While I was having a recovery day from running around all over New Mexico I saw a billboard sign that had a display for the War Eagles Air Museum in Santa Teresa New Mexico, and decided I needed to head over there and check it out. This place is inside a huge airplane hanger, and it didn’t just have amazing restored war planes it had a very nice car collection as well.
Main prop on an Avenger. This was the isolated shot that I was looking for to control the background.
T-28 Trojan Prop
To give you an idea of what the inside of the hanger looked like, below is a wide shot of a P-38 engine and prop. Take a look at the background.
So the car collection at the War Eagles Air Museum is just as impressive as its War Plane Collection. And after playing around a bit with the planes my attention turned to the cars.
Front hood ornament off and Auburn. Once again thinking about background control. About 15 feet behind this car is a TF-51 Mustang, but you would never know it.
With the way the background and ceilings were staying tight and looking for details in the cars and planes paid off. Had a great time at the Museum. If you do find yourself there go and take some time to really take in the history, and some fun shots.
Planes Captured with 1 D Mark IIN 70-200f2.8
Cars Captured with 1 D Mark IIN 16-35f2.8 II on lexar digital media
5 Responses to “War Planes and Old Cars”
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Fabulous shots – love them.
Thanks Stacey
Awesome find! And for only 5$? Sweet deal. I love the old Ford’s and especially the famous Cadillac wheel design. There is actually an old ford truck like that on the southern end of Staten Island. I don’t know who owns it, but its awesome to see. Sometimes a bunch of people get together at the Great Kills portion of Gateway National Recreation area and show off their cars on Sundays I believe.
The first image looks unreal and almost manufactured. The polish on that prop is uncanny. You can really tell they care about all of their exhibits from your photographs. I love the depth of field being so narrow on the second image of a prop that the background gets that nice blur effect for separation, but just enough blur that you can still see where the prop is coming from. Did you get close to help aid in the blur? Awesome job.
Thanks Jarred, it was a lot of fun. For the blur on the second prop I just adjusted the depth of field a bit in camera and shuffled my feet a bit.
Awesome. Visualizing that plane of focus is a huge tool. Amazing what it can do