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For those of us who have since childhood been intrigued by the huge majestic birds we saw flying in the sky, it was only a matter of time before we picked up a camera and captured them on film. While some got over the fascination with a few clicks, others couldn’t seem to stop, having caught the bug that we call aviation photography. Planes are a brilliant invention that inspire as well as awe us all. Be it modern jets or the warbirds, aviation keeps both the photographers and spotters on their toes. This issue of Chiiz explores aviation photography and presents the magnificent beasts in their full glory. Bjoern Schmitt’s photographs of airplanes in different colors are a treat to the eyes and shows us a vibrant side of aviation. Ziv Koren’s photographs explore the cultures and nature of the various countries that he has travelled to and are a testimony to the diverse cultures in the world. Carl Ford is one of the photographers who saw the shift from analogue to digital photography. His photographs of the aircraft are awe-inspiring and makes one wonder as to how these were shot. Matthieu Douhaire combines his knowledge of interior design into aviation photography to produce some beautiful shots. Fashion and editorial Vipin Gaur share some of his work and his experience in the industry. Last but not the least is the Chiiz Gallery which includes the best of chiiz.com in aviation photography category. Aviation Photography is a whole new world as far as photography goes. Those who do it once, can’t seem to leave because of sheer fascination. That’s just what aviation photography is- it lures you in and shows you a world that you don’t want to return from. To those who worry about the nitty-gritties of gear and access, I’d tell them that “for those determined to fly, having no wings is just a little detail.’’
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Contents Features Birds of Mettle Abhishek Singh
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Flying Colors Bjoern Schmitt
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Keeping It Real Ziv Koren
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Giving Wind to Wings Carl Ford
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Soaring High Matthieu Douhaire
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Commercial Meets Creative Vipin Gaur
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Chiiz Gallery Best of chiiz.com Best of chiiz.com
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Triggers Michael Marston Magnus Farnes Frida Isadara Arseth Krishna Angira Federico Bonifazi Markus Cederberg Suda Kana Georgina Steytler Songda Cai Emre Can Alagoz Photowalk Dubai Hendra Lesmana Dixie Dixon
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Hall of Fame Model of the Month Yashaswini Raj
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Makeup Artist of the Month Rosario Belmonte
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Tools App of the Month Filterloop
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Classics Movie Review William Eggleston - In the Real PC: Michael Marston Rainbow Contrails Canon 1DX 800mm F/8 1/800 ISO200
Old is Gold First Flight of the Wright Brothers
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Michael Marston has been photographing since he was a teenager and is currently turning his passion into a full time business in the form of ePixel Images. He mainly provides corporate and editorial photography currently. In his spare time, he tries to photograph difficult, real and unusual aviation photos, purely because it is hard to capture those images. He likes to challenge himself, always gives his best and stays focused on achieving the results that he is looking for. The images he has captured often become a centrepiece of conversation with his peers, family and friends.
QantasLink Boeing 717 Crosses the Disk of the Sun Near Sunspot AR2664 Canon 1DX 1120mm F/8 1/500 ISO400
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Two RAAF F-111’s Dump & Burn Brisbane Riverfire 2006 Canon 1D Mark II N 65mm F/13 25 ISO50
Philippine Airlines Airbus A321N Condensation Rainbow Canon 1DX Mark III 800mm F/11 1/500 ISO200
RAAF F-111C “Pig” Dump & Burn Amberley Airshow 2008 Canon 1D Mark III 560mm F/8 1/2000 ISO200
Singapore Airlines A380 Passing Over Brisbane with Contrails Canon 1DX 800mm F/8 1/1000 ISO200
Qantas Boeing 737 ‘Torquay’ Fancy Wing Vortices Canon 1D Mark III 800mm F/11 1/500 ISO400
Hereford Mother & Son Canon 70D 200mm F/2.8 1/2000 ISO250
FridaIsadara Arseth is a 22-year-old photographer living in the middle of Norway. Cows are her one and only passion and she loves sharing photos of them with others through social media. She started photographing cows in 2016 and has four pet cows herself. She works on a small farm and visit other farms to photograph their cattle. 22 TRIGGERS
Julie Making her Funny Face Canon 70D 70mm F/2.8 1/1000 ISO320
Petra with her Newborn Daughter Wilma Rose Canon 70D 120mm F/2.8 1/2000 ISO250
Highland Cattle Cow Canon 70D 125mm F/2.8 1/4000 ISO200
Daisy’s First Meeting with Snow Canon 70D 135mm F/2.8 1/3200 ISO320
Flying Colors Bjoern Schmitt has always been amazed and inspired by his father, mainly taking photographs of the landscape, him, and his mother. Years later, he received his first point and shoot camera as a birthday present, and started taking photos all by himself. Besides photography, he is a full-time aviation enthusiast and is currently a fully licensed Tower Controller working at Frankfurt Airport.
