RAF Rescue

Very nice sea king. I'm bored as all hell and like this image, since you have image editing ok on, i took a stab at some post processing.

In your shot the side door area and not the nose seems to be in the sharpest focus area, so i used the smart sharpen tool, and then the pen sharpener and did up the nose a little bit more. Also i made the sky a light hue of blue instead of grey, (i converted to lab color and selected the b channel and i played with the curve).

Here's what i got;

HTTP response: 404 | MIME changed to 'text/html' | Byte size: ZERO

Cracking job on that.
My PP skills are virtually nil, will have to get myself into gear and sort it out.

Great Shots BOTH!

Where was this taken IMARLOW?

Southend last year

Great shot! I have a hard time in Mildenhall trying to get shots like that. How far were you from the aircraft?

A fair way off, used the painfully slow Sigma 175-500 on this shot.
Was amazed it coped so well.
The Hall shouldn't require too big a lens from the mound i reckon 70-200 would be more than ample.
From the other end i dont suppose anything over a 300 would be needed.

You might get a few quid for it if you send it to Aviation Weekly. I'm in the process of sending a few of mine in. Do you have more shots earlier in the turn? I think being able to take the picture at about 45° from the nose would've added more to the helicopter... then again, we take what we can get...

Nice shot!

I got several dozen shots of this as it did a few passes.
This though i like the best in terms of qaulity etc.
The jolly Sigma was really struggling to keep up the pace.
Praise be for the 100-400 L....

First shot is very good.

The PP is very very impressive in my opinion.