I wonder – a model flying in a bonsai forest????

Maybe some real, some model?

It is worth pointing out that Kemble is as close to the South West as it gets for an active airfield that can support ALL kinds of Vintage Aircraft, including, and especially, Jets.

St Mawgan has the potential, but is closing. Culdrose and Yeovilton are active Naval Air Stations. I don’t know what the status of Chivenor is, but I know they used to fly Hunters there.

I could only imagine that, to maintain the South Western audience, they would need to go to Plymouth! I don’t know whether that would be acceptable, as the Midlands, East & South East England would probably miss out.

Naturally, as far as I’m concerned they’d be very welcome here in Plymouth – we desperately need more aviation related activities down here in my opinion.

Kemble is well situated, with an enormous catchment area, potential and little competition.

Modern Prosumer (bridge) cameras, such as the Finepix S9600/S5600/S6500fd and the Olympus UZ550 series do not, in fact, suffer from any great delay these days. They’re much much better than their ancestors.

Go for it, that particular camera is really very good, and is better than 300mm it is more like 500mm at max zoom. I would suggest it is an ideal camera for beginners taking photos of aircraft in flight at shows.

There is a review here – Click.

They all offer fantastic value for money when compared with a similarly specified dSLR, although it is true there are some compromises, that a professional or very active hobbyist wouldn’t be too happy with.

Sorry for delay…..I’m waiting for a decent scanner then I can post some old pix (I’ve got boxes of em….maybe youre in there somewhere)

Cool, looking forward to seeing them, whether I’m there or not.

To those who, like me, missed the news broadcast.

If you have Freeview or Virgin Cable (not sure about Sky), you can see BOTH reports right now on BBC News 24 Multiscreen.

Simply press the “red” button on your remote control, when tuned to BBC News 24. Move the cursor to highlight WWII Bomber and press OK.

Quite a long report, with PA474 flying up and down CBYs taking off and flying round the airfield a few times.

I use Paintshop Pro – but I can see that the similarities between it and Photoshop are easy to follow. I’m certainly learning quite a bit here. Thanks Guys.

If I can, I’ll post some before and after pictures later.

Rob

I’ve often looked at the histogram, but have no idea what it should look like.

Is there a specific way it should look after it has been altered?

For the record:

Copy original to a working directory (leaves original as backup)

Rotate if necessary

Crop so that I’m working with an image that is within boundaries (after rotating just a few degrees, image may have odd corners that need to be shaved off).

And/Or

Crop to produce the photo I want.

Resize as necessary

Remove noise if necessary using Neat Image

Adjust colour level and contrast as necessary

Sharpen using USM in small stops as necessary (being careful not to alter contrast – which is an unfortunate by product if used too heavily) (I find a very small radius – about 1.5 – is about right).

Save.

Finished.

If I need any smaller copies, I will resize and re-sharpen, from the already edited version, and save as a separate copy, rather than going back to the original.

I don’t normally print my photos, but when I do I use the highest resolution possible – and will go back to the original to make a printable edit.