Pilots and Photographers Team Up for a Fly-Through of the Solar Eclipse

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Pilots and Photographers Team Up for a Fly-Through of the Solar Eclipse
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Two pilots and a pair of photographers teamed up to create what they are describing as a “once-in-a-lifetime” set of photos.

Two pilots and a pair of photographers teamed up to create what they are describing as a “once-in-a-lifetime” set of photos featuring two planes passing through the lastThe two pilots, Kevin Coleman and Pete McLeod, worked with photographers Dutin Snipes and Mason Mashton to create the iconic photos.

“Normally, this would be a manageable maneuver, but when you have the darkness from the eclipse, a flight angle that needs to be perfectly lined up with the sun, and only four minutes to take the shot while moving at 180 mp/h, it makes it incredibly challenging,” Coleman says.

“This is one of the hardest photos that I’ve ever tried to capture,” Mashon says. “There are known settings to capture an eclipse, but when you need to figure out the height of the planes above ground level to frame and scale them perfectly with the eclipse, during totality, it’s a totally different game.”

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