Well, had a nice wander around on my own :rolleyes: 😀 with my trusty mono pod. If you were there and saw a mono pod being used, it was probably me on the other end. I had my camera set on ‘Auto’ and used the ‘AV’ function to control the shutter speed. I was going for a slightly lighter image than I normally take and then reducing it down in photoshop rather than having a dark image and and making it light with the resulting noise.
I nearly came away with some decent images from the BoB Hall but despite trying to securing my mono pod to anything I could to steady it, I think I need to splash out on a tripod.
Brian
By: Pen Pusher - 3rd December 2007 at 07:45
Thank you for the comments gentlemen but unfortunately the camera DOES lie.
The light levels in the BoB Hall are just as bad as ever. It only looks light as a digital SLR with a 10mp sensor is doing what a DSLR with a 10mp sensor does best. Making use of the light that is available. Exposure time is in the 3 to 5 seconds region, but should be longer but I don’t have a tripod.
I was having trouble trying to frame a subject in the viewfinder, as well, because I couldn’t see it and I was chopping off the nose and tails.
Brian
By: old eagle - 2nd December 2007 at 21:02
Cracking pics, amazingly good (apparent) light levels
Thanks for sharing them
By: Rlangham - 2nd December 2007 at 19:27
Unfortunately it’s just a good photograph – although apparently the lights are put back to the levels they were pre-BofB show when the show breaks, although obviously you won’t know in advance!
By: JesseJames - 2nd December 2007 at 19:10
Hendon shots.
Hi there Pen Pusher,
Great shots of the lone-walk-around, tell me do they have the lights on all
the time in the Battle of Britain Museum or just when the film show is not on ?
My old man nearly went is length when we where there the other year, he
because of his age had trouble seeing where he was going, and was not happy that he could not see the Me 109E lite well. He did chirp about it being
a Health and Saftey issue. I must say I thought he had a point. Put the lights
on after the film show, but it never happened. After his colour came back I told him he must take more water in it and anyway they were only trying to
keep costs down by not putting the lights on, you know like you do.
Will not tell you his reply. So is it worth skidding him down the M1 to see the
Me fully lite up ? or was it a one off ?
Cheers JJ.
By: missileer - 2nd December 2007 at 18:20
Very eye-catching pix. How do you get your subjects looking so well-lit? Your photos show the aircraft fairly evenly lit from nose to tail…
Presumably the monopod is letting you use longer exposures than are possible hand-held, but it’s the evenness of lighting along the length of the aircraft that surprises me.
My experience of the Hendon bomber hall is that with ISO 800, an f.2.8 lens, and a shutter speeds of 1/30, the front of some aircraft is at best getting about one stop of underexposure, and the back end is often in a gloom where Photoshop trickery can only improve things at the price of exposing lots of digital noise.
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