Marlborough Airshow

[toprob]

This is what happens when you mis-time the starburst...



This is what happens when you accidentally set the white balance to tungsten...



Another tungsten shot, hence the toning. A couple of seriously beautiful aircraft.

[JonARNZ]

All good shots..

[victor_alpha_charlie]

tell me the last one's from 1960 and i'd believe you. BRILLIANT!

[ardypilot]

All of them are gorgeous Robin- what camera where you using there?

[K5054NZ]

Blurry? These are magnificent, Robin!


That Vega Gull/Proctor has to have been the single most beautiful aircraft there, I took at least a dozen pics of her. I was so gutted I never got to see her fly, I was at the airfield from 8am til at least 6pm all three days and I only ever saw her taxi.

Damn you, Guy Clapshaw!


Gorgeous. I want her.

[toprob]

That Vega Gull/Proctor has to have been the single most beautiful aircraft there, I took at least a dozen pics of her. I was so gutted I never got to see her fly, I was at the airfield from 8am til at least 6pm all three days and I only ever saw her taxi.

Damn you, Guy Clapshaw!


Gorgeous. I want her.

I took about 800 photos, about 700 were blurry... you do the math.
Yes, I fell in love with the Gull on Saturday, I almost rushed off to buy a lotto ticket, because that's the aircraft I'd want. I, too, can only assume that it flies, and doesn't just drive around looking pretty.
There was a matching sports car on display too -- they'd make a good set.

(The following is the technical bit.)
Trolly -- I use a Canon 350D, which is an 8MP SLR, most of these shots were taken with a 70 -- 300 zoom.
Because I wasn't happy with my Wanaka airshow shots -- too many stopped props -- I experimented this time. I actually bought the lens for Wanaka, so I wasn't really used to it -- I had trouble focusing on fast-moving stuff back then-- but this time it was a lot easier to focus. I set the camera on shutter-priority -- an auto setting where I can change the shutter speed at the flick of a dial, and varied this over different runs of any aircraft. I think that next time I'll just leave the camera on a high speed and draw blurry props on the photos...
I normally shoot in RAW mode, which I'd recommend for anyone with a camera which supports it. However RAW images take up more storage -- I'd only get 200 photos with my 2GB card, as opposed to 900 shooting JPEGs, so I switched to JPEG for the airshow. I think next time I'd rather buy more memory and stick with RAW-- it's cheap enough at the moment.
RAW is for those who see something great, take a photo and then are disappointed with it on screen. With RAW you can pull out the image that you saw, rather than let the camera decide what it should look like.

[ardypilot]

Well Robin, you have captured those spinning props perfectly, well done!

By the way, I'm a little confused. I thought an SLR Camera was the older anolouge ones, with Digital cameras being the new ones that don't require film, yet you talk about memory cards and .JPG formats?

[ZK-Brock]

Trolly, you can get Digital SLRs, it's sorta the best of both worlds (for a high price though)

[Timmo]

SLR means Single Lens Reflex....the same lense is used for focusing and capturing the image so whatever you see through the viewfinder is what the storage medium sees (whether its film or a CCD in a digital camera)

I want a digital SLR....so cool for taking photos.

As an aside, if you told me that first shot was a screen shot i would have believed you.....its scary how that line is blurred sometimes.