RAF Fairford International Air Tattoo

Stan

I finally started processing some of the shots from The Royal International Air Tattoo at RAF Fairford.

Fairford is the long range bomber base where the USAF launched their strike on Lybia.

I was invited to spend the day with a friend who supplied front row seats of the Runway.

Photography is a learning process and so I thought that shooting on a bright day, using a circular polariser would improve the sky, but panning planes at up to 500 miles an hour does not give much chance to compose the sky and slowed the shutter speed down too much.

The day started very hot and humid allowing the Hornet to produce some great vapour trails





Then they displayed some turbo props, by the time the jets started again, the humidity had dropped and so had the trails.

But the Utterly Buterly girls were nuts




The rest can be seen here and will be updated as I get to them

Thanks for looking

Stan

wxwax

Well, I think this one's really cool.



I like the colors and the moment - interesting pose. I might be tempted to crtop a bit off the top and push the exposure a bit, but it's very nice indeed.

waveneyman

It sure is a learning process Stan and as you say 500mph panning is effing difficult. I stuck a Bigma into someones ear at Duxford - the lens was fine.. his ear needed a bandaid
Nicely done especially the Utterly Butterly girls, I posted some shots of them about 2 months ago and they are very cool girls indeed.
I gave up large events like Fairford and F1 at Silverstone when the traffic queues were longer than the event itself

cheers
mark

USAIR

All very cool

I like this one too


Tried this at the boat races on the Ohio...tougher then it looks and the boats only got to 150mph or so.

Fred

John Mueller

Yeah,what they all said.
Killer shots

Stan

waveneyman wrote:

It sure is a learning process Stan and as you say 500mph panning is effing difficult. I stuck a Bigma into someones ear at Duxford - the lens was fine.. his ear needed a bandaid
Nicely done especially the Utterly Butterly girls, I posted some shots of them about 2 months ago and they are very cool girls indeed.
I gave up large events like Fairford and F1 at Silverstone when the traffic queues were longer than the event itself

cheers
mark

I stay well away from the A505 during the Duxford displays, however the front row seats to Fairford included a purple pass to avoid the traffic. We went straight in without the queues.

Panning moving aircraft is not dissimilar to pheasant shooting

Cheers
Stan

Stan

wxwax wrote:

Well, I think this one's really cool.



I like the colors and the moment - interesting pose. I might be tempted to crtop a bit off the top and push the exposure a bit, but it's very nice indeed.

Thanks Sid, I haven't cropped any of the shots, it's a pity I missed the wheels and wing tips so yes there is dead space above the Utterly Butterly Girl. I will look at this.

Cheers
Stan

wolfies

Nice shots and I like the utterly butter one the best but they are all great.

Stan

wxwax wrote:

Well, I think this one's really cool.



I like the colors and the moment - interesting pose. I might be tempted to crtop a bit off the top and push the exposure a bit, but it's very nice indeed.

Any Better? Done very quickly with shadow highlight (I should be ploughing)


Cheers
Stan