Celebrate the Flight with Background

John’s fresh out of paint, fresh out of restoration Stampe SV4C is a gorgeous plane. The challenge is expressing in the photograph the accomplishment of first flight. As you can see, the Stampe has a pretty dramatic paint scheme. As you can also see, the time of day we were flying wasn’t the kindest of light. To bring it all together for John, I looked for backgrounds that would make the Stampe not only shine, but “fun” to fly. A very acrobatic aircraft, I use that by directing the flight of the Stampe around the sky to grab backgrounds as they appeared. The blue sky with wispy clouds was only in a certain part of the orbit. The blooming fields below were in only certain portions of The Palouse. It means you’re watching all around and not just your subject, looking ahead in the direction you’re flying for a background you can use in the next couple of minutes and heading for it. It’s a lot of fun this process, even more the results when you celebrate the flight with background!