Photos from Shuttleworth Season-Premiere Airshow

In order to achieve propeller-blur, I try to use a shutter speed of 1/320 or less for such aircraft. That means I have to pan accurately.

(For gliders and jets I use much higher shutter speeds. For helicopters, somewhat slower).

This airshow was a bad day for panning! From when I arrived at 09:00, I was on my feet nearly all the time. It was hot with hardly any wind.

The air display started at 14:00. By the time the most interesting aircraft appeared hours later, I had been on my feet and active for more than 7 hours, and taken about 2000 images, hand-holding a heavy camera and lens.

I'm a weedy 71-year-old! By that time, I was mentally and physically zapped. My panning had gone down the pan!

(I'm ketogenic and metabolically flexible, so I didn't need to snack to keep up my energy. But I may have been a bit dehydrated).

The main reason for deleting photos since the airshow has been bad panning. Even some of the better photos were not up my past standard.

Therefore, for all photos of aircraft in flight in this thread, I've used Photoshop's Filter > Sharpen > Shake Reduction. It isn't magic, and sometimes it goes a bit weird, but it has probably doubled my "sharp enough to publish" rate.

It has sometimes even managed to squeeze out a tiny improvement in photos which I would have been happy with.

(I'm still learning how to fine-tune it, and how it relates to IBIS, etc. Also, I need to experiment with combinations of Lightroom's sharpening and this Photoshop feature).