I recently ran an automotive light painting experiment and just posted a video about doing it.
Automotive Lightpainting
30 Thursday Aug 2018
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30 Thursday Aug 2018
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I recently ran an automotive light painting experiment and just posted a video about doing it.
13 Monday Nov 2017
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aircraft, airplane, automobile, aviation, Black and White, car, history, Oregon, photo, photograph, photography, plane, WAAAM, Western Antique Aeroplane and Automobile Museum
For today’s blog I wanted to show you all the fun I had at the Veterans’ Day Second Saturday at WAAAM. Very lovely time. Take a look at my WAAAM images, (not from this Saturday, they are still being edited.)
30 Monday Oct 2017
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I recently completed a video for B-17 Alliance Foundation. Today’s blog presents the video with some voice over describing the process. To see the original video,vimeo.com/240517753.
23 Monday Oct 2017
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aircraft, airplane, aviation, Black and White, history, Oregon, photo, photograph, photography, plane, WAAAM, WACO, Western Antique Aeroplane and Automobile Museum
Posted a bit about the 2017 Hood River Fly-In this week. You should take a look, and while you’re at it, give the stills a look.
16 Monday Oct 2017
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This week I went up to the Columbia Gorge and shot some time-lapse on my EOS 5D MkIV for the Blog.
09 Monday Oct 2017
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A little blog about a wildlife shoot. Not sure what is the black thing across the swallow footage, probably camera strap.
02 Monday Oct 2017
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I forgot to mention in the video, that for a preset like this, choose the settings that you would normally use for a portrait. Then in the split toning, choose an orange color with saturation around 10 for the highlight. Then choose some sort of teal color with a saturation around 10 on the shadow. Didn’t plan on doing this sort of vlog, had something very different in mind, but sickness prevented that.
25 Monday Sep 2017
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Sorry I’ve been gone so long. I’m going to try and do a video blog entry weekly now. The main topics this week are the Sound Devices MixPre6 and the EOS 5D MkIV.
Watch the full resolution, full length video.
19 Wednesday Oct 2016
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aircraft, airplane, aviation, history, Oregon, photo, photograph, photography, plane
Let me start by apologizing that it has been so long.
A few months ago when I saw that the EAA Ford Trimotor tour was going to be stopping at Aurora and Salem, I contacted my friend Bryan Heim, who has a close connection to the B-17 Alliance. I thought they might be interested in being the site host for the visit. He responded by telling me he had volunteered me to be his co-event coordinator for this visit and asked if that was ok. Knowing this meant that I’d be able to spend a lot of quality time with the Trimotor, of course I said yes.
Turns out the work part was easier than I expected. Bryan and Terry, executive director for the alliance, took care of most of the volunteer coordination activities and the volunteers were so good, that on site everyone worked together like a well oiled machine. I took the job of being the guy signaling the pilot to start the engines, making sure no one was going to approach the props on foot.
The biggest part of the work I did however, was that Bryan and I helped the pilot bring the plane out of the storage hangar every morning and then helped him put it away in the evening. This job usually did involve a few brief moments of stress, moving an aircraft that valuable in and out of a hangar makes one worried about making a mistake that will damage the aircraft. The rest of the job was fun though. We watched the preflights, learning a lot about the aircraft, talked to the cool folks around the hangar, and took pictures.
The EAA tour folks worked very hard to make sure volunteers and others who helped with the event got rides in the plane, and I got a ride in the copilot’s seat. This was incredible fun and the slow, graceful movements the plane made were surreal when compared to my previous flying experience. The turn on to final was my favorite part, it looked like I was watching a slow motion reel. Of course, the turn on to final is a bittersweet moment, as it also reminds you the ride is almost over.
In conclusion, I couldn’t be happier that I took this opportunity. It was fun, I met a lot of good people, and it felt good to do this different sort of work.
Take a closer look at the Trimotor visit pics.
25 Wednesday May 2016
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The Second Saturday at WAAAM this month was unique and a lot of fun. The theme was vintage glider and a few of the gliders at the museum flew for the first time.
The glider I photographed the most was a 1935 Franklin Glider PS-2. This aircraft was painted in all yellow US Navy colors and looked absolutely amazing against a blue sky. A 1951 GRUNAU BABY IIB also flew while I was photographing and a Waco primary trainer glider flew for the first time before I was able to get to the museum.
Photographing gliders is a little different than photographing other planes. They don’t move fast like jets, but don’t have propellers (well, except for the modern powered ones) that need to be taken into consideration while photographing. This means you can set your f/stop to provide a little separation with the background and use a faster shutter speed. Added benefit, it provides more margin for error in your panning. The best thing though, gliding really is beautiful.
There is some pretty major construction at WAAAM currently; expansions to a couple of their hangars. The museum has done a fantastic job of planning the Second Saturday activities so that they still deliver a similar experience. The back lawn did look interesting, probably will transform into recognizable hangar space fairly quickly. On this day though, it sorta looked like a moonscape with rectangular craters.
Make plans to attend a Second Saturday, whenever you get the chance.
Take a closer look at these images, or take a look at my aviation portfolio.