You want vapors? You got vapors.. It actually rained a bit when the Blue Angels were taxing out. I thought they would stop the show but they didn't.
This time I made a change of lens selection. In the last few years usually I had the 600 GM F4+1.4TC on one camera, the 200-600 on another. I had used the 300 GM+2X TC and the 100-400 instead of the 600 GM+1.4TC and the 200-600 a few times in the last few months. For the Oceana show, I brought the 300 GM, 600 GM and a 1.4TC, no zoom. I had the 1.4TC on the 600 GM for a short while, and put it on the 300 GM. So for much of the show I was using 600mm on one camera and 420mm on another. I think this was the first time ever I didn't bring a zoom to an airshow. It was a mistake. A zoom lens really comes in handy at times....Show more →
I must ask Douglas...visually do you see what we see in the photo?
Great photography!
Dan
Danpbphoto wrote:
I must ask Douglas...visually do you see what we see in the photo?
Great photography!
Dan
Thank you Dan! I am not sure if I understood your question. I just sprayed and prayed.
More from Oceana. I like the scene when they were flying in front of the thick smoke from the pyro, pretty dramatic look. But the dark smoke fooled the camera's auto ISO into ISO territory where I don't usually go.
Douglas, you are supposed to photograph the whole plane, not the back half !
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OMG !
The last 4 are incredible...Like WOW...You nailed it on those.
But that last one is best yet !
Bill Gass wrote:
Douglas, you are supposed to photograph the whole plane, not the back half !
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OMG !
The last 4 are incredible...Like WOW...You nailed it on those.
But that last one is best yet !
Thanks Bill! The jets some times came too close for this old man to track and keep them in the frame, a zoom would have been better.
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jlambros wrote:
Outstanding Douglas - AGAIN! That last set is really dramatic. I'm still hoping to catch that CAF Hornet.
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Jeff
Thank you Jeff! I like the paint job on the CAF F-18, first time to see it. More...
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Wow! I should be gone more often! What a wonderful couple of pages of images Boys!! All of you should be very proud of the quality of your work, it's just remarkable.
Dan, please thank your Buddy, that's mighty high praise coming from his background!
Sorry for my absence, been all over the country and it seems like every day for the past two weeks has begun at 4 am. Finally home and so happy to be. I attended a wedding outside of Chicago last Saturday and the principle photographer didn't show up, guess who got to be "wedding photographer for a day". I was happy to do it, got a chance to shoot the "II" in a little different environment and it, once agin, proved to be the best Canon I have ever held in my arthritic hands. I stuck the RF 70-200/2.8 on and silently blasted away.
Looks like my schedule is going to cause me to bail on Topeka in October, someone waved money at me to be someplace other than Kansas and you know how I am........................
I am still doing Wings Over Houston though, and I have piggy backed two assignments in the Houston area for the following week.
A few wedding images, something that you will not see often from my lens (thank you Lord!)
I am deeply in love with this camera, in case no one has noticed, the only flaw that I have discovered is, it is so good, it tempts you to be cavalier about shooting, something that should never happen. "Not the flagship...." my hind quarters, it is head and shoulders above any flagship camera that I have ever owned. I find when I pick it up to capture something I am filled with excited anticipation to see what it's going to allow me to shoot, not a bad thing for $4299.
BTW, I just shipped my pristine R5 off to it's new owner for $2000, I left the mojo in for that price...........
This morning I had a dawn shoot, so it was another 4 am wake up. The client wanted drone and high resolution still shots of the project, which I captured. A few miles to the south of my location there was the most beautiful frontal boundary that I've seen in a long, long time. Before any pre-dawn light the lightening was dancing for hundreds of miles across the cumulus clouds, and then as the pink light began to wash the cloud tops it all became even more mesmerizing. Unfortunately, my taks was to make a strip center looks it's best, so I wasn't able to capture any of the majesty going on behind me, oh well.
This Phenom 100 has to be one of my favorite schemes I've ever photographed. So many of the aircraft that
I photograph are all "Matterhorn White", with some type of striping design. Obviously, this owner wanted
something MUCH bolder than that. Talk about some ramp presence!
Douglas L wrote:
Thanks Bill! The jets some times came too close for this old man to track and keep them in the frame, a zoom would have been better.
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Thank you Jeff! I like the paint job on the CAF F-18, first time to see it. More...
Nicely done, Douglas. You captured our RCAF CF-18 beautifully!
Douglas L wrote:
Thank you Dan! I am not sure if I understood your question. I just sprayed and prayed.
More from Oceana. I like the scene when they were flying in front of the thick smoke from the pyro, pretty dramatic look. But the dark smoke fooled the camera's auto ISO into ISO territory where I don't usually go.
When you were visually looking at these aircraft, were the vapor clouds as evident by the eye as the lens/camera? Hope this is better..
Most excellent!
Dan
JWilsonphoto wrote:
Wow! I should be gone more often! What a wonderful couple of pages of images Boys!! All of you should be very proud of the quality of your work, it's just remarkable.
Dan, please thank your Buddy, that's mighty high praise coming from his background!
Sent him your post Jim!
Patrick is from Ireland but spends 4-6 mos a year at Johns Hopkins Space Lab..the rest at the Jodrell Space Lab in the UK!
Ray Swindle wrote:
Jim, be very careful in Houston. It is not the same city I grew up and lived in for 6+ decades. Danger is everywhere like NYC and Chicago.
I know they loved the wedding photos! I can't believe there are not a few with the 85mm!
Thanks for the heads up Ray, you are so right! We've got migrant gangs taking over areas in Dallas now and it's only going to get worse. I'm thinking my "concealed carry" needs to be an AR with a large magazine.
Had I known that I was going to be drafted into service at the wedding, I would have brought the 85 and the 50/1.2, but I was conserving on weight, so I just packed the 24-70 and the 70-200/2.8. I considered not bringing a camera at all, but you know how we are........luckily for the bride and groom.
JWilsonphoto wrote:
Thanks for the heads up Ray, you are so right! We've got migrant gangs taking over areas in Dallas now and it's only going to get worse. I'm thinking my "concealed carry" needs to be an AR with a large magazine.
Had I known that I was going to be drafted into service at the wedding, I would have brought the 85 and the 50/1.2, but I was conserving on weight, so I just packed the 24-70 and the 70-200/2.8. I considered not bringing a camera at all, but you know how we are........luckily for the bride and groom.
Beautiful compositions with what you had Jim! That's the best lens!
The 24-70(EF) and 70-200f2.8(EF) are thee only 2 zooms I own! Tack sharp and the rendering is top shelf for zooms!
Dan
They are outstanding lenses Dan. The Rf versions take them an another step and now the R5II is yet another bump in quality. Truthfully, I have long considered stepping back into medium format, but this current set up is so good that I no longer feel that tug.
. It actually rained a bit when the Blue Angels were taxing out. I thought they would stop the show but they didn't.
