Birmingham Alabama Photographer - Scott McLeod: September 2010

Thursday, September 9, 2010

Smoke

Not to long ago I saw an image that really struck me as cool and unusual. It was of smoke. But with its unique and cool shape it looked almost painted. I never looked at anything burning that put out smoke the same way again. Some awesomely cool things occur in nature, but many times we don't notice them. Well I then set out to learn how to create some smoke images myself. After much searching, some reading and much playing with techniques, I finally got some very cool results. Here are a few.

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Wednesday, September 1, 2010

F16's landing at Birmingham Airport

Well a college buddy had posted something on his facebook about an event that intrigued me. He mentioned that a high school friend of his would be flying into the airport and doing a couple flyby's before they landed. His buddy is a F16 pilot, and then after the landing the guests got to go out and see the plane up close. He had been doing this for a few years during the summer, when many of his graduating classmate had an annual get together. Well never having been to an airshow or such, I figured it would be interesting to go and see if I could get any interesting photos of the planes in flight. Well got many photos, and many came out well, but on I believe the last pass before landing one of the F16's banked right and pretty much was in a sharp turn almost directly overhead and with my telephoto lens I pretty much filled the frame with the plane. These photos are not cropped from a larger original this is basically the image straight from the camera. Yeah they were pretty close. Unfortunately displaying them at this size just doesn't do them justice, but full size on a nice 32" screen is pretty awesome.