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That's right. It's always adjustable, you can change the brushes color to white as well in order to clean up if you overdo the effect. Remember, the layer mask is sensitive to any tone between white and black, the brushes opacity setting directly affects what is revealed or concealed.

I think the reflection looks similar to the ones in your original examples. Fantastic job!

The plane image on the other hand, has some problems. Was the plane cut and pasted to that background? The plane is way too brightly lit for that background.