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de Havilland DHC-2 Beaver

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Hi Brian,

I notice that many (though not all) of your action photos (such as the two below) cut off one or both wing tips. Is that unintentional (due to your own plane's distance from the subject plane, combined with the length of lens you had mounted) or an intentional decision of composition/cropping? If the latter, what is the intent of that, or the compositional benefit as compared to including the whole wings? This is only curiosity, not a dig at your composition. (I'm trying to figure out whether I find these shots fabulous because you've clipped the wing tips, or despite it. :p) I never have photographed one plane from another, as you clearly have many times, and I likely never will, so I have no familiarity at all with this sort of work.

--Dave

1950 Beechcraft B 35 Bonanza, over Dunnigan Hills, N. California

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Fujichrome Provia, 1/250 f5.6, Canon 135 F2L, EOS-1v

Lockheed L-18 Lodestar (Howard 250 conversion) April, 2014, Lake Isabella, CA

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Canon 24-105 f4L, 1/80 f11, EOS-1Dx
 
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