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June 3, 2013 at 4:27 pm in reply to: Gold Warden, 2/6/13 #472845

SimonR
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Great pics – especially the first one of the Hurricane. You must have a very steady hand!!!

May 29, 2013 at 8:33 pm in reply to: Boring Topsides @ DX Spring Show – 26May13 #473130

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Thanks for posting them, Brian, some great pics there.

Topsides are fine with me – sadly all too often at Duxford you end up with lots of shots of the underside of aircraft, as they turn away from the crowd line. I’ll take any amount of photos like those 😉

As an aside, I’d never noticed that the ladder is a permanent fixture on the side of a Lysander – it looks for all the world like someone’s simply forgotten to remove it before it left the ground!!

May 29, 2013 at 1:50 pm in reply to: Duxford May Show #473173

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Few more 🙂

Battle Of Britain Memorial Flight by pmanuk

Wow – is that oil seed rape reflecting yellow onto the bottom of those aircraft? It’s a great effect!

May 28, 2013 at 11:11 pm in reply to: Simon's Duxford Photos… #473319

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Here are a few more…

IMG_3831_tonemappedSM by sboreeves, on Flickr

IMG_3690_tonemappedSM by sboreeves, on Flickr

IMG_4035_tonemapped2 by sboreeves, on Flickr

IMG_3878_tonemapped by sboreeves, on Flickr

IMG_3588_tonemapped by sboreeves, on Flickr

IMG_3611_2_3_tonemapped by sboreeves, on Flickr

May 28, 2013 at 10:22 pm in reply to: Duxford May 26 Display #473320

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Great shot of the Sabre scattering the crows!

You were a lot further down towards the Airspace Hanger than me (I was on the tank bank) which is perhaps where I’ll go next time to get some more interesting shots of the aircraft landing/taking off.

I also really like the shot of the four fighters together – I could look at that sight all day 😉

May 28, 2013 at 10:17 pm in reply to: Duxford May Show #473323

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Great shots, Peter!

Particularly like the one of the two Red Arrows passing each other. If only we could work out a way of getting them *both* unblurred!!!! Great shot.

Spitfire PS915 also looks fine – as mentioned above, a tiny bit more contrast would bring it out even more.

Finally that shot of Sally and the four fighters is superb 🙂

May 28, 2013 at 9:31 pm in reply to: Simon's Duxford Photos… #473327

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Hi chaps,

Thanks for your comments – I was beginning to wonder if anyone was going to take a look at the photos!!

I’ve seen a lot of Red Arrows displays, even once, when they were displaying at Cambridge Airport, from my front garden as they were turning round the back of my house to go back in over the airport and I have to say that Sunday’s display was the best, bar none. Pretty breath-taking really and great to see them back after some very difficult times for them.

Hi Sideslip – to answer your question: I took the photos as RAW on my Canon 600D and then used Photomatix Pro to create Pseudo HDRs from them. It’s a bit of a Marmite technique in that some people really hate the results and regard it as ‘cheating’ but I like the images I get. Tonemapping (which is what you’re doing with Photomatix) allows you to play with colour balances and exposure. One of the side effects which I don’t really mind about is that you can end up with widely varying sky colours in aircraft photos – but people only notice when you see a collection of images side-by-side.

I’ll take a look at my other pics and see if anything else stands out as worth processing and posting up.

Bye for now!

May 28, 2013 at 11:43 am in reply to: Eagle Squadron Tribute Flypasts #980184

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A photo or two from Duxford. An amazing and fitting tribute.

IMG_3640_tonemappedeSM by sboreeves, on Flickr

IMG_3653_tonemappedSM by sboreeves, on Flickr

IMG_3674_tonemappedSM by sboreeves, on Flickr

IMG_3960_tonemappedSM by sboreeves, on Flickr

IMG_3958_tonemappedSM by sboreeves, on Flickr

May 22, 2013 at 12:00 pm in reply to: Duxford Diary 2013 #985358

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So have they now dropped the plan to overfly Madingley during the service there?

Hello chaps,

If anyone knows the answer to that question I’d be most interested to know. I was planning a trip over to Madingley with my camera but obviously won’t bother if they’re not over-flying.

Cheers!

It’s rather worrying. The changes to Flickr have been so damaging to its reputation that it’s future could be in doubt. I don’t want to upload 10,000 pictures again, but I am already looking at other options.

That’s a real shame. Steer well clear of Photobucket too as they’ve recently completely ruined that too IMHO.

April 2, 2013 at 10:45 pm in reply to: Battle of Britain medal 'clasp' #944647

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Managed to transfer photos to computer….although cannot upload as size too big. Anyone any ideas how I can show the photo’s?

Hi there,

Register a free account on a photo-hosting site such as Photobucket or Flickr then you can upload the photos there and then link to them in the forum.

Good luck and thanks for the interesting thread!

March 31, 2013 at 6:11 pm in reply to: dH Museum Grand Easter Sale #946691

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What a great museum! My Mrs and I spent most of the day there, looking round the various collections and rifling through all the books, DVDs, models and prints.

Ended up spending over £200 in the end…. Oops! That should buy a lot of brass screws for their restoration of the Mosquito prototype.

My Mrs very kindly got me one of the prints, M A Kinnear’s Mosquito Coast, for my birthday:

It’s signed by 8 aircrew.

I took a couple of shots of the sale and hanger in which it was taking place in case it encourages others to nip over tomorrow – there was still a lot left.

March 29, 2013 at 8:52 pm in reply to: And Now For Something Completely Different Thread MK3 #947949

SimonR
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more bombs is always better 🙂

Sometimes even one is too many 😉

March 27, 2013 at 3:49 pm in reply to: And Now For Something Completely Different Thread MK3 #950327

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I’ll raise you a CP-140 being flown like it was nicked at Cambridge airport last year!

March 27, 2013 at 2:08 pm in reply to: And Now For Something Completely Different Thread MK3 #950503

SimonR
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Anyone mind if I post another Pole?

March 27, 2013 at 10:56 am in reply to: Duxford Diary 2013 #950707

SimonR
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First views, unedited:

Lovely – I new it was a Merlin that I could hear but couldn’t spot the aircraft from my office due to a really annoying overhang above the window which obscures the sky! Thanks for posting the pics.

Oh for a sunny day for some aircraft photography, eh?
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