On 5/31/07, Sean Barrett sean@epoptic.com wrote:
Mark Wagner stated for the record:
On 5/29/07, K P kpbotany@gmail.com wrote:
Last air show I went to, photographers kept bumping into each
other--took
some fun pictures of that after a while. Be sure to shoot the display
tags
alongside the planes or whatever you shoot (I assume you're shooting digital), as it may make accurate identification and use in articles easier.
When I'm shooting airplanes, I try for a square-on front view, a square-on side view, a front corner view, and close-ups of any significant markings (tail number, nose art, and anything else that looks interesting).
When I'm shooting airplanes, I try to shoot between it's 5 and 7 o'clock -- the engines give seeker a brighter IR source to home on.
But I appreciate all the photography advice too! I'm not a good photographer, my technique is to take a LOT of pictures and hope I get lucky.
-- Sean Barrett | Nov shmoz ka pop? sean@epoptic.com |
You don't have to be an artist to take good pictures, you just have to take a lot of pictures, it takes practice--evaluate your results, figure out how to do better next time. You do have to be an artist to take great pictures. For Wikipedia, great pictures are not the same thing as for an artists, though. If you take an in-focus picture of what you trying to illustrate, without any extraneous artifacts (dust, dirt, solar images), crop it appropriately for upload in a large file size, with a reasonable license (I'm keen on public domain), then you can provide a great image for an article.
KP