Shoreham 2012 Cloudy Saturday

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By: VeeOne - 7th September 2012 at 10:35

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By: VeeOne - 7th September 2012 at 10:34

Nice little set of pictures, I never used another type of camera before I got my DSLR in June.

I went to all different areas on the airfield front and back best place I liked was right where they take of, at the front of the airfield got some great shots there.

Well, if you have only been taking pictures since June then your photos are all the more impressive!

DSLRs (like their forebears, SLRs) are the only way to take professional-level photos. My little compact camera is a Lumix (a good one) but even with the optical 12x zoom it cannot get anywhere near the performance of a DSLR. The photo of the Hurri landing shows that a slow shutter speed was used by the camera, due to the lens not having a good, wide aperture when using the zoom; whereas your air shots are perfectly sharp. But I can drop my camera in my handbag and have it around all the time, which I could not do with a DSLR.

What is good about taking photos at the runway threshold (they had a special photographers’ enclosure there) is that pilots have to stay the other side of the runway for displays. This means, unlike in the old days, they are rather forced to perform a standard pattern to get around and back in front of the crowd quickly. So at the end of the runway they often turn behind the crowd (abeam them) and back again. So some excellent close-in, turning views are seen.

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By: SupaSmokey - 7th September 2012 at 10:20

Nice little set of pictures, I never used another type of camera before I got my DSLR in June.

I went to all different areas on the airfield front and back best place I liked was right where they take of, at the front of the airfield got some great shots there.

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By: VeeOne - 7th September 2012 at 01:18

I was at the runway threshold on Saturday – a great position to view the show. I can’t compete with the superb results of DSLRs but here are a few I took with my compact camera…

Spitfires about to roll…