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 Post subject: Re: RIAT 2018: RAF100
PostPosted: 18 Jul 2018, 13:30 
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thank you Avgass still love the SU-27..out of all the jet pictures.Pity the light was so bad,but ja after all it is England.

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Amazing pics

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PostPosted: 20 Jul 2018, 12:00 
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Now if AAD could get a 10th of RIAT's lineup


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out of all the displays I have seen on net, the A400M was the best!!I so wish the SAAF went through with the purchase of these aircraft.please post some pics guys it you have.

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PostPosted: 20 Jul 2018, 14:10 
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I moved my pics to a different host. Instead of posting them individually, here's the link to the album, warts and all.

https://nickpic.host/album/rXXH6

There's a bit of everything in it. Please let me know if the link doesn't work (you're shut out because of privacy settings. I think I've opened it up..)


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PostPosted: 20 Jul 2018, 14:42 
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Very nice photos! =D>

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 Post subject: Re: RIAT 2018: RAF100
PostPosted: 20 Jul 2018, 16:42 
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Hi avgass

Where were you shooting from, camp or crowd line?

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 Post subject: Re: RIAT 2018: RAF100
PostPosted: 20 Jul 2018, 17:05 
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MARS wrote:
Dean wrote:
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More photos!


I am trying to take as many photos as I can. The action is relentless and the event is vast and diverse.

The one problem I am struggling a bit is soft images...?

I think its caused by a combination of humidity, heat haze and using a telephoto lens. The weather is excellent but its very hot and humid, I am shooting using the same settings as a I would at our local shows. The difference though is that Gauteng airshows are in winter at 2000 m above sea level.

I am shooting up to 2500th of a second, so I don't think its motion blur.

could it be humidity?


Great airshow hey Marc :D

Couple of comments. Yes when RIAT gets full sun, you'll get heat haze. However, I found that it wasn't a problem when the aircraft were close (shooting at 300mm, CF1.6). Best was to get the aeries in the air and not on the runway. Humidity should only do one thing - wingtip vortices and condensation over wings which is what we want to see. Couple of other comments :
1) When shooting at high speed switch your image stabilizer off.
2) leave the u/v and polarizer filters off. You want as little glass between your sensor and the subject (unless you're paying R3,000 for a filter). I found at ORT using a polarizer was messing up half the photos and that's easy photography with slow moving subjects.
3) maybe big day excitement shakes. There's so much going on and you're no doubt constantly fiddling with settings. Don't be fooled by those oke's who handle their cameras like M-61 Gatling guns. It only sounds impressive to those who don't know. Consider a lesson from a bomber gunner from WWII - aim at your subject, track it properly and squeeze the trigger gently. I didn't heed this advice at my first RIAT and most of my first day pics were crap. Draw a deep breath, let the air out gradually as you track your subject and shoot in bursts of two. Up side is you don't have to go through 10,000 images after the show.
4) when you resize your images to 1300 or 800 pixels, the last operation of your editing process is to sharpen the image (unsharp mask). This will go a long way to making your images look nice and crisp (but don't overdo it).

I sat next to a guy with a lens which looked like an RPG rocket launcher. I think it was 600mm or longer. After messing around with it he put it down in disgust due to the heat haze on long distance shots. The great thing about RIAT is that you seldom have to go beyond 300mm on a crop factor 1.6 body.

Oh yes, last word of advice. Get a Canon7D MkII and the new 100-400mm lens :D 8) :wink: :roll:


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 Post subject: Re: RIAT 2018: RAF100
PostPosted: 20 Jul 2018, 17:57 
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MARS wrote:
Hi avgass

Where were you shooting from, camp or crowd line?


I was at Totterdown camp site, field 4. I found this year they were flying a lot higher and giving Totters a wider berth when it could be helped so my pickings are quite slim. No decent F-35 shots at all because the action was too far away. The one time it came overhead I'd forgotten to change my shutter speed from the previous slow P-51/F-35 flypast. Last year was different with aitcraft closer and louder. One minimum radius turn by a Thunderbird, right over my head, had my chest shaking and kind of waiting for my head to explode. I've never experienced anything like it. Nothing like that this year though they still did 360's around the site.

I've decided I'll have to head to the crowdline for at least one of the 4 days next year.


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PostPosted: 20 Jul 2018, 19:49 
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avgass wrote:
MARS wrote:
Hi avgass

Where were you shooting from, camp or crowd line?


I was at Totterdown camp site, field 4. I found this year they were flying a lot higher and giving Totters a wider berth when it could be helped so my pickings are quite slim. No decent F-35 shots at all because the action was too far away. The one time it came overhead I'd forgotten to change my shutter speed from the previous slow P-51/F-35 flypast. Last year was different with aitcraft closer and louder. One minimum radius turn by a Thunderbird, right over my head, had my chest shaking and kind of waiting for my head to explode. I've never experienced anything like it. Nothing like that this year though they still did 360's around the site.

I've decided I'll have to head to the crowdline for at least one of the 4 days next year.


From the the crowd line the aircraft flying displays were far away and high up, that also contributed to the soft images for me at least.

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Welcome back to SA. :evil: :evil: :evil:

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Thursday arrivals

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