JayLT4
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Still getting caught up on a backlog of shots from different events and airshows. In this case getting through some of the shots from my first trip to NAS Oceana.
This is a show I've always wanted to go to, but finding the time to do so was always difficult. Saturday was a difficult day as the weather was very warm, and it was pure sun. Not always a bad thing, but late int he day the sun was coming down to the front-left which made afternoon shots difficult. Sunday was amazing. Mostly cloudy, and I switched from the right side of the flightline over to the far-left. Much better!
This was not only my first east-coast airshow, but also my first airshow shooting with the EF 500 f/4L IS II lens I recently picked up for a very good price. Normally I shoot with the 100-500, and I still have one, but this is a lens I've been wanting more for wildlife, but I figured it would be a good asset for aviation as well, mostly for jets specifically. And I would say that for this specific show, 500mm was just about perfect. There were only a couple times where it was a bit too long and I clipped either the front or back of a plane, but that was rare. I used it pretty much exclusively for jets, as prop planes need a much slower shutter speed, so the faster glass really wouldn't be much of an advantage (without an ND filter at least) as the aperture would be averaging around f/11 to f/13 by slowing to 1/200 - 1/400th.
Jets were a different story. This lens with jets was simply amazing. I was able to up the shutter speed to, at times, 1/8000th while still keeping the ISO at 400 or less. There's just no way to do this with the 100-500, the ISO gets cranked pretty quickly running at 7.1+ and that can rob the finer detail. The faster shutter speed certainly allowed a much higher keeper-rate during certain maneuvers, and when you're also trying to get all the different atmospherics (vape) around these planes at speed, that's a huge bonus.
It was a bit of a workout hand-holding this lens for most of the demos, but well worth it in my opinion!
I down-sampled the pics to 2500 on the long edge, with the exception of one just to keep the uploading and viewing a bit easier.
I kept this image fill size, this is uncropped (no shock there) but it really shows the details that can be pulled with the R5II and the 500 f/4.
I wish I would have lowered to 1/400 or 1/500th for these take-off shots
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My Flickr page; https://www.flickr.com/photos/jaylt4/
This is a show I've always wanted to go to, but finding the time to do so was always difficult. Saturday was a difficult day as the weather was very warm, and it was pure sun. Not always a bad thing, but late int he day the sun was coming down to the front-left which made afternoon shots difficult. Sunday was amazing. Mostly cloudy, and I switched from the right side of the flightline over to the far-left. Much better!
This was not only my first east-coast airshow, but also my first airshow shooting with the EF 500 f/4L IS II lens I recently picked up for a very good price. Normally I shoot with the 100-500, and I still have one, but this is a lens I've been wanting more for wildlife, but I figured it would be a good asset for aviation as well, mostly for jets specifically. And I would say that for this specific show, 500mm was just about perfect. There were only a couple times where it was a bit too long and I clipped either the front or back of a plane, but that was rare. I used it pretty much exclusively for jets, as prop planes need a much slower shutter speed, so the faster glass really wouldn't be much of an advantage (without an ND filter at least) as the aperture would be averaging around f/11 to f/13 by slowing to 1/200 - 1/400th.
Jets were a different story. This lens with jets was simply amazing. I was able to up the shutter speed to, at times, 1/8000th while still keeping the ISO at 400 or less. There's just no way to do this with the 100-500, the ISO gets cranked pretty quickly running at 7.1+ and that can rob the finer detail. The faster shutter speed certainly allowed a much higher keeper-rate during certain maneuvers, and when you're also trying to get all the different atmospherics (vape) around these planes at speed, that's a huge bonus.
It was a bit of a workout hand-holding this lens for most of the demos, but well worth it in my opinion!
I down-sampled the pics to 2500 on the long edge, with the exception of one just to keep the uploading and viewing a bit easier.
I kept this image fill size, this is uncropped (no shock there) but it really shows the details that can be pulled with the R5II and the 500 f/4.
I wish I would have lowered to 1/400 or 1/500th for these take-off shots
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My Flickr page; https://www.flickr.com/photos/jaylt4/
