red arrows formation
Flying display by the Red Arrows team of the Royal Airforce.
Flying display by the Red Arrows team of the Royal Airforce.
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carolcardillo
September 03, 2013
Oh, so nice! Love how the colors and curves show the flight pattern. Art in the sky!
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Mark7D
October 12, 2013
Wow the reds are dong very well on the awards at the moment... well done great shot :)
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DigitalDawn
October 12, 2013
Beautiful shot David, well executed. Congrats on the award its well deserved!
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Location
I was standing on the Rhyl Promenade, North Wales at an aerial display by the RAF Red ArrowsTime
The display was the last of the day in the late afternoon at about 4.30pmLighting
The light was good but overcast with high cloudEquipment
I was using an Olympus E620 four thirds camera, hand held with an Olympus 50?200mm 1:2.8?3.5 SWD lens at f/5.6 ...ISO: 200 Exposure: 1/800..Inspiration
The Red Arrows are a very skilled group of pilots and the spectacle produced by their aerobatics and the coloured smoke is very inspirational for photographers.Editing
Yes, the images were taken in RAW settings and of necessity the settings need to be adjusted to normalise the image.. also the contrast and sharpening was adjusted.In my camera bag
It depends, I have an Olympus XZ-1 f1.8 compact camera with an EVF which I carry most times with me. If I am going on a photo shoot, I carry an Olympus OMD EM1 with several four thirds lenses and a lens adapter for my micro four thirds camera ... 35mm Macro, 25mm pancake a digital ED 12?60mm 1:2.8?4.0 SWD Olympus ED 50?200mm 1:2.8?3.5 SWD Cleaning pensFeedback
The action was very fast moving and the various images required the use of panning with both eyes open, the right one through the eyepiece and left using binocular vision along the lens barrel in order to follow the action which was easy to lose. ISO speed and shutter speed is a major consideration to stop the action during the panning process and I had to judge the probable movement of the aircraft to get an acceptably framed shot... things happen in a split second so I just previously work out an acceptable ISO/Shutter/Aperture combination and then adjust exposure depending on whether the aircraft are going towards or away from the indirect sunlight. Smooth even movement is important and the feet should be placed facing where the expected shot will take place and the body is then turned independently towards the subject so that as the body unwinds, following the action it is moving towards stability not away from it.
