Architectural photographer, Mike Kelley, decided to set himself a project after being inspired during lunch with a friend at the Los Angeles International Airport (LAX).
LAX is one of the busiest airports in the states and so Mike decided to capture all of the plane departing at the South Complex over an 8-hour time frame, the result is one pretty impressive image.
“I set up a tripod and photographed every single plane that flew across my frame anywhere from 3 to 10 times, using sandbags to ensure that the camera didn’t move… this resulted in over 400 images from which the composition is built, but not all of them were used… Heat haze, the changing angle of the sun, and other traffic on the ramp all had to be mitigated. The best way I found to do this was using masks and selections in photoshop to isolate every single plane in the final image and then piece them all together one by one, nudging them slightly so that they all lined up. I took some liberties with the positioning of each of the planes in order to make a more compositionally interesting photo.”
Read Mike’s full blogpost about the project here.
Image via MichaelKelly
