Air shows. Post your best shots.

Desertraptor wrote in post #18092550
Nice shots but there's a green tint on them?

On my monitor the only green tint I see is on the canopy of the first image. Could that be normal?

Perfectly Frank wrote in post #18093012
You did a good job!

I find shooting model airplanes much harder than real planes, especially at slow shutter speeds.
Those little planes move very fast!

Thank You. I agree they are harder to shoot than full scale both because of their speed & relative size. They are also a lot closer a lot of the time than at any event featuring full scale in most countries where there are strong safety rules. Worse yet I'll be tracking one getting my panning down & suddenly it shoots up at a sharp angle & does a victory roll, loop etc. You never know what the pilot will do unless you stand beside them but I usually have 4 manned pilot stations spread out across the flight line. I had 2 pilots do bomb drops at that event so I stood beside them & they did a count down so I could start shooting in time to catch the bombs as they fell. They were shot with my 7D2 & 28-300 L IS .


I think he has corrected the green tint issue because I saw it too.

IMAGE LINK: http://www.flickr.com …/album-72157671301736601/

7D2_8106

IMAGE LINK: http://www.flickr.com …/album-72157671301736601/

7D2_8257

^^Bombs away!

What a unique photo!

cicopo wrote in post #18091794
A few pages back there was a question or 2 about the Sigma 150-600 C being a decent lens for shooting airshows. My answer is a big YES & I've posted a few shots it was used for. These are from the last Radio Control event which is what I shoot throughout the summer because there are lots of these events & very few full scale events in the region. All shot with a 1D4 & the Sigma hand held in Tv mode. All models are at full speed, which is 100 MPH & up & usually no more that 150 feet away from me.

IMAGE LINK: http://www.flickr.com …/album-72157671301736601/
INGR5257 by Larry Ingram on Flickr

IMAGE LINK: http://www.flickr.com …/album-72157671301736601/
INGR5572 by Larry Ingram on Flickr

IMAGE LINK: http://www.flickr.com …/album-72157671301736601/
INGR5969 by Larry Ingram on Flickr

IMAGE LINK: http://www.flickr.com …/album-72157671301736601/
INGR6265 by Larry Ingram on Flickr

http://www.flickr.com …/album-72157671301736601/
INGR6919 by Larry Ingram on Flickr

I wonder how the Sigma 120-400 would get on in a similar situation, I believe the AF is very similar.

P.

Haven't moved your custom white balance tint in photoshop or in camera?

Another Sigma shot...

IMAGE LINK: https://flic.kr/p/KJ5V​Rf

I haven't owned or shot the Sigma 120-400 but way back in 08 when I started shooting the R/C events I owned the Sigma 80-400 OS and the 50-500 non OS & both were sharp copies. They however did not have limit switches & once you lost focus the lenses would hunt from one end to the other trying to find & lock onto the plane which was pretty much too far away if they did lock on. I sold both & the Canon 100-400 L IS became my long "go to" lens until this season. So far I haven't used it once after trying out & now relying on the Sigma 150-600 C. I have no idea whether the Sport version would be better but there is absolutely no way I could work with the extra weight doing what I do because I'm on the flight line from about 9:30 AM until 4:00 PM non stop.

EDITED TO CLARIFY. My remarks above relate to shooting R/C model aircraft & not full scale. I'm pretty confident that the Sigma lenses mentioned (if sharp) could do full scale well on bodies that have a good AF system. You have a much larger target and more time to lock focus onto it.

Found this one hiding away. Tyabb Airshow, March 2016
F4U-5N, Honduran Airforce. The football war

2016 Abbotsford Airshow, USN F/A-18E Super Hornet demo flight.

IMAGE LINK: https://flic.kr/p/KfvY​pS

cicopo wrote in post #18091794
A few pages back there was a question or 2 about the Sigma 150-600 C being a decent lens for shooting airshows. My answer is a big YES & I've posted a few shots it was used for. These are from the last Radio Control event which is what I shoot throughout the summer because there are lots of these events & very few full scale events in the region. All shot with a 1D4 & the Sigma hand held in Tv mode. All models are at full speed, which is 100 MPH & up & usually no more that 150 feet away from me.

Great job! Tough to do. I do the website and photos from the Giant Scale Fly-in at the old Castle AFB. Fun time!

Hikin Mike wrote in post #18096798
Great job! Tough to do. I do the website and photos from the Giant Scale Fly-in at the old Castle AFB. Fun time!

I have seen the scale jets over this side of the pond esp the massive scale victor and vulcan, when I sat on a chair near to these when they started them up - Amazing so much power


P.

Corralstar wrote in post #18096624
2016 Abbotsford Airshow, USN F/A-18E Super Hornet demo flight.

IMAGE LINK: https://flic.kr/p/KfvY​pS USN FA-18 shock wave by Bill Church, on Flickr

Love the vapor cone!

Thanks. I'm the official flight line photographer for a Giant Scale event that's on this weekend, and it's supposed to be the largest in Canada & 3rd largest in North America which means it's one down from yours. Ours is on a very nice grass field & best of all the sun is at my back for a big part of the day (when it's sunny). Hopefully we'll have good weather but rain or shine I'm expected to be there & it's a 2 hour drive each way. How many pilots (roughly) does your event draw?

cicopo wrote in post #18096818
Thanks. I'm the official flight line photographer for a Giant Scale event that's on this weekend, and it's supposed to be the largest in Canada & 3rd largest in North America which means it's one down from yours. Ours is on a very nice grass field & best of all the sun is at my back for a big part of the day (when it's sunny). Hopefully we'll have good weather but rain or shine I'm expected to be there & it's a 2 hour drive each way. How many pilots (roughly) does your event draw?

I don't think there was a "official photographer" there. I go to church with the guy that runs it, so I asked if I could shoot it. I don't fly, but my dad has been flying since he was a kid, so I'm familiar with the safety etc.

I think there was about a 100 pilots. Last year we had a full-scale P-51 fly-by and land for a while. That was cool!

Pagman wrote in post #18096811
I have seen the scale jets over this side of the pond esp the massive scale victor and vulcan, when I sat on a chair near to these when they started them up - Amazing so much power

P.

They are cool, fast and very hard to capture "on film"!