image to be proud of. Not bad for a day's work!

Keep 'em coming.

Alice
 Comments Made During the Challenge
03/30/2010 11:38:27 AM
One of my favorite aircraft ever :-) And one of my favorite places to see them, the old blimp hangar at Tillamook Air Base....

This one's actually the "mini-guppy", if I'm not mistaken...
 03/28/2010 04:44:17 AM
Interesting perspective. It has a nice architecture to it. I'm kind of wishing that the wing had sky above our view as well.... maybe not. :)
 03/26/2010 04:47:17 PM
Interesting POV.

Message edited by author 2010-04-03 12:36:13.
 03/26/2010 01:11:14 PM
Nice perspective. Would have been awesome without that fence.
 03/26/2010 06:23:59 AM
love the angle you shot this from an eight from me
 03/25/2010 05:59:12 PM
interesting p.o.v, nice colors 7
 03/24/2010 04:19:24 PM
Neat perspective. I like the leading lines of the wing.
 03/24/2010 01:50:44 PM
guppy? that thing looks huge! good job!
 03/24/2010 09:06:26 AM
Always a cool aircraft. The appearance of the stairs at the tail end suggests to me that this is now in a museum setting.


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