F-22 Raptor

[Back288]

Finally got around to the Raptor shots from EAA last week and weekend. These are some of the first batch. C & C always welcome and appreciated, thanks for looking!

1
http://i113.photobucket.com/albums/n233/Back288/IMG_5082esc.jpg
2
http://i113.photobucket.com/albums/n233/Back288/IMG_5065esc.jpg
3
http://i113.photobucket.com/albums/n233/Back288/IMG_4992esc.jpg
4
http://i113.photobucket.com/albums/n233/Back288/IMG_4996esc.jpg
5
http://i113.photobucket.com/albums/n233/Back288/IMG_4980esc.jpg
6
http://i113.photobucket.com/albums/n233/Back288/IMG_4982esc.jpg

[Travisj]

Great series, really liking 4 & 5. I have yet to see one in person, I don't get out much, lol. Thanks for sharing.

[Scout7id]

Nice catch on the vapor in #5!

[tmonatr]

Very nice! I agree, 4 and 5 are the best.

[RyanM]

Great shots of a sweet plane

[Mil]

5 and 6 are great!

[RCoulter]

5 and 6 are great!

+!:grin: Very nice!

[Jamie Holladay]

Very nice series.

[BrianT392]

6 is my favorite pic. good ones though

[MulesAFpilot]

Great shots of a beautiful jet.

[andrewhuxman]

Nice series. great aircraft to photograph.

[SonicTarget]

Really great shots, 5 and 6 are favourites for sure.

[PhotosGuy]

Excellent!

[aridan]

Great shots!

[Back288]

Thank you everyone! I really appreciate your kind comments! This is the second time we've seen the Raptor demo. It's a fun plane to photograph, great performance, very interesting lines, and makes lots of vapor trails:-)

[Field of 33]

Excellent series!! I particular like 2, 4, and 5. Were those all taken with a 100-400?

[Beeej21]

Excellent series!! I particular like 2, 4, and 5. Were those all taken with a 100-400?

Please tell us which lens you took these with! They are absolutely amazing!!

[Back288]

Excellent series!! I particular like 2, 4, and 5. Were those all taken with a 100-400?

Please tell us which lens you took these with! They are absolutely amazing!!

Thank you again! These were all taken with the 100-400L on a 40D. It's the only long lens I have available at the moment (trying to save up for a 300 f2.8 though:D)

[Jon Foster]

Very cool shots!

Jon.

[reneethomas]

Wow great work. The base here in town just got a bunch of F-22s in but I have yet to photograph them.

[ChunkyDA]

Great angles with the sunlight

[TheSandMan491]

LOVE 3, 5, and 6

[casp3r]

Lovely series

[kaialii]

The base here in town just got a bunch of F-22s in but I have yet to photograph them.

The Hawaii Air Guard and Air Force are currently in transition. I'm looking forward to photographing them.

[ETERNAL]

Nice pictures. I was stationed with them for 2 years. Really amazing planes that have awesome capabilities!!!

[kaialii]

Great series. I like 4, 5, and 6.

Where where you in the 100-400 range?

[Back288]

Thank you everyone! Congrats on getting F-22's locally reneethomas and kaialii, you'll have fun photographing them, they're very photogenic planes:-)

Where where you in the 100-400 range?

The plane was doing it's demo in the airspace over the runway at Oshkosh. They have limited airspace available there (that's why you'll never see the Blue Angels or Thunderbirds there:() so they couldn't perform their full demo. I was getting jostled around in the middle of the crowd, so the focal distance changed from shot to shot. Pictures #3-6 were all at 400mm, picture #1 was at 150mm, and picture #2 was at 235mm. I'd like to shoot with primes, but that zoom can be handy at airshows sometimes.

[carpenter]

They have limited airspace available there (that's why you'll never see the Blue Angels or Thunderbirds there:()


2006 EAA Oshkosh

http://cryo-laboratory.com/uploader/files/11/Blue%20Angels4.jpg

http://cryo-laboratory.com/uploader/files/11/Blue%20Angels3.jpg

You won't see them do their full show, but you never know who will be at EAA. This was an unscheduled fly-in from the Blue Angels from Wright-Patt AFB in '06

[Back288]

You won't see them do their full show, but you never know who will be at EAA. This was an unscheduled fly-in from the Blue Angels from Wright-Patt AFB in '06

Thank you for the correction...and by the way, really nice shots! That's what I get for getting facts from the local TV morning news show:oops:

[stargazer77517]

Outstanding, Love the vapor shot.