Roger Evans
Robert W. Dalton
Roger Evans
Richard Harper
Rick Cloran
Joyce Bruck
Jim Mayo
Chuck McCollum
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F22 – F15 - P51

Photographer's Notes/Comments - June '08

This is yet another air show that I attended and this image I captured because of the story it tells of the new and the old. The F22 Raptor is our latest fighter and the P51 Mustang perhaps the most famous plane ever to fly. The top speed on the P51 is around 400 miles an hour and you can see the two jets are just kind of hanging in the air trying to fly that slow. I used my Canon 1D mark II with a Canon 400 F4 DO lens plus 1.4 extender. The sky was an ugly light blue with no clouds so I replaced it. Enhanced a little and sharpened and that is it.

 

Group Member's Comments
Robert W. Dalton Great composition! You did an excellent job on replacing the sky. This is one of your better photographs. There is a slight halo on the top plane which is very noticeable because my eye is drawn to the red nose and red wings on the plane.
Richard Harper As an ex-wartime pilot, I was interested on this one. I wonder if the picture would look more balanced if the Mustang was placed between the other two. The flight attitudes of the planes seem to be on different levels. Not many in the UK would have heard of the Mustang. How about the prettier Spitfire - the scourge of the German Luftwaffer.
Rick Cloran Another good photojournalistic type of image. I like the arrangement of the planes diagonally across the frame. The sky replacement seems to have gone well, though I might be seeing a bit of a halo around the P-22. If you can see it on your original and you still have the masked version that you used to build the composite from, try applying a slight Gaussian blur to the mask (not the image). I find that something on the order of 2 or 3 tends to blend out any edge issues quite nicely in most cases.
Joyce Bruck Good shot of a close formation. Color is good. For me it is missing something maybe the pilots’ faces which I know is impossible at that distance.
Jim Mayo A nice job of adding a background to make an impressive and historic looking print.
Chuck McCollum I've tried to do airshows and I can only imagine how difficult it was to get these three planes to line up this way and be able to capture it. I enjoy your work.
About the Photographer
Roger Evans

I retired 10 years ago from the computer industry where I worked all of my life with IBM, General Electric and a couple of smaller organizations. Four years ago I took up Digital Photography and really enjoy it. I have no special topics of interest but rather just like to roam around and shoot whatever appeals to me at the moment. Still working to learn more about this hobby and looking forward to with this group in that pursuit.