POTUS Arriving

Got this shot today. Wish I had better PP experience as I would like the Helo to stand out a little more. It was an overcast day and I was shooting from behind a window.

C&C welcome.

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Still a good shot despite the conditions, I may have cropped it differently though.

Where's this at?

Always nice to be able to grab a picture of Marine 1. Nice prop blur, but it appears a bit back lit. On my edit; cropped, increased saturation, resized, adjusted shadows/highlights, increased contrast, sharpen, cloned the dust bunny. I do not like to use shadow/highlight, but I think this image needed it.

Imagine the possibility that you had a sniper watching you
Nice shot

I was thinking a Lotus with a Porsche engine :S

Thanks for the edit. Just the tips I was looking for. Marine 1 has a pop to it now.

Any suggestions for best shutter speed to capture the prop blur on a helo? I was shooting at 1/30 but it was too slow. I had several shots that were blurry due to me moving and max zoom.

jdando wrote in post #10722264
Always nice to be able to grab a picture of Marine 1. Nice prop blur, but it appears a bit back lit. On my edit; cropped, increased saturation, resized, adjusted shadows/highlights, increased contrast, sharpen, cloned the dust bunny. I do not like to use shadow/highlight, but I think this image needed it.

Oh, I did. There were two in a tower across from me. I was looking out the window with binoculars before the helos arrived and looked up the tower. Guess what I see but the sniper looking right back at me with his binoculars!

I think my wife's suggestion not to go up on the roof was a good one. Could have been a bad day if I all of the sudden showed up on a roof top as Marine 1 was on final.

Desertraptor wrote in post #10722714
Imagine the possibility that you had a sniper watching you
Nice shot

Team PCBeach wrote in post #10734087
I think my wife's suggestion not to go up on the roof was a good one. Could have been a bad day if I all of the sudden showed up on a roof top as Marine 1 was on final.

:p My music teacher used to perform in NYC. One of the sets he would disappear, and start 'dueling' with a trumpeter on the main stage from up in the balcony. When VP Gore was in attendance, the entire balcony was shut down for him, but my teacher didn't think about it and darted up the side steps to do the bit. He was in for a bit of a shock when he got to the top. SS let him through, but were annoyed that nobody had informed them in advance of this.


/sorry I have nothing photographically relevant to share, just love this story.