>> As it happens, I've been roped into a commercial shoot this coming
>> Tuesday. Some of you will be delighted to learn that it involves
>> aircraft. My cousin's pilot is developing a web site to try to
>> increase his flying business, and the two of them have shanghai'd
>> me into doing the photography. I think I'll get paid, but I'm not
>> sure, and it doesn't really matter because once again I'm lunging
>> far outside my comfort zone.
Lucky you. When I worked for the airplane factory, a specialist was brought
in for these shots. To a degree, there was the prophet is without honor in
his home element, but this guy had it down, after years of experience. For
the very AC of which you speak, he got big sheets of diffusion material, the
stretchy plastic kind, and covered the windshield, and used smaller pieces
over windows. Tota lights were on the outside. A single shot (film of
course, I'm not that young) could take DAYS!
>>
>>
>> The most important question is this: Will 24mm be wide enough to
>> get good, in proper proportion shots of the interior of the
>> aircraft? (I assume said aircraft will be the small Citation.
>
> I'm a gonna disagree with everybody else on this one point. For
> this, you WANT distortion - of apparent space. You want
> to make the space look/feel more spacious than it really is. And the
> best tool for that is a wide angle lens.
: http://www.tope.nl/
No obvious WA distortion. that's a giveaway, especially around the edges.
You want the 1%-ers to think this is a really big cabin when it's not. If
you want to use models, here's a tip. The airplane factory had a list of
locals that were quite short and thin, but with perfectly proportioned
bodies. Finding these is harder than you think, but it makes a tiny cabin
look spacious.
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