Photo of the week - Week #12 :: 7th September - 13th September, 2009

AnCatDubh

Boeing 737-800 departing Lanzarote to the south
F5.6, 30 sec, ISO 800.

Credit: Stee

.Longshanks.

Congrats Stee!
I knew this was going to get photo of the week the second i seen it. Love it!

Danbo!

Well, its not often you get to shoot light graffiti using a passenger jet as your brush!

As in the description, this was taken in Matagorda, Lanzarote, next to the airport, an amazing place for aviation photography. If anyone has seen my other random thread contributions you’ll know this is what I enjoy snapping most, and this is a shot I’ve had in my head and wanted to get for a very long time.

This photo was very right-place-right-time. I had spent about an hour each night for 2 nights near the airport looking for something like this, but nothing came close. Then, I was messing about with long exposures on the seafront, trying to get a shot of a cruise ship on the horizon, but with no remote/tripod (just out for dinner), only had max 30sec exposure. The camera was sitting on an uneven wall so couldn’t use bulb without shaking it. The shutter was open about 4 seconds when the 737 blasted past us to the left and straight into the frame. I was expecting a straight line heading into the sky, but the plane banked left and made an almost perfect curve. The above is a crop of a landscape picture, I removed the cruise ship (turned out it was moving quite slowly, not anchored, and was way too far away without a zoom lens anyway) and part of the beach that had our shadows from a street light.

If anyone is interested I can post the original picture straight from the camera later.

Thanks for the thanks everyone!

Stee

Tallon

Great picture and a well earned pic of the week

looks like light painting is getting more and more liked