Thought id get in on the action and re-enforce some tips already given (and i had nowhere elce to post these  )

These were some of my contest rejects from the past couple months, good, but wernt what i wanted:



Note the angle and distance, I took these before Recoder came out. I used The tower view to get this, i made it early/late enough in the night to take the shots with the moon, i just went into tower view and moved the plane how i needed. The tower view isnt as nessisary now that we have recorder but its still simpler! here are 2 more examples:

also for better quality i take my shots in 1024x760 or whatever then resize to 800x600 look here for a full size:
http://www.simviation.com/yabbuploads/bFS0004baw.jpg
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This is a little to simple for my taste, a few stars and the moon with 80% just black wasnt very good

And on this i zoomed in on the cockpit so you could see the detail of the pilot aswell as the moon, also note this was taken with my laptop after my format and my graphics went to hell, so what i did was not include the ground. I used what my computer could render and used that to take the shot.



This is one of my rejects, notice how i use a diffrent angle on this and i used the weather to get a cloud infront of the moon for that "mood" and the morning light adds alot, the plane is lit up and the back is dark so that the plane is the subject and the background is just extra
http://www.simviation.com/yabbuploads/reject1


This was my contest entry awhile ago but it didnt conform to the rules so it was sent away 


I used it beacuse of the simplicity, the lighting on this aicraft was fantastic and the angle was unique. Im not really shure what elce to say so i'll allow the experienced members use these to poiont out good things to do with the screenshots and also the bad things to do, how to improve ect...   comment, nitpick, poke at, make fun of, and um use the pics?

Stephen, where to start?   I don't think i've ever seen the moon as detailed as you captured it in pic#2. The remarkable thing is the moon's edges stayed fairly smooth even at a high magnification. I've been often asked how to get that "huge moon" effect, maybe sometime you could do an article on the technique for doing it.  

The colors and perspective in the last pic are rich and very realistic.  One of the things I always try to acheive when using heavies is making the aircraft dominate the pic, trying to give the aircraft a really "massive" feel. Don't be shy about zooming right up to and even cutting off part of the aircraft when trying to acheive that "in your face" or "heavy" look. Here's an example of what I mean...


So zoom, zoom, zoom....don't be shy about losing part of your aircraft in the pic, sometimes make those heavies look massive...