Military Aircraft: airshows, operational, whatever, lets see what you have!

[Click]

Beautiful aircraft. Very nice panning. Well done Keith.

 

[KeithBreazeal]

Beautiful aircraft. Very nice panning. Well done Keith.

Thanks This little show is at the top of my list- perfect lighting and trees line the runway.
Did I mention we also get free food & drink?

 

[Valvebounce]

Hi Kieth.
Beautiful shot, stunning aircraft. Was just looking at your Sea Fury pics on Flickr, ended up burning a half hour learning about Argonaut.
Thanks for sharing.

Cheers, Graham.

B-25 'Old Glory' at the Nevada County AirFest last weekend.

 

[KeithBreazeal]

Hi Kieth.
Beautiful shot, stunning aircraft. Was just looking at your Sea Fury pics on Flickr, ended up burning a half hour learning about Argonaut.
Thanks for sharing.

Cheers, Graham.

B-25 'Old Glory' at the Nevada County AirFest last weekend.

Ha! My Flickr has a lot of 'stuff' in it. This is one of my favorite Sea Fury shots:

Dennis Sanders Hawker Sea Fury "Argonaut" © Keith Breazeal by Keith Breazeal, on Flickr

 

[KeithBreazeal]

L-39- one of my favorite shots from the Reno Air races Pylon Racing Seminar last month.

L-39 Reno PRS 2015 9304 © Keith Breazeal by Keith Breazeal, on Flickr

 

[Click]

Cool shot, Keith. 8) I really like it.

 

[Valvebounce]

Hi Kieth.
Great shots, I like the Fury wingtip smoke to demonstrate the vortices.

Does the jet race in the unlimited war birds! ;D

Cheers, Graham.

L-39- one of my favorite shots from the Reno Air races Pylon Racing Seminar last month.

 

[KeithBreazeal]

Hi Kieth.
Great shots, I like the Fury wingtip smoke to demonstrate the vortices.

Does the jet race in the unlimited war birds! ;D

Cheers, Graham.

L-39- one of my favorite shots from the Reno Air races Pylon Racing Seminar last month.

Thanks Jets have their own class. I think you could enter an F-4 Phantom if you wanted. F-22 vectored thrust would kill it! LOL

 

[KeithBreazeal]

Cool shot, Keith. 8) I really like it.

Thanks Click

 

[KeithBreazeal]

FYI- the Reno Air Race jet class is not lame. These guys and girls(yes) fly faster and get closer to the pylons than most other classes.
Bob Mills L-39 Reality Czech Reno PRS 2015 8126 © Keith Breazeal by Keith Breazeal, on Flickr

One exception to close might be the T-6 class.

Two of Hearts pylon tight Reno PRS 2015 8135a © Keith Breazeal by Keith Breazeal, on Flickr

 

[Valvebounce]

Hi Folks.
A few shots of Bournmouth Night Air.

IMG_9247_DxO by Graham Stretch, on Flickr

IMG_9257_DxO by Graham Stretch, on Flickr

IMG_9269_DxO by Graham Stretch, on Flickr

IMG_9322_DxO by Graham Stretch, on Flickr

IMG_9380 Downhill Skiing_DxO by Graham Stretch, on Flickr

Cheers, Graham.

 

[Click]

Hi Folks.
A few shots of Bournmouth Night Air.

Cheers, Graham.

Hi Graham,

Very nice series. I really like the first picture. Well done.

 

[Roo]

Great shots again Keith!

Nice series Graham. Good work using a slow shutter to keep the iso down too

 

[dhr90]

Great work to keep the ISO down Valvebounce! What are the two lines in the second photo?

 

[KeithBreazeal]

Hi Folks.
A few shots of Bournmouth Night Air.

Cheers, Graham.

Good shots! Night pyro at airshows is tough to capture correctly. Good work on the exposure and focus.

 

[Valvebounce]

Hi Click, Roo, dhr90 and Kieth.
Your praise is much appreciated, thank you. I have to say that a lot of dumb luck was involved, I set AV mode and +1/3 I think and left the camera to it, there are about 150 or more shots in the trash for too dark or too blurred! ;D

dhr, the two lines are from a zip wire, I was shooting from Bournemouth pier, they had a tower built on the pier and the zip wire to the shore set up on the display side of the pier, very few of the aircraft did anything other than approach the display area from the other side. Good planning from the organisers!

Cheers, Graham.

 

[Valvebounce]

Hi Kieth.
I thought the jet looked close, but the T-6 looks like it might sheet the marker, man that is close. 2 more superb shots.

Cheers, Graham.

FYI- the Reno Air Race jet class is not lame. These guys and girls(yes) fly faster and get closer to the pylons than most other classes.

One exception to close might be the T-6 class.

 

[applecider]

Thank you all for the help on the other thread I started in which I asked for ideas for a twilight air show. I'm cross posting this:
Thanks all for your help and images posted.I'll put some of mine on the other page with the military airshows etc. Just wanted to put down my post show thoughts. The EF 300 f2.8 with 1.4x extender was plenty of lens, though I saw quite a few people there with bigger lenses on gimbals. The show started in early evening so there was enough light to get some good in flight shots.

I hand held the 300 the entire time and I think that that enabled me to get some good flyby shots. The f15 and 16 flybys were just too fast at least for me to capture any shots while on a tripod and really it was not needed for the daylight portion.

I made a classic photographer mistake in bringing my non-photographer son who was not interested in me getting good fireworks shots, so Valvebounce kudos for getting great shots of the planes and fireworks. It was fun and I'll do it again alone next year.

Cross posting on the other board this message and images.

Got lots of images to wade through. I never thought I'd come close to filling a 128GB card, but this show almost did.

 

[Click]

Great shots. I really like the second picture. 8)

 

[zim]

L-39- one of my favorite shots from the Reno Air races Pylon Racing Seminar last month.

L-39 Reno PRS 2015 9304 © Keith Breazeal by Keith Breazeal, on Flickr

Stunning!

When is your first air show with the 5DS!!!! ;D