To be honest Danny, I've seen you do better. This particular shot is really nice but it lacks 'Key Light'. I really like the Fil Light (yes, I've read eno's tutorial ) in the background but you should've put the plane in the spotlights too ... a Tomcat deserves better!
I also think it's not your best.....The sky and ground are stunning but i think with so many lights on the ground they draw your eye away from the Plane, so maybe some extra lighting is required on the plane. Also try and use a more unique angle perhaps with recorder which doesnt centre the plane, this will really help it in my opinion
I agree about the lighting in this shot. It is the main fault of this shot. The lit ground textures are really what throw me off. Other than that its a really nice display of autogen. However the lighting in the lower portion of the pic kind of overwelms the rest of it as the others were saying. Catches and holds your eyes there instead of on the bird and the whole pic in general. On the up side. Its a stunning evening sky and the lights being off on the cat give the shot a feeling of a covert night run soon to come.
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The main tghing I sse wrong with this pic are that there are no lights on the Tommy as in navigational lights or pherhaps a nice flaming afterburner..
But the thing which annoys me the most are the ground textures in front.. or basically the mysterious patches of light on the ground that fs gives us... By tilting the viewpoint a bit more to the ground you can eliminate the textures in front and actually use the rest of them to give the city a very crowded feeling.. I took the liberty of illustrating my point by means of cutting of a section from the bottom...