RIAT Fairford, 14,16,16,17 & 19/07/2010

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Hi

The 14 Juy was so thin on arrivals that I only took 112 photos on the Wednesday and the first image here is the only one I have posted for that day

On the bright side, I only got to Fairford at about 11am and was pleasantly surprised that I had not missed much. I called it a day or rather three and a half hours, leaving shortly after the EADS 109 came in.

I thought the other days I attended were excellent though I gave Sunday a complete miss.

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Very nice. I may have to pilfer the Vulcan rotate shot for my laptop background! :)

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typh and spit

Hello Semae....All your photos are top draw but the one that is so well caught is the typhoon looking as if its just inches above the spitfires wings.many will probably have seen the photo and maybes thought its some heat haze abnormality and missed what is a truly amazingly well caught image.Thanks for taking the time to share so many good shots with the f22 low take off shot being my second choice.:):)

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Stunning pictures Martin.

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Nice pics.

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Hi Martin
Absolutely fantastic pictures. Thanks for sharing.

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Wow man, these are absolutely incredible photos.
I can't believe how sharp they are and the heat haze in them.. seriously.. wow.
Nice work!
I hope you don't mind, but I pilfered a handful of those for my screensavers! :)

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I do not mind if it is for personal use such as a screensaver or laptop background.

I do like taking 45 degree take off shots front or rear. The only problem is that on some photos there is too much glare at these angles and distance.

The shots here are all okay except that you will notice that there are some fast jets take offs in almost plan view. The rear end shots of those did not come out too well due to glare/out of focus so not edited/posted. The Phantom though is okay but it is nice at any angle.

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Simply superb Martin!! I agree about the Typhoon Spitfire pic , superb timing. Thanks for sharing.

Can I ask, how do you get the focusing so precise, do you leave it on auto, manually do it, or set focus on infinity? I can't believe how well you capture the panel details, especially on the grey aircraft.

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What a great set lovely shots.

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Lol, damn you! Am just about to upload my pics from the Sunday, was fairly happy with them until I just looked at yours now!! Great photos mate

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terrific shots !! i have asked on here before but is it ok to use for refrence and templates for my paintings

particularly the tornado take offs

as i'm considdering a german i.d.s. special livery painting

and the take off shots would make superb sihlouettes !!

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Really great shots Martin, Typhoon and Spitfire shot is superb.

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I do not mind if it is for personal use such as a screensaver or laptop background.

Consider it pilfered! And damn good it looks too :)

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Fantastic shots Martin

What hardware are you using?

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Nice picture's here

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Arrival days landings - 7d with 100-400mm Canon lens.
Display practices - the above and 50d with 500mm lens.

Main show day - 50d with 100-400 Canon lens.
plus 7d with 500mm lens with 1.4 convertor attached on the odd occasion

Departure days take offs - 7d with 100-400 lens. Also used 50d and 500mm lens for aircraft that rotated well before the FRIAT stand but most of those shots useless due to glare and still too far away anyway. Usually I have both cameras with lenses attached hanging round my neck so I can quickly switch between the two.

5dmk2 and 24-105 lens for any other jet that is too big and statics, although I could not be bothered with the statics at RIAT.

I use shutter priority A1 servo auto focus. For fast jet take offs, I take about three shots just after they lift off the ground then zoom out to about 400mm whilst still following the aircraft ramping up the shutter speed as I go from about 400th a sect to about 800th or 1000th a sec. As soon as the aircraft is inside the frame again I refocus (or try to) and take about 2 or three more shots. I use ISO 200 to 250 in bright weather for take offs.

Perhaps under exposing in sunny shots helped preserve some details.

For take offs of slower big jets and prop jobs I use about 320th a sec and lower ISO and take my time shooting as they are not so quick.