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MidwayDay1 008cBW
This was actually a mistake... I didn't mean to be 'artsy'. Shooting a quickly moving target with an optical zoom can be hard because any setting you decide on only has a limited window of use. In this case I was playing with the zoom while it was flying by. I shoot have set the zoom and let it fly into the sweet spot. I do like the detail on the flight control surfaces, however.
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Nine Minutes in the Rain at Midway Airport
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These have been reduced in quality from HiRes to fit on GG. In general I'm satisfied with a shoot that lasted under ten minutes, allowed me about fourteen shots, was in the rain and in dark lighting conditions and that involved subjects going 200mph. There were a few shots that were total losses because I led the subject too much (it took me a minute to re-learn what I've learned shooting trains for five years... frame your image and let a fast moving subject move into it... don't try to lead it like you're in a dogfight). And yes, they're too dark, but I didn't want to go overboard and lighten them post-shoot like a lot of people would have. I honestly don't believe in cropping and only did it for the two shots because I didn't think there was any documentary sin involved in taking out empty air.
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James Dinnerville
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