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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/

It is a great photograph!

Greg B wrote:It is a great photograph!

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

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.

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.

biggerry wrote: 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?