Dutch airforce show day two.

[Ferry_vO]

Just arrived home after the second and final day, and here are a few of today's batch of photo's.
The weather was not as good as yesterday, with a lot more clouds. No rain though! No patrouille de France, Typhoon or Red Arrows today but still plenty to see.

Beech model 17 Staggerwing:

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A 75-year old DC-2 gets to show what she's still capable of:

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A pair of Folland Gnats:

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The four BAC Strikemasters of the Viper team:

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Belgian Search and Rescue Seaking Mk.48:

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Beech Model 18 returning to its parking space after its flight:

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The boys from the RAF showing us that you can have fun in anything, even a Beech King Air 200:

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The Morrocan 'Marche Verte' team consisting of seven Cap-232's, five of which are tied together for the first part of the display!:

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[Ferry_vO]

A replica of a Wright Flyer III taxies along the display line as the weather didn't permit it to fly:

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Some of the fireworks during the simulated 'airfield attack', in which the entire airforce fleet participates:

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A Chinook carrying in the groundtroops:

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A formation of fourteen F-16's fly by after the attack:

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Eight of which come back to escort this 737 in retro KLM colours:

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That same 737 leaving at the end of the day:

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Spanish E/F-18:

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Polish Mig-29UB:

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[Ferry_vO]

Some more shots of our new demo F-16, sporting the orange lion on it's wings:

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I have heard of smokewinders, but I've never seen 'firewinders' before!:

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[Ferry_vO]

And finally (For now) some more photos of the Vulcan, my favourite aircraft of this years' show.

On the ground:

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In the air:

This has to be my favourite shot of the entire weekend so far!:

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A unique formation, the Vulcan with our demo F-16 and a Hawker Hunter:

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:applause:

[ryanbatc]

Fantastic shots, good clarity.

What equipment did you use?

[Ferry_vO]

I'm using a Canon 400D (Rebel XTi) with a Canon EF 70-300 IS USM lens and a Tiffen UV filter for all of the shots above. I set the ISO to 400 so the shutterspeed was about 1/1000s with F8-11. The camera was set to 'AI focus' or 'AI servo' and I use only the center focal point in the viewfinder.
I wish all my shots look this good, but I think I can easily reduce the number of shots from 2,200 to about 1,000.
Pst production so far only resizing and sharpening using a very old Paint Shop Pro (Version 7 IIRC)
Objects moving at high speed are not that easy, especially not when they are moving in and out of the sunlight.

:)

[ryanbatc]

I'm using a Canon 400D (Rebel XTi) with a Canon EF 70-300 IS USM lens and a Tiffen UV filter for all of the shots above.
:)

I use the same camera, but the difference is that your lens is much nicer than mine (I have a Tamron 70-300 Di no img stab). Do you have the img stab ON for these shots? How is the USM focus? I heard the usm is nice to have. My lenses take a while to focus, especially if the object is in motion.

[Ferry_vO]

When I bought this lens I had to pick either this one or the L-series F4 70-200mm, and I have no regrets so far. The Image Stabilizer works great for shots with a longer shutter time; I found I could do 1/30 seconds of stationary objects without problems which is great in low light or when I try to show the blurred props. The USM focus is quite fast and definitely an improvement over the standard lenses. My other lens (17-85mm EF-S) also has IS and USM and I do not feel the need to buy even better lenses at the moment.

[redriver6]

This has to be my favourite shot of the entire weekend so far!

sometimes dark clouds are your friends...great shot!!

and i love that lion paint job on the F-16..

[Tim-HH]

Beautiful pictures! Thanks a lot for sharing them with us, Ferry! :applause:

Greetings
Tim

[Ferry_vO]

Beautiful pictures! Thanks a lot for sharing them with us, Ferry! :applause:

Thanks Tim, I'll post a few of the Uiver in 'our' forum later today!

[Cazzie]

:applause: Great shot Ferry. What'ya know. A Dutchman named "Ralph"! :icon29:

Caz

[exc141ac]

Really great shots --
thanks for sharing.

(Hope there are more!).

[Snuffy]

Nice! Thanks for sharing day two!

[grunau_baby]

:applause:Thanks a lot!

[jmig]

I love the pictures. Really, really nice shots. Thank you for posting them.

[Mithrin]

Totally awesome, thanks for sharing those mate! It was great fun!

[cheezyflier]

i think it's awesome you can keep your head well enough to take those pics. at a show like that i'd have enough trouble remembering to breathe.
thanks for sharing. :applause:

[Ferry_vO]

Well it's a hobby I guess. Still sorting through 2,200 photos to weed out the double shots, half-an-aircraft-in-the-frame shots and the not so sharp ones. Will try to get the number down to about half so it will fit on just one DVD.

A few weeks ago I was taking photos at a concert where the band of a friend of mine played. I made 250 shots in 20 minutes, but when I asked me afterwards what I thought of the music I had to admit I barely noticed it..

[robcap]

A few weeks ago I was taking photos at a concert where the band of a friend of mine played. I made 250 shots in 20 minutes, but when I asked me afterwards what I thought of the music I had to admit I barely noticed it.. I know what you mean. I don't have the sophisticated equipment you have, so I gave up taking lots of pictures everywhere, and I try to capture things with my eyes and mind.
Great shots btw.

R.

[brad kaste]

Ferry,....as usual,..........TOP NOTCH photos all the way by you. It's truly a pleasure to see any of your work displayed,...from a corn snake to F-16's.

[OBIO]

Ferry

Great shots! Most of them are now saved to my Wall Paper collection.

I understand how you can take lots and lots of pics in a short time. Summer of 07, I met a CFS2 forum member at the Air Force Museum at Wright-Patterson to take delivery of a computer system he gave me. I took my sister-in-law's nearly $500 digital camera with me. In the hour and a half that I was inside the museum, I took over 600 pictures! That is some shutter buggin!

Funny thing though: The $80 GE A735, 7 megapixel digital camera that my wife and I bought a few months back takes better pics and has more features than my sis-in-law's 4 year old $500 camera. Funny how a few years of technology advancement can give you an $80 camera, the size of a pack of cigarettes, that is better than a camera that was near the top of the technology pile just a few years ago. Our little camera offers 3 megapixel more resolution than Tina's (sis-in-law) Dimage something or other, takes sharper video, has audio with the video, has equal optical and digital zoom levels, far more features..yet was less than 1/5th the price and about 1/4 the size.

Tomorrow, weather permitting, I will be putting the A735 to use at the Mansfield Aviation Club's Annual Pancake Breakfast at the Mansfield Lahm Regional Airport (KMFD)...home of the 179th Air Lift Wing. One of the C-130Hs will be on display (hope hope hope that it will be open so I can walk inside the beast) and there will be a good number of GA aircraft on display. $5 will get me all the pancakes, sausage and juice that I can eat. My wife, bless her heart, is FORCING me to go! So, I will find out how many high res pics I can stuff onto a 2 Gig SD stick.

OBIO