Biggin Hill air show weekend June 2008

A last set of pics from Saturday and Sunday.

Nice work, Martin. It is a real shame about the light in your face at Biggin during the afternoon. Just think of all those amazing shots you could achieve with the sun to your advantage?

Cheers

TJ

Thanks Teej.

Yes, the sun is a problem later in the day.

Very nice Martin, the Hunter Meteor break is stunning, I knew I should have moved nearer crowd centre. Good to see you Sunday.

Septic.

Nice work, Martin. It is a real shame about the light in your face at Biggin during the afternoon. Just think of all those amazing shots you could achieve with the sun to your advantage?

Cheers

TJ

On Saturday I was just right of the grandstand. On Sunday I went to the right of it and the enclosure/marquee.

Another fantastic set of pics Martin to put mine to shame:mad:I took 485 shots and kept 40 all with Sigma 50-500mm that I thought were decent enough but will be putting them in the recycle bin also after seeing yours.Oh well onto the next show:D

Thank you and best wishes for the next show. I have no experience with the 50-500mm Sigma but by all accounts it is a good lens.

Martin

I was just starting to feel happy with the shots I was getting with now I finally have my 30D + 100 – 400mm…then I saw yours! That 500mm f4 is obviously a nice piece of glass…coupled with your skills I must add! Oh well, I’ve got another yardstick to aim for!

Thank you.

The 100-400 is an excellent lens though a bit soft from 350mm. Sometimes 500mm is too big. Unfortunately on Sunday on the 500mm it appears sometimes that I had a finger on the manual focusing ring whilst auto focusing. A majority of my images were out of focus because of it. Fortunately most of the images I wanted that day were sharp.

Martin

Fantastic shots there Martin , Like the typhoon shot 😎 What was the RAF Beech King Air display like?

James

Thank you James

The King Air Display was very good. The best bits were the high wing turning topside part way along the crowd line, a sheepish descent toward the crowd line followed by pull up dumbbell turn to one side. The landing was at a steep angle. A very nimble aeroplane.

Martin

Another fantastic set of pics Martin to put mine to shame:mad:I took 485 shots and kept 40 all with Sigma 50-500mm that I thought were decent enough but will be putting them in the recycle bin also after seeing yours.Oh well onto the next show:D

I was just starting to feel happy with the shots I was getting with now I finally have my 30D + 100 – 400mm…then I saw yours! That 500mm f4 is obviously a nice piece of glass…coupled with your skills I must add! Oh well, I’ve got another yardstick to aim for!

Fantastic shots there Martin , Like the typhoon shot 😎 What was the RAF Beech King Air display like?

James

Great pics! Can I ask what lense they were shot through, and are they crops?

Bob

Hi Bob

All taken with a 500mm Canon f4 IS lens with 40D apart from the DC6 which was with a Cannon 100-400 lens with 30D

Spit, Typhoon, Meteor topside, DC6, King Air all almost full frame right to left or top/bottom, cropped less than between 5 to 15 per cent. Meteor take off pic about 25 per cent, Mirage 35 per cent, Hawk about 25 per cent. All these ones were cropped for composition purposes. Only the Hunter/Meteor brake shot is a big crop for enlarging purposes, about 55 per cent.

Got better pictures of Mirage today. Hope they are in focus. If not they will be deleted from my computer.

Hope this helps

Martin

Great pics! Can I ask what lense they were shot through, and are they crops?

Bob

That is a lovely shot of the Meteor and Hunter – I feel somewhat hesitant about downloading mine now! 🙂 Thanks for posting

Very nice indeed. Just have to hope that day two is as good.