Hi all,

These shots are just to illustrate some discussion we had with Flying Trucker about possible view angles when it comes to shoot a Beaver In this discussion, I told that one of the nice view angles consists in showing just a part of the plane, in such a way that you remove from the screen all the possibly ugly parts of the background.

I suggested to try to place the camera next to the floats, at ground/sea level, and aim right at the engine. Since it was not so clear, here is what I got after moving the "right wing to cockpit" view with the usual commands:


In this picture, I placed the camera next to the right float, and zoomed out to 0.70 or 0.60. The plane has a good orientation, but the docks are quite ugly/blurry, so it was not such a good idea to show them 




In this one, I moved the camera to the other side of the plane. The view is nice but the sun is on the wrong side The plane is not as colorfull as it should since we're looking at the shadowed part, but the overall result is not that bad. If the sun would have been visible, the shot would have been much better.




In the last picture I moved the camera backwards to see the pilot and the engine. Also a part of the surrounding trees are visible, but nothing blurry or empty. I've been pretty lucky with the weather, as often with real world weather anyways, so in the end the sky was a great background. Still not the sunny part of the plane, but good enough

Thanks Stephane..."Daube"...

The second shot is what I was looking for...

The last shot is the best, I think the only problem is the possibility of door damage when the engine starts up when in real flight.

I started the DeHavilland DHC-3 single radial engine Otter on amphibious floats with the door open a number of times and it is not really a good idea...

When that door shut...it shut...and lucky the window was down...

Thanks for taking the time to show us some great camera positions Stephane "Daube"...

Ok Stephane...still all good camera positions...