Perfect Weather for the Blue Angels
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What are you shooting these with? All my pics are film, but my longest lens is a 70-210 zoom, and my scanner sucks, so while my prints look OK, I can't get them onto my PC in any condition to use. The paper is too grainy, and my scanner's color correction for negatives is not quite right.
I've shot slides in shows past, but never on a day as good as this one. (Our NW FL weather has been amazing this week, hasn't it?) At least with slides I can control exposure of the final picture; The labs ALWAYS screw up my prints, and I end up scanning the negatives instead.
A couple of these have a vantage point I didn't know was accessible, namely the #6 flat shot with the hangar in the background. Isn't that area used for parking at air shows? Are you Navy, perhaps?
I'm hoping to borrow a D70 to bring to the homecoming show in November. Hope the owner has a really really big CF card. A problem with shooting the homecoming show in November is how low the sun is at show time, and the fact that it's at one end of the show line.
Once in a while they come here to Tyndall AFB, and the afternoon sun is directly behind the crowd, absolutely perfect lighting on a good day. I've never carried my camera on such a day for the Blues, although I have a couple of excellent shots of the Thunderbirds I may put here when I get home.
I saw the Thunderbirds at Eglin once, back when the F-16s were nearly new to the team, but the sun was directly across from the crowd, had to stare into it for the whole show. Never going back there.
As far as knowing the show, one thing I hate is the simultaneous takeoffs of the solo pilots. I can't follow them both!
I've shot slides in shows past, but never on a day as good as this one. (Our NW FL weather has been amazing this week, hasn't it?) At least with slides I can control exposure of the final picture; The labs ALWAYS screw up my prints, and I end up scanning the negatives instead.
A couple of these have a vantage point I didn't know was accessible, namely the #6 flat shot with the hangar in the background. Isn't that area used for parking at air shows? Are you Navy, perhaps?
I'm hoping to borrow a D70 to bring to the homecoming show in November. Hope the owner has a really really big CF card. A problem with shooting the homecoming show in November is how low the sun is at show time, and the fact that it's at one end of the show line.
Once in a while they come here to Tyndall AFB, and the afternoon sun is directly behind the crowd, absolutely perfect lighting on a good day. I've never carried my camera on such a day for the Blues, although I have a couple of excellent shots of the Thunderbirds I may put here when I get home.
I saw the Thunderbirds at Eglin once, back when the F-16s were nearly new to the team, but the sun was directly across from the crowd, had to stare into it for the whole show. Never going back there.
As far as knowing the show, one thing I hate is the simultaneous takeoffs of the solo pilots. I can't follow them both!
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- speedy_2
Camera: Canon Digital Rebel XT
Lens: Sigma APO 70-200mm F2.8 EX DG / HSM
W/UV filter
4GB Micro Drive
As for my vantage point. I'm an Air Traffic Controller in the Navy. I get to take my shots from the small cat walk outside the control Tower
They practice twice a week so I get to take shots of them a lot. 
Lens: Sigma APO 70-200mm F2.8 EX DG / HSM
W/UV filter
4GB Micro Drive
As for my vantage point. I'm an Air Traffic Controller in the Navy. I get to take my shots from the small cat walk outside the control Tower
They practice twice a week so I get to take shots of them a lot.
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- Panama City, FL
I knew it! As high up as those shots were taken from, you had to be someplace cool.
Here's the one I mentioned earlier of the Thunderbirds. This is a scan of the negative, the print from the lab was useless.
As for Blue Angels, here's the diamond at Tyndall, March '04, second show weekend of the year. I don't recall if this is the negative or the print scanned, but the difference from a digital original is obvious.
Here's the same team at the year-end show. Weather was LOUSY, heavy low overcast. Interesting, though, as it shows how much tighter the diamond got during the year.
But the weather, with its humidity, made for an interesting sneak pass by #5:
Thanks for the info on your camera. It's nice to know the 200mm glass is OK. I know that's longer on a digital, like 300 or 350 on a 35mm camera, but great shots, and thanks for sharing! +rep.
Here's the one I mentioned earlier of the Thunderbirds. This is a scan of the negative, the print from the lab was useless.
As for Blue Angels, here's the diamond at Tyndall, March '04, second show weekend of the year. I don't recall if this is the negative or the print scanned, but the difference from a digital original is obvious.
Here's the same team at the year-end show. Weather was LOUSY, heavy low overcast. Interesting, though, as it shows how much tighter the diamond got during the year.
But the weather, with its humidity, made for an interesting sneak pass by #5:
Thanks for the info on your camera. It's nice to know the 200mm glass is OK. I know that's longer on a digital, like 300 or 350 on a 35mm camera, but great shots, and thanks for sharing! +rep.
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lucky arse!As for my vantage point. I'm an Air Traffic Controller in the Navy. I get to take my shots from the small cat walk outside the control Tower
nice shots, but i believe that no 8 and the wallpaper one are absolutely outstanding because they're not just pictures of some planes but they also show more involvement by the photographer due to the "partitioning(?)" of the photographs. however, i also love no 1 because you caught it exactly at the right moment.
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