Fortunately, these two aircraft are likely to be in the family for a while, and
I should have ample opportunities to practice the craft. The web mistresses
took over the post processing after my minimal efforts, and I trust they know
what they are doing, and what they want so they'll spiff 'em up to suit. I
wasn't particularly impressed by any of the shots, other than the contortions I
had to accomplish to take them, but it is a commercial-type shoot and the
subject matter was not mine to pick. I had a whole different approach in mind
which was 180 off what the web mistresses wanted. So much for that. I do wonder
if there's some other kind of camera mount I could have used rather than my
Gitzo. Trying to set up the tripod to do some available light work in that
itsy-bity space was a real bitch.
It was obvious what you say was true, that the inverse square law wreaks havoc
in this kind of shoot. And I had enough sense not to try to load up the other
flash somewhere down the fuselage to compensate. The trick what worked best was
shooting the flash from outside through whichever window worked best to the
shot I was after. The cockpit shots were flashless. The exterior shots were
fluorescent, with white balance adjusted.
I'm still hoping to get some of the kinds of shots I wanted down the road a
bit, when the pilot has his web site up and running and knows more what he
wants and can appreciate my artistic genius. <g> I really want to do some
formation flying with two aircraft, so I can take pictures of these birds in
the air with the coast of Maine in the background.
--Bob
On Feb 22, 2013, at 2:59 PM, Chuck Norcutt wrote:
> I think they're fine as is with some post-processing. I played with
> several and even the high contrast scene with the coffee cup in the
> window responds very well to nothing more than the PS shadow/highlight
> control. Go back to the Nikon raw file vs the small JPEGs and you
> should be golden.
>
> I think I said earlier that I was leery of trying to light that small
> interior effectively with flash and especially multiple flash. No
> matter how many light benders you've got you can't overcome the inverse
> square law for flash lighting. At 3 feet from the light source you have
> X luminosity. At 6 feet you've only got 1/4X and you're already down 2
> stops. If you use multiple lights distributed down the length of the
> floor or hidden in the seats you've got multi-multiple shadows cast
> everywhere in that small space.
>
> NIKON D800 dynamic range, raw files and shadow/highlight control in post
> will do the job.
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