Aviation Photography

I don’t think he was ever actually in the services, Melv.

No problem then, but I have seen pics on here with copyright notices that do not actually apply!

I’d have to throw in Russell Munson and Budd Davidson too…I remember a shot one of them took of a jet in the evening going through a cloud and the vortexes in that lighting in the sunset was amazing…

M

Stephen Piercy for me.His propliner shots were so vivid you can hear the sound from those magnificnt radials.

another good one

Britt Dietz in the USA and a really superb web site,this is his air to air selection http://www.warbird-photos.com/gallery.php?g=airtoair

Back when ‘I were a lad’, I remember being very impressed with the work of Richard Cooke. I especially liked his air-to-air wide-angle ‘in yer face’ shots of (then) current RAF types, heavily used in recruiting adverts in the Sunday newspapers.

I’ve not seen any of his stuff lately, but see that he has a website with many of his images on it.

http://www.richard-cooke.com/

Remember that if he was serving at the time then the photos are Crown Copyright.

One name that springs to mind (and that hasn’t been mentioned so far) is Frank B. Mormillo. He seems to have been producing fine pictures of Warbirds and Classics for quite some time and I’ll freely admit to being somewhat envious of the variety of superb aircraft that he seems to get to fly in!

Robert T Sand for his colour photo’s that he took in world war two when he was in the 8th air force. Many of these are in a book called Air command by Jeff ethell. Also Mike J i was looking through some of your old shots from the late 80’s the other day.

Jamie Hunter is bloody good.

woo hoo, I got a mention 🙂

Glenn who 😀

Apart from Glenn :rolleyes: I would go for Katsu and then Jamie Hunter

Cheers

Paul

For me, John Dibbs all the way.

Eric

One more that should be mentioned, for all those wonderful memories of the lightnings and phantoms.

Ian black.

Charles E Brown without a doubt. His preparation and planning, use of light and immaculate framing, whilst using non-automated and often cumbersome kit resulted in consistently stunning results. His frequent use of large format provided a degree of detail which enabled super size reproduction without loss of quality. I did have the pleasure of meeting him – he was a short unassuming man who left a fabulous legacy of material which many continue to enjoy.

Arthur Gibson………..

Actually Arthur Gibson was better at making films than taking still shots.
I was talking to Ray Hanna a couple of years ago, who said that many of his ‘still’ shots were not sharp and were actually frames from 16mm cine film.

Leo White is another great NZ air photographer from days gone by

Yes, Cyril Peckham certainly deserves a mention – and what about John Yoxhall and Charles Sims?

No one has mentioned Cyril Peckham, he took some superb images throughout the 50’s.

Septic

These would be my choice of todays photographers.
Jamie hunter
John dibbs
Katsuhiko tokunaga

Richard Paver has taken some excellent shots.

Yes, Richard is forwarding me some prints, in your own time Richard 😉 😀 😀 Anna 😀 😀 lol :diablo:

My nomination for the title would be Pete Pinnock (who!) He used to be the chief photographer for the RAE during the 60s to 80s. many have seen his work but know him as MOD photographer.

regards,

Cliff

Aviation photographer

I would have to list several as my influences,some of whom are
Charles Brown for getting it right without using stacks of film.

Arthur Gibson for his imagination and technical skills in creating new approaches such as rigging flashlights under his Aztec to take a night air to air of a DH Rapide and his many Red Arrows photos ,co ordinating some with the QE2.

Mr Cooke for pioneering tail mounted camera fast jet shots ,big wow factor.

John Dibbs for consistent awareness of design composition and strong nerves.

Philip Makanna brilliant ideas and great post flight lab work.

Sgt Rick Brewell imho the best RAF photog .Not always credited.

Geoff Lee makes the subjects leap out of the frame.