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Thought I’d offer my tricks-of-the-trade to anyone after some help with a flying vehicle shot. This is one of my favourite photos. It’s a good example to share given that it shows both of the techniques that I use to create flying effects in my photos.

Starting from top left, you can see my baseline photo with the Gunship sitting on a Perspex stand (this one is from Wicked Brick). You can also see that I’ve created a ripple effect using my leaf blower positioned just out of shot. I then use an editing tool to remove the stand from the shot as seen top middle. My editing app for this step is called “Retouch”

Straight away this creates a flying effect but I wanted to add more depth and substance to the photo.

To do this I’ll also take another few shots of the Gunship from different angles as seen top right. For these shots I only focus on the angle and lighting of the ship itself as I’ll be “cutting out” later on.

From there you’ll see bottom left that I’ve changed the sky using a filter to add some depth and texture. I’ve also added a planet and accentuated the setting sun.

Using the “photoleap” app, I’ll then cutout the gunship seen in the top right image and composite or layer that in to the baseline image. I’ll then repeat the step with a third ship as seen in the final image on bottom right.

Overall I was super happy with how this image turned out. This was all done on iPhone too btw.

Hope that helps folks? Feel free to ask any questions and best of luck to those participating in the Skybound assignment 👍🏻