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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Plane Spotting at Major Airports: A Beginner’s Guide
A beginner’s guide to plane spotting at major airports: finding locations, reading runways and wind, gear, camera settings, apps, identifying aircraft and etiquette. 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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Best Lenses for Aviation Photography (2026): Airshows, Spotting and Beyond
A working photographer’s guide to choosing a lens for aircraft, with in-depth, review-based write-ups of the best options for airshows and plane spotting. Picks for every major camera system and every budget, from affordable telephoto zooms to the pro super-telephotos that fill the frame from across the airfield. Ask ten aviation photographers what camera they Read article