Member’s Forum: “Wingtip to Wingtip: Aviation Photography from Planning to Post Processing” with Jeff Hancock

Wingtip to Wingtip: Aviation Photography from Planning to Post Processing

 

Jeff Hancock will discuss researching air shows, useful equipment, positioning,  tips and techniques for shooting, post-processing (mainly with Adobe Lightroom), and sharing images. 

 

Jeff’s has been an SLR photographer for 30+ years.   His initial training was from a photojournalist.  Jeff has been on the staff at the newspapers of Hawaii’s Punahou School and Duke University.  In addition to photojournalism, he’s been active in a wide variety of genres.  His photographs of the Berlin Wall (before the fall) were exhibited at Duke shortly after the wall came down.  He photographed F-14 Tomcats and other Navy Jets from the flight deck of the USS Ranger (CV-62).  He photographed sailboats for sale to Maryland’s Governor’s cup crew.  He’s been the official photographer for Lindsay Cadillac’s Track events at Summit Point Motorsports. He’s the primary photographer for live events for The Mike O’Meara Show podcast.  For the past 8 years he’s been the photographer for Gadsby’s Tavern http://alexandriava.gov/GadsbysTavern, a museum built in 1785 that host historical figures and guests in period garb for galas and other events.    You can see his work at http://jeffhancockphotography.com.  He is also a “Jet Fan”.

 

Portrait by Chuck Campbell

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