Outstanding Niall! That’s one of those times when I’ll bet you could have shot that until there was no light left, just mesmerizingly beautiful and powerful.
Just realized that everything I have posted was batch websized in LR. I’ll bet that’s the difference, or maybe I’m just getting old and can’t shoot worth a flip anymore........
We did experience a "first" on Sunday. We were shooting from what our British friends would probably call "the very naughty field". The Blues made an extremely low pass right over our heads and the power poles a hundred feet from us did a fourth of July routine with showers of sparks falling to the dry field below. Sparks, dry four foot grass and 25 knot winds.......what could go wrong? We were planning our exit strategy about the time this shot was captured........
Now this one, shot in the clear crisp air Friday evening (oops! Was I supposed to be paying attention to the light painting tutorial ?), was with the 800mm and two tripods.................
This cool plane was at our local airport and was glad to get some shots of it.
Built in 1937, the Flagship Detroit is the oldest flying airworthy DC-3 in the world.
Don
JWilsonphoto wrote:
Outstanding Niall! That’s one of those times when I’ll bet you could have shot that until there was no light left, just mesmerizingly beautiful and powerful.
Absolutely, except: I filled a 64Gb card and went back to the car to get a new one and thought, as I sat in the relatively warm, and certainly not windy, car: 'I am freezing, soaked to the skin with salty water, exhausted from walking on shingle in a gale and from trying to hold a 70-200mm lens still; my eyes stinging from the salt spray, and with a two hour drive home,' and I thought - No!
JWilsonphoto wrote:
Just realized that everything I have posted was batch websized in LR. I’ll bet that’s the difference, or maybe I’m just getting old and can’t shoot worth a flip anymore........
I went out to Long Beach, CA last week to photograph this large private jet. It holds 19 passengers and has a range of 10 hours! I'd hate to pay the fuel bill on it.
JWilsonphoto wrote:
Now this one, shot in the clear crisp air Friday evening (oops! Was I supposed to be paying attention to the light painting tutorial ?), was with the 800mm and two tripods.................
JWilsonphoto wrote:
We did experience a "first" on Sunday. We were shooting from what our British friends would probably call "the very naughty field". .
So YOU were the ones out there!
And that transformer fire ( or whatever ) was quite odd.
And that transformer fire ( or whatever ) was quite odd.
Hi Zane,
Actually there was no transformer involved. The Blues made the pass so low that between the wake and the heat, a couple of wires swung together and it was the 4th all over again. I had Chandler with me so my first concern was making sure the dry grass and winds weren't conspiring to surround us. Fort Worth's first responders were already sitting there but they ended up calling in reinforcements because it built pretty quickly.
I will be shooting an air-to-air stunt photography this weekend.
I was wondering,
0. if I should bother bringing in DSLR or just a gopro
1. what lens should I bring?
2. what straps would I need to prevent my camera from banging around the aircraft during flight?
I will be flying in the airplane doing stunts. The plane is a Super Decathlon.
