In The Blink Of An Eye by bmac62
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Fiction: This P-38 Lightning pilot buzzed me today while I was walking across the parade ground at Lackland Air Force Base in Texas.
Truth: This P-38 Lightning is mounted on three big black poles on one corner of the parade ground. I took the liberty of removing the poles and slightly blurring the props. I took this the day before Christmas:)
Link for the one on the poles: Click Here
Comments (35)
Fantastic render Bill. In 1994 when they held the 'Phoenix 500', Reno type Air Races at Williams Air Base, they had a P-38 on static display. My buddy Rob and I checked it out and thought we knew all about the aircraft, after all we had seen Lefty Gardener's 'White Lightning' several times while at the Reno Races. Then we saw these two old times, looking at this beautiful bird, discussing the rivet pattern on a particular series of the P-38. We realized that those two guys knew way more about this bird than we ever hoped to know. One of them had flown a P-38 photo recon version in New Guinea during WWII, and they often flew at the altitude your picture shows. Happy New Year Bill to you and Tara!
Superb shot. Lovely in monochrome.
Seamless work on the poles and the blurred props. I'd have never guessed it had you not told us. When I first saw it (in dec), I thought it was just a very high-speed shot of a plane right after takeoff. The black and white enhances its metallic sheen; and the highlights are beautiful, bill. As is the band of light in the sky. (You left everything else very dark, to bring out the contrast.) Old 50's sci fi films used this kind of metallic contrast to emphasize the 'eerie' feel of those rickety metal spaceships (often small models). But this isn't rickety, it's just classic. Fine piece of manipulation, and fine light in your deep black and white.
Great postwork here Bill - both the removal of the poles and the addition of the blade blur!
you could earn by making fakes, Bill! wonderful sample!