STS-133 - Space Shuttle Discovery

Miles of spectators and cameras:

Great shots

Wow - loving the last two.

Sadly, something I don't think I'll ever get to experience.

Thank you for sharing.

Lawrence

This is a good series.

. . . excellent series on the final shuttle flight !!

Nice shots! I like the one with the guy sitting down with the white/grey tripod looking at the others lens that are 10x bigger=)

Very nice series, Mike! Don't think the conditions could have been any better for a day launch.

Rivman wrote in post #11918479
. . . excellent series on the final shuttle flight !!

Two more left. April and June (I think).

Awesome, plus i like that enormous L lens in one of the photos on your website.

Nice series....you had a great vantage point.

Thanks everyone. It was real nerve-wracking towards the end there, talk about suspense. It's hard to believe they pulled it out with two seconds left in the launch window. Of course, no one around me seemed to notice there was a problem and wouldn't quiet down to hear the loudspeakers. In fact, a guy nearby decided to propose while all that was going down... What if the thing had been scrubbed?

There are two flights remaining: Endeavor in April, which will be spectacular if that time holds, and Atlantis in June at the earliest.

Thank you for sharing, they are GREAT shots. Can you tell me where you shot from and the focal length, for some rease the exif info that I get does not show that. Once again, great shots.

Nice shots. Thanks for sharing. The SRB separation is very cool

Great shots Thanks For Sharing.

Mansland1 wrote in post #11935758
Thank you for sharing, they are GREAT shots. Can you tell me where you shot from and the focal length, for some rease the exif info that I get does not show that. Once again, great shots.

I was using an adapted lens, and as a result the focal length and aperture were not recorded. The settings were:

600mm (300 + 2x)
f/11
1/400
ISO200

Some moderate cropping was done in post. This was tripod mounted and remote triggered for the initial shots. Once into the roll program, I unlocked the tripod head and tracked by hand.