About the Image(s)

For me, air shows are always an excellent source for photography, with all the dynamic action and bright color. I enjoy the challenge of capturing tight formation flying at high speed but at the same time I look for the not so usual images one can obtain by moving in close and narrowing the field of view. This particular picture was taken at the Homestead air show south of Miami and depicts one of the U S Air Force Thunderbirds departing the flight line and heading out to begin the demonstration. What I attempted here was to hone in on the pilot and remove from the original image elements that I thought were distracting; to emphasize the human aspect, so to speak, which is often missed from shooting half a mile away. Taken with my Nikon D500 with 70-300 mm lens and edited in first Camera Raw then finished up in Photoshop CS 5.