Air Show prep

[xspringer]

Nellis AFB NV will be hosting Aviation Nation this weekend and I hope to take some nice photos. I don't have a very fast lens just a Q-Ray 70-300mm f/4-5.6 and my kit lens 28-135 f/3.5 - 5.6. I was thinking maybe using a higher ISO to be able to gain a fast shutter speed but wondering how high use without having negative side effect with 400, 800 maybe? Should be nice bright day out & the camera is a 40D.

Thanks
Xavier

[tiktaalik]

Don't be afraid of ISO 400 or 800 on the 40D, although 100-200 should be plenty on a really bright day.

Don't forget though to reduce that for prop planes and lower your shutter speed to let the props blur a bit. You don't want the planes looking like they're going to fall out of the sky ;)

[xspringer]

Yeah I've been really please with the lack of noise on high ISO yet I haven't played with ISo over 100 in day light.

[adamsti]

Never use anything but ISO 100! You can stop a jet with no problem with the shutter speeds that will occur at ISO 100. I have never shot any show, at anything but ISO100, unless your taking sunset, or just after sunset shots.

[JC4]

I agree with adam. ISO 100 if at all possible. 200 is OK. The reason is, you'll be cropping a LOT of your shots, especially at 300mm. Heavy cropping exposes noise and detail loss, even on the 40d. If you pan smoothly, Jets look fine at anything faster than 1/500(fast is better of course). Prop planes figure on 1/250 or slower if your panning technique is good.

You're lens should be fast enough at ISO100 on a sunny day.

JohnC

Edit: Find shots posted here, that you like. Take a look at the EXIF data and see how they were taken. It's not gospel, but it'll give you some idea what works for others. I do it a lot, great way to learn.

[spectre]

Great advice...

[adamsti]

Edit: Find shots posted here, that you like. Take a look at the EXIF data and see how they were taken. It's not gospel, but it'll give you some idea what works for others. I do it a lot, great way to learn.

This works great. Every shot on my site has the EXIF intact for others to look.

[spectre]

Not to go too fat off topic but, all mine that I post from photobucket no longer had the EXIF data intact...do they strip the EXIF data?

[JC4]

Not to go too fat off topic but, all mine that I post from photobucket no longer had the EXIF data intact...do they strip the EXIF data?

I don't know about photobucket. I use Flickr, which leaves the EXIF in tact, but ONLY in the original size image. They strip it from all the resized images. I usually post the resized 500x300 image here, but link to the original, so people can see the EXIF and of course the larger image. Also, Flickr expands out the EXIF if you go there to view pictures then select more-info. Maybe photobucket has similar features?

[darktiger]

Just meter correctly. I shot mostly 100-160-200 at the airshow at Randolph AFB in San Antonio this last past weekend.

Here are some of my shots, keep in mind I am a newbie....
http://themoores.zenfolio.com/p31317995/

[xspringer]

thanks everyone :)