LAX

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Control Tower

An image of the Air Traffic Control Tower in Los Angeles International Airport, famously known as LAX . According to 2011 statistics, LAX is the 3rd busiest airport in North America after Atlanta & Chicago; yes contrary to popular belief Atlanta not New York is the busiest airport in North America :)

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Baggage claim

Its time to pack my bags and head back to California, I’ll be going under these very signs looking for my luggage later on tonight. This was taken in LAX’s terminal 2.

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Flying through

This is one of those shots that you just anticipate and hope that it works out for you; it worked out for me after 2 attempts this time but there were times were I would stand for minutes and never get it. This was my thought process: tilt the camera slightly to create the leading lines to take the viewer’s eye from left to right. I decided to go with a medium aperture (@ f/9) as the lighting was not the greatest (I bumped up my ISO to 1000) and I wanted to have a long depth of field; my camera meter said 1/8s as a shutter speed which I knew would create the ghosting effect. (Note: since I was using a wide angle lens @ 16mm, I knew that small motion in a distance will hardly blur, most of the blurring was going to happen in the foreground which is what I wanted)

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