shaded by a Galaxy Portsmouth Airshow Newington, NH

There are a lot of subtle and not so subtle alterations to this image. The actual subject in this image is the older couple contrasted by the mammouth C5 Galavxy. In order to draw attention to them I applied a local increase of their brightness using a Nik software Viveza control point and reduced the image's global brightness by using a very low opacity vignette. The vignette technique limited the shading to all but the couple.
Not so subtle devices were used to remove all traces of an air show such as litter, stray people, baby carriages, and barricades.  The real artistry came into play when the wheels had to be reconstructed. For this I made use of a combination of Photoshop CS5's brush, cloning, spot healing brush, and content-aware tools. In parts of the image the content-aware tool performed miracles. In other parts it just couldn't get the job done.