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

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Viper28 said:
Thank guys!

Meatcurry said:
Wow! Stunning! Great shots, I was there on the sea front, were you on the cliffs?
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Yes I was up on Beachy Head about 50m down from the War Memorial, it's a bit hit and miss as a lot did not come past but great when it does.

The 200-400L is a fantastic lens, probably the best I've ever used, certainly the best built I've tried. I'm so use to primes however that I kept forgetting it was a zoom. The built in TC was excellent, I can't see any appreciable difference in IQ using it or not.
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I did consider that as a better location to shot from, but kids and wife disagreed, anyway my attempts with a Sony a6000 and an FE 24-240 were less than stellar. We saw the Vulcan holding/waiting by the cliffs, and it seemed like all 250000 people stood up to watch it display.
 
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Viper28 said:
Thank guys!

The 200-400L is a fantastic lens, probably the best I've ever used, certainly the best built I've tried. I'm so use to primes however that I kept forgetting it was a zoom. The built in TC was excellent, I can't see any appreciable difference in IQ using it or not.
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Beautiful shots Viper28! Vulcan and P51D are beauties.

I have this lens in shopping wishlist but for years to come won't have enough reason and free cash to buy it, but you gave me the idea of renting it - will have to look for it in Poland.

Did you use tri/monopod or handheld?
 
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LukasS said:
Viper28 said:
Thank guys!

The 200-400L is a fantastic lens, probably the best I've ever used, certainly the best built I've tried. I'm so use to primes however that I kept forgetting it was a zoom. The built in TC was excellent, I can't see any appreciable difference in IQ using it or not.
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Beautiful shots Viper28! Vulcan and P51D are beauties.

I have this lens in shopping wishlist but for years to come won't have enough reason and free cash to buy it, but you gave me the idea of renting it - will have to look for it in Poland.

Did you use tri/monopod or handheld?
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Thank you, cost about £100 to rent it in the UK all up for the weekend.

They are all taken handheld. I was a bit conservative with the speeds because it's a big lens to get use too. The jets were all at 1/800 - 1/1000sec, props 1/320 - 1/400th. The chinook was 1/160th iirc. That's probably 1-2 stops higher for the props than I'd normally use.
 
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Hi Matthew.
Lovely shots, great detail. I'm with you on the afterburners, also a sucker for vapour on the wings. The MiG15 is a beaut.

Cheers, Graham.

dhr90 said:
A few shots from the Clacton airshow last week. Still haven't gone through all of them yet!

Loads more on my Flickr. As you may be able to tell, I'm a sucker for an afterburner photo ;D
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Roo said:
Excellent shots Simon,Matthew and Keith!!! Keep 'em coming...we only have a few hundred more pages to catch up to the bird portraits thread ;D
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You said it :).
I will break modern streak and propose more historic planes, photographed this weekend in my "own backyard" (local aerodrome).

Sopwith 1½ Strutter | XII International Air Show @ Bielsko-Biała by Lukasz Bien, on Flickr

Sopwith 1½ Strutter & Fokker E-III | XII International Air Show @ Bielsko-Biała by Lukasz Bien, on Flickr

Fokker E-III | XII International Air Show @ Bielsko-Biała by Lukasz Bien, on Flickr

This just beggining, my HDD is full, Lightroom can't cope with 6k photos taken and it's working soooo slooow. It will take me some time but I will update with few more shots and few more planes/groups.
 
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