Quick Shot: C-47 Cockpit

This is the inside of a cockpit from a C-47 bomber located at Fantasy of Flight outside Orlando, Florida. This aircraft actually participated in multiple missions during World War II, including including dropping personnel on Normandy Beach.  

This shot took a bit of pre-planning; I would either need to do some HDR or a decent dose of editing to get the detail in the cockpit without over exposing the sky. I ended up shooting the image under exposed by about a stop and by shooting in RAW, I was able to pull the detail back out of the cockpit and clouds in Adobe Photoshop. Final adjustments were made using Nik HDR Efex for a boost to the color in the cockpit.  

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Kristen MitchellWorld War, World War II, WWII, WW2, Bomber, Aircraft, airplane, D-day, flight, flying, pilot, cockpit, fantasy of flight, orlando, florida, HDR, C-47