Hi,
Does anyone know of any good aviation photography websites, i.e. how to take good shots of fast moving, airborne subjects. We have just bought a new Minolta Dimage Z1 digital camera, and now have the ability to take shots of airborne machines, rather than having to stick to shots of static aircraft.
I’ve attached a pic of a Herk that I took yesterday at Lakenheath. Although not bad for a first attempt, any constructive comments on how to do better are welcome! 😀
Cheers
Justyn
By: Guzzineil - 30th July 2004 at 22:31
and at least you can choose the shutter speeds, so ground shots with blurry props are ok… may see you at Shuttleworth.. interested to see what results you get !
By: planejunky - 30th July 2004 at 20:26
Hi Neil,
The Connie doesn’t look that bad, I’ve seen far worse! 😀 There does seem to be some movement in the props, I’ve seen pictures where you wonder if the aircraft has multiple engine failure!
The high shutter speed could be an issue as it will be mainly used to photograph warbirds for our website. It’s great that you can use the camera in full automatic, or fully manual modes, though as you rightly mention the focus is problematic on a fast moving aircraft. I noticed that you can change the aperture settings while in sport mode, handy for DX where the sun is always an issue.
We are looking at heading down to either Woodchurch or Shuttleworth this weekend, we still can’t make our mind’s up! It’ll be a good testing ground as we only got the camera on Tuesday. Lakenheath was a bit on the quiet side so not such a great day for testing the new kit. It was nice to see an AFRES C-141 from Wright Patterson AFB taxi out and take off though, I suppose they are bordering on historic nowadays!
Cheers
Justyn
By: Guzzineil - 30th July 2004 at 19:04
hi.. thats the same camera that i’ve recently bought… only problem with airbourne shots with it is that using the sport mode which allows the autofocus to follow the object, it automatically selects highest shutter speed – not so bad on your herc photo but means any warbirds will appear to flying with their engines stopped!!! like this… 😀
not a problem for taxying shots or jets..
or is there another way ???
Neil.
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July 30, 2004 at 5:37 pm