FG-1D Corsair captured by D4s / 80-400VR
I had a marvelous time last night with the Huntington Camera Club (thanks folks!). Real nice folks and we talked about a favorite topic of mine, aviation photography. The Jones Beach Airshow is coming their way shortly and during the Q&A, a marvelous question was asked. It would seem the entire airshow is backlit, the sun is behind the aircraft. “How do you make photos in this scenario? “While this can from time to time create some great photos, hours and hours of backlit subjects would get old, fast. What I do in this scenario is leave show center and head to the end of the performance box (the end with the best background) and photograph the aircraft as they make their return turn to show center. During that turn they will have sun on them and that when, like you see in the Corsair above, you can get out of the shadows. This is the easiest solution I know for the backlit airshow.