I take photos of real aircraft to support my scale model projects (as reference material). Once a model project is completed, I usually take pictures of the model and produce a Web page that describes the model, its construction, etc. Some people have asked me how do I take those model pictures, and how do I edit them afterwards. This blog post is my answer.
Here are some examples of my recent models:
Continue readingOver the holidays I spent considerable amount of time working on my “analog photographs”, i.e., slides and negatives. I made some interesting discoveries, both in the form of how to deal with the old medium and in the form of photos I had forgotten I had taken. I guess my most important finding is that I should not wait any longer to get things organized and scanned. Waiting for another few years might mean that some of the supplies (like slide mounts) are no longer that easy to find.
I am generally very much opposed to deceptive image manipulation and consider it “altering history”. On So Many Aircraft, photographs are considered a historical record, thus editing has to be limited to minimal corrections of the original photograph (straightening the horizon, fixing exposure, etc.). See this blog post on more information about the importance of accurate captioning of photographs.
That said, I recently decided to see if I could learn some more advanced editing techniques. Since I use the Adobe Creative Cloud tools, it was time take my skills with Adobe Photoshop CC to the next level. I actually fairly seldom use Photoshop, since I find that the kind of editing I need can all be done with Adobe Lightroom Classic CC.
So Many Aircraft 