Well shot, lovely bokah

To add to the comment's above,

I use a monopod generally with a longer lens such as a Pentax 150 - 450 to aid steadiness particularly at max lens length and low-ish light levels without increasing the ISO to much, where light is low and I have moving targets in range, I'll go for a higher ISO and up the shutter speed and reduce any noise in post.

If the target is fairly stationary it'll be a tripod and as low a shutter speed / ISO combi to get the effect I'm after.

There's no substitute for practice which will improve your technique both with a monopod and or handholding a big lens and getting sharp results.

A early morning visit to RAF Fairford this morning for the B1's and captured a U2 as well.

All 3 images K3iii + Pentax 150 - 450 - 1/200 sec @ F5.6 max focus at 450mm plus standing 4 ft up on top of a step ladder so I could shot over the perimeter fence from across the road.

I arrived just after 7am and there was already 40 - 50 spotters / photographers on the fence line.

The U2 lifted at 07:52 and the B1 at 08:05, the light was awful, misty and murky.

Me to, perhaps this should be a little more prominent on the site and if it keeps the ad's at bay then I'm all for it.

Superb, #1 for me, superb contrasting colours

Thats much better, thanks Rick

I agree, I fully understand sites need revenue and particularly where us ( the users ) don't pay a subscription fee of any sort.

I do find the bottom ad's annoying even more so cos you have to hit the " X " to get rid of it every time you look at a different page, I do recall however that the site was possibly looking to remove this ad at the bottom of the page for " logged In " users, no idea if that's progressing or not.

Personally I'd prefer to pay a small monthly fee, certainly for forums I use a far bit and not be bombarded with all of the ad's, not sure how that sits with the moderators / site owners ?

The light is superb on the lavender stem, for me, the oof reds behind the target draws the eye from the main subject.

I'm running the trial as well and it's prob no more than 10 seconds to process and save the file so as above, check hiw much ram your running and poss disk space

The same 4 x Olympus engines powered Concorde with reheat which the Vulcan didn't have