Len Lanetti
Cleared for Takeoff
If you get the quarterly magazine "Air and Space" or even if you don't...there is a picture of a multi engine amphibious aircraft that is worth the cost of the most recent edition.
The crowds during the day prevented the pictured from being taken during daylight so the picture was taken at night (11pm if I remember right)...without the use of a flash....from what the caption said...long duration exposure...it must have been several minutes as the photographer used a flashlight to light the aircraft from close up a section of the aircraft at a time...because it was so dark and the photographer was not lighted the photographer does not appear in the picture even though he was standing in the shot. The picture is truly stunning...the aircraft is aluminum and it shines without the bounce back glare from a flash...you can clearly see the red in the clouds above and other vivid colors throughout the picture, there is very good depth of field.
The caption or brief discussion of the picture mentions that the flashlight technique used is very old...I wonder if it took a lot of trial and error to determine duration to shine the flashlight, aperture setting, length of exposure, etc.
Len
The crowds during the day prevented the pictured from being taken during daylight so the picture was taken at night (11pm if I remember right)...without the use of a flash....from what the caption said...long duration exposure...it must have been several minutes as the photographer used a flashlight to light the aircraft from close up a section of the aircraft at a time...because it was so dark and the photographer was not lighted the photographer does not appear in the picture even though he was standing in the shot. The picture is truly stunning...the aircraft is aluminum and it shines without the bounce back glare from a flash...you can clearly see the red in the clouds above and other vivid colors throughout the picture, there is very good depth of field.
The caption or brief discussion of the picture mentions that the flashlight technique used is very old...I wonder if it took a lot of trial and error to determine duration to shine the flashlight, aperture setting, length of exposure, etc.
Len