Air show this weekend

[BlueCorn]

I can't wait for weekend when the air show comes to town. It's a wild departure from everything that I like to shoot but it's a lot of fun.

This was from a couple of years ago:

 

[Recty]

Very nice. I'm surprised how much detail I can see on the bottoms of the planes, I would have thought they would be shadowed more and darker.

 

[Misled]

I'm going to a RC airshow tomorrow.

Not quite the same!!!!!

 

[Reef Bass]

Yes, very good detail on the plane bottoms. And that red on the wing tips is poppin.

 

[BlueCorn]

I shot 2600 frames yesterday. It'll take me a long time to get through them but here's one of the F22 Raptor. I was glad to see it back this year as it's an amazing aircraft to watch.

Cheers

 

[Misled]

OK Doug, that's just too freakin sweet!!!!!!



Yes, more please!!!!!!!

 

[Reef Bass]

Awesome. There's a name for the water vapor cloud effect on the wings. Cool that you captured it.

2600 frames yesterday! Wow.

 

[Hookup]

Beegebers man! That F22 shot is out of this frigg'n world... I swear if I didn't know better I say you contracted ILM to render that up....

Can you share the shot details? ISO/Aperature/Shutter/Length/Lens?

-looking at it again... I bet in larget sizes you can almost read the pilots nametag... in this small size it's clear to see the pilots head/shoulders thru the tinted glass... In fact,I think it is Capt Bob America.. good pilot... haha...

I'm flipp'n out here man!

 

[BlueCorn]

Thanks!

I shoot with the original 5D, which is an awesome camera but isn't know for it's "sports" performance. To help get around that I stayed in manual exposure all day and used AI Servo mode on just the center AF spot. I left my aperture at f/8 and just had to bump the shutter speed a stop or two in either direction depending on the cloud cover. I used my 100-400L and this shot is at 400mm. I did a minor crop to change the rotation slightly. Exposure stayed at 1/800th for most of the day, as it did on this shot, at ISO 200.

 

[Recty]

<a href=showthread.php?s=&postid=15698686#post15698686 target=_blank>Originally posted</a> by Reef Bass
Awesome. There's a name for the water vapor cloud effect on the wings. Cool that you captured it.

2600 frames yesterday! Wow.

I've only ever heard wingtip vortice, that's maybe not the correct term though.

I live right by an army base, Elmendorf up here in Alaska.

I see F22s flying daily, probably 5-10 of them doing little practice missions or what not, they are an amazing plane. It's so sweet to see something flying along horizontal and then all of the sudden pointing straight vertical and disappear into the clouds.

Great shot, btw. The detail is just insane. I love seeing the afterburners

 

[Hookup]

Thanks Doug,
I would assume that you did not use a Circ Polerizer for this shot, or for any of these shots... I would imagine controlling the polarization would be difficult because you might be shooting from so many different spots...

Correct?

 

[BlueCorn]

Hookup - correct. This is one of the rare times when I don't have one on. It would have caused up to a 1 stop change in exposure when panning. I was also using the lens hood to keep the flare down which makes the polarizer almost impossible to get to.

Cheers

 

[TitusvileSurfer]

Great shot Doug...could be the coolest F22 photograph I've ever seen, and I've seen plenty!

 

[IPT]

Doug that Raptor shot is quite amazing. Nice capture.

 

[BlueCorn]

A few more from the same show:

Cheers

 

[IPT]

you had the perfect sky . Hate those perfect blue sky days...

 

[BlueCorn]

Thanks Louis, it clouded up when the Thunderbirds started. Shooting white planes on white sky isn't very interesting.

That P-38 is a pretty interesting story. Google "Glacier Girl." It was recovered from 200' deep in a Glacier.

 

[Bn251]

man the pics are unreal!!

 

[lordofthereef]

Man it has been ages since I have been to an airshow (possibly because I moved off to where they don't really have any).