Spuetz

Hello Glen,

beautiful models, no doubt about that. But re. your question: What do you say yourself? Do you think that the photographs make you believe that they are pictures of full size airplanes?...

Cheers, Martin

abufletcher

The bottom two give me an eerie feeling that these ARE indeed real photos of real aircraft on some other planet! But then again this is in OZ. Maybe the pictures should be posted upside down for added realism.

SDCrashmaster

Ding Ding Ding...not.
Somebody save us quick...Uncle Joe?

uncljoe

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Heavy Iron .. is all I've got this week that IMO fit the requirements of Mustang 51. John Gerhardt Scratch A7 with 1000 pounders s and 300 gal drops
Semper Fi
Joe

SDCrashmaster

Loves me some heavy Iron...and the sound and smell of the go juice going through the can.
Hard to top a day with jets and jet bros.
Thanks for saving the thread Joe...again.
Paul

chasrb

Great video work! Good selection of music - not so loud that it drowns out the sound of the jets yet not so much in the background that you hear the crunching of gravel under their boots.

In the A10 did you use a cellioid filter on the fly-bys?

Here again is an example of the spirit of this forum. you crafted and produced a video that is believable as if it were done by a a large commercial studio. It has all the right elements that make one think is it real or is it Memorex?

To those who don't quite get the intent of the forum...

It is the crafting of the message and it's presentation more so than, is every rivet in frame. Granted, it is important to get the right talent in the shot or you will have a flop on your hands.


Remember to have: a background, a foreground, a believable subject and proper perspective.

A tip: digital camera users when you are reviewing your shot in a tool like Photosp use the soften filter to take some of the 'it looks like a model' out of the shot.

SDCrashmaster

Thank you Chasman,
I was beginning to wonder if any of the scale guys even bothered clicking on the links I posted. I get a certain "anti-jet" feeling in this thread...which is strange since they are about the coolest thing on the planet.
This must explain the lack of comments from this threads' participants, if they even watched at all.

As the big Mibo A-10 is such a wonderful subject that details so nicely (in skilled hands, of course), crafting unique angles and shot progression is really wide open.
It very much helps having willing subjects who are just as interested in the quality of the footage as I am. My films are not as much about amazing jet models as they are about the people and the experience of flying them, and the comradarie that surrounds that experience.

All colorization was done in post.

RE: the music. I get so many comments about music. Many do not understand the role of music in these films. These films are produced for mass appeal, to promote this upper end of the hobby.
Without a soundtrack, these videos relinquish their interest to all but the diehard RC enthusiast who would give 6 stars to anything with an RC airplane in it. Jets are cool and sound cool. I try to get a good mix of natural sound vs. supporting music. If you watch enough of stuff, you'll see that I try to get a variety of musical styles and genre's into my films...even an occasional Country song[X(]
But, in general, Jets kick *****...and the music supporting footage of them must also kick *****.
Shotgun microphones really help in isolating the sound that eminates from these fantastic subjects. If I wanted "boots crunching" I'd have to point directly at them with intent :-)

At any rate, thanks for your astute observation of the video and even moreso, thanks for commenting here about it. The RC films that I produce are done simply for the "love of the game" and the only reward is the comments I get from people like you. I enjoy hearing viewers opinions about what they saw. 99% of the stuff I hear is good. I really enjoy the other 1% also, as the major goal of a successful production is to eliminate any thing that is less than great...or interrupts the experience by being of lousy quality, shot poorly, or just simply out of place or inapropriate. I really thrive on the "nitpickers" comments.

Thanks,
Paul

PS: Your description of a "scale photos" necessary elements, and the intent of this thread, is dead on!

gisbod

Hi All,

Great idea for a thread, thought I'd add my Fokker D.V11 (Flair kit 1/6th scale)....... WW1 is the way to go.... Guy

JEFFHINES73

Does this count

Hello82

...here's a few similar type front shots of my Ziroli P51...knees got dirty taking these

SDCrashmaster

Nicely done Hello82! Leveling the horizon on the middle one and that's a great shot.
PR

abufletcher

Outstanding!!! Or maybe "out kneeling."


Only your knees? When I was photographing my Snipe and Legionaire I had dirt on my chest! I must have done close to 50 push-ups during the shoot. Who says RC modeling isn't a sport?

Hello82

thanks...yeah only my knees, but I was holding the rest of body up with my stomach and back muscles...which I could still feel a week later...lesson learned, I'm not as young as I used to feel...or something like that....

t_burley

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killer shots of Prudence Matt. glad she is all back together again!

David Bathe

Good stuff '82.
Well worth getting your knees dirty.
The tight crop on the last picture really flys.
Looks big and heavy.
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chasrb

Hello82, great work!

You used the key elements and added in lighting. It is easy to forget about creative lighting, you did not. Using a b/w filter also conveyed age and time past. Again, good thinking.

Shot 1 and 3 really covey power, and strength for me.


More Tips for posters who don't get it.

With lighting and it's use it is how you remove light that will set a mood more so than an over abundance of it. Think about a concert or a play where the scrim is showing a leaf or other pattern of light or the color of a gel and how it highlights feature OR hides them.


Hello82 provides a good example of this technique.

Hello82

hi

yeah playing with light is a lot of fun and changes things drastically...my father always had 5-7 different small lamps per room, to set the mood and adjust accordingly... for the day, twilight or evening...

...I saw a line on the bottom of a fellow modeler (was it this thread?) which read..."the older I get the smarter my father was"...or something of that nature...so true! haha


Chasman....speaking of gels...I used theater gel lenses for my 3 bottom wing lights...works well over flitemetal!

SDCrashmaster yeah ooops need to level that horizon... here's a level... more clearer one...maybe the clearer focus though loses some of it's mystery? Need some Ansel Adams tips....

SDCrashmaster

Good Stuff!
P

nine o nine

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My friend, the late Phil Bosquet took this shotr of my B-17. Mitch

SDCrashmaster

Very nice to see the continued contribution from Phil. Hope there will be many more.
Paul
Great B-17 nine-o!

Hello82

yes, nice plane and shot captured from Phil...quite the lens to get that from a distance

Mitch, maybe it's already on this super long thread somewhere and I missed it, but you should show here that night shot of the B-17, that I once saw elsewhere....that was very cool too

David Bathe

Ha! Just knock out![sm=thumbs_up.gif]
Great framing. The model positioned towards the top creates a lot of hight... even tough inreality, this picture could have been shot on the ground with two guys (out of shot) supporting the models wingtips and ol' Phil kneeling down!
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Teus

Great shot of a great model [sm=thumbs_up.gif]

But it take only 1 second to see it's a model with four Zenoah's?

Spuetz

true! Nobody seems to dare critizin one of Phil's shots..
How about this one. I took it a couple of years ago at a Warbird meeting here in Germany. Four four-strokers... conceiled.

chasrb

I didn't know they had such big spark plugs in the 1940's.....