Over saturated?

[meetshany]

I tried my hands on GIMP with the few techniques I learnt on DPS.

Is the photo oversaturated? How is the composition? How could I have processed it to make it better?

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EXIF:
ExposureTime - 1/1000 seconds
FNumber - 5.60
ExposureProgram - Manual control
ISOSpeedRatings - 100
FocalLength - 105.00 mm

[rawHulk]

I like the composition of the shot.. but like you said.. the colors are little over-saturated.. It doesn't look natural.. I never used GIMP.. but it might have something to saturate particular colors rather than the whole picture.. because I guess that's what you wanted to do..

[PowerPix]

Yes, it is too saturated. You can select certain colors in GIMP if that is what you are looking to do. Also, just my $0.02, I find the vignette a little distracting. Good luck.

[jbstack28]

My $.002 I also agree slightly over saturated. And I would have cropped to to put the lead plane upper left, instead of taking your Eyes to center of photo

[meetshany]

RawHulk, PowerPix,

Thanks for your comments. Let me know if the embedded photo looks better.

jbstack28,
Thanks for taking time to comment. I kept the top left to have some positive space for the aircrafts. Let me know what you think about this photo. is it better?

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From Experiments

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[PowerPix]

It is better in terms of saturation, but it looks quite dark. I think a touch of brightening would help it out greatly.

[rawHulk]

This looks better.. but I guess you can still do some minor adjustments.. Like powerpix said.. you could increase the brightness.. or fill light a little.. and then de-saturate the sky color a little.. that might have a very good contrast..

right now.. both the plane and the sky look very much of the same color.. was that the actual sky color when you took the shot.. ?

[StormyOne]

It looks a little over-sharpened too, with the second image there's a halo of 'disturbed' (for want a better term) pixels around the planes. It's one that's worth working on to get it right in my opinion.