When Time Is Not On Your Side

The assignment was simple enough: photograph a pilot for an upcoming airshow story. Of course, sometimes no matter how much you plan, life will throw you a curve ball. The kind where doors and landing gears are missing. And you only have 10 minutes to shoot.

Thankfully the maintenance crew were more than happy to put the airplane back together as much as they could, and even managed to give it a quick spit shine for effect.

But, to make the image look more "prepared" for the airshow by the time the article is published, I had to crop in tight unfortunately. I would've loved to use the entire hanger and setup more lights. Then again, I only had a few minutes to photograph Mr. Epps.

Readjusted a couple of lights, tried to grid the smaller key light so it wouldn't blow out the white off the airplane, and I had to do without a hair light. Again, no landing gear!

So I went outside to get a few more shots, and I saw this interesting statue. The problem was that it was strongly backlit so I needed to do some HDR, and I didn't have a tripod that would go this low on the ground. So I layed on the grass and held stead as much as I could and changed shutter speed.