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you're the person who takes the pictures !

Excellent work !

Thank you for posting
Thierry
 
Thanks Thierry and you are right about the person behind the camera being a key ingredient in photography although shooting planes isn't the hardest thing to do. Much easier than shooting flying birds. I got use to the zooming and framing as the planes were coming very close to me and during the last few seconds the plane is moving much faster as it crosses directly in front of me. It was fun and I plan to shoot a variety of planes including small two seaters and hope to get a few more helicopters.

I did like the lighting at the time and was trying to get it at particular angles for a look I had in mind.
TOF guy said:
you're the person who takes the pictures !

Excellent work !

Thank you for posting
Thierry
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Natinha said:
The one in the picture is an A320.
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Thanks for your tip and based on that I did a search on the web and found this: http://www.airliners.net/open.file/196800/M Very detailed info.
Natinha said:
Justme said:
I have lost touch with the various models of planes out there. Any
aircraft aficiondos here able to identify some of them?
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Hey thanks Natinha. I will do some searching on those. Oops. I just noticed you already know about Airliners.net. I plugged in "a320+plane" and the site came up first. A very good site like you said.
Natinha said:
Natinha said:
Justme said:
I have lost touch with the various models of planes out there. Any
aircraft aficiondos here able to identify some of them?
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These Hawk jets of the RAF Red Arrows team were displaying last week in Cornwall, South West UK. Here is the link in case you missed it first time.
http://www.soqotra.info/red_arrows/redarrows.htm

The lens was a Sigma 70-300mm APO MacroII. ISO200. Sorry the images are not very large but that is what PS CS produced. Anyway, you get the idea I hope.
John
 
henchook said:
Does anybody else notice this?
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The nose wheel looks fine to me. Could be the angle the photo was taken at. I saw your image below but what am I suppose to be looking for in the image?
henchook said:
The nosewheel looks like it's above the wing, sort of like in the
M.C.Escher's perpetual waterfall:

http://www.math.utah.edu/~lars/mathart/artpix/escher-waterfall.jpg
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johnfarrar said:
These Hawk jets of the RAF Red Arrows team were displaying last
week in Cornwall, South West UK. Here is the link in case you
missed it first time.
http://www.soqotra.info/red_arrows/redarrows.htm

The lens was a Sigma 70-300mm APO MacroII. ISO200. Sorry the images
are not very large but that is what PS CS produced. Anyway, you get
the idea I hope.
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Sometimes it's good to pull back on the zoom to give it some context. What do you mean by "that is what PS CS produced"?
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John
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Cool shots. I assume you also used the 75-300mm IS. That first image looks too close for comfort and the alignment of the planes looks almost too perfect. Hey, you didn't flip the plane in PS did you? :) j/k
Bfax said:


http://image.pbase.com/u46/bfax11/upload/29900002.IMG_2594small.jpg
Justme said:
I'm very happy with what the Canon 75-300mm IS can do capturing
planes. It was a cloudy day with drizzle some occasional clearing.
More here: http://www.pbase.com/golfpic/aircraft
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Yes, I did use the 75-300mm IS, although I'm pretty sure I had the IS off as I was doing some very quick panning to get those shots.

Yes, those planes were close and low. It was the Air Force Thunderbird airshow at the conclusion of the Air Force Academey graduation this year (my nephew was graduating). If my geometry serves me correct, I calculate that the planes were only 2500 to 3000 ft from us.

No, I did not photoshop the inverted plane in :-) I only resized, sharpened and boosted the saturation a little. It got very grey right before the airshow.

Flying that close together inverted is mind-boggling - but that's what those guys can do. I have a few other shots posted on

http://www.pbase.com/bfax11/usafa_graduation

If you dig around on the Air Force Academy website, you can find a whole bunch of pics that were taken during the airshow. I sent 3 of my pics to the webmaster, and they got included (although you have to dig to find them...)

Thanks for the kind words on the shots.
Justme said:
Bfax said:


http://image.pbase.com/u46/bfax11/upload/29900002.IMG_2594small.jpg
Justme said:
I'm very happy with what the Canon 75-300mm IS can do capturing
planes. It was a cloudy day with drizzle some occasional clearing.
More here: http://www.pbase.com/golfpic/aircraft
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http://www.pbase.com/golfpic/digital_rebel_birds
http://www.pbase.com/golfpic/canadian_tulip_festival_2004
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Justme said:
I'm very happy with what the Canon 75-300mm IS can do capturing
planes. It was a cloudy day with drizzle some occasional clearing.
http://www.pbase.com/image/30657183
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I agree it's a crisp shot, but since it was taken at 1/640s f/11, I'm not seeing the benefit of Image Stabilization. You could've even chosen 1/1250 f/8 if camera shake was a concern and still hit the "sweet spot" of that consumer-zoomer.

In case you're wondering my ulterior motive, I have the 75-300 III (non-IS) and love it in the f/8-f/11 range, up to about 250mm. I'm just trying to point out that I.S. is not really that usefull for moving objects like people or jets.

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henchook said:
Does anybody else notice this?

The nosewheel looks like it's above the wing, sort of like in the
M.C.Escher's perpetual waterfall:
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You're right, that's funny! Looks like nobody else noticed it even after you pointed it out. The reason why it looks like that is probably because the nose wheels are much smaller than the main wheels but the human eye (rather the postprocessing brain, of course) wants it to be equal size, therefore the "eye" assumes that it must be further away than the main wheels, and that is on top of the wing tip.

BTW: I'm a fan of Escher's "impossible objects". That stuff is stunning and a good training for your "eye".

Thanks for pointing it out!

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Bfax said:
Yes, I did use the 75-300mm IS, although I'm pretty sure I had the
IS off as I was doing some very quick panning to get those shots.

Yes, those planes were close and low. It was the Air Force
Thunderbird airshow at the conclusion of the Air Force Academey
graduation this year (my nephew was graduating). If my geometry
serves me correct, I calculate that the planes were only 2500 to
3000 ft from us.

No, I did not photoshop the inverted plane in :-) I only resized,
sharpened and boosted the saturation a little. It got very grey
right before the airshow.

Flying that close together inverted is mind-boggling - but that's
what those guys can do. I have a few other shots posted on
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Nice shots and some really tight formations there. I see President Bush was at the ceremony.
Bfax said:
http://www.pbase.com/bfax11/usafa_graduation

If you dig around on the Air Force Academy website, you can find a
whole bunch of pics that were taken during the airshow. I sent 3
of my pics to the webmaster, and they got included (although you
have to dig to find them...)

Thanks for the kind words on the shots.
Justme said:
Bfax said:


http://image.pbase.com/u46/bfax11/upload/29900002.IMG_2594small.jpg
Justme said:
I'm very happy with what the Canon 75-300mm IS can do capturing
planes. It was a cloudy day with drizzle some occasional clearing.
More here: http://www.pbase.com/golfpic/aircraft
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http://www.pbase.com/golfpic/digital_rebel_birds
http://www.pbase.com/golfpic/canadian_tulip_festival_2004
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http://www.pbase.com/golfpic/digital_rebel_birds
http://www.pbase.com/golfpic/canadian_tulip_festival_2004
 
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