Air Force Museum

I did some experimenting with a picture of a tri-motor amphibian at he Air Force Musuem in Dayton.

The original:

A bit dark for me. The original looks better than the 2nd.

I love the WPAFB Museum. I'm up there all the time. Great place to go.

Hmmm,

Sorry but I don't think it works well at all. May be a "your monitor/my monitor" thing but it looks like you took an already dark-ish shot and just made it darker.

second one too dark on my monitor too.

I enjoyed the "presidential hangars" which is on the base. Very surprising that they can still have the caution for "large" persons in one of the presidential display aircraft.

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The YC-125 is indeed a very cool and rare plane...though she wasn't an amphibian--- the #2 engine would get in the way.

Some flash would have brought out the planes really nice.

Layer Masks can help adjust the exposure on part of a shot. Got PS? See the video tutorial in post #8:
Tough Exposure question

I was trying for a silhouette shot with a higher contrast background since the blah overcast sky wasn't all that interesting. I just felt like playing around with this shot.

BTW, the middle hanger where the Vietnam era planes are is still giving me fits. The lights in there were causing my camera to under expose everything. Going to Manual solved some of the problem but not all of it. The other two hangers, no problems though. I'm getting a 430EX or a 580EX II next time I go back there.

The MotUSAF is a cavern...

The better way than on-camera flash (if they allow it) would be to shoot flash-less on a tripod using either a remote release or self timer, shoot in RAW (so you can WB after the fact) and bracket your shots so you can tone down the hot spots and/or help the exposure in the darker areas.