One of Saltspring Air’s venerable Beaver floatplanes above Georgia Strait and heading home to Ganges, Salt Spring Island.
Salt Spring Photographer John Cameron
One of Saltspring Air’s venerable Beaver floatplanes above Georgia Strait and heading home to Ganges, Salt Spring Island.
The shot of the plane itself is awesome, but add the rainbow and it is over-the-top cool! I was just thinking about doing something like this. My husband has lots of friends with airplanes and I thought that it would be neat to get some shots of them flying in the air. Were you using a 70-200mm lens here? – Oh, and I delivered the aerial photos that I did a couple of weeks ago and THEY LOVED THEM! It looks like I am going to get to do a lot more of that in the coming weeks! I’m thrilled! Thanks again for your help, John!
Thanks Rachel. I just happened to be on the docks waiting to see if there would be a photographable dawn when the airline owner asked me if I had time to fly to Vancouver and back. The plane was boarding and I ended up going and shooting out the tiny window rather than taking the door off (there were passengers on each leg of the flight). Ended up with 16 keepers.
I went with what I had with me, a 5D II, a 17mm tilt-shift, a 35, and the 700-200. This shot’s specs:
IS0 400
200mm
f/5.6
1/1250
Shot is displayed pretty much at full frame with minor editing in Aperture and NIK plugins.
Good to hear you have some aerial work coming. I hope you are getting paid for your efforts!
Cheers,
-jc
I was in Vancouver recently, watching the planes at Coal Harbour, and caught 2 of Saltspring Air’s other Beavers with the camera. My favourite airplane. I envy you the flight!
I read about your getaway. Good on ya! My trip was in pretty iffy weather, we took of from SSI in sunshine but quickly ran in to the grey stuff. Still, always fun to fly!
What an awesome chance! And all you had to do is be in the right place at the right time. I love those kinds of happenings! Thanks for telling me the specs! I love knowing exactly what was used to create a photo. It makes me so happy because it takes a little bit of the mystery out of it for me and makes me think, “Hey! I might be able to do something like that too!” But not with the rainbow. You got me there, buddy! – I love everything about that second photo. The monochromatic color, the densely packing buildings contrasting with the expanse of water and the tiny plane dwarfed by man’s achievement on one side and nature on the other. Too cool. – Yeah, I got paid for the aerial photos. And I will get paid next time too! So thank God for that!