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Me and my wife attended our first air show at Waterkloof Air force Base on Saturday the 1st of October 2011.
I am an Amateur photographer studying photography through Intec college and soem of the captures that i have captured of the air show can be seen on my blog:
http://kgb224.blogspot.com/2011/10/wate ... -show.html

I think you'll find that one of the most difficult aspects of aviation photography is anticipating where your subject is going to be. At one stage I was proud of myself if I managed to get half the aircraft in the frame (it was normally the rear half)

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My Photos: http://www.airplane-pictures.net/member ... .php?p=882
Blog: http://the-flying-fish.blogspot.com/, UPDATED on 13 September 2012

Welcome johannesme, cool photos.

As you get used to the speed of the helicopters and prop planes, your panning technique will improve (requires lots of practice ). You will then be able to reduce your shutter speed to obtain some prop/rotor blur.

Thank you Dean and Gripen.
I will if the Lord spares me would like to attend more air shows and take many more pictures of aircraft participating in air shows. I used aperture setting on my Sony DSLR A-200 camera.I played around with the aperture between F5 and F18 and used an ISO of 400 for all the captures. Used a free program to remove noise in my captures. I am happy with the results considering it is my first attempt at taking pictures of moving aircraft.
Blessed day and week for everyone.
God Bless.