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Shooting Techniques
Aircraft Photography

Photography (Advanced) - Advanced manual for photography and other graphic techniques
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Figure 4-26.—Air-to-air photograph taken through a closed canopy. may also be able to minimize image motion by panning the subject with the camera. When you are flying low, the target may "shoot" past you so fast that the shutter speed cannot "stop" it. This results in a photograph that is not sharp. To prevent this, "follow the target" (pan) with  your  camera.  The  pan  must  be  continuous  and smooth. Move the camera in the direction opposite to the direction of flight, keeping the lens fixed at some point on the target. With this technique, the image on the film does not move as much as it would if the camera were  held  still. With a hand-held camera, you have freedom of movement; however, the view of the camera is limited by the structure of the aircraft. Do not include the tip of a wing or any other part of the aircraft in your photographs, unless you do it intentionally (fig. 4-25). The views of the target are best when the aircraft is approaching or leaving the target and the target is off to one side. At a level altitude, in fixed-wing aircraft, you may have difficulty excluding the tip of the wing from the view of the camera. You can tell the pilot to bank the aircraft; that is, raise the wing of a high-wing aircraft on the side from which you are shooting. You can also tell the pilot to lower the wing of a low-wing aircraft when the aircraft passes the target. This maneuver should lift or drop the wing of the aircraft out of the picture area. Another flight maneuver for getting the wing of the aircraft out of the picture is to have the pilot crab the plane. After the plane is crabbed, it is on a different heading than the original direction of flight; thus the wing is outside the area of the photography. When  you  are  shooting  photographs  from  a helicopter, have the pilot fly at a level altitude or bank when the aircraft passes the target, so the rotor blades are  raised  from  the  area  of  the  photograph.  This minimizes the chance of rotor blades appearing in the photograph. The slipstream outside an aircraft can be very strong, so when you are taking photographs through an open window or door, be sure you have a good grip on the camera and all loose objects, and camera parts are well-protected and secured. In  some  aircraft,  you  must  take  photographs through a canopy or closed window (fig. 4-26). The plexiglass, or glass, can cause a slight shift in image 4-31







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