Just done the Waddington Airshow.


EOS40D
100-400L IS USM
70-200 f4L IS USM with 1.4 extender
24-105 f4L


Problem areas seem to be..


Shooting upwards the sky puts most of the aircraft into silouette and I cant get the definition back in the planes.


Fuzzy images, but not motion blur. I used the IS in Mode2. Other
causes could be heat rising from the ground (It was a very hot day), or
heat from the jets, Auto focus being confused by display smoke although
I used servo and centre point most of the time.


Noise. I wouldn't expect this at ISO200 on the EOS and usually work
up to ISO400 without problem. I did shoot best jpegs however and this
might have not responded well on the blue sky which was a flat colour.
Would RAW have solved all this.


Although I have managed to get a reasonable collection of images to showcase the day the 100% crops look decidedly poor.



Anybody got any suggestions on sky shooting for me. The same rig out
on the Jet Ski park 2 weeks ago gave me outstanding results.


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Above: Full image


Below: Pixel level crop


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