Cold War Jets – Long exposure set.

I took the opportunity to make some long exposure photographs of the Cold War Jets aircraft at Bruntingthorpe and here they are…

XW900 Buccaneer, in company with the other Bruntingthorpe Buccs.
XX900 Buccaneer, Bruntingthorpe by Wallace Shackleton, on Flickr

XW544 Buccaneer, in company with the other two
XW544 Buccaneer, Bruntingthorpe by Wallace Shackleton, on Flickr

XX467 Hunter, looking like it’s in a scrapyard!
XX467 Hunter, Bruntingthorpe by Wallace Shackleton, on Flickr

XV226 Nimrod, knee deep in Nissans.
XV226 Nimrod, Bruntingthorpe by Wallace Shackleton, on Flickr

WR974 Shackleton, looking very sorry for itself.
WR974 Shackleton, Bruntingthorpe by Wallace Shackleton, on Flickr

F-BTGV Supper Guppy, in company with a Hunter and a bit of a Jetstream
F-BTGV Super Guppy, Bruntingthorpe by Wallace Shackleton, on Flickr

The Airliners and Tankers
Airliners, Bruntingthorpe by Wallace Shackleton, on Flickr

The Starfighter. 22+35 F-104
22+35 F-104, Bruntingthorpe by Wallace Shackleton, on Flickr

Lastly but by no means least
ZD241 VC-10
ZD241, VC-10 K.4 , Bruntingthorpe by Wallace Shackleton, on Flickr

For those that are interested. The fast moving clouds really helped the effect. Exposure time was in the region of 30 seconds and to do this I used a ten stop and a two stop square filter along with a two stop ND grad filter. This combination produced a colour cast that I was not able to null out and monochrome enhances the effect to a greater effect anyway. The images are noisy, so some noise reduction has been applied, sometimes to add to the cloud effect. The photos have been individually processed so the tone and tint varies according to the mood.
Lastly the clouds themselves varied sometimes almost completely overcast and sometimes patchy and fast, which produces the better effect.