Saw this...........

[Growler67]

.....and thought "Negative Ghostrider, the parking lot is full."

 

http://photos.cleveland.com/plain-dealer/2...day_july_2.html

[FastCargo]

Well, it's probably not as close as you think if it was taken with a long lens.

 

Still, pretty cool shot.

 

FC

[JediMaster]

Well if the jet is over the river and the building is on the river, they may well be only a few hundred feet apart. However, I agree that appears to be taken at range with a long lens.

[Growler67]

Roughly aproximating the size of the guy on the balcony as being nearly the right size for a (near) 1:1 scale ratio with the size aproximation of a pilot, my estimate would be within a couple hundred feet and likely closer. Not knowing how "clear" of obstructions the flight path is in front of the Hornet means (if wide open) there is plenty of room to manuver free from obstruction hazards.

[GwynO]

Might this have been a dolly zoom shot, as in the famous staircase scene from Vertigo? Zooming in the camera while simultaneously moving the camera physically away from the subject thus causing the background to appear to grow disproportionately large compared to the foreground. This can be quite unsettling to see as it messes with the way the mind is used to computing field of view, often used in science fiction and horror films to show unreality, tension and so on.

[serverandenforcer]

There's something about it that doesn't seem real. It seems like both the F-18 and the apartment are either plastic models or computer generated. They both appear to be too "clean". I'm very skeptical about this shot.

[Growler67]

Might this have been a dolly zoom shot, as in the famous staircase scene from Vertigo? Zooming in the camera while simultaneously moving the camera physically away from the subject thus causing the background to appear to grow disproportionately large compared to the foreground. This can be quite unsettling to see as it messes with the way the mind is used to computing field of view, often used in science fiction and horror films to show unreality, tension and so on.

 

Though it would be possible, it would also be extraordinary difficult to pruduce in this apparent circumstance. The Hornet is at speed (enough at low altitude to not lose altitude while 90 degrees on it's port wingtip) ad the building is stationary. Without losing resolution on the aircraft, if from a distance as speculated, something(s) would be much more blurry that they appear. Just sayin'.

[GwynO]

Though it would be possible, it would also be extraordinary difficult to pruduce in this apparent circumstance. The Hornet is at speed (enough at low altitude to not lose altitude while 90 degrees on it's port wingtip) ad the building is stationary. Without losing resolution on the aircraft, if from a distance as speculated, something(s) would be much more blurry that they appear. Just sayin'.

 

A bit of a red herring! Dolly zoom is for motion picture, not still photography The same effect can be achieved using a long focal length lens, extremely wide aperture, blistering fast shutter and iso settings coupled by an awful lot of luck to get such a shot just right. Even with speed shooting, you would be lucky to get everything just right as in the picture, not impossible by any means, but a bloody good shot if it is real!

[DWCAce]

Saw that on the F-14 Assoc forum. Good stuff.