Banking Above The Crops, P51D Mustang
Hot off the screen today is this image that I started and competed retouching this afternoon (gotta be a record ! )
The plane was captured a couple of years ago during a shoot at the Airbus family air day display and is an historic WW2 P51D Mustang called Ferocious Frankie.
I had two ideas for the final image the first was to have the plane flying above the ocean and cliffs or the English countryside.After seeing several fields in my village bearing some rather lovely golden coloured crops I decided to go with the countryside idea.
From here my idea grew another step further and I decided to have someone in the image working the land and my son was suitably bribed for the job ! The shot was completed very quickly as it started to spit with rain and was very simply lit with just a little fill in flash to aid the slightly flat ambient lighting.
Really nice work on this composite. It’s very convincing. Having watched so many of your vids and seen how meticulous you are I am surprised you got this done so quickly
Hi Frank yep your right it was a breeze compared to most images I create ! The Centaur one was a monster it just depends on the elements involved and this one needed no shadows which helped speed up the process.
Si