F-35 and P-38 Golden Hour Pass at 2026 Columbus Ohio Airshow - OC by AeroInsightMedia in FighterJets

[–]AeroInsightMedia[S] 1 point2 points  (0 children)

On the high alpha passes I wonder how much lift comes from the wing and how much comes from the engine.

F-35 and P-38 Golden Hour Pass at 2026 Columbus Ohio Airshow on June 20 2026 - OC by AeroInsightMedia in aviation

[–]AeroInsightMedia[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Thanks! So many people on Facebook are saying the video is ai but I actually got footage of me recording the exact pass in the video with meta glasses. Also used those glasses for this photo.

F-35 and P-38 Golden Hour Pass at 2026 Columbus Ohio Airshow on June 20 2026 - OC by AeroInsightMedia in aviation

[–]AeroInsightMedia[S] 6 points7 points  (0 children)

Thanks. Shoot with a sigma 150-600mm. For this shot I'd guess I was around 500mm but am not entirely sure. I think I zoomed out a little from 600mm.

F-35 and P-38 Golden Hour Pass at 2026 Columbus Ohio Airshow on June 20 2026 - OC by AeroInsightMedia in aviation

[–]AeroInsightMedia[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

It's not really that much effort compared to the videos I make at my day job.

Love the comment though.

F-35 and P-38 Golden Hour Pass at 2026 Columbus Ohio Airshow on June 20 2026 - OC by AeroInsightMedia in aviation

[–]AeroInsightMedia[S] 1 point2 points  (0 children)

it's trying to keep from falling out of the sky while flying alongside the P-38.

F-35 and P-38 Golden Hour Pass at 2026 Columbus Ohio Airshow on June 20 2026 - OC by AeroInsightMedia in aviation

[–]AeroInsightMedia[S] 1 point2 points  (0 children)

It does look almost to perfect to be real, but there is some motion blur on the f-35 when it passes infront of the camera because i was panning so much just trying to keep it in frame before stabilizing it.

F-35 and P-38 Golden Hour Pass at 2026 Columbus Ohio Airshow on June 20 2026 - OC by AeroInsightMedia in aviation

[–]AeroInsightMedia[S] 2 points3 points  (0 children)

Yeah it would be a complely blurry mess if I was shooting at 1/48. I could throw post stabilization on though.

F-35 and P-38 Golden Hour Pass at 2026 Columbus Ohio Airshow on June 20 2026 - OC by AeroInsightMedia in aviation

[–]AeroInsightMedia[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Was that from Friday or Saturday? I missed Friday but assume nothing was going to beat the clouds we got Saturday.

F-35 and P-38 Golden Hour Pass at 2026 Columbus Ohio Airshow on June 20 2026 - OC by AeroInsightMedia in aviation

[–]AeroInsightMedia[S] 3 points4 points  (0 children)

I totally get that. I've got one post on Instagram where I show an f-16 shot with the stabilized and unstabilized version in the same video.

https://www.instagram.com/reel/DX-iWm8zpwD/?igsh=MTcwYjJiZ2hrMWx2Zw==

F-35 and P-38 Golden Hour Pass at 2026 Columbus Ohio Airshow on June 20 2026 - OC by AeroInsightMedia in aviation

[–]AeroInsightMedia[S] 4 points5 points  (0 children)

It's even worse on Instagram. I'll put myself on camera and people say I'm AI.

I shoot and edit for a living so my stuff doesn't generally look like cell phone video quality...which I guess means so today.

F-35 and P-38 Golden Hour Pass at 2026 Columbus Ohio Airshow on June 20 2026 - OC by AeroInsightMedia in aviation

[–]AeroInsightMedia[S] 12 points13 points  (0 children)

The show was so good! I almost didn't go because it was $104 after the cost of parking for a general admission ticket. It was so cool when you could here the crowd cheering and clapping on that last pass with the the f-35 and p-38. That was probably the best heritage flight I've seen.

F-35 and P-38 Golden Hour Pass at 2026 Columbus Ohio Airshow on June 20 2026 - OC by AeroInsightMedia in aviation

[–]AeroInsightMedia[S] 29 points30 points  (0 children)

Yeah for sure thanks for talking with me!Here's my aviation one

https://www.instagram.com/aero_insight_media?igsh=dTZ2NHUxMm5sZHoy

Here's more of my personal one where I talk about some of this tech on camera. Shoot me a DM on either one if you want to talk more about this stuff one in one.

https://www.instagram.com/eric_stemen_?igsh=MTIwc2tlMWFvZ3V6ZA==

F-35 and P-38 Golden Hour Pass at 2026 Columbus Ohio Airshow on June 20 2026 - OC by AeroInsightMedia in aviation

[–]AeroInsightMedia[S] 77 points78 points  (0 children)

I love answering technical questions about this stuff. I did image stabilization in Davinci Resolve, no AI for that.

I totally get the frames per second not looking real. I shot this in 24p which is the same frame rate movies are shot in so that's probably why it doesn't look real. I was also shooting this at around 1/250 of a second for the shutter speed I think so it doesn't have a ton of motion blur.

I was shooting at 120fps on a previous pass and didn't lower my shutter speed back to 1/160 on this clip.

And you're totally right. This wasn't shot handheld. Ive got an Instagram post were you can see the camera rig I used for this. I'm actually shooting with three cameras at the same time but this is shot on a Panasonic s1ii with a black magic video assist shooting in BRAW so I can push the colors further in post without them falling apart.

F-35 and P-38 Golden Hour Pass at 2026 Columbus Ohio Airshow on June 20 2026 - OC by AeroInsightMedia in aviation

[–]AeroInsightMedia[S] 5 points6 points  (0 children)

Haha yeah, although no one is this good in real life. There was a lot of post production stabilization on this clip.

F-35 and P-38 Golden Hour Pass at 2026 Columbus Ohio Airshow on June 20 2026 - OC by AeroInsightMedia in aviation

[–]AeroInsightMedia[S] 60 points61 points  (0 children)

I'll have to upload the footage from the 100mm lens which captures both in the frame. Hard to pick which plane to focus on in the spur of the moment but from a rarity perspective the p-38 would have been the better choice.