Flying Legends

[Paul T]

Poto's taken at the Flying Legends air display Duxford July 2010 hope you enjoy it http://beechbrook.com/pte/downloadfile.asp?id=1862

Regards Paul

[colin hill]

Paul,

A very nice show and was amazed at the condition those "old birds" were in.

Thanks for sharing.

Colin

[deskjet1uk]

Hi Paul,

Thanks for the show, I really love the old planes, great photography.

As an amateur regarding photography can I ask what general settings you had on your camera and what camera you took those shots with?

Music fitted the show great, just brilliant

regards

Ralph

[Paul T]

Hi Paul,

Thanks for the show, I really love the old planes, great photography.

As an amateur regarding photography can I ask what general settings you had on your camera and what camera you took those shots with?

Music fitted the show great, just brilliant

regards

Ralph

Hi Ralph

Glad you liked the show. I use a sigma 120-400mm lens for the flying shots and constantly change the settings to suit the conditions but will mainly set my Nikon D300 on shutter priority with speeds of 250-600 for panning shots depending at what angle the aircraft is in relationship to the camera I may increase the speed even more if it is not flying parallel to the camera because camera shake can not be arrested as well if you are not panning and it’s coming towards you . The only trouble with faster speeds is it will freeze the motion of the prop if photographing prop aircraft. Also, back light may be a problem and must decide if you should plus a stop for more exposure for the aircraft. However, if the aircraft fills the frame and stops the backlight influencing the exposure it can be as the indicated reading. Sorry too much info I think, but I’m sure you can understand the many technical problems this type of photography produces to require a sharp image.

[deskjet1uk]

Hi Paulo,

thanks so very much for the explanation, I really appreciate your time on this.

I consider myself an amateur at photography and any help is very much appreciated, I will learn from your knowledge.

Thanks again

regards

ralph

[Nikonos]

Hi Paul,

I really enjoyed your show and the music was very appropriate. You clearly know your way around aviation photography. It is something I have been meaning to try myself one of these days and I shall certainly pay a visit to Duxford. Just one small suggestion - some close-ups of details on the static aircraft themselves would have been useful to break up the flow of aerial shots a little - especially for the average punter who will not not recognize one aircraft from another. I have a similar problem with an AV of a steam-fair I am starting to put together. Traction engines are all well and good, but too many of the same type of shot can lead to tedium for the average viewer.

I especially liked the shots at the beginning incidentally, showing people in costume in context with the aircraft - all helping to create the appropriate atmosphere. Thanks very much for sharing and a good effort.

Regards - Malcolm

[Paul T]

Hi Malcolm

Thanks for your comments and I do agree what you say about in puting cutaways of close up shots of the aircraft. I have produced other shows of this type before with the closeups included. However, I feel this type of show I done is only realy aimed at aviation Enthusiastsas it is much of the same but felt it was probably worth exposer to a wider audiance.

Regards Paul

[trailertrash]

Hi Paul,

I like this a lot. Anything remotely connected with the Military [all arms] gets my attention.

Andrew