Gone West – Keith
Wings Over Houston – Giant Weekend!
This coming weekend will be one of the biggest gatherings of warbirds for quite some time and I can’t wait! I hope I cya there and if you see me, please say hello! I’ll be jumping around like a crazy man working on four separate project, the most exciting is a new Kelby Class (but it’s not a class) on Air to Air photography. I’m so pumped now I can hardly concentrate on work I need to do to go. But I want you to be prepared so you might want to check out this post Ten Tips and this post and of course the grand daddy of posts, our BIG Post
Just in Time for WoH
Just in time for next week’s huge airshow, Wings of Houston, B&H just posted my Ten Tips for Aviation Photography. We’ll be at the W0H and will have the Kelby Training film crew as we shoot the much requested, Air to Air “Class.” Now Class is in ” ” because it’s not like ANY class KT has ever produced. I’m super psyched! Hope to see you at WoH!
Gone West – Herb
Herb Stachler is a WWII vet, flying the “Jug” in the European Theater. He was your classic P-47 pilot, short in height but a giant in duty and honor. I first meet Herb a year ago when we did a flight with him and his brother at the Doolittle Reunion in OH. The Texas Flying Legends Museum honors our vets by putting them back in the air as a simple thanks for their service. That’s Herb in the back of the P-51D Mustang. I was shooting out the side window of the B-25 “Panchito” giving Casey, the P-51 pilot hand signals for moving for the shot. Herb thought I was waving at him so he we constantly waving back with that giant smile. This past July, I had the great fortune to be with Herb a little more at Oshkosh, that’s him in the center with the mic sharing with the audience stories of his flying during WWII. Herb was an amazing guy, sadly, he past away this morning. Our prayers are with his family and wish him the best, gone west.
Moose … You Out There?
Yeap, it’s been one helluva week! With over 10,000 images filed, to say the shooting at the Reno Air Races was amazing! The number of images I have finished is nearly nothin because every night, well can you say partay! Complicating it all, as I write this, we’re off to Alaska for a couple of weeks of griz work. I just wanted to say hello and start your week off with a little inspirational shot.
“The Rising Run”
There is no way I was going to pass up this play on words. This great Zero from the SoCal CAF is at Reno with four other of their aircraft. We arranged to have them pulled out for what turned out to be a spectacular sunrise. There are two great aspects to these early morning (05:30) shoots. One is the gorgeous skies with gorgeous aircraft. The other is the tremendous fun shooting with all these other photographers. With a dozen countries represented, the jokes are constantly flying (pun intended) which just makes the whole event priceless!
On the photography side, it’s pretty straight forward. It’s a single click from a D4 / 80-400AFS that is processed in ACR 8.2. That’s it. Now the Shadow Slider is used to bring out the shadows, the Highlight slider used to bring down the highlights, but that is all that was done to create the photo. Oh ya, I forgot what for me is the most important piece of equipment, knee pads! Good be just getting older, but that tarmac seems to hurt more and more if I don’t have my gel filled knee pads. Remember, daily updates from Reno are at Warbirdsnews.com