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went up to the airfield this morning and took these.
pa





the bi-plane was doing was doing some air-o-batics yesterday afternoon,couldnt take any photos then i was having a couple of drinks.

Hi Pa. The first one doesn't do much for me - there isn't much of a focus point in the picture. The second has nice colours in the background but on my monitor the planes look a little underexposed. You could probably bring them out a bit in PS. I love the vibrant red of the third plane.

I think the third is a nice image Pa the soft warm glow of the sun. I also like the shadow trails of the afternoon sun but as Marvin mentioned little to hold the eyes.
I like the last image it's well exposed but a little busy in the top left where its hard to achieve separation between the subject and the interloper plane out of view to the right. You've done well to reduce its interference in the main pic. I would have probably tried to get a shot from directly behind the plane and avoid the interjectioon by other planes lined up and also make use of the terrific vibrant red and white of the aircraft to create a balanced shot with form and colour. You could possibly experiment with dranatically different perspectives e.g down low shooting uo or up close on wing shooting toward the plane. On second look Pa the first shot, if you can imagine that red and white plane in your third image cruising down the strip following the long shadow front to back about a third of the way into the image, funnily enough , would have added the point of interest needed for that first shot to be a great shot because the lighting striking the ground is fantastic.
A ideas for next time perhaps.

Hope that's of some use Pa.
cheers
marco

hi marvin you are right the first one is plain, this is the landing strip i thougnt i would post it as is off the camera. ill have a go at the 2nd one in ps.
pa

thanks marco i agree the first and third shots together would have turned first into a magic photo.i was going up again this morning at nine but they left before i left home.
pa