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Alright, I like the composition, very cool plane and angle... too much light in the picture though, looks flat, and 2d. No shadows. Also, the background could be anywhere and to improve it then it could look more clearly 'Russian' ie a cold background environment, or something. People fairly or unfairly associate cold and grey with Russia  :)

Hope this helps a little!

Krigl

Rip it to peices? Sorry but I found the shot in general boring. I know, im worse than Siman Cowel  ;D

Looking at the bigger one, first thing I notice is that the picture looks very... flat.

The heat blur effect isn't the greatest either. The edges of it stick out a LOT, reducing the effect of it overall.

One last personal nit-pick with it, although you had no control over it, is how the buildings are floating on the river  ::)

Before Paul chimes in...

PIECES not PEICES!  I before E except after C.  

Anyways, it's a nice pic but does not have that 'wow' that makes a great pic.  There isn't really anything about it that makes you go  :o as soon as you see it.  It is really hard to get that, and I can't even really do it, but for a screenshot to be deemed amazing it needs that punch.

Like I said when you posted it before...you need to blur the edges of the blur...if that makes sense .  Otherwise it looks really fake.

It's a great concept, but I agree it looks kind of 2D...not really sure why though  :-/.

- Kevin

Before Paul chimes in...

PIECES not PEICES!  I before E except after C.  

Buggar.... ...!

You beat me to it, Jake... ...!

Paul.... 8-)...!

Simon Cowell

first of, the plane stands out like a big sore thumb. i can see how you tried to make it look photo realistic by useing sharpen. if you sharpen to much it does nothing but degrade the edges of the pic! in this case the plane. im not sure if you did a composite here as it looks as if everything has been sharpened.

i would recomend starting again. get your back ground (no aircraft just scenery or a photo if you want)
get a nice angle on a plane on a cloudless sky! so its easy to cut out.

paste the aircraft onto the background, sharpen it a LITTLE! as this can help but to much and the edges will start to glow and look crappy!

once the aircraft is on the background, play around with levels on BOTH layers, also playing with brightness and contrast can help a bit!

as for shadows, i have never realy tried them, but ive got a brief idea on how to do it, and i will attempt it once my exams are out the way for the week (wensday) so i will try and get a tut up by sat if my idea works.

thats all for now

cheers
john

Avoid showing scenery fckups...

Get a decent Moscow scenery that gives the major buildings and so on