F-15 Fighter Jet

galaxycowpoke

F-15 Eagle over Florida.

I think the clouds are the star of the show here. The jet exhaust make them very Van Gogh-like.

wxwax

Wild! That's very neat. Shot from the ground?

zigzag

You can see the vapor trails off the front edge of the wing. That guy is pulling some serious Gs. Nice shot.

BBones

*jaw drop*

ok, now THAT is a shot. Gotta ask if you can share some of your setting or post processing info. I don't want to steal your info, I just have THE WORST time shooting the Blue Angels when they come out here to Seattle every year in August.

ChrisJ

That is sweet!

galaxycowpoke

wxwax wrote:

Wild! That's very neat. Shot from the ground?

Yep. I was standing near the runway.

saurora

Wow! That vapor-trail on the clouds effect could be a Photoshop plug-in!!! I always wanted to be a passenger in one of those.....

galaxycowpoke

BBones wrote:

*jaw drop*

ok, now THAT is a shot. Gotta ask if you can share some of your setting or post processing info. I don't want to steal your info, I just have THE WORST time shooting the Blue Angels when they come out here to Seattle every year in August.

Thanks, BB. Let's see if I can remember. I think the most radical thing I did was to put more pixels in the black with the left Levels slider to bring out the dynamic shades of gray in the clouds, then I darkened the blue sky a bit; it was a tad pale. That's about all. The exhaust rippled the clouds.

Canon 300L f/4 lens

ISO 100, 1/1250, f6.3

tibu

Really cool
Those are difficult shots to make.
The composition is very nice and it really gives the feeling of speed

Congrats

Bfox

One of mine....
Sun was on the wrong side, but sort of cool anyway:


-B

Micah Weber

siK shot homie

galaxycowpoke

Bfox wrote:

Sun was on the wrong side, but sort of cool anyway:

-B

Whoa!

Nice back-lighting. Takes me back to my days in the USN.

Let's hear it for the U.S. Navy, the world's greatest!

MaxRay

Oskhosh 2005
I head out to Oshkosh, WI every year at the end of July for the Experimental Aircraft Association's (EAA) big event. Here's a few shots from this last year. I have a problem/question on shooting aircraft, especially prop driven aircraft. I'd like to get more blur in propeller motion, but that means slower shutter and more prone to unintentional blur of me not matching the rate of motion. Planes with frozen props just don't look quite right.
T6_formation-sm.jpg

MaxRay

prop motion
Maybe a better example of propeller motion here of P-51 Mustang "Big Beautiful Doll" taxiing to the runway:

bbd_taxiing_sm.jpg

ScottMcLeod

Bfox wrote:

Sun was on the wrong side, but sort of cool anyway:


-B

I disagree. The haloing effect on the vapors is nuts!

galaxycowpoke

Whirleybird

Jeffro

Those are some very cool shots!

Back Window

Saxon wrote:

Yep. I was standing near the runway.

do you know the name of the base? i live near patrick afb i have access to the base, real good spot to shot planes,

galaxycowpoke

Back Window wrote:

do you know the name of the base? i live near patrick afb i have access to the base, real good spot to shot planes,

It was an air show at a civilian airport in Florida. Great opportunity to photograph a variety of aircraft.

ivar

HAHA! Airplanes, now we're talking!!! (who wants to read the car-talk thread, if there is a thread about planes ) You've got some cool shots in there, great job I like the one from the blue angels, you can see where the smoke gets released...