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01/17/2006 02:30:03 PM · #1 |
 Tried to get a better shot, but could never catch the fly by in time. |
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01/17/2006 02:35:25 PM · #2 |
cool shot did u catch them at an air show or did they just happen to fly by. I have the same lens and camera and at a air show I went to I was able to catch some shots of jets and choppers. With that lens it just has to be bright out and I set my camera to shoot on the "TV" setting and choosed a really fast speed.
But those jets are so fast if you look away for a split second they are gone.
Message edited by author 2006-01-17 14:36:28.
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01/17/2006 02:36:02 PM · #3 |
Kinda cool, the cloud directly underneath the lead jet almost looks like a plane itself. ;^)
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01/17/2006 02:36:35 PM · #4 |
| Just a fly by, the second jet is actually cloned in. |
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01/17/2006 02:38:46 PM · #5 |
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01/17/2006 02:41:20 PM · #6 |
i had pretty good luck shooting zoomed with manual focus a few months ago.
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01/17/2006 02:45:20 PM · #7 |
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01/17/2006 02:47:13 PM · #8 |
I like to use a single focus point on planes, and of course longer glass helps  |
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01/17/2006 02:51:35 PM · #9 |
I had to jump out of the way quickly after getting this F-22 coming straight at me ;-)
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01/17/2006 02:53:27 PM · #10 |
Originally posted by Telehubbie:
I had to jump out of the way quickly after getting this F-22 coming straight at me ;-)
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you must be a fast jumper! |
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01/17/2006 03:11:35 PM · #11 |
Originally posted by Telehubbie:
I had to jump out of the way quickly after getting this F-22 coming straight at me ;-)
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Yah, right! Better change your photographer's notes if you want us to believe that, you faker, you :-)
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01/17/2006 03:13:46 PM · #12 |
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01/17/2006 03:14:34 PM · #13 |
| Must be that new un-manned F-22. |
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01/17/2006 03:23:00 PM · #14 |
| Ya, I'm pretty quick. ;-) At least that's what my wife tells me. :-( |
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01/17/2006 03:24:13 PM · #15 |
Some of mine. From airshows. Most are uncropped.
    
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01/18/2006 11:04:08 AM · #16 |
HEY!!! Thats the Jones Beach airshow!!!! I made a video of mine, you can see it here
My pictures of the Jones Beach airshow done in photostory 3 |
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01/18/2006 11:22:26 AM · #17 |
Cool video. Nice tunes too!!
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01/19/2006 06:51:02 AM · #18 |
| Thanks.... It was fun to shoot, pain in the arse to make! ;) |
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01/19/2006 08:38:51 AM · #19 |
    
I have a few of those kinda shots. I like shooting aircraft, wish I could get to do more of it.
edit: to get the d#@n thumbnails right.
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01/22/2006 09:56:30 AM · #20 |
These are 2 of my Snow Bird shots (more in my portfolio) taken at the Halifax Int. Airshow. This was the straw that broke the camels back for my camera...It was an HP C945 and had the delightful trait of a viewfinder that would lock up for about 1/3 of a second every few seconds which made it the most frustrating camera in the world for action shots.
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01/22/2006 10:26:30 AM · #21 |
Did someone say Jets?
Here is an F-35 pretty rare to get a picture of this.
Thunderbirds
Air Force Tribute the two planes are F-86 Sabre and F-15 and the three planes are F-15, F-16 and a P-51 Mustang
The planes in the air were at the Jones Beach air show and the McGuire AFB open house. The F-35 I shot on the flight deck of the air craft carrier JFK in New York City back in May at Fleet week.
Mike
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01/22/2006 10:29:08 AM · #22 |
You were at Jones beach too? How come I didn't see you? There were only a milion or so people there, LOL.
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01/22/2006 10:41:47 AM · #23 |
Originally posted by JOHNBOY1970:
Tried to get a better shot, but could never catch the fly by in time. |
The secret in getting the shot at an air show is to anticipate the fly by and have a fast camera.
I used to shoot with a Nikon Coolpix 5700; in a fly by I would get one shot off and then wait for the camera to save it.
With my Olympus E-1 I can shoot 4fps so a fly by now I get like 12 shots. Out of those 12 I get one or two really classic shots. I carry four 1 gig cards with me and at SHQ I can get about 270 images on one card. If I shoot SHQ and RAW I can get about 100 images on one card. At an air show from the static displays and the flights I could shoot almost 600 images in a day.
If your camera can't focus between shots, then set it to manual and focus it where the planes will pass at something the same distance away on the ground. That makes one less thing to do as they come by.
Also hold the camera with your arms against your body and plant your feet firmly in a comfortable position, you are going to be there a few seconds, look to your right or left depending on which way they are coming from then as they get to a point where you are going to start, hold your breath and follow them in your view finder leading them by a little, just twist your body smoothly and shoot as you pan. Don't try to stay in one spot and wait for the planes to come past; you will end up with a blur.
As you pan don't move your feet, just pivot your body.
Good luck and don't be afraid to ask.
Mike
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01/22/2006 12:49:39 PM · #24 |
| Very cool! Fly over our house daily- we're only about 15 minutes from Langley AFB. THey got a new set of jets about a month ago of something like that. I think last weekend they were testing them lol. Pretty amazing! |
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01/22/2006 02:37:18 PM · #25 |
Thumb's too small. You'll need to expand it to see the Blue Angels buzzing Oprah's apartment in Chicago.
Message edited by author 2006-01-22 14:37:30. |
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