A few faves from the Avalon airshow

[cordy]

C&C welcome





And of course the old faithful, dump and burn

[Tim]

Love the heat haze in #2. Well done!

[greencardigan]

I feel that #2 would be better with a looser crop. Love the exhaust effect too.

Well done.

[Glen]

Cordy, all well caught

[Alpha_7]

Very nice collection, and very sharp, can I ask what lens and settings you were using ?

[cordy]

Canon 90-300USM. I think from memory around F5, ISO100

The long end of this lens leaves a bit to be desired, will be sourcing a 400mm by the next airshow I attend (that and you really do need 400mm to get some of the high action shots, 300mm just does not cut it)

[Alpha_7]

Well Cordy I'm most impressed by the apparent sharpness in these shots, even if you find the 90-300 lacking at the long end (lacking sharpness, speed, or a combination of the two?). I do have to ask, are all these shots the full frame, or have you cropped them, as with each I feel like I'd like a little more breathing space between the edge of frame and the subject.

[Reschsmooth]

The sharpness on the right hand side of No 2 is fantastic - it reminds me of a Tamiya model aircraft from my distant childhood days! As others have said, a wider crop would be better, I think.

P

[cordy]

Well Cordy I'm most impressed by the apparent sharpness in these shots, even if you find the 90-300 lacking at the long end (lacking sharpness, speed, or a combination of the two?). I do have to ask, are all these shots the full frame, or have you cropped them, as with each I feel like I'd like a little more breathing space between the edge of frame and the subject.

The lens lacks some sharpness and is definitely not as fast as I would like, to shoot fast jets anyway. There was some pp done to the shots, but not a lot - one USM pass, levels

The only shot that is full frame from memory is the 2nd one, the two others are cropped. With aircraft photos I dont like leaving too much "dead space" around the aircraft, but still like to maintain a 6x4 ratio of sorts - its a habit I have gotten into with these style of shots.

I can actually see where Canon's IS will help me significantly in creating crisper images and the 100-400mm lens I've been looking at has IS. That and I find it easier to keep a heavier lens steadier, I tend to move a small lens around a bit too rapidly

Cheers again,
Chris

[Ghetto Panda]

I'm gonna go the opposite and say i reckon the tight crops are great, number 2 is my pic because of the sharpness and the heat haze.

[wendellt]

technically awesome
must be extremely hard to shoot planes flying that fast

[cordy]

technically awesome
must be extremely hard to shoot planes flying that fast

Quite, its a case of requiring fast AF and shooting continuous. Some of these jets were seriously moving too, 600-700 kts (1000 kmh)

[tcsphoto]

1 and 2 are outstanding. Makes me want to go to an airshow this year.

[devilla101]

Dang, some cool images. Especially the 1 and 2 with the extra bits caught on camera