Tinted Panchito

Tinted with a some red and a little yellow. did the conversion after processing the color version. just made a copy and converted.

D300, 18-200VR at 22mm, f/8, 1/320s, 0EV, ISO 200

thanks for looking and comments appreciated.

Looks good Harold The metallic finish lends itself well for the conversion. Could look interesting with some color !!!

Panchito has to be one of the best looking 25s around !!!

you thinking about painting the color back into the artwork?

Doctor Davis,
A superb conversion indeed. I like it...colorize the sky only to make this one pop...:D:cool:

Harold I like this alot- I think alittle paint would be cool!

very cool. where'd you shoot this?

thanks for the comments. michael it was at the stuart airshow last weekend. lots of neat aircraft, but they had us looking directly into the sun for the show. toughest shooting i ever did but managed a few.

I like it as is. Two suggestions, though...

First, you have a line on the LRC leading out of the frame. What is that? If it's not anything important, I'd get rid of it.

Second, I think you might get a real sense of flight if you tilted this so it looked like it was heading up just a bit...make the front end higher than the back.

Just some thoughts.

Love the conversion here. You came up with some beautiful tones and a really interesting image!

thanks, jules! that thing in the lrc is an antenna off the back of another aircraft. i tried cloning it out and could never make it look right so i decided to leave it in. as far as tilting it, cool idea! i may try that. i took another version and tried a desaturation leaving a little color and it turned out really cool!!!

ok jules. i did as you suggested but was only able to get .5 degrees of rotation because the gun barrel is so close to the edge of the frame. it was a full frame image left to right and cant add canvas to rotate it more.

i also desaturated it 70% as per what i think was al's suggestion. any better? or just different?

Harold, I THINK IT LOOKS REALLY GOOD