I wouldn’t have expected the Red Arrows at the open day either. Nice little bonus there.

I went to an open day there last year, (Or was it the year before?) and nothing flew at all. Everything was on show in the hangars though.

Nice – wish I could have gone – but funds too tight!

Kemble is mostly a vintage jets place – but you only have piston props – apart from the JP. Your choice – or theirs?

Nice pics. Also trying hard not to be jealous of where you live C-VIX

Neal

Don’t be. Cornwall is very desolate during the spring/winter months, in my experience. And far from any airshows of note, except Culdrose – which is midweek, so not so good for working locals and schoolchildren.

Bournemouth (home of the Sea Vixen) is over 140 miles from Plymouth. You can add 60 miles plus to that for mid-cornwall.

“Doomsday”.

I was surprised to find that the Super Frelon used in one of the scenes was a restored aircraft, which later (circa May 10, 2007) crashed and was written off while helping to extinguish a forest fire.

It was ZS-HTN, which means, I presume, that Doomsday was at least partially filmed in South Africa. Funny that, as the film is set partly in London but mostly in Scotland!

Nice.

That Mitchell seems to be putting on a “spirited” display!!

Remember – always work with a copy of the original – you can simply copy and paste the images you want to work with into a different directory – or, when you have finished use the “Save As” option to save the doctored image in a different directory – although this program does have a “failsafe” mode on the ordinary “Save” button.

I use this program, but using a batch process is not a good idea because it applies the same settings to each picture. Typically, this isn’t a good idea.

But what do you actually want to do in this batch? You may have found something I haven’t considered.

Yes, of course it is being compressed – both in terms of the image size, and the file size. But that isn’t the only reason it seems to be less sharp.

There are various was to increase/decrease sharpness in X2. You can simply use the sharpness/softness tools in “Adjust” drop down menu. Or you can use the sharpness setting in the “Smart Photo Fix”, also in the “Adjust” drop down menu. You can even use them in combination.

If you want to resize photographs, decide what format you want – standard photographc, or monitor size.

Use the crop tool to cut out anything you don’t want and then resize the resulting image to the width you want (be sure to maintain aspect ratio).

Use the crop tool again to cut out the surplus bits top and bottom in order to get aspect ratio you require in depth.

For instance, I crop my photos to fit my monitors width/depth (1920×1080). So I crop my image ensuring it is both wider than 1920 and much deeper then I expect to use.

Then I resize the cropped image to 1920 pixels wide.

Then I cut off the top and bottom by putting 1920 in as my width (ie not changing the width), then I enter the depth I need (1080). Then I can grab the box and move it up and/or down on the image as required to end up with a 1920×1080 picture showing what I want.

This is the only method I know of (apart from simply cropping out a single 1920×1080 box) that will maintain the perspective of the original image.

Using this method I can also create quite nice desktop backgrounds, putting the subject of the photograph somewhere where it will be less likely to be covered by icons and desktop gadgets.

If you use the “Save As” option to save the final image, there is an “Options” button click on it and you will find all sorts of options for compressing your image (or not).

I, too, was at Bournemouth yesterday, on the pier. The haze was a big problem early on, but the sun moved out of the way in the afternoon and visibility was good vertically.

They were flying, for my camera, just a little too far away to get only closeups, I’m afraid – the arena is huge.

There was one of the largest crowds I’ve ever seen. The beach was absolutely packed and others stood all along the pathway above the beach.

I managed to get there very early, and even secured a parking space in the beach car park.

I thought I was going to be late. As I left home I noticed a fire in the flats opposite where I live and had to get the fire service to attend. Turned out to be a fire in their disposal chute bin.

I’ll put pictures in the airshow photographs thread once I’ve gone through them ready.

Shame there was no Vulcan, but I did know it wasn’t going to turn up. There were still a lot of disappointed people though.

Thought I might stay overnight to see the show again today, but I was truly in physical pain by the end of the afternoon, and decided to come home instead.

The Red Arrows seemed to terminate their show early as they left immediately following the solo display and didn’t reappear after forming up.

From the pier there was, thankfully, no commentary.

PS/ A big surprise for me, was the Douglas DC6A G-APSA. It was the first time I’ve seen one at an airshow, I believe, and put on a very “spirited” display for such a big old bird.