Plane & Pilot proudly announces the finalists for this year’s Plane & Pilot Your Flying World Photo Contest. Finalists were selected from among hundreds of entries, and while there wasn’t a bad shot in the bunch, these images shone through.
And as usual, there was a wide range of subject matter in this year’s battle of the airborne lenses, with everything from bucolic panoramas of natural beauty to studies of the finer details of the flying machines we love so much.
Enjoy these outstanding submissions, but be sure to tune in next week when we announce the winners of this year’s Plane & Pilot Your Flying World Photo Contest!
The title of my image is F-18 Growler. I was a guest on the USS Carl Vinson (CVN 70). I was shooting on the flight deck as the crew was qualifying new pilots for carrier landings or Traps. My adrenaline was pumping. The carrier deck is the most exciting place I've ever shot at the time, a fast-moving and very dangerous but exhilarating location to shoot. My Canon EOS 7D was in Aperture Priority. I had mounted the 100-400ED lens, and The lens was wide open at f4.6 to maximize my shutter speed. ISO was 1600. The motor drive was on continuous high mode. I had a Gitzo monopod mounted on the lens for added stability.
