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You are here: Home / Photography / Shooting Birds…. Really Big Birds…

Shooting Birds…. Really Big Birds…

December 20, 2009 by Daniel Korzeniewski 1 Comment

Airplane smokes

About 4 weeks ago I had the wonderful opportunity to shoot at the “Wings over Homestead” Air Show, where the U.S. Air Force Thunderbirds returned to the Homestead Airbase after 17 years of absence.

The world famous jet fighter acrobatic team was the star of the show, but the show also hosted other aircraft, including from biplanes to supersonic jets and rocket cars.

Pilot and Planes

During the morning and most part of the afternoon the weather was awful, shooting with this really overcast sky was very challenging and difficult, but in photography patience always pays and by late afternoon those clouds opened up a bit allowing us to get some nice images.

I worked from the side of the runway with my Nikon D300 and the Nikon ED AF VR Nikkor 80-400mm f/4.5-5.6D. Some people claims this lens to be outdated and very slow to focus as is not an AF-S lens, in fact it’s one of Nikons slowest focusing lenses, however worked very well for me that day and I didn’t feel any compromise.

I used the 3D Tracking mode that also worked very well, but my technique was to start to track the airplane trajectory with the lens at 80mm and then move the zoom ring all the way to 400mm while following the airplanes path.

I stayed at ISO 200 most of the time and my Aperture was about f11 also all the time because I wanted the shutter speed to be at a minimum of 500 to freeze the action.

It was a really great experience and I hope they keep coming to sunny Florida.

That’s all for now folks, more to come soon, in the meantime get out there and shoot something….

Fotografiando Pájaros…. Pájaros bien grandes…

Hace aproximadamente 4 semanas, tuve la maravillosa oportunidad de fotografiar al show aéreo “Wings over Homestead” donde los Thunderbirds the la fuerza aérea de los Estados Unidos se volvieron a presentar en la base aérea de Homestead después de 17 años de ausencia.

La maravilla del show fue mundialmente famoso equipo acrobático de jets, pero durante la muestra también se presentaron otros aviones, desde antiguos y clásicos biplanos hasta jet supersónicos y autos cohete.

Thunderbirds afternoon

Durante la mañana y gran parte de la tarde el tiempo no colaboró, trabajar con el cielo totalmente nublado fue bastante complicado, pero en fotografía la paciencia siempre es bien recompensada, y por la tarde  las nubes se abrieron permitiendo la oportunidad de obtener algunas buenas capturas.

Con mi Nikon D300 y la lente Nikon ED AF VR Nikkor 80-400mm f/4.5-5.6D. trabajé desde el costado de la pista de aterrizaje. Algunas personas concluyen que la tecnología de este lente esta ya un poco atrasada y que no es lo suficientemente rápido a la hora de enfocar ya que no es un AF-S, en realidad es que si es uno de los lentes mas lentos en la línea de Nikon, aunque para mi trabajó bien y en ningún momento me sentí comprometido por su desempeño.

Mi técnica fue utilizar la opción “3D Tracking” que realmente me funcionó muy bien, lo primero era comenzar a seguir los aviones con el lente 80mm y luego mover el zoom hasta 400mm siguiéndoles la trayectoria.

Me mantuve en ISO 200 la mayor parte del tiempo con una apertura de f11 porque necesitaba que la velocidad de obturación se mantuviera al menos en 500 para freezar la acción.

Es todo es todo por ahora, te cuento mas pronto, mientras tanto salí por ahí y saca algunas fotos…

Thunderbirds Flight

Thunderbirds in Flight

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