This month's article is focusing on camera angles and the less obvious elements used to create action and speed.
Welcome to this month's article of Concordepilot's Lightspeed! As you already know what I am showing this month from the title, let's get on with it!
This month (yet again) I have been nosing around the Graphic galleries and found what I feel are an interesting set of shots.
First of all, this shot I fell in love with because of the incredible visual display of speed.
This shot was the deserving winner of the Speed Screenshot Contest. The pic was taken down a cavern (best place for fast shots as they are cramped and usually in close proximity to your aircraft) and being in the cockpit perspective really pushes that "speed effect".... as you see in most of the g-effects and "streamline" effect over the cockpit. The target visor on the centre of the cockpit may suggest that the pilot is hunting down someone in a war, or he's just messing around with the electronincs..lol.
The following shot dosn't offer the greatest taste of speed, but it does have some qualities that are definately going in that direction.
First of all, this shot shows a fighter jet with the re-heats on, but has no true sense of speed effects. Not really needed in this shot, as supported by the curvature of the earth and the re-heats, which tell you that this is kind of like Concorde crusing at 66000FT on the edge of space... being able to have the freedom of speeding. Secondly in this shot, if you look closley, you can see the clouds whizzing past, and breaking away......another secondary element indicating speed.
For the final shot of the month is a newly brewed shot.
Although again it isn't the best depiction of speed, it does have some of those fine speed subtleties. The re-heats are on and the gear is up, suggesting a "lets get going already" attitude. Interestingly, there are no flaps on takeoff, again indicating that need for speed. Finally the tire marks on the runway look like the runway is blurred and the aircraft is shooting along at a breakneck pace.
Hpe you enjoyed my creating speed screenshot evaluations and many thanks for reading.
Keep the Fast and Furious shots up and flying!... till the next time we fly......
Concordepilot
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