Armed to the Teeth

This plane didn't really fly under the bridge heading toward the Hoover Dam. This is actually a model A1 Attack aircraft that I photographed in my kitchen and then composited it with an image I made at the Hoover Dam.

The key to making this photo was making sure the lighting used to photograph the plane matched the lighting in the photo of the canyon. I needed to make sure that the shadow was properly sized given the distance from the canyon wall and I had to figure out how to make the propeller appear to be spinning.

Image by Allen Utzig

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