Mar 4, 2010 | Aviation
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I grew up on stories coming from Edwards AFB. My father was there briefly but the magic, history and technology that is Edwards left its mark on him and then through him, on me. The ISAP group was granted special access today to a small segment of the large facility which included a little time on the flight line. I don’t even profess to know all the cool stuff I was seeing nor understood all the places we weren’t able to point our lenses or things we weren’t to photograph, I was just trying to soak up all the history that has been made and was is being made. It was a GREAT day! Thanks Richard for including me!
Photos captured by D3x, 200-400VR (handheld) on Lexar UDMA digital film
Mar 4, 2010 | Aviation
I’ve been lookin forward to this since the dates were put on the calendar. I’m with the gang from ISAP and I just think the world of these folks! We started out with a ISAP Pre-Con trip at the Mojave Airport. It’s a really cool piece of history many don’t realize that is still creating history. Heading out any airport to shoot can be a crap shoot, not dissimilar from wildlife photography because you don’t always know what’s going to show up.
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The National Test Pilot School is based at Mojave. In the process of learning their craft, they fly a bunch of funky planes. This is a Dove, a cool old plane that did a lot of flights while we were at the fence.
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There were other cool planes that went out during our 90min stop. Such funky planes like the Impala and then some older, run of the mills ones like this. Since I hadn’t done any aviation clicks in a month and not been with the gang for more than that, it was a great warm up for the rest of the day. Though Richard’s quiet advice of “Shutter speed, shutter speed” when a prop went by didn’t apply for the rest of the day, it’s always good to have a teacher around keep the kids in line!
Photos captured by D3s, 200-400VR on Lexar UDMA digital flim
Mar 1, 2010 | Aviation
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Oh, it’s going to be a grand week with a whole lot of subjects that all take flight. Starting a new project at the beginning of the week which always brings up new challenges, new rewards and new frustrations. Can’t wait. But the rest of the week is ISAP and for that, I can’t wait! The photo above was taken a while back during a great day at Top Gun school. It was literally snowing so all flights were canceled for the fleet. This is a photo that has sit in my files since I took it. The lighting was such, it pretty much was lifeless. I then decided to process the nef as a one image HDR. It turned out pretty cool. The sky sucked until the HDR processing and then man, did it come to life!
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This is a F22 Raptor from the Reno Air Races. Hopefully the weather this week will be a hole lot more conducive for aviation photography. I have the great privilege of shooting with the folks from ISAP first at Edwards AFB and then Nellis AFB during Red Flag maneuvers. We’re taking standing between runways as F117s & F18s take off right beside ya. Hot dang, I can’t wait to eat them Jet A fumes and clicking a few frames. Stick around, I should have a few flicks to share with ya.
I do seem to have an infinity for things that fly. I’m am very fortunate that I get to share this the coming week with likewise folks. Nikon is making it possible for me to do a presentation at ISAP and I can’t wait to share what I’ve leaned in the last two years of following with a camera a life long love of of flight, manned flight that is!
Photos captured by D3x/D3, 14-24AFS / 200-400AFS on Lexar UDMA digital film
Mar 1, 2010 | Aviation
[swf]http://www.moosepeterson.com/swf_imgs/_BMP5753ab.swf, 585, 444 [/swf]
Oh, it’s going to be a grand week with a whole lot of subjects that all take flight. Starting a new project at the beginning of the week which always brings up new challenges, new rewards and new frustrations. Can’t wait. But the rest of the week is ISAP and for that, I can’t wait! The photo above was taken a while back during a great day at Top Gun school. It was literally snowing so all flights were canceled for the fleet. This is a photo that has sit in my files since I took it. The lighting was such, it pretty much was lifeless. I then decided to process the nef as a one image HDR. It turned out pretty cool. The sky sucked until the HDR processing and then man, did it come to life!
[swf]http://www.moosepeterson.com/swf_imgs/DAPARRR5482.swf, 585, 444 [/swf]
This is a F22 Raptor from the Reno Air Races. Hopefully the weather this week will be a hole lot more conducive for aviation photography. I have the great privilege of shooting with the folks from ISAP first at Edwards AFB and then Nellis AFB during Red Flag maneuvers. We’re taking standing between runways as F117s & F18s take off right beside ya. Hot dang, I can’t wait to eat them Jet A fumes and clicking a few frames. Stick around, I should have a few flicks to share with ya.
