Bournemouth Air Festival

First attempt at shooting planes and boy was it a lot harder than I thought it would be, heck they're fast!

I took these thinking they were slightly different.

Many thanks
Simon.

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You think planes are hard , you should try birds, at least planes fly in straight lines

Wow were you lying directly beneath? These are up close and personal for sure.

If you think that was hard, just try it at a shutter speed that doesn't stop the props as your 1/1250 sec did! See the "Airshow guys - prop freeze?" & other links in post #2 of: Shooting airshows in Manual

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Thanks and yes I suppose they do at least fly in a straight line!

The Lancaster was about 200 feet above me, just after taking off, fantastic noise.
The Wingwalker was a higher and that was taken with the Sigma 150 - 500'

Here are a few more ...

1. I love this shot, far from pefect but the sheer drama.

love the colours and composition in No6

Your right about it being difficult, I find watching an aeroplane it looks like its moving slowly and you have plenty of time...but soon as you aim a camera at one it seems to be travellying at light speed....and as for birds so unpredictable its a marvel to see the captures of BIF on these forums.....But I do wonder how many of these shots that get shared are just the results of lots of hard work with plenty of failures and non-keepers beforehand which we never get to see.