Surfin' Angels

Hauer

Hi - decided to go out and play with my recently purchased dSLR & Bigma at the recent Airshow held in Leeuwarden, The Netherlands. Photo was taken handheld at 320mm 1/1250 f/6.3 Exp.comp. -1 step ISO 200

It was the first time since 1965 that the Blue Angels performed in The Netherlands. To all concerned..... thanks for a stunning show! :clap

Cheers - Herman

DJ-S1

Nice! I love the Blues, glad they could make it to your area and put on their usual amazing show.

gsgary

Very nice, not heard of the blue angels in the UK we have the Red Arrows have you seen them ?

fire1035

Neat shot. The Blue Angels were here in Indy last year so that should mean we get The Thunderbirds (USAF) this year. Always an awesome show.

Hauer

gsgary wrote:

Very nice, not heard of the blue angels in the UK we have the Red Arrows have you seen them ?

Hi GSGARY - have certainly heard of them! In fact, they participated the day prior to my attendance at the Leeuwarden Airshow.

Too bad I had to spend te day at the office!!!

Cheers - Herman

Steve Cavigliano

Herman,
Love the shot Great timing

I do, however, believe you can do more with it during post. It looks a bit U/E and I see the same cyan tint as we discussed before. Easy to fix during post, but I still am at a loss to explain why it happens in the first place Maybe some of the Nikon shooters will chime in

Good stuff!!

Steve

Harryb

Steve Cavigliano wrote:

Herman,
Love the shot Great timing

I do, however, believe you can do more with it during post. It looks a bit U/E and I see the same cyan tint as we discussed before. Easy to fix during post, but I still am at a loss to explain why it happens in the first place Maybe some of the Nikon shooters will chime in

Good stuff!!

Steve

Hey Herman,

I have the same thing happen when I shoot white birds. I have to expose for the subject which results in underexposing the sky or water. This seems to deepen and saturate the blue and/or the cyan in the shoot.

If you want to lessen the effect you could change your hue settings. A plus hue setting will add magenta to the blue and add blue to cyan. A negative setting will add cyan to the blue and add green to cyan.

You also might want to experiment with your WB settings. Nikon sets the Klevin temp for sunny at 5200K which is cooler than most of the rest of the photography world where it usually comes in at around. 5400K. If you set your WB to sunny -2 that will set the Kelvin temp to 5400K.

I would experiemnt with some fo these setting and see if any produces a result you like better. If you need any more help please feel free to PM me.

Hauer

Harryb wrote:

Hey Herman,

I have the same thing happen when I shoot white birds. I have to expose for the subject which results in underexposing the sky or water. This seems to deepen and saturate the blue and/or the cyan in the shoot.

If you want to lessen the effect you could change your hue settings. A plus hue setting will add magenta to the blue and add blue to cyan. A negative setting will add cyan to the blue and add green to cyan.

You also might want to experiment with your WB settings. Nikon sets the Klevin temp for sunny at 5200K which is cooler than most of the rest of the photography world where it usually comes in at around. 5400K. If you set your WB to sunny -2 that will set the Kelvin temp to 5400K.

I would experiemnt with some fo these setting and see if any produces a result you like better. If you need any more help please feel free to PM me.

Hi Harry - Thanks for the tip.... I'll experiment with it as I had only just received my D50 prior to the Airshow.

Again, thanks for the advise and I might just make use of your PM assistance offer in future.

Cheers - Herman

Hauer

Hi - here are a few more photos involving the USN Blue Angels Display Team.

Cheers - Herman

Hauer

Two of a Kind....

Hauer

and lastly....