Photo-a-day

[Ruggerbugger]

eeep, looks like your camera's metering got confused with all that white! is why i always shoot manual..

That's interesting, because I was on manual Having said that, metering properly is one of those things I constantly struggle to get right. I'd appreciate any comments you've got there, maybe I went overboard with post-processing?

As for the other comment about aircraft noise, the Typhoon wasn't as noisy as I've heard it before (set off dozens of car alarms at Duxford in May). The Gripen is much louder, and the F18 is ear splitting , made me feel for all the babies people had brought with them. It would have been nice to see the B1 up, but for some reason it stayed firmly on the static display.

[edit] The wet weather did give me a few pleasing shots like this one though:

[Syd]

That's interesting, because I was on manual Having said that, metering properly is one of those things I constantly struggle to get right. I'd appreciate any comments you've got there, maybe I went overboard with post-processing?

As for the other comment about aircraft noise, the Typhoon wasn't as noisy as I've heard it before (set off dozens of car alarms at Duxford in May). The Gripen is much louder, and the F18 is ear splitting , made me feel for all the babies people had brought with them. It would have been nice to see the B1 up, but for some reason it stayed firmly on the static display.

[edit] The wet weather did give me a few pleasing shots like this one though:

Incredible sight, love the 'jetstream' in its wake

I've gotta go to one of these shows - still never been to one. Out of interest i'm on the doorstep of Biggin hill - is it a decent event or is it worth travelling a little further affield?

[Ruggerbugger]

Never been to Biggin Hill, but I've heard complementary things about it.

[Bobster]

That's interesting, because I was on manual Having said that, metering properly is one of those things I constantly struggle to get right. I'd appreciate any comments you've got there, maybe I went overboard with post-processing?

i never meter for stuff in the air when its flying through the sky.. i always look for something on the ground that is neutral, usually grass, i meter from that.. the biggest thing to throw camera metering is the sky..

from a kids session last week

[Stoo]

I'll have a few aircraft shots up from day 1 of the Lowestoft Air Festival in a bit - I'm still drying out after the downpour at the end of the flying..

[Ruggerbugger]

Cheers Bob, I'll be off to Duxford on August 9th, so I'll give that a go.

[Blastuk]

i never meter for stuff in the air when its flying through the sky.. i always look for something on the ground that is neutral, usually grass, i meter from that.. the biggest thing to throw camera metering is the sky..

from a kids session last week

The catchlight at the bottom of her eyes makes her look a bit evil :s
Was that a reflector?

[Clunk]

Hope you don't mind Ruggerbugger, I had a quick play

[Ruggerbugger]

Hope you don't mind Ruggerbugger, I had a quick play

I like it, what did you do? The difference in the sky is obvious.

[Blastuk]

I like it, what did you do? The difference in the sky is obvious.

looks like he changed the colour temperature to me

[Bobster]

The catchlight at the bottom of her eyes makes her look a bit evil :s
Was that a reflector?

yeah her socks!

[Blastuk]

yeah her socks!

Ahah! I see it now
Where does she get them from? seems like highly efficient light reflecting material to me, lol

[Clunk]

I like it, what did you do? The difference in the sky is obvious.

Adjusted the tone, contrast and colour, gave it a touch more exposure and some sharpening to bring out the details.

[Ruggerbugger]

Adjusted how? I had a bit of a play with the original RAW, but couldn't come up with anything that I wa happier with than the original. Regarding the sharpening, are you using unsharp mask, or the high pass filter and hard light trick? I've always used the second.

I should probably say I'm using Elements 6 and Adobe Camera RAW, and have learned by the time old fiddling around method

[Clunk]

Just the auto tone, contrast and colour settings in Photoshop CS4 (image->auto tone/contrast/colour), they are very good actually for sorting things like this out, it'll either get it very right or very wrong.

As for the sharpening, yes, unsharp mask.

[Ruggerbugger]

Tried your tips out, I like the results

Here's one of my favourite shots of the day, sun from behind onto some horrendous clouds that had just drenched us. The pilot chose ELO's "Mr Blue Sky" as his display music, just as the clouds broke