Stow Maries, Essex fly-in 10-5-2015

[andygolfer]

I spent 2 hours at Stow Maries, Essex for the second day of their spring fly-in, bright sunshine and largest crowd I've ever seen there and the car park full. Trouble was i hadn't been there in sunshine before and found that i was taking everything into sun so not my best set ever, had been able to stay beyond 13.30 I might have been okay but there we are, still a nice event all the same. Here are a selection of my photos, there are loads more in my flickr album:https://www.flickr.com/photos/125470545 ... 2622521291

2972 G-BZEZ streak shadow by Andrew Goldsmith, on Flickr

3030 G-APIZ Turbulent by Andrew Goldsmith, on Flickr

2422 visitors park by Andrew Goldsmith, on Flickr

2424 Be.2c by Andrew Goldsmith, on Flickr

2426 sopwith pup by Andrew Goldsmith, on Flickr

2432a by Andrew Goldsmith, on Flickr

2434 G-AIDS Tiger moth by Andrew Goldsmith, on Flickr

Zenair overhead :
2454 zenair over head! by Andrew Goldsmith, on Flickr

2461 OK-JUA-03 Urban Air Samba by Andrew Goldsmith, on Flickr

2468 by Andrew Goldsmith, on Flickr

2474 G-AYSH Taylor JT1 by Andrew Goldsmith, on Flickr

2547 G-AWPN Shield XYLA by Andrew Goldsmith, on Flickr

2564 G-AYPE Bolkow Monsun by Andrew Goldsmith, on Flickr

2581 G-FRAN Piper Cub by Andrew Goldsmith, on Flickr

2590 G-AXNS B.Pup by Andrew Goldsmith, on Flickr

2599 G-AXNS B.Pup by Andrew Goldsmith, on Flickr

2613 G-CGOL Jabiru by Andrew Goldsmith, on Flickr

2656 G-ATWB Jodel by Andrew Goldsmith, on Flickr

2664 N799JH Pa28RT by Andrew Goldsmith, on Flickr

2679 G-AEZJ Vega Gull by Andrew Goldsmith, on Flickr

2703 G-AELO Hornet Moth by Andrew Goldsmith, on Flickr

2723 G-HEKL Mew Gull by Andrew Goldsmith, on Flickr

2751 G-BZWV steen skybolt by Andrew Goldsmith, on Flickr

2838 G-CEXM Skyranger by Andrew Goldsmith, on Flickr

2864 G-OTOP QuikR by Andrew Goldsmith, on Flickr

'OooH, I like your paint scheme'.
' Yeah, much better than your's'.
'so what are you doing this evening then?'
'dunno, fancy a pint?'
2884 G-KFLY &G-SDAT Flight Design CTSWs by Andrew Goldsmith, on Flickr

2891 G-TTRL VANS RV9 by Andrew Goldsmith, on Flickr

2918 G-ARNE Piper Colt by Andrew Goldsmith, on Flickr

and it seems that somebody found the Stow Maries naughty field!
2939 stow maries naughty field by Andrew Goldsmith, on Flickr

as I said, that's just a few of them, more on FlickR!

C&C welcome
Andy

[Paultojo]

Blimey a busy day, some very good image one or two could do with a little tidying up-

No 6 could do with being levelled and then cropped to try and centre the aircraft

No 8 probably needs to go in the bin the aircraft is blurry and that gentleman is out of focus

No 10 a little bit of panning practice as per 8 in the bin

No 15 as above

The last one apologies just bin it

Some of the others are a little blurry due to the low shutter speed but acceptable as they are nicely portraying the impression of movement.

Overall a very well shot set hope you don't mind my comments

Paul

[andygolfer]

thanks Paul, at last some comments to give me something to think about and work on!
I've had a look and mitigate as follows;

no.6 errm? I think I posted the wrong one but at least the one I put up shows how wrong it is possible to get a photo, should have been this one
2432 G-ECKB Escapade by Andrew Goldsmith, on Flickr

no.8 - he just got in the way as I was panning so I thought I would have some fun with a caption, but as a record of an airshow it is certainly bin-worthy. Maybe we should do a fun SPOTM sometime for photos with captions or for moments when we got it wrong! - I have plenty of those.

10 - I can offer no defence whatsoever, I think I did something wrong when I uploaded it, maybe for got to save the edit but there again I doubt I would totally have corrected the blur. odd that the strut is in focus and you can see the framework. Didn't crop it at all right though Was rushing a bit I think as you say, bin-worthy

15 - I thought the cropping/panning was okay on that one but looking again maybe it needs to be moved to the right a bit, I've re-done it by using the grid function on Canon DPP and the fuselage was way off centre originally, the original was soft and I have tried to sharpen it up but can't give it much. If it weren't for the fact that Mike likes Pups I'd bin it - here's the revised one centred up and sharpened as much as i dare without getting jagged edges appearing:
2590 G-AXNS B.Pup, 2 by Andrew Goldsmith, on Flickr

the last one - yes crap but that was only there to show that duxford isn't the only place with a naughty field (having a bit of fun!), I saw the people there and quickly snapped them but they were a long way off and it's heavily cropped.

As you said some are blurry because I tried really slow shutter speeds to get prop blur and blurred background but it backfired on me by trying to be too clever, I did several at 1/160th and got away with it far fewer times than I failed - loads in the bin I probably should have stuck to 1/200th or higher as they were generally sharper AND I need to practice panning a bit, it's quite an art at low speeds.

one more lesson that I've learnt several times - sometimes there's an image you try hard to capture but you don't get it right, sadly all the processing in the world won't turn it into a good shot, note to self - bin it!

Cheers Paul - thanks for some great feedback, you learn and improve far more when you get it wrong.
Andy

[Bobbybefc]

Great pictures Andy from what looked like a great day.

Happy Days

Bob