these werent taken very well… it was 900 degrees out and security forces kept driving past me wondering what i was doing… next time when i have more time ill set it up better… or at least try… im no micah
thats pretty sweet :tup:
thanks… im getting lessons from the micah as we speak when i go back again with more time lol
it was just so hard with the angle of the plane and where i could set the car to get decent sides for pics
edit:im also up for any suggestions
:drool:
Merc + SR71 = awesome
can’t wait for some more
what kind of camera were you using?
Don’t listen to Micah, he has no idea what he’s doing.
<3 
Awesome plane.
I second that. SR-71’s are amazing planes. I read a really good book by the former president of Lockheeds Skunkworks that designed & built it.
Where is this plane btw?
lackland here in san antonio
what are you talking about ?:snky:
Noice
appreciate it… they didnt come out as good as i imagined them in my mind on my way down there… but then again, one can be their own worst critic at times
some cool things bout the blackbird if you dont know…
The SR-71 remained the world’s fastest and highest-flying operational manned aircraft throughout its career. From an altitude of 80,000 ft (24 km), it could survey 100,000 square miles per hour (72 square kilometers per second) of the Earth’s surface. In addition, it was accurate enough to take a picture of a car’s license plate from this altitude.[10] On 28 July 1976, an SR-71 broke the world record for its class: an absolute speed record of 1905.80993 knots (2,193.1669 mph, 3,529.56 km/h), and an “absolute altitude record” of 85,068.997 feet (25,929 m).[11][12] Several airplanes exceeded this altitude in zoom climbs but not in sustained flight.[13]
When the SR-71 was retired in 1990, one was flown from its birthplace at United States Air Force Plant 42 in Palmdale, California to go on exhibit at what is now the Smithsonian Institution’s Steven F. Udvar-Hazy Center (an annex of the National Air & Space Museum) in Chantilly, Virginia. The Blackbird, piloted by Colonel Ed Yielding and Lt. Col. J.T. Vida, set a coast-to-coast speed record at an average 2,124 mph (3,418 km/h). The entire trip was reported as 68 minutes and 17 seconds.
and by far the coolest…
A defensive feature of the aircraft was its high speed and operating altitude, whereby, if a surface-to-air missile launch were detected, standard evasive action was simply to accelerate.
:lol:
I’m no Micah, but what I’m seeing in those pics is you took them at the wrong time of day, a white balance issue, maybe exposure issue, and the need to bump the saturation.
This article should really help:
http://www.kenrockwell.com/tech/camera-adjustments.htm
These are good too:
http://www.kenrockwell.com/tech/color.htm
http://www.kenrockwell.com/tech/whitebalance.htm
http://www.kenrockwell.com/tech/modern-exposure.htm
You know I dig it :tup:
:lol: That’s the coolest thing I’ve read in a long time.
Awesome pics too. Nice to see a nice car with an impressive background, rather than the trendy nice car in a shitty place photoshoot.
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