Fantastic set. Love them all. Cheers.
Stunning shots......love the Georgie Gal and Heritage Flight shots
Big Bill wrote:
Love air show pics! Great job!
Where were you standing for the head-on shot of the Blue Angels? It's my understanding that air show planes aren't allowed to overfly the audience. Am I wrong?
Thanks!
Thanks Big Bill. Cleveland was my first non Chicago Air Show. They had about 16 rows of reserved (ticketed) seating group into 20 ish sections both to the left and right of the main review stand where the announcer was located at dead center of the flyway (?). I'd never been to this location and prepurchased a ticket online in different locations each of the three days: one far to the left of center, one mid to right and one nearly dead center. In the case of the Blue Angels both in Cleveland and in Chicago, they do a few flights coming from behind the audience and flew out straight over the lake.At least once in the program with a lone plane at high speed that scares everyone because no one hears the plane until it's already roared past. So, on the 2nd and 3rd days I knew what to expect from their program.
Regarding the arch coming at the audience, I think this is the one you mean, they were still over Lake Erie at this point and they do the same flight in Chicago coming at the main 'stage' from over Lake Michigan as I think their final maneuver of the program. They didn't fly in Chicago this summer so I'm speaking from memory ... as well as now a month old memory from Cleveland. I checked the editing on this image and this was cropped to level the planes and throw away extra blue space, but for the most part, this is how close they were via a 300mm lens.
photophly wrote:
Stunning shots......love the Georgie Gal and Heritage Flight shots
Thanks photophly! I've seen different versions of the Heritage Flight now maybe 4 times. But in Cleveland was the first time I was located someplace I could hear the announcer and the background information. Not only could you walk and touch the B-25 before it pulled out and flew in the program, they did a pseudo bombing run over the air show and they set off explosions on the ground that were both large enough and close enough, you could seriously feel the heat for a few moments.
flathead27ford wrote:
Fantastic set. Love them all. Cheers.
Thanks flathead27ford, glad you enjoyed!
DI Seller wrote:
Really nice pics. We had an air show in Knoxville, Tennessee just prior to the Blue Angels pilot being killed outside of Nashville. What a terrible loss to that program and our nation. It featured some of the same airplanes and helicopters in your pictures. I also got to see Fat Albert in one of its famous takeoffs. It was spectacular
Thanks for your comment DI. I knew there had been a recent crash, but only now checking online did I realize it was in 2016. There wasn't a mention of the accident and lost pilot during the program in Cleveland. Cleveland was much different than my experiences in Chicago. For the Chicago program, the planes take off and land at an airport in Indiana at the south end of Lake Michigan. So, there is no interaction opportunities with the pilots nor the planes as occurred in Cleveland. In Ohio the planes were behind a low security fence but you can see in these images how close you could zoom in. After the program the pilots signed programs and were available for pictures.
nimbushopper wrote:
These are among the best airshow photos I've ever seen, and I've been an aviator for 50 years. The colors are phenomenal, especially the blues in the Blue Angles.
Thank you very much, Nimbus! I've been working my craft and came back from Cleveland with just over 5000 images from three days of shooting. Everything was shot in RAW so I didn't have very long sequences in a burst (a 5DIII limitation). All the times they crossed from different directions, I didn't have very many images that were worth keeping from these bursts. I'm going to estimate about 50-hours of total edit-time starting from repeated culls until I was down to about 350 keepers that left me with images to share on different platforms (Flickr, 500px, Facebook) without re-using the same image. I used a CPL for two of the three days and an ND filter on the third. There's a lot of excellent airshow work on both Flickr and 500px. I've used the excellent work of people I follow as the standard to shoot for in my own work.
CHG_CANON wrote:
Thank you very much, Nimbus! I've been working my craft and came back from Cleveland with just over 5000 images from three days of shooting. Everything was shot in RAW so I didn't have very long sequences in a burst (a 5DIII limitation). All the times they crossed from different directions, I didn't have very many images that were worth keeping from these bursts. I'm going to estimate about 50-hours of total edit-time starting from repeated culls until I was down to about 350 keepers that left me with images to share on different platforms (Flickr, 500px, Facebook) without re-using the same image. I used a CPL for two of the three days and an ND filter on the third. There's a lot of excellent airshow work on both Flickr and 500px. I've used the excellent work of people I follow as the standard to shoot for in my own work.
Thank you very much, Nimbus! I've been working my ... (
show quote)
ππΌππΌππΌThanx for the info.....I too am a firm believer in shooting a lot of images.
When I shoot I have similar results....but the keepers are worth the extra effort.βοΈ
Beautiful images, Paul! Very well done!
Very nice photos excellent work thanks for sharing saying hello from Pittsburgh.
Madman
Loc: Gulf Coast, Florida USA
Excellent shots, thanks for sharing.
Thanks Vince, glad you enjoyed!
If you want to reply, then
register here. Registration is free and your account is created instantly, so you can post right away.