Museum Lighting by bmac62
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Description
Think about lighting as you look at these three photos taken on the 7th and 8th of June 2009 at the National Museum of the US Air Force in Dayton, Ohio.
There are more than 400 aircraft on display and countless smaller related displayed items to include uniforms, bombs (inert), engines, etc.
The challenge is to photograph all without flash. Flash can be used but adds a harsh light that detracts from the artful way the museum is designed.
These three photos were taken using a 12-60mm, f/2.8-4 lens with Aperture priority. No attempt has been made to alter these photos by cropping to give you the best view of the conditions.
Primary aircraft above:
Top: Curtis 1911 Model D, Type IV
Center: Douglas B-18, "Bolo"
Bottom: Boeing B-52, "Stratofortress"
Walked away with 1700 photos...most of which came out rather well.
Will come back and visit lots of individual aircraft...all with individual stories to tell.
Bill:)
Comments (38)
WOW! What a fun place.
I'm so glad that you went , cause I'll probably never go ...I love viewing these and your right ...I like this look much better!!
superb!!!!
1700 photos! Well done mate. The Stratofortress looks extremely imposing.
you sure got the feel, sweep and 'mystery' of museum lighting, esp for an air museum. It's filled with highlights and deep shadows, and feels very "hall"-like (cavernous), has a metallic tint—to match the planes themselves—and a 24/7 'interior' glow, partly day-like, partly night-like, like a museum in the bowels of NORAD. And the shots themselves are fine, the middle one really giving a sense of these huge beasts in museum light (shining almost eerily in a silence they never knew in combat); and the bottom one is just magnificent, sitting there & sweeping across the shed floor, as commanding as it must've been in flight. Wonderful capture, and apparently just as you captured it since you didn't crop, etc. Since I can't comment on every plane shot up to now, please allow me to let this stand for the whole (though maybe I'll go back with time...as your work calls me to do that often.) A wonderful montage w/ wonderful individual images. Sweeping.
GOBSMACKED !!!!!!!
Our city museum does not do as great of a job in lighting as this, but the EAA Air Venture Museum is lit this way. I wonder if they had the same people. Yep and if you use flash it washes everything out. Nice shots by the way.
Yep! Lightying! The bane of our lives! But suprisingly, the camera's coped with 'most' shot well!! And these are three fine examples of of the type of light! My fave? The B-18. SOOOOOO Rare! Great one, Bill Rob.