My Amateurish Attempts @ Kemble Photos

photos of aircraft don’t have to be of them flying

Of course that is true, but it is something I want to do. As you say, it is a matter of finding the limitations of the camera and working within them, One of which is shutter delay 🙁

There are tricks around that (continuous auto focus, for instance), but that brings other problems – ie vastly decreased battery life – and I am already finding that it needs a fast shutter speed to avoid over exposure – and it simply doesn’t recognise under exposure at all.

The first black hunter shot is simply horrible in my view, the original is black on a black background 😮

Ho hum, I’ll find a way of making it work as I want, even if it means buying 2 more sets of NiMH battieres.

If it took the picture I actually see in the viewfinder, it wouldn’t be so bad!

Falcons on the moon?Nice one who said vignetting is bad its modern art 😀

Thanks for the encouraging words and advice Guys. Just a bit down I guess, don’t know why really.

take off the Telephoto mind.

Oh I dunno – leaving it on can give your photos a whole “other worldly” look:

😀 😀 😀

RobAnt – you’ve got some nice shots, but photos of aircraft don’t have to be of them flying. Learn what your camera can and can’t do and use it within those boundaries. Creativity with a camera will make for a far more memorable shot than having a big camera and lens to get a topside shot. That’s not to say you shouldn’t aspire to such a camera, I’d chop my arm off for a DSLR, but great photos are perfectly attainable with what you’ve got. Regardless of what camera your using, an eye for a photo and abit of imagination and thought into your composition will make a photo stand out.

Get yourself into a spot where you can get nice pics as they taxi in/out, and look for shapes and try different angles with static aircraft etc. Leave the photos of flyers to those with the equpiment. Make the most of what you’ve got. Bringing home a large amount of good taxi/static photos that your pleased with is far better than a card full of iffy flyers you aren’t happy with.

I do agree to a point but a few doctored Air shots is no problem in my view either digital is a great thing and allows a tweak or two so enjoy it.Taxi shots are great especially at Duxford where they go right past you take off the Telephoto mind.

RobAnt – you’ve got some nice shots, but photos of aircraft don’t have to be of them flying. Learn what your camera can and can’t do and use it within those boundaries. Creativity with a camera will make for a far more memorable shot than having a big camera and lens to get a topside shot. That’s not to say you shouldn’t aspire to such a camera, I’d chop my arm off for a DSLR, but great photos are perfectly attainable with what you’ve got. Regardless of what camera your using, an eye for a photo and abit of imagination and thought into your composition will make a photo stand out.

Get yourself into a spot where you can get nice pics as they taxi in/out, and look for shapes and try different angles with static aircraft etc. Leave the photos of flyers to those with the equpiment. Make the most of what you’ve got. Bringing home a large amount of good taxi/static photos that your pleased with is far better than a card full of iffy flyers you aren’t happy with.

Incidentally, my own view is that I’m not getting enough quality shots from my camera – a Fuji S5000 with 1.5x telephoto (maxing it up to 15x). Some of the shots above have had to be quite heavily processed to get anything useable, and all of them have been sharpened using PSPro at least.

Of course it didn’t help that my first set of batteries ran out after about 6 shots – and I had to survive the day on one set of 1700’s Miss Demeanor was the last quality shot I managed to get 🙁

I might find a couple more though. Watch this space.

I have got Fuji s602 with 6x zoom and a 1.5 telephoto so get less zoom than you wish i had waited until the s5000 came out,but i did not so far i feel i have got some ok photos and i think you have taken some great photo’s here mate you should be proud.

Incidentally, my own view is that I’m not getting enough quality shots from my camera – a Fuji S5000 with 1.5x telephoto (maxing it up to 15x). Some of the shots above have had to be quite heavily processed to get anything useable, and all of them have been sharpened using PSPro at least.

Of course it didn’t help that my first set of batteries ran out after about 6 shots – and I had to survive the day on one set of 1700’s Miss Demeanor was the last quality shot I managed to get 🙁

I might find a couple more though. Watch this space.

There is a new one at the end of my previous post, plus 5 more here.

That will have to do for now.

Glad you like the last lot. It’s enough to make me blush 😮 🙂

You call those amateurish?

Nothing amateurish about them! Top shots indeed, and slightly ‘offbeat’ in parts, which we like! First shot of the Vampire and the oh-so-tasty camoed Hunter is a cracker.

I quite like the shot of the Arrows in seeming disarray, as if in support of the “Reds to disband” thread to be found elsewhere (it’s in the West Australian, so as I often tell Mrs Growler, it must be the truth!).

Nice… Really liked the alternate angles and views in the first two and that Chinook.
Does anyone know why the Reds are pointing in different directions – aren’t they normally all facing the same way?

Final 4 four now:

Some of them are a bit “off topic” (ie not historic), I know – but please indulge me for now, I’m in a rush.

Second lot