Aviation photography

Aviation photography is the act of taking images of aircraft, either in flight, or on the ground. Types of aviation photography include air-to-air, ground-to-air, ground-static, and remote photography. Military aviation photography, especially air-to-air, requires additional skills, as the photo and target aircraft often fly at velocities of over Mach 1, while under moderate to high G.

Types

Air-to-air

Air-to-air photography is the art of photographing aircraft in the air, while using another aircraft as a photo platform.^[1] The subject aircraft is photographed while both aircraft are in flight. This allows the photographer to position the subject in specific locations and angles to get the most desirable shot. Some things that must be considered to achieve best results are lighting and background. Proper lighting is achieved through correct placement of the aircraft relative to the sun, and is accomplished flying only at certain times of the day and/or by flying at a heading that lines the sun up on the subject aircraft properly. The background can highlight or distract from the subject and must be carefully considered when taking shots. Air-to-air photography uses include commercial use and advertising.

Ground to air photograph of an Emirates Airbus A380 departing London Heathrow Airport, England

Ground-to-air

A Qantas Boeing 747-400 overflying Starbeyevo, Moscow at 11,000m. The aircraft was photographed from the ground using a Canon 400D, a 1200mm telescope and 2x Barlow lens.

In ground-to-air photography, photos of aircraft in flight are taken with the photographer on the ground. This type of photography is common at airshows or airports. Generally, a long focus photographic lens is necessary due to the greater distance between the photographer and the target aircraft. Along with ground-static photography, this is the most popular form of aviation photography.

Ground-static

XOJET 1999 Cessna 750 at John Wayne Airport, California

In ground-static photography, photos of stationary aircraft are taken by photographers on the ground. Photos can be of aircraft exteriors, interiors, and aircraft details. The photographer has full control over lighting, aircraft placement, camera angles, and background. Involving other subjects such as the pilot or other aircraft is much easier to accomplish in ground-static photography than in other forms of aerial photography.

Remote

Remote photography is a variation on aerial air-to-air photography, whereby the camera is mounted onto the external aircraft structure away from the photographer and is triggered remotely using a mechanical or electrical shutter release. The image has to be composed when the aircraft is on the ground, because the photographer has no access to the camera while the aircraft is in flight. Much brainstorming and planning must be done while setting up the camera to get the desired shot. Remote photography is the least common type of aviation photography.

The first time close head-on remote photography had been used was in 1977 when photographer Richard Cooke, working with Sqn Ldr Alan Voyle, Senior Engineering Officer of The Red Arrows, developed a camera bracket to fit on the underside of a spare Red Arrows Folland Gnat aircraft. The pilots were carefully briefed on the ground and then, in the air, the photographer operated the camera from the back seat of the camera aircraft, using a mechanical release triggered by a solenoid, operated through the anti-collision light.

The Nikkormat camera with autowind pointed back at the Red Arrows team and was fitted with a wide angle 24mm Nikkor lens. The photography was commissioned by the Telegraph Sunday Magazine and made the front cover on 3 July 1977.

Databases

Databases exist on the internet, cataloguing aviation photographs. These include Airliners.net and Jetphotos.net, and allow users to search them for photographs of aircraft based on user-specified criteria.

References

↑ Air-to-Air Photography - MilAvia Press

External links

Photography

Outline of photography

Terminology	35 mm equivalent focal length Angle of view Aperture Black and white Chromatic aberration Circle of confusion Color temperature Depth of field Depth of focus Exposure Exposure compensation Exposure value F-number Film format Film speed Focal length Guide number Hyperfocal distance Metering mode Perspective distortion Photograph Photographic printing Photographic processes Reciprocity Red-eye effect Science of photography Shutter speed Sync Zone System White balance

Genres	Aerial Architectural Commercial Conceptual Conservation Cloudscape Documentary Erotic Fashion Fine-art Fire Forensic Glamour High-speed Landscape Lomography Nature Nude Photojournalism Pornography Portrait Post-mortem Selfie Senior Social documentary Sports Still life Stock Street Vernacular Underwater Wedding Wildlife

Techniques	Afocal Bokeh Brenizer Contre-jour Cyanotype ETTR Fill flash Fireworks Harris shutter HDRI High-speed Holography Infrared Kirlian Kite aerial Long-exposure Macro Mordançage Multiple exposure Night Panning Panoramic Photogram Print toning Redscale Rephotography Rollout Scanography Sabatier effect Stereoscopy Stopping down Strip (Slit-scan) Sun printing Tilt–shift Time-lapse Ultraviolet Vignetting Xerography

Composition	Diagonal method Framing Geometry and symmetry Headroom Lead room Rule of thirds Simplicity

Equipment	Camera (light-field field pinhole press rangefinder SLR still TLR toy view) Darkroom (enlarger safelight) Film (base format holder stock) Filter Flash (beauty dish cucoloris gobo hot shoe grid monolight Reflector snoot Softbox wireless sync) Lens (Wide-angle lens Zoom lens Telephoto lens) Manufacturers Monopod Movie projector Slide projector Tripod (head) Zone plate

History	Timeline of photography technology Analog photography Autochrome Lumière Box camera Calotype Camera obscura Daguerreotype Dufaycolor Heliography Painted photography backdrops Photography and the law Glass plate Visual arts

Digital photography	Digital camera (D-SLRs (comparison) MILC camera back) Digiscoping Digital versus film photography Film scanner Image sensor (CMOS APS CCD Three-CCD camera Foveon X3 sensor) Photo sharing Pixel

Color photography	Color Color film (print slide) Color management (color space primary color CMYK color model RGB color model)

Photographic processing	Bleach bypass C-41 process Cross processing Developer Digital image processing Dye coupler E-6 process Fixer Gelatin silver process Gum printing K-14 process Print permanence Push processing Stop bath

Lists	Most expensive photographs Photographers (Norwegian Polish street women)

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