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.
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
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Tomorrow is the start of the 50th Anniversary of the Reno Air Races (and my 5th year in aviation)! This is the fastest motor sport and has to be one of the greatest events to photograph. We’ll be here all week and in fact if you come, you will see our first ever Peterson’s Flying Circus booth. Now I want you to come and when you find Jake and I, say hi. And if you have ~any~ questions, please don’t hesitate to ask. If we can be of any assistance in helping you get better photos, than we want to answer that question. Now here’s a hint for making the most out of Reno, pay the extra few bucks and get a pit pass. The pit pass permits you to shoot where we shoot the majority of the time at the T Rails. All you need is a 70-300 lens and solid panning technique and you’re good to go. It also lets you get into the pits are so cool. Hope to see ya out here!