Bournemouth Air Festival 2018 - Day 2

                             

Tigers Parachute Display Team

    

SuperAerobatics Wingwalkers

                      Twisters

                   

Temperatures reach 21º C along the coast this afternoon, as summer makes something of a comeback.  In fact, this summer is reportedly on a par with the one of 1976; another scorcher that went down in the record books. The British weather is notoriously capricious, but this year we have been more than lucky.



Lens: 300mm f/2.8 AF-S VR Nikkor with TC-14EII converter. Tripod with gimballed head / hand held.

Top: 1/2500 sec at f/4.5. Matrix metering. - 0.33 EV compensation. ISO 200

Middle: 1/500 second at f/5.6. Matrix metering. ISO 200
Bottom: 1/640 second at f/5.6. Matrix metering. - 0.33 EV compensation. ISO 200



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Bournemouth Air Festival 2018 - Day 1

Boeing B-17  Sally B

                                                                 
 The Red Arrows

Muscle Biplane - Rich Godwin

Day one of the 11th Bournemouth Air Festival kicks-off with perfect flying weather; something that will last for the entire weekend, and once again I pack my camera bag and head for the cliff tops of Poole bay.

My hopes aren't too high, and to be honest I wasn't going to bother with this year's event, but I am pleasantly surprised by the scheduling. In recent years there has been much criticism  about timing; there being too great a delay between individual displays, but on this occasion the organisers seem to have tightened things up.

It is something of a juggling feat for the organisers to keep things moving along as they do, what with an international airport being not 4 miles away. On top of that the flying ceiling is restricted to 5,600 ft., so kudos to air traffic control - and everybody else involved - in keeping it interesting.

Lens: 300mm f/2.8 AF-S VR Nikkor with TC-14EII converter. Tripod and gimballed head.

1: 1/200 second at f/8. Matrix metering. - 0.33 EV compensation. ISO 100
2: 1/800 second at f/5. Matrix metering. ISO 100
3:  1/250 second at f/8. Matrix metering. - 0.33 EV compensation. ISO 100



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05:25 - on the beach

For the past week or so I have been thumbing through some of the old photo magazines that I used to buy before the age of the internet and digital shooting, seeking inspiration. There's plenty of articles on a month-by-month basis, but nothing is blowing my hair back. Viewing the images I shot during the winter months doesn't help much either, knowing full well that this is where my real motivation lies.

But this morning I take a chance with the weather and go down to the beach. There's a low tide just before dawn and I want to see what's on offer. The light isn't very good; in fact it's terrible, but I set up and start making photographs nonetheless. Things don't improve as sunrise approaches, and it's the first exposure I make (above) that turns out to be the best.


12-24mm f/4 AF-S Nikkor. 6 seconds at f/11. Matrix metering. Tripod and remote release. ISO 100



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