Buggz   10 #13 Posted October 4, 2014 Thank you very much chrisp7091! Share this post Link to post Share on other sites Share this content via...
chrisp7091 Â Â 10 #14 Posted October 5, 2014 Thank you very much chrisp7091! Â You're welcome. I was wondering - did you use a tripod or monopod for those? I found it very tricky to hold my camera steady at 300mm (partly because I am unfit and had run the last couple of hundred yards!!), but still, you achieved great clarity in those images. Â I also found my camera refused to focus on the subject. It kept settling on the valley wall behind the planes. Had to keep the aperture wide to maintain a decent shutter speed. Â Anyhow, be interested to hear your approach. Share this post Link to post Share on other sites Share this content via...
Buggz   10 #15 Posted October 5, 2014 You're welcome. I was wondering - did you use a tripod or monopod for those? I found it very tricky to hold my camera steady at 300mm (partly because I am unfit and had run the last couple of hundred yards!!), but still, you achieved great clarity in those images.  I also found my camera refused to focus on the subject. It kept settling on the valley wall behind the planes. Had to keep the aperture wide to maintain a decent shutter speed.  Anyhow, be interested to hear your approach.  Hi chrisp7091,  First of all I used two lenses. A 75-300mm and a 400mm prime. And yes I used a monopod. I was also knelt down for most of the shots to help keep the camera steady.  With regards to focusing I used spot metering with the aperture @ ƒ/6.3 and a Shutter speed of 1/640 (so that I had some blur on the propellers). ISO was around 500. I also fired off lots of frames! And some pictures came out reasonably good and some were rubbish. It's safe to say there was a lot of luck involved. I also used lightroom to clean the images up. Hope this helps Share this post Link to post Share on other sites Share this content via...
chrisp7091   10 #16 Posted October 6, 2014 Thanks for sharing your techniques with us. Certainly works well:-)    Hi chrisp7091, First of all I used two lenses. A 75-300mm and a 400mm prime. And yes I used a monopod. I was also knelt down for most of the shots to help keep the camera steady.  With regards to focusing I used spot metering with the aperture @ ƒ/6.3 and a Shutter speed of 1/640 (so that I had some blur on the propellers). ISO was around 500. I also fired off lots of frames! And some pictures came out reasonably good and some were rubbish. It's safe to say there was a lot of luck involved. I also used lightroom to clean the images up. Hope this helps Share this post Link to post Share on other sites Share this content via...