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Cream of the "Prop"

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Mar 25, 2010 01:00 | #1

An interesting day of shooting. Spent some time at Phoenix-Gateway (former Williams AFB .. aka "Willie") and a little time at the local muni as well...

161st ARW KC-135R

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NASA T-38

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A jet takes off and you're stuck in "Prop Mode" so what do you do?
Pan with the big white sucker!

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Cessna Citation XLS+

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Beech Baron (At Chandler Muni)

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Sabena Flight Academy Archer III

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All shot with either a 1DMkIII or a 40D + 500mm f/4L IS
Jets: 1/1000 @ f/4.5
Props: 1/125 @ f/11-ish
(And the Allegiant DC-9 as well...)

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Mar 25, 2010 01:07 | #2

Great shots as always. I'm going through Citation 7 initial and one of our instructors also teaches the XLS and kept making cracks about how much better the III/650/VIIs are than the XLS. It sure is a pretty airplane though.

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Mar 25, 2010 05:12 | #3

More great shots
Nice Jay

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Mar 25, 2010 06:43 as a reply to @ Desertraptor's post | #4

Great photos as usual. In pic 3, I got a kick out of the big sign on the mountain pointing out which way Phoenix is. :lol:

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Mar 25, 2010 07:07 as a reply to @ rjevang24's post | #5

Good job! Very well done.
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Mar 25, 2010 08:20 as a reply to @ Dave Jr's post | #7

Awesome work!! #3 works for me.....

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Mar 25, 2010 09:08 as a reply to @ TTurrill's post | #8

#3 is an excellent shot!

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Mar 25, 2010 10:11 | #9

Good stuff Jay! I like the T-38! Good to hear that I am not the only one that gets stuck in "prop" mode. Unfortunately my results were not as good as yours in that mode.

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Mar 25, 2010 10:14 as a reply to @ LA Smith's post | #10

Love the Beech Baron shot.

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Mar 31, 2010 16:25 | #11

Thanks All Very Much!

(This fell so far, so fast I lost track of it...Sorry) :oops:

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Mar 31, 2010 18:27 | #14

Thanks!

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Apr 01, 2010 09:06 | #15

Excellent series!

A jet takes off and you're stuck in "Prop Mode" so what do you do?

Good save!
While I usually only shoot on manual, there have been a few times that I accidentally bump the mode dial & don't notice it. So, for anyone interested, I take precautions at events like air shows when I might be shooting a jet on M & a prop job comes by unexpectedly. So I've also set a slow shutter speed on Tv & a wide open aperture on Av, along with the Exposure Compensation (EC) that I think will work at the time I set it up. Then it's just a quick change of the dial to get something usable.

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