Dealing with Heat Haze in Aviation Photography
Heat haze is the wavy softness that ruins distant aircraft shots on hot days. Here is how to spot it, avoid it and work around it with long lenses. Read article
Category: Photography Technique
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Shooting Civil Airliners: Liveries, Light and Angles
How to photograph civil airliners: the settings, angles, light, liveries, locations and editing that turn routine movements into pictures worth keeping. Read article
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Capturing Helicopters: Rotor Blur and Settings
To photograph helicopters well you shoot in shutter priority at around 1/125 of a second, pan smoothly with the aircraft and let the rotor blades blur into a full, living disc. That single decision, choosing a shutter speed slow enough to show the rotor turning, separates a helicopter photograph that feels alive from one that Read article
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Formation Flying: How to Photograph Display Teams
A complete guide to photographing formation flying and display teams: settings, timing the shape, synchro and opposition passes, smoke, panning and framing. Read article
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Composition for Aviation Photography: Filling the Frame
A practical guide to aviation photography composition: filling the frame, the rule of thirds, lead room, negative space, clean backgrounds and dynamic angles. Read article
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How to Photograph Night Airshows and Pyrotechnics
A night airshow gives you pictures you simply cannot take at any other time. An aircraft trailing sparks from its wingtips, a Spitfire lit gold against a deep blue sky, a firework shell bursting behind a display team holding formation in the dark. These are the frames people remember, and they are also the ones Read article
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Metering for Bright Skies: Avoiding Silhouetted Aircraft
Why your aircraft turn into silhouettes against a bright sky, and exactly how to fix it: metering modes, exposure compensation, manual exposure, histograms and scenario by scenario settings. Read article
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How to Photograph Through Airfield Fences
Almost every airfield worth photographing has a fence around it. Learn to shoot through one properly and the wire vanishes from your pictures as if it were never there. Perimeter fences are the single biggest frustration for anyone photographing aircraft from public ground. You turn up at a viewing spot, find a clear line on Read article
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Golden Hour at the Airfield: Shooting Aviation in Low Light
Golden hour and blue hour are the best light an aviation photographer ever gets. How to plan for it, what to set on the camera, and how to shoot silhouettes, prop blur, blue hour and night. Read article
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Photographing Warbirds: Capturing WWII Fighters in the Air
A practical, in-depth warbird photography guide: shutter speeds for prop blur, panning, metering against the sky, light, composition and where to shoot WWII fighters in the UK. Read article