Thanks for the comment Derek. One of the mistakes I made, and which I was aware of (but forgot).
Was that with the camera set to take multiple exposures, it doesn’t focus between shots. Not that it’s too
important when something is flying past left to right.
As said before, there is so much to consider. Do you want prop blur, some contrast in the clouds etc ?

I’ve played around with this picture. Cropped it a bit more, sharpened it a touch, and lightened the shadows.

Original picture

Modified picture

I took around 300 pictures during the time we were there, and will probably scrap 75% of them.
I suppose that’s the beauty of digital photography.

We went to Duxford today. The weather wasn’t too bad, and at least it stayed dry up until we left, at just after 2pm.
Overall I was a little disappointed with the quality of my pictures, those of aircraft in the air anyway.
None seemed particularly sharp. Maybe I should have just opted for a faster speed and accepted static props ?
I’ll put a few of the best ones on the Duxford Diary thread, a little later.

I have now uploaded a few, and would appreciated any comments, good or bad. 🙂

Thanks again everyone for the help and the links

I’ve also found a couple of very useful videos on Youtube,

Thanks also to Moggy for moving the posts to this thread. I didn’t even know it existed 🙂

The lower the ISO the less noise (use to be grain on film, looks a little like interference on digital) you get – unless your chip is full size (and you mentioned tight budget, so I imagine not) in which case you shouldn’t have any problems in day light.

Do you have a wide angle lens – unless you can step further back 55mm isn’t going to be much help for whole airframe images inside…

It did come with an 18-55mm lens, not that I will be taking too many pictures inside, as we visited a year or so back.
Sensor size is 23.2mmx15.4mm, not that it means much to me. Camera is a D3300.