SunExpress B738 Wearing Special Istanbul Colors Canon 7D 28mm F/13 1/320 ISO100
Alaska Airlines B734 with Special “Make A Wish� Colors Canon 7D 60mm F/8 1/800 ISO100
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Alaska Airlines B739 with Disneyland Special Colors Canon 7D 600mm F/8 1/500 ISO100
Southwest B737 with Special Illinois Colors Canon 5D Mark III 420mm F/8 1/320 ISO100
All Nippon Airways B777 with Special Star Wars-C3PO Colors Canon 5D Mark IV 200mm F/8 1/320 ISO100
Special Etihad A333 with “Visit Abu Dhabi” Colors Canon 7D 300mm F/9 1/500 ISO100
App of the Month Filterloop Rating: 4.4/5 Platform: Android/ iOS Cost: Free (In-app Purchases Available) Photographic filters for smartphones have become a common feature in both, the Android Play Store and the iOS App Store. Filterloop is one such emerging filter that is gaining popularity. Developed by Platform Inc, Filterloop can be downloaded and installed on Android devices supporting 21 API and above. A premium all-inclusive photo editor that caters to all your demands, the latest version of the app sees an expanded adjustment kit, loads of new features (some of which are paid and can be purchased on the Filterloop Store) and an updated user interface that simplifies the entire editing process. If you wish to enhance the photo editing experience, you can also purchase additional filters and texture packs, starting at $0.99 each! What makes Filterloop unique? Providing a plethora of photo editing features, Filterloop provides an exhaustive and wholesome experience while simplifying the user interface of the application.
Create your own statement With numerous filters and varying opacity levels, you can design and edit photographs as per your liking; layer effects and filters being at your disposal. Using these in various combinations and volumes will create stunning results, something that will be hard to emulate in the future. So show off your flawless pictures amongst your peers! Adjust until you’re satisfied Ever been in a situation wherein a photograph seems too saturated? Filterloop empowers you with features like saturation, contrast, hue, exposure, brightness, and many more, so as to conjure up a photograph that is to your liking! Be a trendsetter Glitch art is all the rage now with celebrities applying distortion effects to their pictures, becoming a ‘trend’. With Filterloop, even you can explore the avenues of this feature. Who knows, maybe you could be the next trendsetter! To start off, you can explore TV Glitches and their textures with portraits, the two complementing each other.
Share your photographs with friends In the world of social media, Filterloop enables you to post edited pictures on your social media accounts. For starters, look up #filterloopapp and @ filterloopapp on the social media for inspiration of what others using this application have been developing and the filters and textures that they have been using in the editing palate! Make sure to tag your pictures with #filterloopapp so that other users can identify and connect with you in the Filterloop community! 36 TOOLS
Customizable Textures Although Filterloop provides you with an array of texture presets including dust scratches, light leaks, flares and more, you can manually adjust and fine-tune the opacity, color, brightness, orientation, etc, of each of these textures, thereby providing you with endless opportunities! Blending Modes Blending modes affect how the texture interacts with the image beneath it, giving you a wide choice and flexibility in terms of the final look of the texture. This unique feature allows you to adjust the blending mode for each texture and can alternate between industry standard blending modes such as screen, overlay, soft light, difference, and multiply. Exhausted of using photo editors that have a limited palate of texture presets and do not have up to the mark adjusting features? Filterloop provides you with the perfect alternative with its wide-ranging features and easy to operate user interface. Immerse yourself into the loop of these exotic filters and create photographs that are noticed and appreciated by your peers and family members! Dhawal Pagay dhawal@chiiz.com Dhawal Pagay is a travel enthusiast, writing for whom is a whetstone as he believes that our thoughts define who we are. Apart from academics, he finds himself engaged in all kinds of sports, be it cricket, tennis or football. Exploring new ideas and trying to refine himself by imbibing the values on offer everyday, is a motto he tries to abide by.
Giving Wind to Wings Carl Ford was born in Birmingham, England and worked as a fireman on British Railways steam engines. After redundancy, he worked as a lorry driver before moving to Dublin, Ireland where he worked until retirement as a crab and lobster fisherman. He is now married and a proud father to one son, Bran. He has been interested in photography since 1958 and has been practicing for a long time now. Mukesh Kumar, from Chiiz, gets in conversation with him. Here are the excerts:
Blackburn Beverley C.1. XB259. Ex RAE sold to Court Line as an engine transport for their L.1011 Tristar engines but the company collapsed before it could be used. Luton 20th June 1972. Praktica Nova 1B with a Tessar F/2.8 50mm lens. Kodachrome 64asa film.
