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FollowWing walking aerobatic performance during the 2013 "Wings Over Gillespie" airshow in El Cajon, CA.
Wing walking aerobatic performance during the 2013 "Wings Over Gillespie" airshow in El Cajon, CA.
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This was at the 2013 "Wings Over Gillespie" airshow at Gillespie Field in East San Diego County.Time
This was about noon.Lighting
The sun was off to the side and almost directly overhead.Equipment
The camera was a Canon T3i with a Canon IS 70-300mm zoom lens.Inspiration
I love antique and vintage aircraft. This particular wing walking act was very dramatic and I knew it would make a great photo. This was an especially challenging shot because the plane was rotating rapidly.Editing
I used Lightroom for the basic edit then exported it into Nik HDR Efex Pro 2 to enhance the texture, detail and depth.In my camera bag
Canon T3i. Canon IS 70-300mm lense. Canon 17-40mm L lense. A Canon 270ex flash. ND and polarizing filters. Flashlights and lens cleaning accessories.Feedback
The main challenge here was to get a sharp photo without using so fast of a shutter speed that it would freeze the motion of the prop. My settings: Shooting in Shutter priority mode. Shutter speed - 1/800sec. Camera selected an aperture of f/7.1. ISO 100. Fully zoomed at 300mm. Autofocus on with only the center dot active. If any of the plane tends to be silhouetted or in shadows, I will add 1/2 to 2/3 stop of exposure compensation. Not sure if I used it on this shot. Burst mode can give you a better chance of getting a sharp photo but I tend to do better using the single shot mode. On many of the warbirds at the show, a shutter speed of anything faster than 1/500sec would freeze the prop, but 1/500sec wasn't fast enough to get a sharp shot of this biplane because it was doing fast roll maneuvers. I didn't start getting sharp photos until I sped the shutter speed up to 1/800sec. I don't know why 1/800sec froze the prop on the warbirds but not this plane. Perhaps this prop was spinning faster.