I was chilling in a lake with my father when this firefighter hydroplane flew just above us before landing to grab some water
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This is the best out of the others.
I think color would look best because fire dept planes usually look nice.
Also, slower shutter speeds blur the props which is desired.
I didn't really like the colors in these pics tbh, Idk in other countries but here the colors are red and yellow, which don't look really nice imo.
thanks for the tip about the props, I had never taken pics of planes before and i thought it will be nice to have a higher shutter speed (it was 1/500s) so the plane appears sharp. I must add that here it was pretty close to landing so the props were going slower I imagine.
In the airplane spotting community there is an obsession with liveries. The target audience for this kind of photo would want to see the colors.
It's a balance of focus and shutter speed, but I've seen guys go as low as 1/40.
Btw why do you feel that this one is the best? Would love to hear your opinion on this
A combo of:
1. It's in flight
2. Good angle of plane where you can see cockpit.
3. lens didn't distort the plane in an unpleasing way at this angle
4. the way the scenery sits in frame.