Message posted by lone wolf on February 05, 2005 at 22:49:48 PST:

I dug up my field of view spreadsheet and determined what I remembered from photographing planes from long term parking wasn't reality. [Translation: I screwed up.]

With a 500mm lens, you would get 2.3 C130s in a frame (ok, call it two c130s). Looking at the photo, this is reasonable. In fact, not much cropping would have to be done.

Two things are in your favor here. First, the high sun angle (maybe with an hour of noon) puts some light on the plane. Second, the buidlngs as a backdrop are much better than having sky in the background, since the sky is often brighter than the plane. [Some people spot meter on the plane to get around the sky setting the exposure, but this can turn the blue sky nearly white if you shoot chrome.]

When you photograph at Nellis, it helps to wait until the plane (target) has Sunrise mountain as a background rather than the sky.

In Reply to: What Lens? posted by BT on February 05, 2005 at 12:23:34 PST:

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