Scale Masters Qualifier 2016
The gallery of images below were captured at the 2016 Scale Masters Qualifier held at Sanderson Field, Shelton, WA. The event was held from May 13 to May 15, 2016. To prepare the field for the event, work was done by the Sanderson Field RC Flyers (SFRCF), which hosted the event, on Thursday, May 12. CD for the event was Tom Strom Jr., a member of SFRCF.
The gallery images are 1000px wide and are, therefore, best viewed on a monitor, although they can also be viewed on smaller, mobile devices.
I hope you enjoy the gallery images as much as I enjoyed capturing them.
Gallery
Preparation—and Coffee
Test Flights
Pilots' Meeting
On the Flight Line
Lunch
Results and Awards
Raffle Winner
Special Award Winner
Event Security
Self Portrait
The Pits
Resources
- Sanderson Field RC Flyers home page,
- U.S. Scale Masters homp page,
- U.S Scale Masters 2016 Competition Guide download page, and
- Bob Benjamin's Old Time Model Airplane Workshop.
About the Images
The images were taken with a Canon Rebel T3i. I used Canon 60mm and 100mm macro lenses for the images. For the images of the planes in the air or on the flight line, I set the camera to shoot at a shutter speed of 1/800. All images received simple processing in Photoshop and were saved as low-resolution JPEG images that were optimized for the Web.