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Post by johnoakes on Dec 7, 2009 11:57:22 GMT 1
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Post by Deleted on Dec 7, 2009 15:11:49 GMT 1
Photbucket is usually so easy to use--not so today I had repeat photos and some deleted--still the flavour is there. Two of the missing and a resize for you John. Nice photos BTW.    |
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Post by johnoakes on Dec 7, 2009 16:23:51 GMT 1
 Well done--I have always used internet explorer but have recently changed to flock.I find it much quicker but I haven't quite mastered it yet.LOL
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Post by johnoakes on Dec 8, 2009 9:53:51 GMT 1
 Just an experiment but is there any interest in landing shots--once I have mastered the tecnique that is.LOL 
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Post by viscount on Dec 8, 2009 11:44:55 GMT 1
Can't believe that an old hand with a camera is seeking a master class in action-shot photography.
For others though:
Select a high shutter speed. Many digitals (SLRs & Compacts) have a 'Sports' setting on the dial, this optimises shutter speed by opening up the aperture (f. number), allowing more light in quickly. We are not worried about the loss of depth of field of focus.
Smoothly pan keeping your subject central in the view-finder. Practice this. Continue the pan though pressing the shutter - don't stop the pan as you take the photo.
Have a good solid grip on the camera, ensuring one finger rests gently on the shutter button. Shortly before aircraft fills frame press down gently to set focus/speed/aperture.
When you press the shutter button, don't snatch and so rotationally shake the camera.
Action shots need good light - I suspect that is JohnOakes's problem in the heading shot. In winter gloom, even with wide open aperture, the speed is simply not enough - even in 1/30th of a second exposure time the aircraft has moved a short distance.
Where an aircraft is coming toward you (as at the 27 mound at Liverpool) wait until the aircraft fuselage/tail/engines fill the viewfinder, don't take as the wingtips touch the frame sides. With digital compacts get used to the time lag between pressing the shutter and the photo image capture. Also with a digital compact select the degree of magnification before hand depending on the size of aircraft. With an SLR you do have time to compose with the zoom as the aircraft approaches closer.
There are a number of compacts, selling for around £150 with x15, x18 optical zooms (and more beyond that digitaly at the cost of picture quality), with 10 mega-pixels eg some of the Fuji range. Small and lightweight. Having used a x18 Fuji for a year, I have just purchased a decent Canon and good Aspherical zoom 28-300mm. Even though this is effectively a 40-425mm lens when attached to the digital camera, it is still only around x14 ie less magnification than my compact - where it wins is on sharpness of focus, ability to change the zoom while taking a shot and immediate picture capture on touching the button.
Somehow a masterclass in aviation action shots has evolved into a compact v SLR argument.
I'll finish by repeating a statement already made by several others over the last week - if only we had had digital cameras back in the Sixties. Mind you it is amazing what quality some managed to get out of very basic equipment. My first SLR (Practika Nova in 1972) needed the aperture and focus set manually for every shot, and it was at least a week before you found out if the shot had worked!
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Post by johnoakes on Dec 8, 2009 15:23:48 GMT 1
 Thanks for the informative feedback. I do prefer stills but if any interest had been shown by members on short landing videos I would have persisted. Perhaps I will practice on something bigger and slower on a bright day,not on a wick business jet that moved faster than I could pan.LOL My camera is a Fuji FinepixS5700 and has 7.1 megapixels. -I have an Olympus 1,9 converter that I am just learning how to get the best out of. With 2 x4gb and 1x 8gb memory card I feel equipped to face a decent day at a good airshow without doing the usual--running out of film just when the best stuff arrives. As you say Viscout how I wish I had had this equipment in days gone by--Dan Air Yorks--BOAC DC-7s--|Fred Olsen C-46s. Hermes--just a memory now.
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Post by Deleted on Dec 8, 2009 19:29:01 GMT 1
Good write-up with plenty of very helpful advice there Brian. Yes John would love to see more landing footage. And if you get any military stuff there, can we have plenty of noise please ;D
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Post by johnoakes on Dec 8, 2009 23:06:34 GMT 1
 Will have to pop down to Bourge en Bresse---there's a recon. escadrille there that does low flights over the alps on odd days--PLENTY of noise + rare breaking of the sound barrier. Better get some speed in the panning muscles.LOL May take a time but all these promises will be deliverd.
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