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Those are great!! I tried to catch the Thunderbirds at an air show several years ago and only had one that turned out. They were just too fast for my old eyes and camera. You sure got the nack. Must be the training from catching pics of Fcars.
Andreas, I know it wasn't meant to be, but some of those shots reminded me of 9/11. With due respect, the first pics brought back some very bad memories. Skip
Regarding noise: Highest ISO and then some cropping. Even my equivalent of a 650mm lens leaves them rather small in the viewfinder. About 9/11: I did that editing and cropping on purpose to create that effect. About training on FCars: NOTHING is as difficult as trying to catch a plane at an air show. It is not so much the speed, but the fact that they are so far away and you have to use a maximum tele lens to get them anywhere near you, that leaves you with a very small angle to view/follow the planes. Add to that the unpredictable flight pattern (unlike a race car that behaves like a train on a track) and the importance of getting it in focus: Manual focus is too slow and unprecise and autofocus often catches on to the sky and blurrs the plane right when you need it. Shooting race cars is child's play in comparison.
What was your first Thunderbird experience ? Anyone remember when they were in Super Sabres ? Seems like yesterday. And the Blue Angels, I remember when they were in F11F's.
This was my first Thunderbird experience. They alternate at the show with the Blue Angels, but I seem to have always been out of town when the Birds were in. And 2 years ago they had an incident 5 minutes into the show after which they stopped and cancelled the rest. This weekend they had not much luck either: Sunday was a rain out and got cancelled. But if the question is more directed at nostalgia: My first experience with an acro team was the "Patrouille Suisse" flying Hunters.
WOW ! I should have moved my lazy ass to dwtn..Amazing pics Andreas . Anymore ? And what is a thunderbird ?
Thanks. The Thunderbirds is the air acrobatics team of the Air Force. Blue Angels is the Navy equivalent.
Took the day off of skydiving Sunday to go home and watch the show... ended up sitting inside all day hiding from the rain instead. At least I got to see the Raptor from my balcony during the week while they were practicing.
Great pictures Andreas ! I was there on saturday and was especially at AWWWW seeing the F-22 Raptor and what it can do, pictures don't give it justice. Some of those feats that the F-22 did, all other aircrafts you would be seeing the pilot punching out because something went wrong... Like that flat spin it did and how it friken hovered in the verticle position... Also how it turned on a dime at slow speed... UNREAL! That i think was the highlight of the show... Ok, the Thunderbirds were also great along with the flyby of the B-2...... Sunday ended up being a crappy day for the airshow, i think it got cancelled around 1pm ??? Cielings too low.....
Saw the Raptor on Saturday as well. Amazing what that thing can do. It moves more like a helicopter than a fighter jet. Anything in its sights will be in some serious trouble, because it will not be able to escape the F-22.
The only time I enjoyed living in Chicago.....seriously. Sitting on the deck watching the blue angels practice! Could watch them for miles back and forth across the city. The sound and the SPEED!!!!!!!! The B-1 looks awesome!
I went on Sunday, one of the worst experiences ever as it got rained out. Then, I went to the cubs game-got rained out. One rainy, rainy day. But, the show made me think about what I'd rather have, the full run of about 400 enzos or one f-22?
