Flying season is over :(
Monday, November 7, 2011 at 7:58PM Alright, despite some lingering rumbles from one of our resident B-25s I think it is safe to say that the flying season is over. This is a good thing, because even without a "real" camera for the past few months I've been running out of storage space! Now we can all put hard drives and camera upgrades on our Christmas list and start plotting and planning for next season :)
Along those lines, we will be hosting another session of our Basic Aviation Photography Class at Historic Flight on the 12th. Pretty short notice, but I didn't want to waste any time after being busy with flying stuff for so long. I'm also really excited to move on to creating the syllabus for our next class: Photoshop for Aviation Photographers!
I have now purchased the first piece of equipment PNWAP will have available for rent, and that is a ColorMunki Display monitor calibrator. If you've ever wondered why other people may say your photos are too dark or too saturated, properly calibrating your monitor will probably help. I've been very picky about calibrating my monitors but by hand you can only get them so close. The ColorMunki will give you perfectly predictable results across as many screens as you have, both Mac and PC. This is a $150 piece of technology that I'll rent out for free to paying PNWAP members and $10 per week for non-paying members of the Facebook group. I will bring it to the Basic Aviation Photography class on the 12th and you can bring in your laptop to be calibrated then, or at the end of the day I will rent it out on a first come, first served basis.
Our next class, Photoshop for Aviation Photographers, will be held at the Future of Flight, and there will be some small fee for attending that will help cover the cost of renting their facility. To show their support for PNWAP they are cutting us a significant price break :)
Please feel free to comment here if you have any ideas for more ways PNWAP can benefit you and the community of local photographers.
Reader Comments (2)
I would love to fly some day.
Flying season is over, time past so quickly.