Waddington Air Show

[muscleflex]

From yesterday. Not had much time to go thru my pics yet but I took 600 shots yesterday! Yikes!
It was a great day but the weather could have been better! Tho it did open up and gave us clear blue skies for a while!
What do you think of this one?
28-200 lens,
Tv( Shutter Speed )
1/320
Av( Aperture Value )
5.6
ISO 100

[Eagle]

Beautiful blue sky, can't wait to see more pics.

[muscleflex]

thanks. i'll put some more when i've edited some of them. i think i might have gone overboard with the contrast on the sky tho...

[muscleflex]

and another one...

[Ballen Photo]

and another one...
I LIKE this one. :D
-Bruce

[PhotosGuy]

Very pretty!

[muscleflex]

thanks! I'll do better next time - promise! :-) It's my first time you see! (good excuse huh?!)

Photosguy, just looked at your pics...darn! All i can say is wow! i'll be taking pics like yours someday! I hope! :-)

[Dew]

Hi muscleflex - I must have caught the Sukhoi just before you!

http://i2.photobucket.com/albums/y15/Dewspics/Waddington/IMG_5915.jpg

I think this is the same manouvre!

Nice blue skies here, but the lighting was tricky earlier on.

Great 'Arrows capture!

[muscleflex]

haha! darn it! you got a BIGGER lens than I do! Not fair! What lens did you use?
also - can I ask - were you using autofocus? Most of the guys around me (with L lenses) were using AF (coz I kept hearing their AF beeps! But I was actually manually focusing (don't ask why) and most of my pics are, obviously, out of focus! :( Do most people use AF then at airshows? ie servo focusing?
This is one of the BEST pics i got...but unfortunately, I was stood behind a taller guy and...you've guessed it - his head blocked my view! Grrr (he can't be on this forum as he was using a N***n with a Sigma 50-500 - nice guy, he let me hold his camera to feel the weight of the lens - very heavy!!

[PhotosGuy]

Do most people use AF then at airshows? Perhaps most, but not all. ;)

I didn't 'cause I was using a MF Nikkor on the 300D! I felt that, if you pan, you can use a slower shutter speed with a smaller f-stop which will give a large DOF which should compensate for the lcd viewfinder.
This one was at 1/250 sec. at about 300mm, 480mm w/1.6 crop factor.

http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v218/PhotosGuy/Air%20Show%202004/B-25_0393.jpg


This one was at 1/320 sec.

http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v218/PhotosGuy/Air%20Show%202004/Mustangs_0431.jpg

Darn, I really need to clean up that haze sometime! :D

[Dew]

muscleflex - I was using AI Servo (no beeps!) but got quite a few out of focus shots, some as I was trying to keep shutter speed down (200-250th) on props/'copters, some as I was at f/4 alot, and at 30m (for instance) there's less than 2m DOF. In hind sight, should have upped my ISO to get smaller aperture / deeper DOF for same shutter speed?
Anyhoo - it's all good fun! I was using IS in mode 2 most of the time (mode 1 for hovering harries / 'copters).

[muscleflex]

i was using 150th for props! heh. i guess that was too slow? i basically had no idea as it was my first time shooting planes! later on that day, i went to 500th shooting jets. i was on Tv priority all the time. with -1 exp when it was bright..(not sure if i did it right) and ISO 100 - 400 depends on the weather. when it got cloudy, i went back to 400
where are you guys from anyway? (the ones who went to the airshow)