Another example of my blundering photographic journey. This is what happened when I tried my hand at doing night photography – in midsummer on the north east coast of England. This was taken at about 23:30 hrs Silly Bunny.
Happy Sunday Nick! Couldn't agree with you more re: "the mess". One there we have our "progressives" "not letting a good crisis go to waste" so they are trying to tack on every item they can to each and every assistance measure..like 350M for the Kennedy Center so they can keep their employees (they laid them off immediately following) and blah, blah. Quite right, we know very little and what we know today will be contradicted tomorrow, so.....onward, as I said. As Laura so accurately surmised a long time ago, "I'm going out with my boots on........" The Good Lord knows the day and the hour and my plan is, as Malcom Forbes once said......"While alive...........LIVE!"
Re: your landscape image above............if that's what your blunders look like just keep it up! I think it's breathtaking, shutter speed is perfection, positioning of the horizon couldn't be better!
JWilsonphoto wrote:
Re: your landscape image above............if that's what your blunders look like just keep it up! I think it's breathtaking, shutter speed is perfection, positioning of the horizon couldn't be better!
Sorry about that …… I forgot that you have a head problem with real estate pictures and any visible dry pavement. I just got blue away with your color adjustments – good job I use colour.
I recently upgraded my camera to the 5D Mark IV, the III had served me very well, just wanted the newer version, and I also decided to buy the newer 70-200 f/2.8L IS III version lens.
Sunday was a beautiful day, weather wise, so I went out to DFW to give them both a whirl......
I think within the three hours I was out there, I might have seen 20 planes on approach. Just mind blowing to see DFW that slow.
Anyway, here is something that will slowly be fading into memory, as China Airlines Cargo is moving to the B-777 freighters, and Eva Airways Cargo, already has. I will miss seeing and photographing the Queen of the Skies.
I haven't shot fighter jets before, looking for some advice for this evening. I'm in Madison, WI, and the local 115th Fighter Wing is doing a flyover of Madison (see photo for all of the details I have). I'm thinking that I'll try to find the highest elevation/best NW view shooting location I can to the SE of the hospitals, since I don't know their exact planned flight path, other than they will be coming from the NW about 45 minutes before sunset.
I have at my disposal a Canon 5DIV, 70-200 f/2.8L IS v2, 100-400 f/4-5.6L IS v2, 500 f/4L IS v1, 1.4x TC v3, and 2x TC v3. I'm tentatively planning on going with the 500mm, either with or without the 1.4x TC, depending where I set up. Curious if anyone has any tips, shutter speed and aperture advice, etc. Thanks in advance!
JayDavis wrote:
I recently upgraded my camera to the 5D Mark IV, the III had served me very well, just wanted the newer version, and I also decided to buy the newer 70-200 f/2.8L IS III version lens.
Sunday was a beautiful day, weather wise, so I went out to DFW to give them both a whirl......
I think within the three hours I was out there, I might have seen 20 planes on approach. Just mind blowing to see DFW that slow.
Anyway, here is something that will slowly be fading into memory, as China Airlines Cargo is moving to the B-777 freighters, and Eva Airways Cargo, already has. I will miss seeing and photographing the Queen of the Skies.
Nice shot Jay! I have been thinking of testing my Sony A7RIV and the 200-600 at Dulles Airport to see how it works on jets (the combo didn't do well for the Blue Angels and Thunderbirds flyover), but the flights will be pretty scarce. For those who are not familiar with the China Airlines in your picture, it's not an airline of the communist mainland China, it's an airline of the free China (Taiwan).
I haven't shot fighter jets before, looking for some advice for this evening. I'm in Madison, WI, and the local 115th Fighter Wing is doing a flyover of Madison (see photo for all of the details I have). I'm thinking that I'll try to find the highest elevation/best NW view shooting location I can to the SE of the hospitals, since I don't know their exact planned flight path, other than they will be coming from the NW about 45 minutes before sunset.
I have at my disposal a Canon 5DIV, 70-200 f/2.8L IS v2, 100-400 f/4-5.6L IS v2, 500 f/4L IS v1, 1.4x TC v3, and 2x TC v3. I'm tentatively planning on going with the 500mm, either with or without the 1.4x TC, depending where I set up. Curious if anyone has any tips, shutter speed and aperture advice, etc. Thanks in advance!
No expert but personally I would pick the 100-400 V2, it's a fabulous zoom for airshows but 400mm can be a bit too short, depending on your location relative to the jets. For this kind of flyover I myself would use shutter speed (1/1500, more or less) priority and auto ISO, I know a lot experts prefer aperture priority. I guess it depends how bright it is.
Haven't been out much lately, but been working back through stuff from last year and doing a whole lot of Keywording and re-editing...this one is from last March:
