On Sat, Aug 03, 2013 at 11:39:18AM +0530, Bipin Gupta wrote: > Larry, you are getting to be an expert on airplane shots. Beautiful > low light photo on your first link. Saw the rest too on Flickr & > Fluidr.
Thanks Bipin, that's awfully nice of you to say. It was seriously my first attempt at photographing planes since I owned a camera with a telephoto lens. > How do they allow you to enter armed with a Bigma? Lucky you. I was just outside the fence, I used the GPS on some of the shots, and just updated the location info on the rest. If you click on the location, it will show a map of how I was in the parking lot for waiting for people to arrive, just off the end of the runway. The owl in these shots was sitting on the fence at the end of the runway. http://www.flickr.com/photos/ellarsee/sets/72157634684347823/ > Keep shootin & posting. Thank you. > > Here is some resource I picked up from a Welsh (UK) low flying > airplane shooter:- > Since military fast jets travel at about 400-450 knots (750 to 850 > kmph), camera settings become increasingly important. > Continuous autofocus is a must for tracking fast-moving targets. > Reducing the number of active focus points helps increase autofocus > performance, too. > Fast shutter speeds in the region of 1/800-1/1600 sec work well, but > good action shots can be captured in-camera by using much slower > speeds to blur the background and keep the subject sharp. Try > something in the range of 1/125-1/500 sec. > For cockpit-level shots, you’ll need a long lens – consider a 500mm or > 600mm telephoto. Use wide apertures and high ISOs for action-stopping > shutter speeds. According to the map, I was a few hundred meters from the end of the runway. I was shooting at 500m, until the planes were just landing, then I'd have to zoom out. > > Regards. > Bipin - from that far away enchanting land. > > -- > PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List > [email protected] > http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net > to UNSUBSCRIBE from the PDML, please visit the link directly above and follow > the directions. -- Larry Colen [email protected] http://red4est.com/lrc -- PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List [email protected] http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net to UNSUBSCRIBE from the PDML, please visit the link directly above and follow the directions.
