Quad City Air Show - 6-18-2011

A selection of photos I took at the QCAS on Saturday. I severely dislike photographing airshows when it's cloudy, but tried to make the best of it that I could. The entire album is here.

I haven't even began to look at the photos I took during the Blue Angel's performance.

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Shadow/highlight tool seems to help make the aircraft stand out in the sky a little better. It will also give your vapor on the F15 a little more definition.

. . . nice series !!

Good stuff , I thought Saturday was was better than Sunday in a few ways..... you get what ya can get and make the best of it.

interesting the truck is on 2 wheels.

RadAL wrote in post #12627645
interesting the truck is on 2 wheels.

What exactly is happening with the truck tires?

kit lens wrote in post #12624113
Shadow/highlight tool seems to help make the aircraft stand out in the sky a little better. It will also give your vapor on the F15 a little more definition.

Thanks for the tip. Is that the name of the tool in LR? I only have PS7... old skool.

Rivman wrote in post #12624733
. . . nice series !!

Thanks!

andrewhuxman wrote in post #12625898
Good stuff , I thought Saturday was was better than Sunday in a few ways..... you get what ya can get and make the best of it.

Thanks - I hear ya - tried to do what I could with what I had.

RadAL wrote in post #12627645
interesting the truck is on 2 wheels.

I26 wrote in post #12627895
What exactly is happening with the truck tires?

Yup - was wondering when that would get noticed. From the best I could tell while panning with the truck, it hit a dip in the runway which caused the back-end to come up. I wonder how often that happens to them. I sent them a link to the photo, but haven't heard anything back yet.

MizzouMan_2000 wrote in post #12628204
Yup - was wondering when that would get noticed. From the best I could tell while panning with the truck, it hit a dip in the runway which caused the back-end to come up. I wonder how often that happens to them. I sent them a link to the photo, but haven't heard anything back yet.

My guess is that the truck being so light and going fast. When it hits any bump it bounces and you captured it perfectly I had one with the tires off also but near as good as yours .

Nicely done

Desertraptor wrote in post #12630693
Nicely done

Thanks!

I guess I would rather the back wheels bounced than the front get off the ground!

Alan

Nice shots, looks like you have done a good job with the tricky lighting. Solid grey cloud isn't much fun to shoot against. What settings did you use?

Ramrod wrote in post #12633248
Nice shots, looks like you have done a good job with the tricky lighting. Solid grey cloud isn't much fun to shoot against. What settings did you use?

Thanks, Ramrod.

I mainly shoot manual and settings varied widely. For prop planes I tried to keep shutter speed below 1/400th, but my favorite lens (300 + 1.4x tele) isn't IS, so I end up with many that go in the scrap pile.

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Camera makeCanon
Camera modelCanon EOS 7D
Focal length420 mm
Exposure1/2000 at f/5.6
FlashNot fired, compulsory mode
Exposure bias0 EV
Exposure modeManual
ISO speedISO 400

2.
Camera makeCanonCamera modelCanon EOS 7D
Focal length420 mm
Exposure1/400 at f/10
FlashNot fired, compulsory mode
Exposure bias0 EV
Exposure modeManual
ISO speedISO 400


3.
Camera makeCanonCamera modelCanon EOS 7D
Focal length16 mm
Exposure1/60 at f/4.5
FlashNot fired, compulsory mode
Exposure bias0 EV
Exposure modeManual
ISO speedISO 200


4. Used the XTi w/ 70-200 because the 7D had the 300+1.4x on it.
Camera makeCanonCamera modelCanon EOS DIGITAL REBEL XTi
Focal length200 mm
Exposure1/250 at f/7.1
FlashNot fired, compulsory mode
Exposure bias+1 2/3 EV
Exposure modeTv
ISO speedISO 100


5.
Camera makeCanonCamera modelCanon EOS 7D
Focal length35 mm
Exposure1/60 at f/8
FlashNot fired, compulsory mode
Exposure bias0 EV
Exposure modeManual
ISO speedISO 200


6.
Camera makeCanonCamera modelCanon EOS 7D
Focal length300 mm
Exposure1/400 at f/7.1
FlashNot fired, compulsory mode
Exposure bias0 EV
Exposure modeManual
ISO speedISO 200


7.
Camera makeCanonCamera modelCanon EOS 7D
Focal length207 mm
Exposure1/160 at f/10
FlashNot fired, compulsory mode
Exposure bias0 EV
Exposure modeManual
ISO speedISO 200

Saturation seems turned up pretty high. Vlado's P-51 isnt that blue.....

Mark H

so cool,nice shots