Nikon 1 V3 Hodgepodge | Cub & Super Cub Two iconic airplanes flying from nice snow make for memorable images. This image is one of my favorite aviation images. To see the entire story with all seven images, go to Ski Plane Weekend | a 7 Image Story.
The Back Story Of course, the difficulty to capturing good airplane images in the winter with snow, is to keep the shutter speed low enough to blur the prop and pan well enough to keep the wings and fuselage in sharp focus while dealing with bright, hard mid-day light. A 1/125s shutter speed is about as high as I like for a click like this one. Luckily this day had bright overcast in between snow showers and I was able to get down to 1/60s. Getting just the right spacing of the two Cubs with just the right blowing snow while the camera and I were freezing meant several hundred burst mode images. Note: I post an image everyday at hankconrad.com.
Details…
| Event | Sky Plane Weekend |
| Location | KCAD Wexford County Airport |
| Date/Time | 2/13/2016 10:16pm Local Time |
| Weather | Light Snow | 0°F | Light Winds |
| Method | Waited for Super Cub to taxis into position under the Cub’s wing, then clicks with 1/60s to blur prop. |
| Gear | Nikon 1 V3 with a 1 VR 30-110mm f/3.8-5.6 lens |
| Exposure | 61.6mm (166mm) f/16 1/60s -0.67ev 160iso |
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