A few photos from the airshow on Saturday 8 Sept 2012.
The weather was extremely hot with bright sunshine. This can cause problems with contrast/highlights for photography, but I'm pleased with the shots that I got (especially the Vulcan).
This is just a small selection. Some just didn't turn out - the result of using a low shutter speed with a long lens in order to try and blur the motion of propellors, but resulting in a blurred photo. Jets are much easier.
Regards
Kevin
Stratospheric traces, of our transitory flight.
Trails of condensation, held in narrow paths of white...
558 looks stunning, and I've always had a soft spot for the Swordfish. It was my second ever model airplane, and the first one that was done properly, due to the interference (help) of my Dad
Kevin, bless you for posting these. I tried to take some of the Vulcan and all bar one was blurred and useless. I got a good one of the AN-2, but it was an extremely slow aircraft, standing still, in front of me on the tarmac - even I couldn't get that one wrong. As always, your airshow photography is superb. Well done matey !
I saw it; it was just along from the Friends of Duxford enclosure where we were sitting. It looked pretty alarming, and the passengers evacuated in a hurry, but as you say hopefully just the doped fabric burning up and nothing structural. Exactly the same thing happened to the same aircraft at Flying Legends 4 or 5 years ago.
Great pics, what equipment are you using? I particularly like that you've got the metering spot on. Looks like you may have been lucky with the light too - many airshows I go to seem to have the sun dispersed through cloud, behind the aircraft resulting in terrible back lighting and either a dark plane or a white sky.
