There is a kind of a general rule of thumb that says use Aperture control for static shots and shutter control for moving but you really need to use what works best for you. I’m shooting a lot more in manual these days than anything else mainly at f/8, f/5.6 or f/4 depending on which lens I am using and how much depth of field I want from it.

Interesting not wishing to pick holes in it but I wonder why the health physics team were not wearing face masks and yet the people they were scanning were wearing face masks?
The guy that was changing the filter in the airborne sampler, where there would be a high concentration of particles was not wearing any protective equipment either.

It does make you wonder about sites such as DM and Kingman where huge numbers of aircraft were broken up on site. Nearer home and a few miles down the road is Dalgety Bay, the beach there is contaminated with radiation from gauges dumped from the HMS Donibristle.

I am glad that you guys have found the pictures on my web site because I had forgotten about them!

I was sure that the mystery fuselage from Forres was a Buc, the same midnight blue colour scheme, however I will stand corrected.

Quarrywood was some place that’s for sure, we’ll never see its like again.

Just for the record, I’m quoting out of Wrecks and Relics 8th edition
“Forres… the situation at the D & S metals scrapyard in Gordon Street has hardly changed….noted in 1981 were large pieces of Buccaneer S.1 XN973 (ex Lossie Dump) and a pair of Gannet wings.”

And yes it does look very much like an 8 instead of a 9.

Great idea, I hope it works for you.

If you are going straight to print then you could probably get away with in-camera sharpening. Images for printing needs more sharpening than images for the web, so shooting in JPEG may work.

If it is a disaster then you will have had the opportunity to learn from your mistakes and go on to better things from there.

Is it necessary to book for this event or can one just turn up on the night?

Best helicopter flight I ever had was in a R22.

The R22 is reputed to be the largest production helicopter in the world. The 4,000th one was delivered late 2007.

One of the things that bothers me about modern day aircraft photography is the close cropped and centered mentality that pervades the on-line aviation photo databases. It seems to me that Composition is now a dirty word and anything off centre or even showing more than a few pixels between the aircraft and the frame is a waste of space.
(I have been lucky in finding somewhere to post my photos that encourages photographers to Think Different, rather than the run of the mill stuff that one usually sees.)

Photographers are no longer thinking as photographers should do, they merely record the fact that one has seen such and such a plane and that’s it.

With some of the blue sky type photographs it boils down to no more than a “Boeing sandwich.” Two slice of sky with an aircraft filling.

There have been some nice nostalgic photos here, I only wish that I could find my old stuff and post a few memories myself.