Pakistan F-16 Discussions 2

[Imran Khan]

making of AIM-120

aim-9

 

[Munir]

This plane, the good old 728, was doing display in Turkey...

I just cannot believe I sat in this plane.

 

[Donatello]

This plane, the good old 728, was doing display in Turkey...

I just cannot believe I sat in this plane.

The F-16 seems way big over here.

 

[Munir]

The F-16 seems way big over here.

Please compare..

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[Donatello]

Please compare..

PICT0046 F-16D Thunderbirds ground crew right front m.jpg

Yup.. It's pretty big for a light aircraft. JF-17 seems way smaller due to it's low height

 

[gambit]

This plane, the good old 728, was doing display in Turkey...

I just cannot believe I sat in this plane.

The best pose for anyone -- more like any guy -- in front of a fighter, or a motorcycle, is NOT to face camera directly but to stand facing slightly of angle to one side, hold the brain bucket casually by its straps in one hand, and jacket or gear on the other hand. No shades. Chicks want to see the eyes. Smile but do not show your pearlies, and do not smirk.

Lower angle on the camera, something like below the waist and looking up, this makes the aircraft (or the bike) larger and more imposing in perspective, but YOU are master of it. Aircrafts are tricky because of their sizes, so photogs usually have only partials of them, usually the cockpit regions, in the pics so as not to take attention away from the people. Try to minimize background clutter such as buildings or trees, and have as much blue sky as possible. The blue sky and blue sea are deeply and subtly psychological, representing escape and freedom, hence, the lower camera position looking upward for airplane shoots.

I got all that yrs ago from a retired Msgt who was a USAF photog...

STILL PHOTOGRAPHY SPECIALIST - airforce.com

He went on and had a good post military career traveling all over the world, working on commissions, for companies like GE or Boeing taking photos of everything, from people to wind turbines to buildings to jets, before back problems forced him to retire for real.

 

[Munir]

I agree @gambit There is a big set of rules. Just snapping a picture is waste of time.

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It must be a kind of invitation to look around and become part of the picture...

A picture is good when tons of people use it as a background picture on their computer. Nothing less.

 

[gambit]

I agree @gambit There is a big set of rules. Just snapping a picture is waste of time.

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It must be a kind of invitation to look around and become part of the picture...

A picture is good when tons of people use it as a background picture on their computer. Nothing less.

I wish I have good pics of my time back then. The best camera I had was a Minolta X-700, which I doubt the kids today know what 'film' really mean. Anyway, I never fully exploited its capabilities and learned how to take good pics. I look at the pics today by my friends with their phone cameras and I am fully embarrassed at the crap I have.

 

[Munir]

I wish I have good pics of my time back then. The best camera I had was a Minolta X-700, which I doubt the kids today know what 'film' really mean. Anyway, I never fully exploited its capabilities and learned how to take good pics. I look at the pics today by my friends with their phone cameras and I am fully embarrassed at the crap I have.

I had some very nice pictures with my Canon 50E. With huge lens sometimes pilots stopped to let me take some pics. But that was more then 20-25 years ago. Now I am old and have only Canon Ixus 5Mp pocket camera. I do not even use the zoom! Still the experience counts. I have no ability to make nice pics during air displays but I have lovely pics of the flightlines. I learned that you just have to wait some minutes and maybe hours to have that picture everyone wants. And even with digital cams you have to understand focus, light, composition and all those rules you mentioned! If I could have now a top end camera and a2a time then a dream would come true

 

[Luftwaffe]

I had some very nice pictures with my Canon 50E. With huge lens sometimes pilots stopped to let me take some pics. But that was more then 20-25 years ago. Now I am old and have only Canon Ixus 5Mp pocket camera. I do not even use the zoom! Still the experience counts. I have no ability to make nice pics during air displays but I have lovely pics of the flightlines. I learned that you just have to wait some minutes and maybe hours to have that picture everyone wants. And even with digital cams you have to understand focus, light, composition and all those rules you mentioned! If I could have now a top end camera and a2a time then a dream would come true

Post whatever you have members here love any and all aviation photography.

 

[Munir]

One more for @gambit

I was sitting under the wings of the 728. Looking at the 726 being readied with fuel tanks. Just there probably watching a plane that buzzed extremely low over our house in Gujar Khan some decades ago...

 

[gambit]

One more for @gambit

I was sitting under the wings of the 728. Looking at the 726 being readied with fuel tanks. Just there probably watching a plane that buzzed extremely low over our house in Gujar Khan some decades ago...

That is the kind of good day with clear blue sky to take ground pics of airplanes, no matter what kind. Those days are typical at MacDill but we had a 'wing king' who was a hard *** about having unauthorized cameras on the flightline, mostly because SOCOM and CENTCOM HQs there. I think only Edwards and Nellis got more generals assigned than MacDill.

That Dash-60 bring back unpleasant memory. The -60 is used to start jets and have a heavy spring loaded tow bar. One time, I helped move a -60 and the tow bar slipped out of my oily hand and smacked me on the jaw. I got knocked out and my friends had to carried my *** off the flightline.

 

[Munir]

That is the kind of good day with clear blue sky to take ground pics of airplanes, no matter what kind. Those days are typical at MacDill but we had a 'wing king' who was a hard *** about having unauthorized cameras on the flightline, mostly because SOCOM and CENTCOM HQs there. I think only Edwards and Nellis got more generals assigned than MacDill.

That Dash-60 bring back unpleasant memory. The -60 is used to start jets and have a heavy spring loaded tow bar. One time, I helped move a -60 and the tow bar slipped out of my oily hand and smacked me on the jaw. I got knocked out and my friends had to carried my *** off the flightline.

Yep, I really understand what that means... Unauthorized camera's... It makes certain people extremely nervous.

 

[gambit]

After Top Gun, every guy and gal authorized to wear a flightsuit had their sleeves pushed up their arms. I saw that when I was back in Upper Heyford (UK). Our wing commander put a stop to that immediately, but our Brits friends on base went that way for a long time until the fad died. Their CO made no bones about it.

 

[rockstarIN]

The best pose for anyone -- more like any guy -- in front of a fighter, or a motorcycle, is NOT to face camera directly but to stand facing slightly of angle to one side, hold the brain bucket casually by its straps in one hand, and jacket or gear on the other hand. No shades. Chicks want to see the eyes. Smile but do not show your pearlies, and do not smirk.

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Can you post a sample here please.