There is a travel lodge within walking distance of the viewing park (saves on parking fees)

http://www.travelodge.co.uk/search_and_book/hotel_overview.php?hotel_id=295

rgds
EC

Some very nice compositions and exposures there. And hey, we all shoot what we can get in front of our lenses.
I would have to drive 120 KM up to Den Helder in the north of Holland to get this kind of action.

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EC

hi Rab

I think the ISO100 pictures look sharper then the ISO400 ones.

I would go for the lower ISO’s if possible, any shutterspeed above 1/500 is usually good to stop motion blur in my experience, depending on the amount of zoom off-course.
Also there is not much difference between F8 and F9 in terms of lens performance (sharpness) so you can also open up a bit more (F8) on that side to get the ISO down.

Otherwise happy shooting with the new camera.

rgds
EC

Hey guy’s, have a good look at the title of the topic.

For the youngsters amongst us this is what the talk is about

1 767 is parked in Victorville, California, the other two are with Jordan Aviation (at least till the end of last year)

kind regards
EC

Nice set, good panning and propblur on the VLM!
Must have been a long walk till the end of the runway.

Kind regards
EC

Hi Jonathan,

I like the setting of your pictures, the Jet2 in front of the town is very nice!

I think your pictures could use some more sharpness though, from looking at the exif of the pictures I see you are using a good camera (Canon 400D) but you have it set at Aperture preset with what is probably the largest opening of your lens: 4.0 till 5.0 in all three pictures. This results in high shutterspeeds of 1/2000th this will certainly stop any movement blur but the large opening of the aperture makes that your lens produces “soft” images

Most lenses produce their sharpest results at aperture F8 till F11, If you try this F8 you will still have a high enough shutterspeed but you will see a noticable increase in the quality of your picture.

Hope this helps, kind regards
EC

a good source is planelist.net

7168 10.04.91 D-CBDY ZK-TRD Astral AS 25.05.91 101 rgd 15.5.91 ,arr Auckl 25.5/Dornier ret 1.8.91,to D-CDOC
D-CDOC D-CCDB 9N-ACE Nepal Air Charter 09.12.91 s1.4.92
Everest Air lsd 04.92
Cosmic Air 98 STD damaged (not crash 31.7.93 nr Bharatpur see 7029), s str Katmandu 8.5.99 ex Everest col, remains s KTM apparently dbr 10.06, s15.03.08, s14.04.09 wfu

8186 10.02.91 D-CBDV D-CDOB ZK-TRA Astral AS 25.04.91 212 arr Aucklandrgd 15.4.91/Dornier ret 1.8.91,rr D-CDOB
D-CDOB Adler Air 11.91 Do ret/rgd 1.8.91
9N-ACG Everest Air 05.92 (rr repo 11.12.91) rep as xZL, s str Katmandu 8.5.99 minus 1 eng
Cosmic Air 98 W/O Remains s dumped at KTM 10.06, apparently had an accident in 2003, s wfu 14.04.09

8187 23.03.91 D-CBDW D-CDOA ZK-TRB Astral AS 25.04.91 212 arr Auckland rgd 15.4.91
D-CDOA P2-MBH Milne Bay Air 11.91 Dornier ret/D-rgd 1.8.91
D-CBDD D-CAET YV-647C Aereotuy 10.06.94 STD Dorn ret rgd and rr. r5.94,depa Oberpf-Reykjavik 10.6,Bangor 12.6,sCaracas 1.4.95 is/sCaracas 15.4.98 str, s Oberpfaffenhofen 7.01 str, s21.04.08

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EC

Hi John

Colors do not look bad but I think the picture of the 737 is wat over saturated. Have a look in the menu’s if the saturation is cranked up.
It isn’t in the last picture though so I do not know if you changed things in the post processing already.

Perhaps you should try a return to factory defaults.

I have seen some great results from 400d’s so this can’t be a bad camera, have fun with it!

rgds
Eddy