mdbassman wrote:
Heh I'll take a few if you have a P51 Mustang on the front or back Jim? Hope to see you in Columbus at the Mustang Fly In.
Dan
Still think a t-shirt is in order Jim.....Jim Wilson photography logo with choice of P51 or other on back..I will take a few and make great gifts! Especially for the P51 fly in in Sept.
Dan
Years, no, decades ago, I heard an airplane engine in Philadelphia. Something wrong with it. Clearly a single engine, but the growl was much too strong. Too loud. I looked up and saw a P51-D Mustang swing overhead, turn along the Schuylkill River, and barrel-roll. Your photo is terrific.
What size T-Shirt do you wear? Do you have a favorite shot? I'll see if I can make yours unique to you. I'm going to be discussing pricing with the manufacturer first of the week. Thanks for your interest!!
Nice images. I'm guessing that the dusk airplane is a Piper, possibly a Warrior. Don't let being 19 and poor hold you back Pardner. When I took my brother's Brownie Hawkeye out of his drawer I was 14 and three levels below poor. Sheila (my the love of my life since the day I met her at 14) used to get furious with me when I'd bring home some ragged 3rd hand Nikon lens that I spent $50 on. We didn't have two nickels to rub together early in our marraige and she had a point, but as it turns out I was just practicing up for the dream and challenge of my life. Just the other day I was laughing with her on this very subject. I'd have to sneak an old lens or filter in the house, most of the time with some story about how someone "loaned" it to me. I was marvelling at how times had changed, now I swing by the house and drop a box on the kitchen table with a camera body worth 8K in it, and not a word is said. If you've read through our thread you may remember the story about the guy that wouldn't take no for an answer in giving me his Hasselblad system. You can just imagine how long it took me to convince my sweet wife that the story was on the up and up. All kidding aside, Sheila has supported me in every area of my life since we met, she is literally "The Wind Beneath My Wings".
So, keep up the good work, do what you love to the very best of your ability and the rest will work itself out. don't be a stranger!
This one is fresh off the sensor. We shot these last evening beginning about an hour before sunset and concluding when there literally was not enough light to see. This image might be my personal best as far as the slowest shutterspeed used in an air to air sortie 1/40th of a second! If we were still in the dark ages of film you guys could all say "sure!?" but the exif is right there. Once again, it's better to be lucky than good!!
Here's one a bit earlier and I was all the way up to 125th. Here's a little known fact, to get a full prop disc on a Continental 0-200 at cruise rpm, you have to be at 1/80th of a second or below. Each engine and prop combination is different so you have to make some mental notes. Truthfully most of my air to air work is done at 125th or lower. In case anyone is wondering, I don't shoot with a gyro stabilizer becaause I think it does it's intended job too well and fights you at every move. I find they inhibit rapid recomposition terribly and thus limit the shots you can get. I really don't think IS is a tremendous help, nowhere near the 3 stops manufacturers claim in their ads.
JW
P.S. No Photoshop here, other than raw conversion and a little brightness/contrast tweak. That's the case with most of the images in our thread.
JWilsonphoto wrote:
Here's one a bit earlier and I was all the way up to 125th. Here's a little known fact, to get a full prop disc on a Continental 0-200 at cruise rpm, you have to be at 1/80th of a second or below. [....] P.S. No Photoshop here, other than raw conversion and a little brightness/contrast tweak. That's the case with most of the images in our thread.
Jim, gorgeous pictures as always. I am really starting to think that the "creatively correct exposure" (to quote Bryan Peterson) consistently on most/all shots is one of the hardest and most significant steps to take in raising one's quality level, and your photos can teach a lot.
And in the "teaching me a lot" vein... forgive the presumption in analyzing your work, but in the picture your post references (N1823 from left-rear, banking left, with moon on upper-right corner of the picture), isn't the horizon a little crooked? Did you choose to leave it that way on purpose? Or did you decide that cropping to straighten it would reduce the frame and put the moon too close to the edge?
What size T-Shirt do you wear? Do you have a favorite shot? I'll see if I can make yours unique to you. I'm going to be discussing pricing with the manufacturer first of the week. Thanks for your interest!!
JW
Jim,
I wear an xtra large. Your logo has to appear on the shirt somewhere. Probably the rear, with a great action shot of a P51 on front. Let me research the P51 images. I saw an imgae somewhere here of a beautiful restored P51. Pag 79&75 are nice but I was looking for a more historical combat image
Dan
This is even better overall Jim for a t-shirt. The 50th anniv of the FT on page 12. That is one super image. On a t-shirt with Jim Wilson Photography!! The Columbus September show would be great!!
Dan
Stunning photos. I'm a fan of the first one. I love P51s - that's a great picture of a beautiful airplane.
Edit: Started going backwards from the end and seeing comments from people who have read the whole 80+ page thread. Shame I'm at work and don't have much time, but I think I know what I'll be doing this evening.
Hey Jim, I just tripped across this thread and was drawn in by the P-51 at the front. Nothing short of absolutely brillant. And the rest of the work that has taken up the other 88 pages is equally stunning. Hats off to ya'll!!!
I got your phone message from last week and I'm trying to find a few minutes to get back to ya. I'd love to catch up...
