Flying

Hinson

I went flying with a friend yesterday and shot some aerials for the first time. I got home sorted through them and spotted one I had shot of three trees in a plowed field. I played around with it and came up with the following. I would love to hear any comments, good, bad or indifferent

Richard

I moved this to its own thread.

Hinson

Richard wrote: »

I moved this to its own thread.

Thanks, sorry if I posted in the wrong place.

Dogdots

WOW -- I really like how you played with this one Looks like it's a print on canvas. Beautiful

Hinson

Mary; thanks for the kind words. My wife as already asked for a 40x30 to put over our fireplace.

DaddyO

Came out pretty nice Neat scene for it. Like the brush stroke directions
fitting the landscape so well.
Flying low like that had to be fun. Cruising the landscape. Cool.

Hinson

Michael; brush strokes were a texture I found somewhere and the shot was actually about a 10% of the whole. We were flying at about 1500-2000 feet most of the time. She was qualifying for her instructors license and needed some right seat airtime. I'm going back up with her husband in a week or two and he's much more comfortable flying as low as 500 feet. Biggest problem is that I am just outside of DC. I'm outside of the no-fly zone but still in restricted airspace so we are limited in what we can do locally. Permission is needed to do a 360 if there is something I want to shoot, so plans need to be made well in advance. Once we get out of the zone, we are pretty much free to fly where we want.

DaddyO

Nice to have the details. Thanks.
Glad to hear I am not the only one to work with only 10% of the whole.
Amazing how much I also do that. Usually when I intend to bend and twist
as you have with your result here. At some point I will dive into the kind of
result you have displayed here. Right now only the tools and intentions are on the table.

Hinson

Yes, I often find that I shoot a scene but when I get to studying the image later, one small part stands out. One of the reasons I like the 5D. I wish I could afford to go back to Mimiya now that they've gone digital. Would love to work with those large images but way too expensive for my hobby shooting

And naturally, another reason for the dramatic PP is the fact that trying use just that small portion would work for web but no way could you print a decent wall print. I rarely print anything smaller than 16x20 so I need the full frame or some artsy-fartsy PP to make it work.

Azzaro

I have come back to this one a couple of times... I really like it gary:D