Where there is Fire, there is Smoke..

I always get excited when the gas bombs start going off during the Tora Tora Tora portion of the  Wings Over Houston airshow.  Where there is fire, there is smoke, which leads to some interesting photo op’s.  Tracked this Zero as he was heading through the smoke and was barely visible.  When adjusting the color using curves in Photoshop, tried setting the black point even though nothing was showing black.  It darkened the scene dramatically and led to this photo.

Taken with Canon 7D and 100-400 lens, hand-held

Shutter priority, 1/320 sec @ F18, ISO 200, evaluative metering, +1/3 exposure compensation