Gidday Folks,
Images from the Knights of the Sky exhibition at the Aviation Heritage Centre, Omaka, Blenheim, New Zealand. To be fair, this is in my backyard, so I visit often, but these pics were taken a couple of years ago now and the displays might have changed a bit. It's a tricky environment to photograph in owing to the amount of contrast between the objects and their backgrounds, as well as different coloured spot lighting, so I hope the results of fiddling around with shadows and light variables have produced an acceptable result without too much graininess and glare.
This collection is that of film director Peter Jackson, who has accumulated a vast store of interesting things. Some of the aircraft are reproductions, but look authentic enough for this kind of display - the Fokker Dr Is are all flyable and are rolled out for airshows. I have posted images of this place in the past, but thought they needed a timely upgrade, hence this thread.
More to come.
Images from the Knights of the Sky exhibition at the Aviation Heritage Centre, Omaka, Blenheim, New Zealand. To be fair, this is in my backyard, so I visit often, but these pics were taken a couple of years ago now and the displays might have changed a bit. It's a tricky environment to photograph in owing to the amount of contrast between the objects and their backgrounds, as well as different coloured spot lighting, so I hope the results of fiddling around with shadows and light variables have produced an acceptable result without too much graininess and glare.
This collection is that of film director Peter Jackson, who has accumulated a vast store of interesting things. Some of the aircraft are reproductions, but look authentic enough for this kind of display - the Fokker Dr Is are all flyable and are rolled out for airshows. I have posted images of this place in the past, but thought they needed a timely upgrade, hence this thread.
More to come.