Photographing prop aircraft

I photographed a B-17 & B-24 today at Love field here in Dallas. I wish I had more time for this today, but I also had to fly a flight with American Airlines. Jets are easier to photograph than prop aircraft because you can photograph a jet at a very high shutter speed to stop the action and camera shake you get when shooting telephoto.
I find to shoot a prop aircraft that 250th of a second is as fast as you can shoot and not stop the props, which is not a good look of an aircraft in flight. You need a stabilized telephoto lens to shoot prop aircraft and get sharp photographs, I used a Nikon 70-200 f2.8 VR lens to get these shots.

A RUG SHOOT

As a photographer I often shoot different subjects, yes even rugs. I had to shoot the rugs from above and then make them look the best possible with Photoshop. The photographs will be used by a major retailer for their internet site.

What is a person to do?

There is Facebook, LinkedIN, MySpace, Modelmayhem.com, so many internet sites to try to keep-up and of course, this blog, so much to do and so little time. Enough of my raving and back to work, marketing and networking are more important than ever these days.

A special moment during a portrait session

It started out as a normal portrait session except for the blue norther arriving during the shoot at the Dallas Arboretum. I think a lot of photographers and customers would have thrown in the towel for this session when the weather report was known. This session goes to show that often
you can get great results in less than ideal conditions. Stephen and Sara were great and wanted a good photo shoot with different looks and a little cold and a lot of wind did not stop them. We made good use of the wind with Sara's hair and the high thin clouds that arrived were perfect for the lighting of the shots, I used a SB800 flash for fill. The surprise came at the end of the session, when out of the blue, Stephen proposed marriage and Sara accepted with great happiness, what a session. Other images of Stephen and Sara

POST TREATMENT OF PHOTOGRAPHS

The below photograph taken at a horse race has been changed to look more paint like, this is done with software and Photoshop and is something that I have started to explore for a different look and feel.