Douglas L wrote: Bill Gass wrote:
Hang in there Dan and good but sad story...Died to save all our asses.
Here's some Patriotism for ya buddy!
Putting the crew in front of the F-15 really shows what a big plane the F-15 is. Lover the sunset!
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gerov wrote: Douglas L wrote:
Thank you all gentlemen! Great shots from you all!
I am just starting to go through the Sanicole show files. The lighting was really tough even when it stopped raining.
Here is the Greek F-4 flying in rain.
Hi Doug,
challenging lighting conditions indeed, but when I look at this, it has a film quality to it which seems appropriate for an aircraft of that pedigree and age, almost as if you had taken this at an airshow in the 80s-90s with a vintage camera.
Well done,
Gero
Thank you very much, Gero! Noise reduction was aggressively applied to those images, the origianl raw files were under exposed by quite a bit, even at those ISO levels.
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Ray Swindle wrote:
^^^
OK Douglas, I loved the street shots above...
But with the F-4 you have my attention!
Thank you Ray! The F-4 was the main reason I traveled to Belgium. I think the last time I saw one flying was 1991 or 1992, and this trip may very well be the last time I saw one flying.
Here are a few more from Saturday's "sunset" show, which was cold and wet. I don't know which is worse, grey sky vs cloudless blue sky. I do think grey sky can make some dramatic looks, at the expense of high ISO, of course.
Just outstanding photography here Douglas!
The F4 was my fast CAS, close air support, for my 2 years in SE Asia. Most came out of Udorn or Ubon Thailand since my area of operations was in in the western part of northern S. Vietnam on the Laotion border.
Your images gave me goose bumps!
Last night on the Military History channel they were discussing the need for a fighter jet to replace the F4 after Vietnam..That was the F15.
The main complaint about the plane was its size. But its avionics and its computer guided weapons systems was unequalled.
The MIG tried to duplicate it but failed and failed miserably thank goodness!
Again SUPER compositions!
Dan
Sep 19, 2025 at 10:47 AM
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. I don't know which is worse, grey sky vs cloudless blue sky. I do think grey sky can make some dramatic looks, at the expense of high ISO, of course.