Aircraft and Aviation Theme

[cooltouch]

Thanks, Jeff. Yeah, that T-Cat definitely has a rather authoritative roar to it.

Here are a few more from a few past airshows.

B-25 Mitchell, NEX 7, Tamron 300mm f/2.8 LD

P-40 Warhawk (or Kittyhawk?) -- NEX 7, Tamron 300mm f/2.8 LD

Messerschmidt ME-262 -- NEX 7, Tamron 300mm f/2.8 LD

Chance-Vaught F4U Corsair -- NEX 7, Tamron 300mm f/2.8 LD

North American P-51D -- Nikon F3, Tamron 300mm f/2.8 LD, Fujichrome 100

As you can see with the first two photos of the prop pushers, I was shooting at too high of a shutter speed. I froze the props on all the shots except for the F4U. I had my NEX set to Aperture priority auto and wasn't paying attention to shutter speed. Oh well.

The annual Wings Over Houston airshow is this coming weekend and I plan on making it again. The featured act is the Blue Angels. Last BA airshow I was at where I got really good pics was 2009. So I'm looking forward to this year, and hopefully snatching some even better pics. They state in their promo ads that they're supposed to have a lot more warbirds this year than they did last year. Last year's warbird appearances were a bit of a disappointment. There were only a few and they didn't seem to stay up for very long.

I'm gonna take my NEX 7 again, but instead of lugging around that big, heavy Tamron 300/2.8, I'm gonna take my Tokina ATX 100-300/4 SD, which is one of the sharpest zooms I own. For a backup, I haven't decided yet. It's either gonna be my old 10.1 mp Canon EOS XS DSLR with EF 75-300, or a film camera. I have a couple of AF Nikons -- an F4 and a N80. The F4 is obviously the better camera, but its AF capabilities basically suck. The N80 can't compete with the F4 in terms of motordrive speed, but it has a much better AF sensor array. If I go with a Nikon film camera, I'll pack a Nikkor AF-D 70-300/4-5.6 ED lens to go with it.

 

[cooltouch]

More warbirds.

A squadron of Hawker Sea Furies, 1985, Canon FTb, Vivitar S1 28-90, Kodachrome 64.

P-51D at Sunset, 1984. Canon A-1, Vivitar S1 28-90, Kodachrome 64

F4U at sunset, 1984. Canon A-1, Vivitar S1 28-90, Kodachrome 64

 

[photoflyer]

The sky in the last post reminded me of this shot taken at dusk on a flight home across the Blue Ridge Mountains.

 

[cooltouch]

Lovely sky. Actually, I think I goosed the saturation up a bit too high in that shot of the F4U. The P-51 sunset photo's is closer to actual. The F4U and P-51 were parked next to each other and the two photos were taken minutes apart.

 

[Gary A.]

 

[pez]

Some shots from this year's Wings Over N GA Airshow. A lot of my Photo gear was stolen 3 days before this show, but I resurrected my old K-3 and they didn't get the DA*300, so it was a go

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the F22 was in a high-speed pull-up "smash stop" (my term, lol) high overhead
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[pez]

Thanks, Jeff. Yeah, that T-Cat definitely has a rather authoritative roar to it.

Here are a few more from a few past airshows.

B-25 Mitchell, NEX 7, Tamron 300mm f/2.8 LD

P-40 Warhawk (or Kittyhawk?) -- NEX 7, Tamron 300mm f/2.8 LD

Messerschmidt ME-262 -- NEX 7, Tamron 300mm f/2.8 LD

Chance-Vaught F4U Corsair -- NEX 7, Tamron 300mm f/2.8 LD

North American P-51D -- Nikon F3, Tamron 300mm f/2.8 LD, Fujichrome 100

As you can see with the first two photos of the prop pushers, I was shooting at too high of a shutter speed. I froze the props on all the shots except for the F4U. I had my NEX set to Aperture priority auto and wasn't paying attention to shutter speed. Oh well.

The annual Wings Over Houston airshow is this coming weekend and I plan on making it again. The featured act is the Blue Angels. Last BA airshow I was at where I got really good pics was 2009. So I'm looking forward to this year, and hopefully snatching some even better pics. They state in their promo ads that they're supposed to have a lot more warbirds this year than they did last year. Last year's warbird appearances were a bit of a disappointment. There were only a few and they didn't seem to stay up for very long.

I'm gonna take my NEX 7 again, but instead of lugging around that big, heavy Tamron 300/2.8, I'm gonna take my Tokina ATX 100-300/4 SD, which is one of the sharpest zooms I own. For a backup, I haven't decided yet. It's either gonna be my old 10.1 mp Canon EOS XS DSLR with EF 75-300, or a film camera. I have a couple of AF Nikons -- an F4 and a N80. The F4 is obviously the better camera, but its AF capabilities basically suck. The N80 can't compete with the F4 in terms of motordrive speed, but it has a much better AF sensor array. If I go with a Nikon film camera, I'll pack a Nikkor AF-D 70-300/4-5.6 ED lens to go with it.

ME-262 :O :O

 

[Gary A.]

 

[Jeff G]

Dave, really love the cobra shot, great set all the way around!

 

[pez]

Dave, really love the cobra shot, great set all the way around!

Thanks, Jeff!

 

[Dean_Gretsch]

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[cooltouch]

I'm curious -- why are some images getting x'd out after I've met the size requirements? They were being displayed initially, but not anymore.

 

[Jeff G]

I'm curious -- why are some images getting x'd out after I've met the size requirements? They were being displayed initially, but not anymore.

Hmmmm, I'm not having any issues viewing your images, do you think it may have just been a bad internet connection?

 

[pez]

I'm curious -- why are some images getting x'd out after I've met the size requirements? They were being displayed initially, but not anymore.

Not from my view here. I've noticed that Chrome makes some appear to be bad links for my posts, but when I view in Edge they are there, and then they appear in Chrome later.