Few pics for your consideration..

[350wedge]

Here we go, my first real attempt at putting some pics up.

What do you think folks??? Taken the other weekend at the Shuttleworth Collections summer evening event.

All taken on an EOS 1D and 100-400L IS lens....:D

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[joust]

1 and 4 are fantastic.

3 is just lovely - although a slight contast tweak would probably just make it that little bit better?

J

[Mrs Fish]

I love 1, 2 and 3

[barreti]

Love 1 and 3
Just looked up the Shuttleworth collection events and I'm very peed I cant make either of the evening events.

Now see what you've done

[bobfrance]

Can I see E.T. flying number three?


Fabulous shots BTW.

[gopher]

1-4 are great - I was not sure about #4 to begin with - it is that classic Spit shot but a heavier crop, but the more I look at it the more I like it, I think it accentuates the curves nicely.

Well done!

[wizzpig]

I like them all but especially no#2.

I just think that the Spitfire is the most effortlessly gracefull, sleek, beautiful and dam right pant-wettingly gorgeous machine ever created by man.

Nice shots

[te51cle]

Is that a copy of a Wright Flyer ? No.1 is truly excellent, really captures the atmosphere.

[Trackside]

I actually like #5 (just to be different!). It's got a real comedy element about it, what with the rather home-built look of the plane and the somewhat bemused expression on the pilot's face. Would make a good caption comp, although sadly I can't think of one right now...

[imperialism2024]

The only one I don't so much care for is #5, just because it looks too artificial... But all the others are amazing, especially #3

[_dobbo_]

#2 for me, I love the way the sun is glinting of the bodywork.

Also really like the one with the moon in it.

[CVP]

_dobbo_ said:

#2 for me, I love the way the sun is glinting of the bodywork.

I'm with Dobbo on this one, I love the warmth in the reflection on the fuselage.

Evokes images of coming back after an evening sortie to nip down the NAFFI for a few jars and a sing along with the boys, followed by an attempt at chatting up the unobtainable barmaid and a quick look at old Smithy's pictures of his gal who he is going home to in two weeks when but we all know that in tomorrow's raid he's going to get it

Maybe I'm reading too much into it

Chris

[havoc]

CVP said:

_dobbo_ said: #2 for me, I love the way the sun is glinting of the bodywork. I'm with Dobbo on this one, I love the warmth in the reflection on the fuselage.

That's 3 of us.

#3 and #4 are also very nicely set-up shots.

[mechsympathy]

havoc said:

CVP said: _dobbo_ said: #2 for me, I love the way the sun is glinting of the bodywork. I'm with Dobbo on this one, I love the warmth in the reflection on the fuselage. That's 3 of us.

Anoher vote from me.

Number 1 really bings home the lunacy of the pioneer flyers. The pilot is perched on some flappy canvas that's held together with string and some sticks. Mentalist!!

[FunkyNige]

#2 for me as well, but Ted's image resizing has done its work andmade all the diagonals jagged in a few of them. It looks like you've resized them to 780 pixels wide , if you resize them to 750 you won't get this effect

See the top line of the fusulage on the red plane to see what I'm on about.

[joust]

One small thing - resize them to 700 wide before sticking them up, otherwise Ted's piccy resizer gets hold of them and the quality suffers as the resizing is "simple resample" rather than "bicubic".

J

[Don]

Great pics. Love #3.

[350wedge]

Thanks for all the positive comments. Will try and keep image size to 750 wide in future. Have some F1 pics from silverstone to put up at some point so will try then.

I was well chuffed to get some of these. I love the spitfire in low evening light. Unfortunatly the original is'nt pin sharp and the image has been heavily sharpened in photoshop. Ok for web use and small print sizes but not quite as good at A4...

[chim_knee]

I love number 2 aswell.

A lot of my best pictures suffer from being a bit "soft"... I'm am desperately trying to blame the lens and justify a Nikkor 70-200 AF-S VR but the reality is that my technique isn't good and I don't know enough to get the shutter speed write before the moment has gone.

Cracking pictures though.