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NIKON D300

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Aperture f/5.6 ISO 400 Shutter 10/50

upload_date

Jun, 2014

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Awards

Contest Finalist in Aircraft Photo Contest

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Peer Award

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Superb Composition

+37

Top Choice

+19

Absolute Masterpiece

Outstanding Creativity

All Star

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Top 30 rank week 2

Top 30 rank week 1

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Great shot!

amazing!

beatiful, dramatic and detailed

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Well done on being featured. great shot.

Beautiful shot! Congrats

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Excellent composition. Great shot here!

Erie photo.

Thanks everyone for the kind words. Sorry to have taken so long, but I just realized today that it had been featured. This was a fun shot to work with. The original exposure had the highlight almost entirely blown out because of all the black, but as I started bringing down the highlight, I realized that it was a much more interesting shot done in low-key.

Congratulations on your amazing photo. Absolute masterpiece

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Behind The Lens

Location

The shot was done in Washington, D.C., at the Air & Space Museum and was part of their WWII warplane exhibit.

Time

Don't remember, but it was shot inside the museum, so I didn't have to factor in light intensity or color temperature.

Lighting

It was shot with the existing light in the museum. There was a fairly hot highlight on the fuselage side and canopy. I knew that if I underexposed for the highlight, the background would fall off, which I wanted to do to isolate the plane from a somewhat cluttered, distracting background

Equipment

I shot it with a Nikon D300 & a Nikkor 24mm lens. The museum did not allow tripods, so I used a railing to steady the camera.

Inspiration

As I approached the plane, my eye went to the red insignia on the fuselage, and I quickly realized that if I underexposed the black plane, the red insignia would really pop out.

Editing

The was almost no post-processing on this one. I might have added a little contrast to get even more separation between the red and black.

In my camera bag

1 Nikon D300 body (had to sell my second body to get a lens I really wanted), Nikkor 18-55mm zoom, Nikkor 55-200mm zoom, Nikkor 80-400mm zoom, Sigma 10-20mm zoom, Minolta collapsible mini "table" tripod, filter pouch, 4-5 extra memory cards & cases, extra batteries & charger, lens tissue.

Feedback

Pre-visualize. Understand that the camera seldom exposes what the eye sees. Think out of the box, not just for composition, but also for exposure. Ask yourself how you might create something that not everyone who sees the object/scene/lighting will see or create. (Through pre-visualization) try to imagine what the scene/object might look like drastically under- or over-exposed.

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