what i did and prolly won’t do

Achievements 2006, my first year serious year of aviation photography and uploading pics.

Got my First just before xmas 05, got 2nd one Oct 06.
Maybe it to RIAT and F’boro
Got a few pics sold to magazines, books and Airlines.
Got 476 on JP this year
Got 132 on a.net
100 on http://www.aircraft-photos.net
bought to much camera stuff….ummm L Glass! 😉

non-av, set up own photo site, got published in some newspapers.

2007

Visit AMS before Kaagbaan shuts.
Get a SC on JP and A.net
Keep being creative.
get a 1D!! (yeah right)
got a 400mm prime (yeah right)

non-av
get prof football photo license
lotsa women and beer

mine…

I have to go with this one but I could post a lot more. My first year of digital shooting.
This shot with Canon 350D + 100-400 IS L, I think fairly sure, if not the a 30D with 70-200 IS L F2.8

Nice shots of a cracking piece of kit! some good stuff up there this week!

good stuff, you cannot beat a bit of 06 arrivals! Smokin wheels!

pics

I tend to agree with softlad here. The shot composed OK but the quailty is not great, I don’t think the dark weather did you any favours on this day, looks to me like the shutter speed wasn’t fast enough….were you using auto mode? Thing is on a dark day your not going to be able to get high shutter speeds such as 1/500 without bumping up the ISO which itself adds noise to the pic. But its certainly worth playing with the settings in the camera. I started off with a 350D and a 70-300 IS lens (see my pics on a.net for examples) I just played with the camera and worked out what I was aiming for, you want to aim for an Fnumber of 8-11 with a shutter speed of 1/400-1000 to freeze the aircraft and get the whole pic in focus. Waiting for bright weather is also a benefit!

What len’s are you getting for the 350D, as this will be a big factor aswell. I just bought a Canon 30D (I have the 350 as a back up)and upgraded from the 70-300 IS to a 100-400 IS L and a 70-200 IS L F2.8, OK a lot of dosh but the quailty of the images in terms of colours and sharpness are superb. I don’t just do av photography I also do sports.
I would certainly recommend the 70-300 IS lens, its sharp and very light.

If you need any help on the camera feel free to PM me! I’ll be in Manchester over the xmas period and hope to get to the airport during that time. Keep shooting practise makes perfect, you should see some of my attempts when I started!!

Just got back from Cape Town in Business Class, CEFG I think, no leather seats in business, but chairs are not bad, service is obviously new as are the staff, within 10mins of take off a whole tray of champagne went over one passenger then about 10mins later a glass of red wine down another…..its “business class” but not business class.