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Aeronca L-3B Grasshopper at the Museum of Flight in Seattle Washington. Photo by Carrie Gorringe on 23 February 2023.
1/500s; f/7.1; ISO 1600; EFL 24mm.
Shadows underneath the fusilage of the Lockhead Model 10-E Electra at the Museum of Flight in Seattle Washington. Photo by Carrie Gorringe on 23 February 2023.
1/500s; f/16; ISO 1600; EFL 24mm.
Right wing and engine of the Lockhead Model 10-E Electra at the Museum of Flight in Seattle Washington. Photo by Carrie Gorringe on 23 February 2023.
1/500s; f/11; ISO 1600; EFL 24mm.
Mikoyan & Gurevich MiG-15bis (on floor) and Piper J-3 Cub (yellow) at the Museum of Flight in Seattle Washington. Photo by Carrie Gorringe on 23 February 2023.
1/500s; f/14; ISO 1600; EFL 24mm.
Beech C-45H (D-18) (white with red engines), Piper J-3 Cub (yellow), and Sikorsky HH-52A Seaguard (white and orange helicopter) at the Musuem of Flight in Seattle Washington. Photo by Carrie Gorringe on 23 February 2023.
1/500s; f/10; ISO 1600; EFL 24mm.
Bowers Fly Baby 1A (yellow), Northrop YF-5A Freedom Fighter (grey with orange stripes), Lockheed F-104C Starfighter (blue and white, NASA), and Stephens Akro (red and white, banking away) flying in formation at the Museum of Flight, Seattle Washington. Photo by Carrie Gorringe on 23 February 2023.
1/500s; f/8; ISO 1600; EFL 24mm.
Heath Model V Parasol (orange with pontoons), McAllister Yakima Clipper (red on left), and Douglas DC-3 (silver on right) at the Museum of Flight in Seattle Washington. Photo by Carrie Gorringe on 23 February 2023.
1/500s; f/10; ISO 1600; EFL 24mm.
Stearman PT-13A Kaydet (blue biplane with yellow wings),Granville Gee Bee Z Super Sportster (yellow), and McAllister Yakima Clipper at the Museum of Flight in Seattle Washington. Photo by Carrie Gorringe on 23 February 2023.
1/500s; f/11; ISO 1600; EFL 24mm.
Left engine and wing of Lockhead Model 10-E Electra and Stinson Model O at the Museum of Flight in Seattle Washington. Photo by Carrie Gorringe on 23 February 2023.
1/500s; f/10; ISO 1600; EFL 24mm.
Front view of Lockhead Model 10-E Electra with "Alien Eyes" at the Musuem of Flight in Seattle Washington. Photo by Carrie Gorringe on 23 February 2023.
1/500s; f13; ISO 1600; EFL 24mm.
Reflection
Reflection
Given the requirements of this assignment, I decided to shoot at the Museum of Flight in Seattle since they have a large number of visually interesting objects packed in close together. I opted not to use a tripod because of a lack of floor space and the potential for large groups of people coming into the Museum. Because of past neck surgery, my hands sometimes have a noticaable tremble; given this condition, I I needed to opt for a higher shutter speed (1/250s or faster) to make sure that there was no blur. The objects I was photographing were large, so I wanted a slow f-stop to ensure everything was in focus. To compensate for these, I had to go with a higher ISO setting of 1600.
On the day of shooting, the weather in Seattle was surpringinly filled with sunlight, which presented me with some additional challenge because of the greenhouse-like construction of the Main Gallery. To mitigate the problem, I opted to use shutter priority to ensure a short shutter time and used the camera control (+/- button) to control exposure. For the two photos of the Lockheed Electra I wanted, I was obliged to shoot directly towards the exterior light, so I opted to underexpose them to focus on the shape of the aircraft and the shadows. This gave them the eerie, otherworldly effect I wanted to achieve. I elected to do two photos of this aircraft since I wanted to focus on the shadows and shape of the bottom fo the aircraft in one and the "alien eyes" appearance of the portals in the front of the aircraft in the second.
In retrospect, there were some issues with framing and composition because of the necessary arrangement of the artifacts in the gallery, especially in the photo "Beech, Piper, and Seaguard". Ideally, I should have framed the shot better by tilting the camera down a bit so that the yellow Piper Cub was in the center, but became too obsessed with making sure my movement between shots was reasonably consistent.
Sources:
Museum of Flight - Campus and Gallery Maps. Seattle, Washington: Museum of Flight, 2022. Retrieved from https://www.museumofflight.org/user_area/content_media/raw/mof_museummap.pdf.
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