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FlyingPhotog
16th of December 2008 (Tue), 01:13
No Problem...

Check out this gallery at PBase of the Red Arrows:
http://www.pbase.com/arabians/ra_farnborough_2008

(Not Mine .. Just thought folks might like it)
dedibevi
16th of December 2008 (Tue), 04:10
those are unreal sweeeet
FlyingPhotog
16th of December 2008 (Tue), 12:01
those are unreal sweeeet

Aren't those just cool?

Either this gal (I think it's a she...) is a whiz at processing or there was once in a lifetime weather that just happened to open up a shaft of sunlight for each pass.
harroz
17th of December 2008 (Wed), 02:52
yeah those are way cool. it really looks like it was just the light on the day too.
PhotosGuy
17th of December 2008 (Wed), 09:04
Nice stuff. Someone should recruit her to the forum.
dolfinack
17th of December 2008 (Wed), 09:44
Holy frick!
DC Fan
17th of December 2008 (Wed), 10:01
From all reports, the Farnborough air show had bad weather in 2008. Without having been within a few thousand miles of the show, one guess is that the weather cleared just enough for the Red Arrows to fly what's called a "low show" where the airplanes didn't use much altitude, and the variable sky made for a good background.

However, that doesn't make any point about "no big glass at an airshow." A wide-angle lens always is good for ramp and static images of airplanes. What it showed was a photographer's ability to adjust to a situation that some might have seen as working against the chance for good images. Vision counts far more than focal length here.

What the photographer achieved was to use the variable sky and the Red Arrows' smoke trails to make some exceptional images. The eye is drawn to the smoke patterns in contrast to the lighting, not necessarily to the airplanes.

The apparent wide focal length that worked so well with a nine-ship formation would be less effective if you had a solo performer, which would be a dot in the clouds with that technique.
Jon
19th of December 2008 (Fri), 12:28
The point, I think, isn't that you don't need big glass, rather that you shouldn't let a lack of big glass stop you from shooting.
FlyingPhotog
19th of December 2008 (Fri), 13:28
The point, I think, isn't that you don't need big glass, rather that you shouldn't let a lack of big glass stop you from shooting.

Zigactly...