Simon's Duxford Photos…

Thank you for taking the trouble to answer my question, the effects are really good.

Lovely Simon, the Reds Break and the Sabre stand out for me 🙂

Here are a few more…

IMG_3831_tonemappedSM by sboreeves, on Flickr

IMG_3690_tonemappedSM by sboreeves, on Flickr

IMG_4035_tonemapped2 by sboreeves, on Flickr

IMG_3878_tonemapped by sboreeves, on Flickr

IMG_3588_tonemapped by sboreeves, on Flickr

IMG_3611_2_3_tonemapped by sboreeves, on Flickr

Hi chaps,

Thanks for your comments – I was beginning to wonder if anyone was going to take a look at the photos!!

I’ve seen a lot of Red Arrows displays, even once, when they were displaying at Cambridge Airport, from my front garden as they were turning round the back of my house to go back in over the airport and I have to say that Sunday’s display was the best, bar none. Pretty breath-taking really and great to see them back after some very difficult times for them.

Hi Sideslip – to answer your question: I took the photos as RAW on my Canon 600D and then used Photomatix Pro to create Pseudo HDRs from them. It’s a bit of a Marmite technique in that some people really hate the results and regard it as ‘cheating’ but I like the images I get. Tonemapping (which is what you’re doing with Photomatix) allows you to play with colour balances and exposure. One of the side effects which I don’t really mind about is that you can end up with widely varying sky colours in aircraft photos – but people only notice when you see a collection of images side-by-side.

I’ll take a look at my other pics and see if anything else stands out as worth processing and posting up.

Bye for now!

Superb set, Simon – great bit of ‘togging:eagerness:

TTFN,
Neil

what excellent photos of the Reds, very well done on some super shots. any more to come…….

That last picture of the Red Arrows is gorgeous. How did you get the sky to look like that?