Post your favorite Airplane shots

[Sheiky]

Oh...and Whatsreal, you can also rent a lens for a day. It's cheaper than buying a lens you might not use much after the show. That's what I do this year [img]/emoticons/emotion-21.gif[/img]

yeah but as I said its an excellent *excuse* to get some more glass! That is part of the reason for wanting a zoom, it would prove useful to have. I love to go to the botanic garden and being able to chase birds and insects a little would be fun. (though maybe I should stick to my macro for those insects.

Hihi nice excuse yes, but if a 100-400 is really useful in the average day of life..I doubt it. Then you're probably better of spending just a little more and buying a 70-200 F2.8IS USM or the F4 version. But for insects, birds and flowers you might want to check out the 300mm F4L. Maybe even with an 1.4x teleconverter.


Really you can have a good excuse to buy a lens, but you'll regret it if you can't really use the lens as much as you want to. I sold my 70-200 because I don't use it as much as I used to. I'm better of renting a telelens when I need it. Proves to be cheaper after all. At least for me.

[Sheiky]

Here's my contribution. All shot with a 50D and a 70-200 F4L





First off: The A10, first time I've ever seen this airplane in real life! Love it...it's a beautiful plane!





Shot at 200mm iso200 1/1000 TVmode with +1exposure





The rest of my pictures are shot in AV with +1 exposure with center-point metering mode.





200mm F5 1/4000 iso 250 /// 200mm and still needed cropping





188mm iso 250 f5 1/1600 also needed some crop





And two pictures to show you how the majority of my pictures looks like at 200mm non-cropped. I was standing about 75m away from the runway with all pictures.





F5 iso250 1/1000





f5 1/2000 iso 250





I used AV-mode this much because the sky was really cloudy and 1 moment it could be cloudy and the other moment it could be clear. So I set my AVmode +1 exposure.


Haven't done any postprocessing on the last 3.


Not so much on the first 2 either, but yes they have been postprocessed.





Oh..there was a question about bursting... I didn't use my bursts a lot. Only when two or more planes are flying straight into eachother and you want to take that special moment where they seem so collide.


For the rest...they aren't that fast from such a distance [:P] you don't need to burst most of the time. I did take multiple shots sometimes, just for composition.

[Brendan7]

Sheiky, those are fantastic! #s 1 and 2 are my favorites...


brendan

[Bill W]

A380's first landing at Logan Int'l Airport in Boston Ma., 02-08-2010





Size perspective of this behemoth....note the State Troopers' Ford Expedition near the engines....look a little puny?





Talk about "fill the frame", I was (wag)over 150 yards away shooting my 100-400 at 100mm (f/9, 1/640, ISO 200) and still couldn't fit the whole bird in.

[Dan Fleming]

That is really cool! You are still allowed to take pictures at US airports? or were you there in some official capacity? Really, really neat pictures. It is the only wide-body I haven't been on. I have been on Boeing's 747, 767, 777, and the Airbus 320 and 340 but not this one yet.

[Bill W]

I'm unaware of any laws prohibiting pic taking at the US airports Dan, though security was high and there were a couple of State Troopers at the location I was shooting from for the ground shot....no issues.


The pic of the A380 landing was taken from a pier across the channel from the airport....on this occasion, about the best spot for distance, approach angleand a "non-official" photographer.


I too have had thepleasure of being on those Boeings and more, the Airbuses, as well asLockheeds, but my favorite is a DC3 a few years back andalso my first flying experience a long time ago. Trivial factoid....the hanger in the back leftof the 2nd photo is where I started my career over 30 years ago....no, I wasn't paid to fly airplanes.


Regards


Bill

[Dallasphotog]

Since a few rotorwing craft have been included: