How to Take a Picture of a Stealth Bomber Over the Rose Bowl

Fascinating interview by Alexis Madrigal with aerial photographer Mark Holtzman:

Madrigal: So that’s the picture as you took it right out of the camera, or did you have to crop it?

Hotlzman: I always crop it a little. I had to rotate it a little. In the uncropped version, I had the whole stadium, plus some of the parking lot. Unlike film, the way you shoot digital is you shoot wider and crop it in. It’s hard. Things are happening really quick. It’s very fluid. I’m flying at 100 miles per hour. They are flying 200 miles an hour in the other [direction]. So, that’s 300 miles per hour. Things happen really quickly.

Just an incredible photograph.

★ Monday, 8 January 2018