Wales National Airshow, Swansea

The Wales National Airshow took place over Swansea bay on 11-12 July 2009. I came out of it with around 1,200 shots, which I find somewhat remarkable for a 2-year-old kit battery that's only meant to do 500, according to the manual. The following were shot with a Canon EOS 400D and Tamron 55-200 f/4-5.6 lens in AI Servo AF mode. I switched between shutter priority at 1/640-1/800s, and aperture priority at f/8-9 where the lens is sharpest.

Red Arrows in diamond formation

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Nice! Are these resized or cropped?

Good start here. About that Chinook that's about to fall out of the sky with it's engines off:
Airshow guys - prop freeze?

And...

SirStuey wrote in post #8278447
Nice! Are these resized or cropped?

Some of them were cropped a bit for symmetry or to otherwise put the aircraft where I wanted it (it's not easy framing shots on fast-moving objects at 200mm ) and contrast and saturation were enhanced for the Red Arrows and non-military aircraft; the rest are the camera's choice of colours. All were shot in JPEG as the 400D's buffer filled up too quicky shooting raw. I resized them all to 2048×1365 for uploading to Flickr.

PhotosGuy wrote in post #8278470
Good start here. About that Chinook that's about to fall out of the sky with it's engines off:

Heh heh, I've been looking for an excuse to get a 70-300mm IS...

ettlz wrote in post #8278486
............(it's not easy framing shots on fast-moving objects at 200mm )

You should try it with a 500mm http://s139.photobucke​t.com …Photography/Red​%20Arrows/