Waiting for Daylight

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It was still pretty dark out when I took this image but this shows how using HDR can pull out a picture that only a few years ago would have been almost imposable.  This is a combination of 5 images merged together with Photomatix and cleaned up a bit in Photoshop CS5.  The plane is lit from the outside hangar lights off to the left and the clouds were softened by the strong costal winds.

I took a little time to clean up the background making this a very simple and clean photograph.

Image from a Nikon 3x, 24-70mm/f2.8.