I quite enjoyed the day, apart from it nearly dumping rain all over us a couple of times, with a nice and varied flying display. After all the hype I was not at all impressed with the F-15 solo display. Big aeroplane, wide turning circle, lots of noise, not much else. Typhoon does it much better. Heritage bit was OK.
Finally gave the Tamron 200-500mm zoom a reasonably good work out. On shutter priority I started at 1/500, which froze the blades a bit, but I was after in-focus airframes rather than prop blur, and gradually worked down the numbers. I have to practice panning with this lens as I seem to have chopped bits off aeroplanes, either being too fast or not fast enough.
Alex Henshaw Tribute.
Brian
By: Manston Airport - 9th July 2007 at 14:23
Brilliant shots there thanks for sharing 😎 Like the F15/Heritage shot yeah that be good if tha RAF did it with the BBMF.
James
By: Jason Garland - 8th July 2007 at 18:52
Great Photo’s Brian love the one of Sally B first saw it at Finningley in 1992 still looks great.
By: ALBERT ROSS - 8th July 2007 at 16:34
Superb Brian. I agree that sharp images have to over-rule the desire for ‘prop blur’ and you seem to have got the balance right!;)
By: ironman - 8th July 2007 at 15:58
Really enjoyable set of pictures there. Personally, I thought the opening F15/Heritage slot was the highlight of the show. An RAF version would be great and I was lucky enough to see a Typhoon/Jaguar/Hurricane flypast at Coningsby earlier this year
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