Simple Click – A Teaser
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Yeah, that’s a B-17, two P-15D Mustangs and Spitfire over the Superstitious Mtns. Just a little teaser.
Air2Air -day1am3
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OK, the light came up and like a little boy, I ran back to the big bomber to play. The B-17 Sentimental Journey has always been a favorite and to have complete unfettered access to it was really, a dream come true. The AZ CAF wing provided complete access making the photographic possibilities limitless.
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This complete aluminum sided plane was a giant mirror for the light to bounce around on. The top image is a 7image HDR, the bottoms a straight shot. Having this kind of access, I decided to take the opportunity to experiment with technique, exposure and lighting. Somethings worked, somethings didn’t, some I like and some I don’t. That’s the process of moving your photography forward.
Photo captured by D3x, 24-120AFS on Lexar UDMA digital film
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It’s really easy to be seduced by the battle harden warbirds but there are more to the AZ CAF wing then those which includes this great DC-3. To be honest with you, you could put anything in this light and it would look gorgeous but in this case, it’s the DC-3. To heighten the drama I added a split grad in the foreground and background in ACR. I knew I would do that while I was lying on the ground sniffing the oil. Oh yeah, I also shot in Vivd which I’ve gone to doing with all my aviation photography.
Photo captured by D3x, 24-120AFS on Lexar UDMA digital film
Air2Air -day1am
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Our 1st Air2Air Workshop is now in the books and it was just fantastic if I say so myself. We ended up photographing nine different aircraft air-to-air over the course of the workshop but I’m getting ahead of myself. Our center of operations was out of the AZ Wing of the Commemorative Air Force whose magnificent collection of warbirds they made complete available to us. We started our Saturday with a predawn static shoot. This B-25 Mitchell looked simply gorgeous in the predawn light so kiss the deck I did. The desert light at this moment has that cool magenta/cobalt gray bands to is. To really bring this out I went into the WB setting and took the curve down in the magentas to really punch it up. The solid silver body of the B-25 just soaked it up producing in the end a really sweet image. What a start!
Photo captured by D3x, 24-120AFS on Lexar UDMA digital film
Air2Air – Just the 1st Morning!
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Oh man, I can barely type I am trembling so much with from all the excitement and fun! We are the guests of the CAF AZ wing in Mesa. They opened their doors and made their B-17 and B-25. We were literally kissing the deck as the sun came up. This is just one of the many shots from the predawn light (shot 29GB this am!). It’s a 7image HDR. I went this way to pull every detail out of the B-25. It was real simple to do and a ton of fun.
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Then after breakfast we came back to Falcon Field for panning practice. Yeah, we had a B-25 for panning practice! How freakin cool is that! We’ve just finished our air-to-air briefing so it’s time to photograph. mtc
Photos captured by D3x, 24-120AFS / 200-400VR2 on Lexar UDMA digital film
Updating Gallery Weekend
Those of you who follow me on Facebook know the weather threw a wrench into my weekend plans with new snow. Since I couldn’t get out in the yard and get some chores done, I decided to work next to the fire while watching weekend horror flicks (since it was Halloween).
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I finally started processing my aviation images from our Oshkosh week back in July. What you see here is a schweeeet Hawker Sea Fury that was part of the “light your fire” airshow. About half way through the show there was a ton of smoke and the sun was playing dodge with the clouds. That combo created a drama in the light that I really like.
When I say process, I mean really cleaning up all the dust in the images. Shooting prop planes I shoot in Shutter Priority normally between 1/90 and 1/125. When you do that on a sunny day, the camera shuts down to f/22 or lower and when you shoot closed down, every freaken little dust particle on the planet shows up in the photos! Since I was camping in a very damp environment, one day I had a ton of dust. So I was able to get about 300 images processed and along with others that I had done since July, managed to get up about a dozen new and update two dozen more on my galleries on my Moose Aviation site (under The Hanger). The site is meant for photobuyers but you just might like a couple of the clicks, there is shy of 1200 images total in the galleries. Better yet, might get you interested in photographing a plane or two. Enjoy!
Photo captured by D3x, 200-400VR2 on Lexar UDMA digital film