Title: Take Offs And Landings
Location: Portland, Oregon, USA, North America
Description: What’s going on here? First, this image was shot with a Canon 7D and Canon 28-300mm L lens with settings of ISO 100, 150mm, f/20, 30 seconds. What’s going is one plane is taking off and those are the streaks in the foreground, including the red and green wingtip lights. The little dots along those lines are created from strobes (lights that flash) on the wing tips. The bright lights in the middle and the front wheel lights.
The lights in the background are created from a plane on approach behind the plane that is taking off. As you can see, planes don’t often descend in a perfectly straight line. The last streak from right to left is front another plane approaching the other runway to the side.
Photograph Creative Commons Copyright Peter West Carey
If you’re in the Portland area, I will be holding workshops on February 4th, 2012 and March 31st & April 1st, 2012.
More on this technique for Light Trails can be found here.
