3 shots from Farnborough Airshow 2010
Posted 26/07/2010 - 13:36
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The 2nd one doesn't do much for me, the plane seems a bit central and there is a lot of featureless cloud, but I like the crispness in the 3rd one, and the plane looks quite 'fat' which makes the steep angle look all the more interesting.
My favorutie is definitely number 1, I really like the composition, and the that large spiral of smoke really helps transmit the feeling of motion. Nicely done
My favorutie is definitely number 1, I really like the composition, and the that large spiral of smoke really helps transmit the feeling of motion. Nicely done
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Posted 26/07/2010 - 15:33
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I agree. Number one is terrific.
maybe if you crop off the bottom and left side of number two, so the plane is off centre, it would work better?
Did any of you actually meet up at Farnborough?
Maybe an idea for a trip next time?
maybe if you crop off the bottom and left side of number two, so the plane is off centre, it would work better?
Did any of you actually meet up at Farnborough?
Maybe an idea for a trip next time?
Posted 26/07/2010 - 16:13
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Gwyn wrote:
Did any of you actually meet up at Farnborough?
Maybe an idea for a trip next time?
Did any of you actually meet up at Farnborough?
Maybe an idea for a trip next time?
Nice idea, but it would have to be diehards only, really.
I was up at 5.30am, out of the house at 6.15, with other half, fold up chairs, coolbox and camera bag.
Dropped other half at the gate at 6.45 with stuff, drove up to the car park, legged it back to the gate.
Waited in the queue till they'd let people through, then long walk to favourite spot carrying all the crap... in place all set up with coffee at 7.30...
... ready to start the long 5 hour wait until the airshow proper began at 12.30.
It's what you have to do if you want a good spot at the front of the crowd.
Not that that stops people forcing their way to the front and trampling all over your stuff if you're not careful to defend your little patch. Grr...
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Posted 26/07/2010 - 17:39
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Or you could do what I did.
Turn up 15 mins before they start flying (on a trade day), park in the local council offices car park without a ticket (expecting to be clamped on return). Walk round the corner until you come across a load of people leaning against the wall of a pub which overlooks the runway (once you get on tip toes to see over the barbed wire fences) and then stand in the middle of the road dodging traffic coming in and out of the airport taking pictures.
You then realise that the aircraft are not coming your way until they are ready to land so you see no afterburners on the jets and they all have their wheels down. The only flight pictures you get look like a pin head on a very grey background (even with a 500mm lens) and when you crop hard just to get a recognisable aircraft there is so much noise its virtually useless anyway.
You then get to drive home .. well sit in very slowly moving traffic for a few hours and realise you spent £30 on petrol for that.
On the plus side .. I didn't get a parking ticket.
Turn up 15 mins before they start flying (on a trade day), park in the local council offices car park without a ticket (expecting to be clamped on return). Walk round the corner until you come across a load of people leaning against the wall of a pub which overlooks the runway (once you get on tip toes to see over the barbed wire fences) and then stand in the middle of the road dodging traffic coming in and out of the airport taking pictures.
You then realise that the aircraft are not coming your way until they are ready to land so you see no afterburners on the jets and they all have their wheels down. The only flight pictures you get look like a pin head on a very grey background (even with a 500mm lens) and when you crop hard just to get a recognisable aircraft there is so much noise its virtually useless anyway.
You then get to drive home .. well sit in very slowly moving traffic for a few hours and realise you spent £30 on petrol for that.
On the plus side .. I didn't get a parking ticket.
Posted 26/07/2010 - 18:03
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Mike-P wrote:
You then get to drive home .. well sit in very slowly moving traffic for a few hours and realise you spent £30 on petrol for that.
You then get to drive home .. well sit in very slowly moving traffic for a few hours and realise you spent £30 on petrol for that.
Last time, in 2008, we went straight back to the car park, and it took us more than an hour and a half to get out. First in really does mean last out.
This time, we hung about on the field for an hour or so, watching some of the departures, then meandered back through the static displays.
Then hopped on the shuttle bus, and had an ice cream.
By the time we left, it only took us about 10 mins to get out. No earlier, but a lot less stressed.
Mike-P wrote:
The only flight pictures you get look like a pin head on a very grey background (even with a 500mm lens) and when you crop hard just to get a recognisable aircraft there is so much noise its virtually useless anyway.
The only flight pictures you get look like a pin head on a very grey background (even with a 500mm lens) and when you crop hard just to get a recognisable aircraft there is so much noise its virtually useless anyway.
Hey, how did you get to see the 850-odd shots I haven't posted!!
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Posted 26/07/2010 - 18:05
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Likewise, apols for rambling on on someone else's thread..
Re the photos in the OP, the first two aren't really my thing - not enough aeroplane in the first one, or in the second, but that's not at all a criticism.
Looking at the larger version of the 3rd one, it's a great view of the C21J, but it looks a shade oversharpened to me, and could have done with a somewhat slower shutter speed to get a bit more prop blur.
The C21J was actually the aircraft that impressed me the most at the show.
It's not small, yet its performance is extraordinary. It flew the whole length of the runway in knife-edge flight (which means that it's banked at an angle of 90 degrees, with the lift coming from the side of the inclined fuselage, not the wings, helped by the inclined thrust vector from the engines).
You see aerobatic singles do that kind of thing all the time, but for a socking great cargo aircraft it was quite a sight. It would have been light of course, but even so.
Re the photos in the OP, the first two aren't really my thing - not enough aeroplane in the first one, or in the second, but that's not at all a criticism.
Looking at the larger version of the 3rd one, it's a great view of the C21J, but it looks a shade oversharpened to me, and could have done with a somewhat slower shutter speed to get a bit more prop blur.
The C21J was actually the aircraft that impressed me the most at the show.
It's not small, yet its performance is extraordinary. It flew the whole length of the runway in knife-edge flight (which means that it's banked at an angle of 90 degrees, with the lift coming from the side of the inclined fuselage, not the wings, helped by the inclined thrust vector from the engines).
You see aerobatic singles do that kind of thing all the time, but for a socking great cargo aircraft it was quite a sight. It would have been light of course, but even so.
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