Lancasters at Derwent

[Buggz 10]

Thank you very much chrisp7091!

[chrisp7091 10]

Thank you very much chrisp7091!

 

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.

[Buggz 10]

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

[chrisp7091 10]

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