Red Bull Air Race through the view finder of my 30D.

[S.E.V.]

You guys are probably sick of the same race posted multiple times, but i thought i would share my shots with you anyways. First off this was my very first time shooting an event. I took my 70-200 f2.8IS and the 100-400 IS. shot off my monopod with either the UV or CP filters. Shot in AV & TV modes some in P just was seing what i could get with each mode. Shot 709 images all in raw. All shots were taken from Centennial Park. I was to the right of the dude with the 8ft tripod holding the 600m. Dead center of the action. Here you go. Enjoy

C&C please!

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http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v76/funkysole/IMG_54202.jpg

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All in all it was a great day great race mad turn out.

[klippe]

Colours really pop S.E.V. Nice job.

Does anyone take real close up shots so that the pilot's face can be seen? I'm thinking you'd need at least 600mm for doing so (and probably with a teleconverter attached).

I have to get to see one of those events soon.

Cliff

[FlyingPhotog]

Colours really pop S.E.V. Nice job.

Does anyone take real close up shots so that the pilot's face can be seen? I'm thinking you'd need at least 600mm for doing so (and probably with a teleconverter attached).

I have to get to see one of those events soon.

Cliff

These guys/gals do some serious "yank and bank" and it's very different flying than your usual airshow routine.

[klippe]

These guys/gals do some serious "yank and bank" and it's very different flying than your usual airshow routine.

Yeah I've seen it on TV many a time. I'd love to be able to get a head-on shot.

Cliff

[evorgsumaf]

Very nice pics S.E.V. I am going to take mine down now ;)

Great pictures again.

[evorgsumaf]

Sorry, about two post, forgot to ask. What kind of PPing did you do for these pics?

They really do look great.

[S.E.V.]

Thanks guys, well these are not one time shots and straight post. I took the Raw image into light room. Then all i really played with was the clarity, vibrance, saturation slider under the basic tab. Then with the red, yellow and blue colors under the HLS/Color/Gray scale tab, also some slight movement of the Tone Curve. The one of the chopper upside down is a little much compared to the color of the skys in the other pics. But thats really all i did then resized them from the original size to 800 width and saved to jpg then posted.

Yeah if you ever have a chance to go to this type of event i high recommend you grab your gear and go. Amazing how they take the planes and twist them like they do.

These guys/gals do some serious "yank and bank" and it's very different flying than your usual airshow routine.

Hahahaha, I wish the sunset the opposite way, both North & South Embracado island had a better view of the plains, but the damn sun was right in your face. Centennial Island was loaded with L lenses and all i heard was click, click, click, click,click for days must of heard a million shutters go off per plane.

Thanks again for all the comments. I guess its begginers luck.;)

[justincase724]

Centennial Island was loaded with L lenses and all i heard was click, click, click, click,click for days must of heard a million shutters go off per plane.

Yeah, tell me about it. At one point there was a guy standing right next to me just blowing off the shots whenever the planes came near, and at one point I got confused and thought it was me making all that noise.

You've got some really good shots there, especially the third one with the vapor trails from the wingtips.

[S.E.V.]

You've got some really good shots there, especially the third one with the vapor trails from the wingtips.

Thanks, i didn't see those until i edited the pic when i got home the next day. Looked good on the LCD display, but did not see the vapor trails.

[black_z]

The panning shot of the chopper is awesome!! :)

[S.E.V.]

The panning shot of the chopper is awesome!! :)



Thanks, I was iffy on posting that one, it looked odd at first.

[KTA]

Nice shots nice editing

[S.E.V.]

Sank U.:)