Well I guess I was lucky with blue skies

And the Tornado shots weren't that bad, I just had more out of focus and tail shots than any of the other aircraft.

Had a play with highlights and shadows on these.

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And something you don't see everyday, apparently.

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I used the Bigma Mike, what else

It was so bright I was using anything from f16 right up to f38 along with shutter speeds of up to 1/750 and higher, anything else and I was getting over exposure warnings, I used TAv with spot metering and centre point focus on AF-C, finding the aircraft with the lens zoomed out then following them and maintaining focus lock while zooming in on them, started off using the monopod but found it easier to just handhold.

I had camera set to meter at -1 as mine tends to blow highlights quite easily.

Didn't even know about it, besides I went down with family and sat on the steps while they were on the beach, my bum is still sore from several hours sat on concrete
In fact only heard about the show as my son and daughter in law were going down to visit her parents who live there.

I did fill a 16GB card, followed by a 4GB followed by a 2GB then I had to get the 4GB out of my spare body and I managed to fill that as well, although I was shooting RAW+ so I expect I should have got a couple of good ones
Note to self: get a couple of 32GB cards for the next Airshow.

These were quick fixes for PU Chris, but I have a lot of PP to do on half of the pics anyway, I somehow managed to change the white balance from AWB to daylight flourescent after filling the 16BG card: of course with the bright sunshine I couldn't see the odd coloured sky on the LCD, when I got home I was about to post on here asking if anyone had had strange colour casts with different cards

Well my New Years Resolution was to do something different with my photography, I've done a Glamour shoot, I've done a Railway shoot, and now I've done my first ever Airshow

A hot sunny day in Rhyl got me my first taste of trying to capture things a little bigger than my usual flying subjects, I also met another PU member Chris, who admitted he didn't frequent the forum often (shame on him:lol

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C&C always welcome especially from you experts at this sort of stuff.

PS: how the heck do you capture a Tornado and get it sharp

Nah!
the missing verse asked if Pentax would still have the K mount

Thanks guys, I may have had the chance of one but it sounds like I'm best sticking with my Tak f1.8

Has anyone any experience with this lens? it's IQ etc.

I tend to agree with Gareth, while some of the later comments from the police are totally out of order this guy seems to have made the situation far worse that it was, I'm quite sure they didn't just pounce on him and wrestle him to the ground demanding to see what was in his hand, what was it Ted said, the IQ of a slug, seems it can apply to photographers too

I think those shots firmly put Martin Mere on my bucket list.

Good work guys, looks like you had a great day.

With some competitions you just don't get feedback on your entries, it's up to the organisers to chooses whether they wan't to do this or not, that's just the way things are.

I don't really see a problem, there are many ways to get comments and criticism on your pictures, if your not happy with the way a particular competition is run you don't have to enter.