First time shooting flying things... (with a camera)

[Phal]

So since Airbourne was on I decided to borrow my housemate's oldish EF 75-300mm III USM lens since the longest thing I have with my new stuff is my 18-135STM. I headed over to Eastbourne and parked myself on the beach with some mates and started snapping away.

I came home and imported 732 pics... Easy to snap a lot! Now, these pics were a first for me in many ways. They were the first pics I took of things moving at a fair speed and at a fair distance so I wasn't expecting much. Some of them turned out ok ish but the colour seemed off or weird on a lot of them.

The lens itself hadn't been used in a while and the filter over the end was a bit dirty so I had to clean it off before using it. I can't decide whether it was the sun that caused the pics to be a weird colour or if it's the lens? Maybe it's just the limitations of a cheapish lens? I took a few pics of my mates with my 40mm lens and those didn't seem anywhere near as bad but then again my mates weren't many hundreds of meters away.

The pics aren't bad and the few reviews I've seen of the lens say 'mediocre' a lot so I'm just wondering what else I could do better?

Here's a few pics:


Airbourne by Phal44, on Flickr


Airbourne-3 by Phal44, on Flickr


Airbourne-2 by Phal44, on Flickr

 

[Phal]

Your not the guy i spoke to while the Avro Vulcan was doing it's set, he had a 75-300mm Canon too?

Na, I had my ass sat down on the beach with some mates hehe

It was fun when I first got there and I was still looking for my mates. There were people with shiny camera equipment everywhere :/ I almost felt inadequate with my tiny camera and lens hehe