Friends and Families Day, Lossie 29-8-2009

Location : N E Jockistan Spotter Watch Member : No

Well, this has to go down as one of the wettest and most poorly attended (in terms of aircraft) shows in a long time.

The weather was awful and made photography a struggle much of the time, not some of my better efforts. Thank goodness for RAW images.

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Location : Elgin Spotter Watch Member :

First Typhoon shot is a beauty! Well done. Clap

Chris

Location : N E Jockistan Spotter Watch Member : No

I was struggling, I was hoping for better results but not today.

Location : Elgin Spotter Watch Member :

HighlandSniper wrote:: I was struggling, I was hoping for better results but not today.

You weren't the only one struggling, mucked up a few good chances myself. I never bump up the ISO Laughing

Location : N E Jockistan Spotter Watch Member : No

I normally try and stick to 100 ISO, but against my better judgement I set the 40D to "Auto" and it seemed to be shooting on 400 much of the time. At the end of the day, the light was pants, pure and simple.

Location : Elgin Spotter Watch Member :

HighlandSniper wrote:: I normally try and stick to 100 ISO, but against my better judgement I set the 40D to "Auto" and it seemed to be shooting on 400 much of the time. At the end of the day, the light was pants, pure and simple.

Mine was ISO 200 all day, my camera's lowest. The light was not bad for the Sea King and the Typhoon, but the Tornados and Reds it was to be realist. Was sunny from 2.30 onwards Laughing

so I got some ok statics.

Chris

Location : N E Jockistan Spotter Watch Member : No

I gave up after the Reds and decided that I'd had enough. There didn't seem to be anything else worth waiting for as Tonkas aren't exactly rare around here.

Subject: Re: Friends and Families Day, Lossie 29-8-2009 2009-08-29, 15:19

Why did the 5 Tonkas need 20 minutes from take-off to display ?
During that time half of the crowd got bored and left.

Location : N E Jockistan Spotter Watch Member : No

Agreed, I was one of them Unsure/Confused

Location : airdrie Spotter Watch Member : no

the reds shots are excellent

Location : Turriff Spotter Watch Member : no

Flaps wrote:: Why did the 5 Tonkas need 20 minutes from take-off to display ?
During that time half of the crowd got bored and left.

It looked to me as though they waited for the weather to clear a little before proceeding - I recall being dowsed with rain and praying that they wouldn't start until the slightly drier patch moved in - and so it was - even so the weather to the West of the field was dire.

Subject: Re: Friends and Families Day, Lossie 29-8-2009 2009-08-31, 03:22

Flaps wrote:: Why did the 5 Tonkas need 20 minutes from take-off to display ?
During that time half of the crowd got bored and left.

At least there WERE 5 Tonkas! The only place this year you could see that!!

Subject: Re: Friends and Families Day, Lossie 29-8-2009 2009-08-31, 03:23

Excellent set of shots BTW!! Roll Eyes

Subject: Re: Friends and Families Day, Lossie 29-8-2009