Popham aerojumble on Sunday for me

Anthony,

the only real way is to experiment until you get results you are happy with.

When I first started taking slides I took a couple of rolls of each of the films I was considering using and spent at day at LHR photographing as much as I could. What I also did was to vary and log the shutter speed / aperture of each shot so I could determine which gave me the best results on each film and then do a comparison between films. Ended up using Fujichrome 100ASA slide film with +1 exposure compensation for airborne shot and dropping to +0.5 for static. If shooting prop aircraft then it is worth showing the prop blur and for this a slowish shutter speed is required (usually 1/250 or less to get the best results)

If shooting in good light then a fast shutter speed will reduce any self induced camera shake. However if you shoot using a zoom then there will be an optimum aperture where lens performance is best so I often set a specific aperture and let the shutter speed depend on that. On the 100-400 zoom I tend to use F8 a lot and avoid the high end of the zoom range as the nearer you get to the end of a zoom range the greater the loss in lens performance.

hope this is of some use – no doubt others will comment

Often a judge at a photographic society I belong to will comment on an image as ‘well seen’ – to me this means that the author has perhaps seen something unusual in what might be an everyday scene / object or by adding a touch of their own creativity have made something ordinary just that little bit different.

Would agree with all LesB comments regarding horizons / thirds / space to move into etc and are fine as guidelines but if by being creative these are ignored then that equally is ok (and is to be encouraged)

Remember that you take photographs for your own pleasure / benefit – no one else.

If you want your pictures to be looked at (and commented upon) by other photographers then the photosig website is quite good.

It does look a nice machine but a potential problem with making microlights look more like conventional aircraft in the weight increase. i.e. a typical and popular ‘microlight’ is the Ev97 Eurostar with a empty weight of 268KG and MTOW of 472KG so a max payload is 204KG. This is slightly misleading as the upper weight limit for a ‘microlight’ is only 450KG (in the UK) so only a 182KG payload is really available for pilot/pax/fuel/baggage, otherwise you run a risk of flying outside the aircraft classification during a take off when the weight is at it greatest.
Say 150KG for 2 people which only leaves 32KG for fuel / baggage etc (32KG = approx 7 gallons which is not a lot) How would an insurance company react should they discover that the aircraft was being operated outside its certified category at the time of an accident (not very well would be my guess)

A dentist is chatting up a beautiful women and after a few too many admits he is still a virgin. The women decides there and then that this is the man for her, time passes and they marry. On the honeymoon night they are in bed but all is not well. The women is getting more and more frustrated as hubby has made no attempt to make love. Finally she asks what is wrong, he replies “well my mother always told me that there were a set of teeth down there that would rip me to shreds if I went near them” The women looks totally gobsmacked at this and slowly opens her legs and pushes his head between them. ‘look’ she says ‘ there are no teeth down there’ ‘not surprised really’ says hubby ‘ have you seen the state of these gums’

First light aircraft was G-BFIK an AA5 from Thruxton early 80’s i think.

First commercial would have been in December 1969 a Dan Air Comet (probably) from LGW to Palma – the return was also in a Comet after a 7 hour fog delay

Pandora’s Star by Peter Hamilton – future, sci/fi, ok but a little disjointed – hope the follow on book completes some of the missing detail from the first one.

Also read the ‘Nights’ Dawn’ trilogy by the same author – excellent but helps to read in the correct order (The Reality Dysfunction / The Neutronium Alchemist / The Naked God) – again sci-fi but the plot develops over the 3 books and is well worth a look.