Lighting a plane: Gerry, have a look!

[surenj]

I thought we could try this out when we meet for the Airplane lightpainting meet...

http://www.liquidinplastic.com/2009/10/she-gets-me-from-a-to-b/

[Greg B]

It is a great photograph!

[surenj]

It is a great photograph!

Not only that, he lit it with only five speedlites!

[biggerry]

Lighting a plane: Gerry, have a look!

wow, thats nice! puts my lonely little SB600 to shame...

A couple of important factors for this kind of photography, based on my limited experience and seeing some of Mcnally's stuff, are; 1) good clear positioning of the aircraft, preferably with the sunset as a backdrop 2) lots of speedlights 3) reliable trigger system. I would hate to get all the things to line up and find out that the onboard flash was not good enough to trigger for example.

[surenj]

If we combine our flashes and use one or two radio triggers with the optical triggers on some flashes, I reckon we can get away with it. If not, we will just walk around the plane popping each flash to light paint.

[gstark]

1) good clear positioning of the aircraft, preferably with the sunset as a backdrop

Which begs the question: how do we get one down to the area near Tunks Park that we used for the lightpainting meet a couple of months ago?