Well in preparation for my trip to the Mac loop in Wales, and the almost certain bad weather that will come with it. I have been working on my edits to improve shots. I started with some old Yeovil shots. I dont think i have posted these, if so sorry for the repeats.
Compaired to the old these are all much better quality, brighter sharper and a bit more colour. Still crap but better crap

Quickly becoming a personal favourate.

Doug?

Yeah, it's not editing, it's improving'. I think they are good, I like the little red plane.

I'll end up sending you all mine to touch up a bit at this rate
Nice, the Sea Fury looks fantastic. Great plane, great shot.

I personally use PSP7. I cant afford photoshop and i always found elements alot trickier than PSP.

PSP is the usual way of referring to Paint Shop Pro. I find it's not so much the graphics editor as knowing how to use it. Surprising what can be done with IrfanView if you know how.

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I guess with an airshow like Fairford they will be getting in hundreds if not thousands of trys from the shows. You might just have been unlucky to be at the back of the queue. I must admit a number you posted were certainly worthy of anet. I now take the thought. If they want a picture then ok, but if not i dont care, it doesnt make me any money to be on there and just doesnt have any benifit of being on there. You see some on there complaining a picture has been used on someones personal website and in most cases they have left the tag on there and are not making any money from it. These photographers go on a rant threatening legal action and so on. Personally i would take it as a compliment if i found someone using my picture on a website, as long as they arnt benifiting financially i dont care. It would be nice to get the named credit aswell but its not a huge thing.
In the end the only opinions that matter are those of my friends here and my own.

Craig, what quality settings are you shooting at?  I find myself shooting as RAW most of the time unless I know I'm going to be taking lots of photos. Then I'd use Large/Fine.

My post-processing usually goes like this:

• If image is RAW, open with FVU. I often find it necessary to adjust colour temperature or exposure if I'm using a small aperture lens.  Most other options I usually leave until I hit it up with Photoshop.
• Photoshop time.  Initially the first thing I'll do is try the Auto Lighting, Contrast and Colour Correction presets to see if it'll come close to the desired effect.  Sometimes that's all a photo will need.
• A touch of fill flash if necessary (even just a touch of it can really bring out the detail), colour tweaks and brightness/contrast and levels adjusting.