What piqued your interest in aviation photography and how has your journey been so far? I photographed steam engines until they were all retired in 1968. Diesel locomotives didn’t interest me; so I decided to photograph aircraft, which had interested me since attending air shows at Castle Bromwich Aerodrome in the 1950s. What are the challenges you faced when you first started aviation photography? The biggest challenge was that I had to buy a telephoto lens and, of course, an SLR camera which was a big expense for me at that time and also the cost of film and the development. I was also using a handheld light meter and had to learn that I needed two extra stops of light 44 FEATURES
when using my 200mm telephoto lens as most of my photos were coming out underexposed. This problem was solved when I bought a new camera in 1972 with a built-in light meter. You started photography in the late 1950s and saw the change from analog to digital as well as black & white to color. Has the change in equipment had any change in your style of photography? It hasn’t changed my style but it has opened up a lot of opportunities, like being able to use the high ISO ratings on a digital camera to take images of faster moving objects in poor lighting conditions. I’m able to use high powered telephoto lenses to take photographs of moving objects, which was virtually impossible when I used 64 or 100 ASA slide film, which I
would normally use. If you were given a choice to photograph any aircraft, which one would that be and why? Although I already have a few images of the Lockheed Constellation, I would love to be able to photograph them in some of the international airline liveries from the 1950s. For me, it’s the most graceful piston-engined airliner ever built. What advice do you have for somebody who wants to pursue aviation photography? Look at aircraft photography online which is mainly “side-on record shots”. Try to do something different. Get close in with a telephoto lens, don’t be afraid to crop the image, watch the heat haze from the engines
of taxiing or moving aircraft. If you have a 100-400 mm lens, try zooming in on parts of the aircraft, like the undercarriage when they land, trying to get the smoke from the tyres or head on taxiing shots turning onto the runway, getting the nose of the aircraft and the crew in the cockpit and the background should be blurred out with heat haze.
Mukesh Kumar mukesh@chiiz.com Mukesh Kumar is an Indian Air Force veteran and has a passion for photography. He has more than 13 years of corporate experience as a Business Consultant in reputed organizations like World Bank, National Geographic, Deloitte, TCS, US government, etc. Apart from this, he has traveled and worked in many countries like USA, Canada, South Korea, Austria and China.
Lockheed SR-71A Blackbird 64-17967 US Air Force 9th SRW. Fairford July 1989. Nikon F.3HP with Nikkor 70x210 zoom lens. Kodachrome 64asa film.
McDonnell Douglas F-15E Eagle 96-201 LN 494th Fighter Sqn. Mach Loop (Gwynedd Wales) 22nd Feb 2019. Canon 5D Mark IV 241mm F/5.6 1/4000 ISO1600
Mikoyan-Gurevich MiG-29 Fulcrum 925 Russian Air Force, Gromov Flight Research Institute. IAT, RAF Fairford, 24 July 1993. (The pilot ejects from his burning aircraft.). Nikon F.3HP with motor drive & Nikkor F/4.5 300mm lens. Fujichrome 100asa film.
Boeing KC.97G 52-2630 USAF Ohio ANG at Greenham Common 6th July 1974. Pentax SP.1000 with Takumar F/2 50mm lens. Kodachrome 64asa film.
F-GLZO Canon 7D 17mm F/8 1/8000 ISO200
N703DL Canon 7D Mark II 12mm F/8 1/100 ISO200
F-HRBC2 Canon 5D Mark IV 700mm F/6.3 1/400 ISO200
Frecce Tricolori Canon 7D Mark II 175mm F/7.1 1/3200 ISO500
Assasin Bug Portrait Canon 650D 3.7x microscopic 1/200 ISO100
Best Man Nikon D750 20mm F/1.8 1/320 ISO1250
Kiss of Love Nikon D750 35mm F/2.5 1/200 ISO800
Sanjiban Ghosh Mumbai, India
Souvik Banerjee Abu Dhabi, UAE
Rock and Roll Nikon D750 120mm F/5 1/4000 ISO200
Jets Entering the Show Canon 5D Mark III 35mm F/11 1/500 ISO100
Tanay Das Kolkata, India
Colors of Monsoon Nikon D5500 300mm F/8 1/500 ISO100
Bill Boswell London, Canada
Oshkosh Heritage Flight Nikon D850 250mm F/7.1 1/400 ISO320
Kristina Mitrović Niš, Serbia
Arbind Singh Bengaluru, India
Hovering beast Nikon D810 200mm F/5.6 1/1000 ISO100
Salekin Himel Dhaka, Bangladesh
Into the Sky Nikon D3300 105mm F/5.6 1/400 ISO400
Rakhee Mullick Kolkata, India
Indian Army Nikon D90 35mm F/14 1/320 ISO500
Rick Lingo Cincinnati, USA
Debasish Nag Kolkata, India
3 of a kind Nikon D200 70mm ISO 400
Blue Angel Nikon A900 24mm F/4.5 1/400 ISO80
Moving Life Sony W310 7mm F/4.9 1/2000 ISO100
Rosario Belmonte left his native Sicily at 18 to explore his passion for fashion and beauty in Milan. He studied under Stefano Anselmo, one of Italy’s top makeup artists and was represented by the renowned “Close Up Milano” agency. He became a regular part of Milan and London fashion weeks and traveled between the fashion capitals of the world for editorial and commercial work for the likes of Vogue Italia, Harper’s Bazaar, Elle, Grazia, Gioia and many others. Life brought Rosario to Bali, where he joined the “Bali Starz” agency and opened to the Australian market, shooting campaigns for Aussie brands like Spell, Shakuhachi and Bamboo Blonde. His Asian adventures have taken him to Mumbai. Under the representation of ‘Anima Creatives Management’, he has done extensive editorial work with the Indian editions of Vogue, Elle, Harper’s Bazaar and GQ. Mumbai’s movie industry has also embraced Rosario and he is currently working with numerous Bollywood celebrities.
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