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Flight Of The Silver Spit !!

Shot created for Saturday Self Challenge 08/01/2022 ----

Macro capture of a Shiny Object .

A quick caveat - while the Spitfire gets all the glory , we must not forget the under rated Hawker Hurricane which was so successful during the Battle of Britain !!

So to start with a random shot of the sky before it went all to cloud and then to the pop up oven top kitchen studio with a new keyring I have been given ( could have done for "new " last week , so glad I saved it ) . The keyring was bought from the RAF Hendon Museum online store and it is of a Spitfire . The capture of the little Spitfire was done with the Sigma 105 , and for a size comparison see the first comment box -knowing how the 105 makes avery short DOF when up close , Ihad to stop down a fair old way to keep the aeroplane in a sharp view .

I took 8 or 9 shots paying special attention to angles to create a realistic air to air style of capture. Next I put them though the cut out studio in Serif CraftArist - good job I had a selection as the cut out could not define the outline of the aircraft very well in most of them and kept taking chunks out of the plane - sorted with this one and put the two shots together for the flight of the silver spitfire . this now captures the the feeling of being up there and the sky is the limit and you are free as a bird - the pilots of the day often say " You do not get into a Spitfire , you just strap it on !! "

And the Silver Spitfire in 2019 is a story on it's own , please check out the story in the link ---------------

www.forces.net/news/british-pilots-become-first-fly-resto...

 

And in this vein of up there in the skies with the Merlin singing it's song , this tune should should be heard on the airwaves !!

 

youtu.be/CqnU_sJ8V-E

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Uploaded on January 7, 2022
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