Here are some photos from the airshow at the aircraft museum's rollout 2016.
Here are some photos from the airshow at the aircraft museum's rollout 2016.
Thanks, Rob and Shane.
Shooting a show like this is a challenge as the focal length ideally dictates one speed, but then the propellers look like they stand still... I mostly used 1/60 to 1/100. The exception is the Vampire, as a jet against the sky can be shot with short exposure times.
I am a bit surprised that the D300 and 80-400 AF-S combination worked as well as it did. The only problem is getting things in focus again when the follow-focus loses the plot. It was nice to have the room to concentrate on the photography without spectators getting in the way. I had access to the SAPS (Swedish Aviation Photographers' Society) enclosure this day. The enclosure looked like this. Photo: Tommy Olsson Edit 2019: the link is dead.
I thought that you nailed the perfect balance of prop blur. Great panning. The smoke shots turned out nicely too.
I got a chuckle out of the linked photo of the enclosure. Quite a few 70-200mm fans in that bunch.
I do love the Mustang. Such a cool plane. I think my favorite 3 planes of that era were the Mustangs, the Spitfires, and the Corsairs.
The group was shot during one of the slow and close parts, otherwise there were more 600/4L lenses than anything else.
My favourite planes from that era are a bit different than most as the P51B, the P40 and the FW 190 are so overshadowed by the D-mustang, the Bearcat and the Me-109. It is too bad that so few still are in flyable condition.
Those really are underrated planes, all of them very cool, and all overshadowed by the other planes.
I have always loved the P40's. The P51-B were one of my favorite models of the Mustangs. It was before they redesigned the tail section. I like the original tail. I wasn't as familiar with the Focke-Wulf planes, admittedly because the others were more widely publicized. (Mainly the ME-109 and the ME-262, which I never understood the fascination with the 262 since there was a high likelihood that they would explode on take-off. But I guess jets in WWII were a hot discussion item, even if they were a bit dangerous to operate).