It’s blurry and slightly out of focus..no offence but it looks very amateurish

I have to agree, unfortunately. I know it would look better if more time were spent on it but such a level of digital manipulation is fine in something like photography for advertising, where you’re transforming an original photo into something completely different. It doesn’t really have a place in standard aviation photography though and besides, no serious aviation photography site on the net would accept it. You either capture it almost right first time or end up with an unuseable image.

If you take 500 photos in a day and 490 of them are no good, you have to accept it as being a part of learning the medium you’re using, whether that’s film or digital. It’s annoying, it’s difficult, but it’s just the way it is. 🙂

Paul