cool and that would've been neat to capture/watch... 1/60th impressive for moving, you must have practiced a bit pan or had some really good gear (gimble?)
I've been at it for about 3 decades. I'd like to think I've learned how to do a couple of things by now.
No gimbal. Lens foot was attached to a Manfrotto 234RC on top of a Manfrotto 680B. Both are still going strong, as is the lens, though it has made a couple of trips to CPS since I shot that one. I kept the bottom of the monopod on the same spot and tilted the whole stick back or forward to pan up and down while panning left to right or right to left by rotating the shaft. IS was in Mode 2 (panning mode).The 7D is long gone, thank goodness. I had to do a lot of localized noise reduction on those shots. Those are pretty much the best of the bunch, but I had a good hit rate that night. Though for some of them the pan is in sync with the smoke rather than the plane. After the smoke exits the plane's slipstream in slows down, but is still moving in the direction the plane was going when it came out of the nozzle.
After Matt Younkin's show was through I was walking back towards my car about a mile or two away when they started a fireworks show out in the cotton field beyond the airport. I wasn't aware of the fireworks plan and didn't have a tripod with me. I wasn't really interested in shooting the fireworks until I saw the light reflecting off these two warbirds as I walked past them. I made do with the monopod, an EF 24-70mm f/2.8 L and my 5D Mark II.
Canon EOS 5D Mark II, EF 24-70mm f/2.8 L, 34mm, ISO 1600, f/3.5, 1/5 sec.
