When I headed to the airport on the 27th it wasn't to take photos for this assignment. I was just going to shoot the RC planes for their club website.
While I was there a Father and Son decided to take off for a dog fight. I was tracking the Father's plane (with the streamer) across the sky and shooting when the Son's plane came into frame. The next thing I hear is a loud POP as the Son's plane crashed into the Father's plane in mid air. These little planes really move and it happened so fast I wasn't even sure I had caught it until I looked at the LCD screen after the two planes had been picked up out of the wheat field by the pilots.
They may look small in these photos but these two planes have identical construction (in fact the Son made them both) and the wing spans are somewhere between 4 1/2 and 5 feet wide. The Son's plane will fly again but the Father's plane was a total loss.
My finished triptych has no data of it's own I seem to have lost it all while building the triptych. Is there anyway to keep from loosing that while creating these? I have uploaded the 3 frames seperatly onto my flickr page so that you can see the data on each, however they are all the same (well except for the time).
Frame 1-
Camera: Canon EOS Digital Rebel XTi
Exposure: 0.002 sec (1/640)
Aperture: f/22
Focal Length: 100 mm
ISO Speed: 400
Exposure Bias: 0/3 EV
Flash: Flash did not fire
Software: Adobe Photoshop Elements 5.0 Windows
Exposure Program: Manual
Date and Time (Original): 2008:07:27 10:18:00
Metering Mode: Partial
Lens: Sigma 70-300
There were a couple other frames in between here but they were either out of focus or I only had one plane in the frame.
Frame 2-
Date and Time (Original): 2008:07:27 10:18:09
Frame 3-
Date and Time (Original): 2008:07:27 10:18:09