Tough lighting.......

[Rifleman]

Sometimes it's hard to get the shot you want with the correct exposure, and its usually due to backlighting.....Ugh.......hard to balance the bright day outside with what you need inside.........

This is the reason we use Photoshop..........first, the shot as I got it.....not very good, ...........


.....after a few minutes of Photoshop, I brought it to this point.........not the best, but a bit more acceptable.......would you have known if I didn't show it this way ?

[Ivan]

Aircraft i can recognise:
NASA SR-71 with D-21
Learfan
DC-3
MiG-21
F-4 Phantom
a Flying wing, probably Northrop

[C]

F-5/T-38,
Bowers Fly Baby is that on the left

[Wing Nut]

Usually, when uploading a photo, I'll scan it at 1200 DPI, crop it, and use Autolevels.

[Rifleman]

Right you are Kev........I usually do my best to get the info in the original image, but as for exposure, some are harder than others to balance........

[Craig.]

the pain of alot of museums. Rubbish lighting, difficult aircraft positions, and windows which either let too much light in or too little.
nice shot Ken is that a rocket on the sr71 or just the angle.

[Rifleman]

That's the Ramjet powered D-21 Drone on the back of the M-21, Craig......this may be thought of as an SR-71, but it is in fact the sole remaining example of the bird to carry this unmanned supersonic recon drone......
........the drone was designed to overfly the sensitive area, gather its information, then return and crash after ejecting the valuable data for recovery by US Forces.......

[Mr. Bones]

They did several tests with the Drone, but the system for launching it, never worked fine. I caused some M-21's to crash. Imagine this all occured in an era where computers as we know them today, didn't exist!

I have a photo in a book with 15 (don't recall the exact number) drones on a row at Davis Monthan. They were never used. Again lots of money spent for nothing.