got some good stuff there myself this year , the light and weather were superb compared to previous years

i shoot on nikon gear and use fully manual on a 70-300mm

quality very much depended where the shooting ops were anything to the left was pretty hopeless as it was washed out by the suns position ( as you will notice on your own collection of shots , all those that you have shot that are to the right of you deffinateley have the edge on those comming from the left )

but anything from the right or directly in front was superbly lit

i managed to get the tornado as it pulled up with the rainbow haze of mist around it , some got it a lot better ( i suspect with a lot more expensive gear than i !! )

but i picked up details like the wingwalkers wearing adidas trainers and the spitfire pilots hand and thumb on the control columb , so good enough for me

i also under exposed a tad to saturate colour and improve detail giving a more contasty look

i shot the day by metering off the sand then underexposing by a couple of stops

i will be posting a couple once i load photoshop onto the new pc set up

but for now i’ll just give a wee sample of a totaly unedited from camera shot

a big secret is using as fast shutter speeds as possible a good rule of thumb is shutter speeds above 400th sec in your lenses case ( i go well above unless wanting prop or rotorblade motion ) with the movement of a long focal leangth lens motion is amplified so even with seemingly fast shutter speeds you will still get blurred images

apart from helis i shot mostly over 1000 sec and even at those speeds some of the tornado shots were still blurred

i focus manualy because i find auto is too unreliable and i miss more good shot ops that i would have been happy with slightly blurred because the shutter did not fire because the autofocus was still hunting