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Hey everyone,

So here at school, apparently one of the graduates is a Snowbird. For those of you who don't know who they are, they are the arial stunt group for Canada. I believe you guys have the Blazing Angles is it?

Anyways, Any tips for shooting them? Its going to a great event for experience, and should be fun!

Thanks!

Eric D.

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Eric D.
Nikon D90 | 18-200 VR
"Less is the new Black"---Chase Jarvis
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blue angels for the USA.

you should be fine with a 300mm lens at 4f or smaller since it's gonna be bright. since it's just one event, you might even benefit from renting a long range lens...

when shooting- if you choose to manual focus, keep one eye open so that you can easily track your objective.

a good pair of sunglasses might help as well.

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Alright, sounds good!

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Eric D.
Nikon D90 | 18-200 VR
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hi Eric,
In my experience if you are shooting flying aircraft surrounded by sky in your frame a good starting point is +2.0 EV, this should expose the airframes against blue sky just about right. This may need some trying out either side, so practice on the warms ups!
regards john

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Nikon D80, D40 and various lenses.

Eric I beg your pardon if you know this but does your D50 have a continuous AF function (AF-C), if so use it on your 70-300 and panning will work beautifully.
PS
I've looked up your camera and found that it has the above AF (AF-c) so if it's the same as my D80 it will work fine.

John

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Nikon D80, D40 and various lenses.

The +2 compensation is because the sky cheats your camera into over exposing everything?

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Eric D.
Nikon D90 | 18-200 VR
"Less is the new Black"---Chase Jarvis
http://www.flickr.com/photos/25947744@N03/

September 21st Clover point?, Yes +2 cause of the bright sky.

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Nikon D60 | AF-S 18-200mm VR f/3.5-5.6 | ML-L3 Wireless Release | Slik Sprint Pro Tripod | Lowepro Topload Zoom 2

Sorry Tridawgn, its a private show just for our school.

Going to be pretty cool!

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Eric D.
Nikon D90 | 18-200 VR
"Less is the new Black"---Chase Jarvis
http://www.flickr.com/photos/25947744@N03/

If there's any low fly-bys, you can try a technique which blurs the background for an impression of speed - see our tutorial here:

http://www.dslrtips.com/workshops/How_t ... hoto.shtml

Gordon

Thanks Gordon!

I got a few good shots, unfortunatly they block flickr here, so I do not think I'll be able to upload them and show you all at this time...

Maybe at a later date.

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Eric D.
Nikon D90 | 18-200 VR
"Less is the new Black"---Chase Jarvis
http://www.flickr.com/photos/25947744@N03/

ummm all my shots posted here are throught flickr....

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Nikon D60 | AF-S 18-200mm VR f/3.5-5.6 | ML-L3 Wireless Release | Slik Sprint Pro Tripod | Lowepro Topload Zoom 2

Yes, unfortunately I can't see any of them...

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Eric D.
Nikon D90 | 18-200 VR
"Less is the new Black"---Chase Jarvis
http://www.flickr.com/photos/25947744@N03/

Oh, like on that particular computer... I thought you meant Camera Labs was blocking Flickr based images...

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Nikon D60 | AF-S 18-200mm VR f/3.5-5.6 | ML-L3 Wireless Release | Slik Sprint Pro Tripod | Lowepro Topload Zoom 2

Yeah... for some reason the IT department blocked the use of flickr...

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Eric D.
Nikon D90 | 18-200 VR
"Less is the new Black"---Chase Jarvis
http://www.flickr.com/photos/25947744@N03/