About the Image(s)

This last summer our 12 year old grandson came for a week-long visit. He has recently become very interested in WWII. We went to the branch of the Air and Space Museum near Dulles Airport. The facility is huge and has the actual planes on display. I am working on a photo book of his trip. I particularly liked this image not only because the plane is interesting but you also get a view of the museum.

I also experimented with different exposures since I knew the lighting conditions would difficult or one is traveling and does not have time to set and try different settings. His formula is to shoot in aperture priority adjusting it to the depth of field you want, set shutter speed to 1/125 or greater and leave ISO on auto. This leaves open the possibility of grainy images which need to be adjusted in post. For this image I shot at f2.8, 1/125 sec, and ISO 640. In post I first adjusted the RAW file in Topaz Photo AI to address noise and sharpening, and then adjusted white balance, tone, and presence in Lightroom. After cropping I also added a vignette.

I have included the original unedited file so you can see the difference.