Blue Angels with fresh contrails.........

[bnnrcn]

Hi Isabel, Leslie's crop gives an energetic look. John 2's crop is another option which is better than the original. IMO it must have been really difficult to shot such a scene and you did quite well although you weren't used to this kind of photography. I wouldn't be able to do it. Your boss may not be satisfied but it is difficult to please people who don't know very much about photography. So, please don't get upset and go and shoot something to your taste without anybody counting and shouting behind you

[Saorsa]

If it's the museum at Wright Patterson AFB it's a tough shoot. The place is packed to the walls with displays and there is nowhere to back up to get a really clean shot. But, for aircraft detail it's fantastic. Look out for the rubber airplane.

[IzzieK]

Hi Isabel, Leslie's crop gives an energetic look. John 2's crop is another option which is better than the original. IMO it must have been really difficult to shot such a scene and you did quite well although you weren't used to this kind of photography. I wouldn't be able to do it. Your boss may not be satisfied but it is difficult to please people who don't know very much about photography. So, please don't get upset and go and shoot something to your taste without anybody counting and shouting behind you

Hi Binnur...thank you for caring to comment. I do really appreciate it very much. Unfortunately, no amount of editing will salvage that shot. Maybe I can go in and change the red marks into yellow as the airplane actually looks like this: no editing in any of these shots, just quickly translated to jpg and cropped --

1 taxiing for take-off


2 with Lt. Ryan Chamberlain, narrator for the 2014 airshow...



so there cannot be any room for mistakes here. My boss (is my husband. I call him my boss as a joke..) He may not be in serious photography but he has been the subject of many in his days as a pilot, an acrobatic pilot, and many more. He has pretty good idea of positions and locations and weather conditions and such while he was having fun and I was apprehensive about his safety at the time. He is out of it now and doing more sedate things but he has to bark some orders behind me because of the many people surrounding us as the airshow. I am not upset at all, it takes a lot to upset me...believe me. It is just as easy for me to accept things the way they were and are if I cannot do anything about it. It is hard to really convey emotions here in the post or email because it is not a face to face conversation. If I sounded upset, really I am not; if I sometimes sound knowledgeable and arrogant, it is not really what I want to express. I am just a beginner in most things and I am not ashamed to admit it.

[Mike Buckley]

my husband. I call him my boss as a joke

Like all husbands, he surely calls you his boss...not as a joke.

[IzzieK]

If it's the museum at Wright Patterson AFB it's a tough shoot. The place is packed to the walls with displays and there is nowhere to back up to get a really clean shot. But, for aircraft detail it's fantastic. Look out for the rubber airplane.

Yes it is -- Our convention/fly-in will be held in another inactive airport nearby but we get to go to Wright Patterson anytime during that week. So if I missed anything I can always go back. Then there is the tour for 50 people at the Restroration and the Presidential areas. It is going to be a busy week. I am supposed to do a presentation of the whole activities to show at the banquet at the end of the week...

YOU have been there! This is my first time there...so I need to do some reading on lighting conditions. I have the notes from the website of what sort of lights are in different areas but apart from that, I have nothing to crow about. I will take note of the rubber airplane. Anything else I need to know? Please do help me anything you remembered???

[IzzieK]

Like all husbands, he surely calls you his boss...not as a joke.

Mike -- when we go anywhere like the doctor's office and he starts talking, I shut up. When the nurse looks at me because I wasn't saying anything about me because he does, I will simply say "he is my spokes person"...

[Saorsa]

The WPAFB museum is pretty well lit but not overly so. Most displays are lit to highlight the display and not for photography. Although, if you can take a tripod on the special tour you might be able to work with available light.

It's been a while since I was there and that was on work so I wasn't carrying a camera since they were not allowed in the areas where I worked.

[IzzieK]

Thanks Brian...I have taken note of your webpage to look at it all later in my kill-time away from the pots and pan tonight and also the rubber plane. I will have my tripod but I will try not to get too heavy with gears as we will be picked up by some military guy, I heard. I really do not want to be a yahoo nuisance and try to behave while out there, be seen and not heard. It'll keep me out of trouble. D

Thank you again for your help. I really appreciate it very much...

The WPAFB museum is pretty well lit but not overly so. Most displays are lit to highlight the display and not for photography. Although, if you can take a tripod on the special tour you might be able to work with available light.

It's been a while since I was there and that was on work so I wasn't carrying a camera since they were not allowed in the areas where I worked.