I went to the Reno Air Races this weekend thinking I would take a bunch of great photos. Unfortunately I was chaperoning a class of 4th graders from Jessie Beck Elementary School. I figured the principal would frown on me telling her I got a GREAT shot... but lost a kid. As we were about to leave, however, a skydiver jumped out of a plane with the American flag and it made for a pretty good, quick shot. One rule of photography... if you need a good shot take a picture of the American flag. They always seem to turn out pretty good.
The white in the sky is smoke from two planes that were circling the sky diver as he descended. I darkened the sky a little using "curves" in Photoshop. I darkened the shadows while maintaining the highlights. This made the flag "pop" out of the photo.
Camera specs in a nutshell: Canon 1D Mark III with EF 70-200mm lens at 200mm, f/9.0 @ 1/500, ISO 200.
Keep shooting!
Ryan
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