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Critique welcome.

Nice unusual perspective....very imaginative...great work....congrats....LJ

Good shot. Unique. I wonder if cropping some off the bottom would look good.

Very nice shot Dan! I love the nontraditional point of view. The C-47 (and that is what this was built as -- NOT a DC3)was one of the three or for greatest and most beautiful designs in history. Others being the Lockheed Constellation, the Supermarine Spitfire and the Lockheed F104.

 

I have always been impressed with the angles you shoot from. This is what separates your work from the rest. There are those industrial/abstract qualities that I find so eye-pleasing. There are a a lot of us who can make the occassional airshow shot, but it takes a real artist with an eye like yours for great work like this.

 

Dan, are you familiar with the American Modernist painter and photographer Charles Scheeler? He made some very dramitic photos of the (then brand-new) Ford Tri-motor. His angles of view were similar to yours.

Andre, thank you very much!

 

I'm not familiar with Scheeler, but i'll definitely take a look at his work.

 

 

I think your list of airplanes is missing a certain gull winged fighter...

 

Thanks again Andre, and Lee/Chuck.

Well Dan, that gull-winged thing did have a certain charm in her day I reckon. And she was certainly more aestetically pleasing in lines than any of her carrier-bourne shipmates of the time. Sitting next to a SB2C or a TBM, even my ex-wife would have looked good.

"Sitting next to a SB2C or a TBM, even my ex-wife would have looked good."

 

ha! To each his own, i still think its one of the coolest, maybe not pretty per-se, but i like it.

Nicely held depth of field, superb tonal range and reflections in this one Dan. I can't help thinking that I would like a little less elevator and more sky. But a beautiful image.

Thanks August.

 

Here are a couple of photos for you to compare, showing a little bit more sky. I personally like this one the best though.

Wups, wrong caption that first photo. Here's the other.

What aperture did you take this at? The DOF is impressive.

The main photo is at F14, the other 2 are at F11 and F13.

Nice FOV for 50mm, at first impression it looks like a much wider lens was used. I like the 'lots of elevator' approach, the rivets make a great lead-in to the engine, which incidentally makes a fine focal point. Cheers, Alex

haha, wups! The 50 1.4 is my FD camera's lens! This was taken with an 18-55mm kit lens. Thanks for the critiques!

Beautiful image of C47 from an unusual and original perspective, wonderful light. Alfredo

Thanks Alfredo.