I do seem to have an infinity for things that fly. I’m am very fortunate that I get to share this the coming week with likewise folks. Nikon is making it possible for me to do a presentation at ISAP and I can’t wait to share what I’ve leaned in the last two years of following with a camera a life long love of of flight, manned flight that is!
Photos captured by D3x/D3, 14-24AFS / 200-400AFS on Lexar UDMA digital film
Feb 2, 2010 | Aviation
So in the last few weeks I’ve been in the skies over Lake Tahoe, a firehouse in San Fran, the frozen landscape of Yellowstone to now in the sweltering lands of Florida. Well, I have a couple of heartbeats of time while getting some images together for a client and I realized I’ve not posted all that I’ve done during this time so for my simple mind to function, I thought I would start at the beginning. For a project that you’ll see in the future, Jake & I took to the skies in T-6 Texans.
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As you can see in this photo, the rear canopy is open so you can shoot the opposite plane cleanly, not having to shoot through the canopy. This has its advantages and disadvantages. The main disadvantage is the pilot of my plane and the owner of both T-6s loves his planes and wants to see them in photos in a certain way. In this case, with the canopy closed. Well, I told him not a problem, we would close the canopies in post. I said this knowing darn well I didn’t have the skills to do that. But I know someone who could.
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There were four images I printed up 24×30 and presented to the pilot/owner as a thank you (and for future projects). At our SF DLWS, I put these four images on a Lexar Jumpdrive and handed them to Stephanie with the assignment of “closing the canopy.” I figured the project would take her days and with her other work load, she would tell me it might be a while. Damn it, if not within minutes of handing her the stick she came back and said, “Check this image, is this what you want?” I felt 20yrs older within minutes when I looked at the image and was blown away. What you’re seeing here is the image and if you want to see one very talented Photoshop craftsman, er, I mean woman.
(click here to see Stephanie’s mad Photoshop skillz) – Opens in Zoomify
I had to make the image with the quality to start with and Stephanie finished it with her skills. With the opportunity now to follow a totally different type of flight photography, having the talents and support of Stephanie behind me has my mind thinking of other images I could go after and stay true to the subject.
And the client, they just said, “BEAUTIFUL!”
And is Stephanie going to teach how she did this? Yeap, once she teaches me. But we’ll have that lesson here in the future.
Photo captured by D3s, 70-200VR2 on Lexar UDMA digital film
Feb 2, 2010 | Aviation
So in the last few weeks I’ve been in the skies over Lake Tahoe, a firehouse in San Fran, the frozen landscape of Yellowstone to now in the sweltering lands of Florida. Well, I have a couple of heartbeats of time while getting some images together for a client and I realized I’ve not posted all that I’ve done during this time so for my simple mind to function, I thought I would start at the beginning. For a project that you’ll see in the future, Jake & I took to the skies in T-6 Texans.
[swf]http://www.moosepeterson.com/swf_imgs/DPA2AT60268.swf, 585, 444 [/swf]
As you can see in this photo, the rear canopy is open so you can shoot the opposite plane cleanly, not having to shoot through the canopy. This has its advantages and disadvantages. The main disadvantage is the pilot of my plane and the owner of both T-6s loves his planes and wants to see them in photos in a certain way. In this case, with the canopy closed. Well, I told him not a problem, we would close the canopies in post. I said this knowing darn well I didn’t have the skills to do that. But I know someone who could.
[swf]http://www.moosepeterson.com/swf_imgs/DPA2AT60268_c.swf, 585, 444 [/swf]
There were four images I printed up 24×30 and presented to the pilot/owner as a thank you (and for future projects). At our SF DLWS, I put these four images on a Lexar Jumpdrive and handed them to Stephanie with the assignment of “closing the canopy.” I figured the project would take her days and with her other work load, she would tell me it might be a while. Damn it, if not within minutes of handing her the stick she came back and said, “Check this image, is this what you want?” I felt 20yrs older within minutes when I looked at the image and was blown away. What you’re seeing here is the image and if you want to see one very talented Photoshop craftsman, er, I mean woman.
(click here to see Stephanie’s mad Photoshop skillz) – Opens in Zoomify
I had to make the image with the quality to start with and Stephanie finished it with her skills. With the opportunity now to follow a totally different type of flight photography, having the talents and support of Stephanie behind me has my mind thinking of other images I could go after and stay true to the subject.
And the client, they just said, “BEAUTIFUL!”
And is Stephanie going to teach how she did this? Yeap, once she teaches me. But we’ll have that lesson here in the future.
Photo captured by D3s, 70-200VR2 on Lexar UDMA digital film
