Good advice! Thanks! Multiple with bounce would be one with the camera and the
other at the back of the cabin?
--Bob
On Feb 14, 2013, at 1:09 PM, Ken Norton wrote:
> 24mm should be sufficient. Multiple flashes with bounce. One trick is
> to drag shutter to let the interior lights do their thing. Reading
> lights, etc., could be allowed to warm little bits of the interior a
> bit.
>
> You'll have three exposures to worry about:
> 1. Exterior. The light coming in through the windows as well as what
> is outside the window.
> 2. Flash. This will be your primary "fill" lighting for the cabin.
> 3. Interior Lights. You want the lighting to do something, otherwise
> it's just a still-life.
>
> You can do everything in a darkened hanger. Shoot a couple in-air
> photographs for background outside the windows to be inserted in
> photoshop. This is absolutely needed! Well, not really, but it is your
> excuse to get in a flight. :)
>
> External light trick--to simulate the sun coming in through the
> window, place a flash outside the cabin shining down through the
> window. Make sure your light and your inserted air-ground picture in
> the background match angles and brightness. There should be islands or
> mountains in the background. The position of the flash will be some
> distance away, otherwise you get weird sunspots.
>
> Unless the airplane has a late-model glass cockpit, I'm not so sure I
> would include a photograph of the instrument panel. There is mixed
> feelings on this. A large percentage of the 1% crowd knows about glass
> cockpits, but they don't photograph as well as the traditional steam
> gauges.
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