F/A-18 Hornet fly-over

[paulh]

I took this from the back balcony of my house this afternoon. It is a RAAF F/A-18 Hornet doing a track fly-over for the Clipsal 500 Rally in Adelaide, Australia, this weekend. I heard the plane, and barely managed to run upstairs, change lenses, and get a few shots off from the balcony. This image is cropped right down, hence the poor resolution. I did some minimal post-processing (levels, sharpening). It's hardly an exceptional shot, just something interesting to see from the back of my house.

Canon EOS 20D, EF 55-200mm at 200mm, 1/1600, f/5.7, ISO 400.

[Flex]

Saw that buzzing around today for the race. Not the best shot but cool to see it having had it overhead today. Nice work

[paulh]

Not the best shot but cool to see it having had it overhead today.
You are right, it's far from a great shot. Even at 200mm (x1.5), I was just too far away. In the original 3504x2336 JPG, the plane occupied a fraction of the shot. The posted image was a significant crop.

[adamsti]

It also may have helped to use ISO 100, in bright sun like you shot, there is no reason at all to NOT use iso 100.

[Littlenose]

It also may have helped to use ISO 100, in bright sun like you shot, there is no reason at all to NOT use iso 100.

unless of course you're in a hurry or forget that you weren't in ISO100 [i've done that too many times :roll:]

[spoolin_photography]

holy crap there is some one else on here from Adeliade, i thought i was the only one

this was the first year that the f18's diddnt fly over my house i was so disapointed

[Rokkorfan]

For some real plane shots, check out my page I am putting together on the Australian International Airshow :)

http://www.rokkorfiles.com/Airshow%202005.htm

Cheers,

Antony from Melbourne