F35 take off sequence #1
A couple of years ago I saw an image on line that really piqued my interest. It was a composite of airliners taking off from one airport. It was nicely worked and it sort of intrigued me just how many aircraft departed in one day. I think the image that day was from East Midlands Airport (EMA) in the UK, but I've since seen a number of different images from different airports, doing something very similar.
F35 take off sequence #2
It's been something I've wanted to try since I saw the image the first time. But I didn't want to copy it, I wanted it to be my own take on the image. It wasn't until I went down to RAF Lakenheath earlier in the year that the idea presented itself to me. Actually, it was the images I took that day that gave me the idea just a few days ago, Why go for multiple airplanes? Why not just show a sequence for one aircraft? So here we are. Three different sequences, each showing one individual F35 taking off, each from a different viewpoint around the airfield.
F35 take off sequence #3
Now I've done it once, I can see the possibilities and know I could do it better. I took all of the shots hand held and stitching them together in photoshop was a bit problematic at times - shooting through the fence, the surprising way the light could change almost from shot to shot, and the angle my lens seemed to point - sometimes I had more sky in the image, sometime more grass. Next time I may try it on a tripod and work for the outcome rather than get the images and then create the outcome from what I have.
Also, one thing I need to look into is the speed at which I am firing the trigger. In my mind I would have liked all of the different iterations of each of the aircraft to have been an equal distance from each other (I know, I could have done this in photoshop by cutting out the planes and putting them where I needed, but that wouldn't have been quite so honest as stitching the images together). So, already planning and getting ideas together. Watch this space.
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