Mach Loop

BruceLee · 22 May 2011 at 19:19

Thought I'd post some shots from my trips to Wales over the last 6 months or so, I've been going for a year now and enjoy every minute of it (well maybe not sitting round for hours in the cold), I may have posted these somewhere here before but for the life of me I can't find them, so here are some of my personal favourites, sorry about the odd sizes, only recently started uploading at 1024. Can't wait to get back up there next month!

F-15 Eagles

F-15 Strike Eagle

Cad West F-15E Strike Eagle

Tornados

Tornado GR4

XIII Squadron Tornado GR4

Tornado GR4 - ZA404

Hawks

Sunlit Hawk T2 - ZK027

95th Anniversary Hawk Nav Waving - XX349

Hawk

Hawk - XX224

2010 Display Hawk - XX263

Hercules

Elusive Full Discs

Typhoon

Eurofighter Typhoon - ZJ928

And the now defunct Harrier

Harrier GR9 - ZD403

Wedge · 22 May 2011 at 21:07

Great set mate

BruceLee · 22 May 2011 at 21:29

Wedge said:
Great set mate

Cheers chap

Andy90 · 23 May 2011 at 11:13

Love the Tornados and the Harrier (sad that they will not be flying anymore). Great set of shots, I've really got to get up there one day!

BruceLee · 23 May 2011 at 11:45

You should! Great fun when you get a good day, luckily I've not had too many bad days and something comes through, although not enjoyable freezing at -10c in December, I'm going again next month so I hope its t-shirt and shorts weather

An Exception · 23 May 2011 at 12:18

You got some really nice shot's here...

Stuff · 23 May 2011 at 12:35

Not normally a fan of photos of airplanes, but these are good

BruceLee · 23 May 2011 at 18:36

Thanks both, hoping to catch the more dramatic shots next month, glad you liked these.

Stupot_ · 23 May 2011 at 18:39

Fantastic shots! Love that first hawk.

BruceLee · 23 May 2011 at 19:08

Stupot_ said:
Fantastic shots! Love that first hawk.

Cheers, this was taken back in December, -10c most of the day, freezing my nads off even with loads of layers. Had some nice light that day, wish we'd got something a bit meaner but happy with this one.

Bri · 23 May 2011 at 20:04

Just awesome, love them all.

The_Abyss · 23 May 2011 at 22:42

Bri said:
Just awesome, love them all.

rexehuk · 23 May 2011 at 23:14

Brilliant work... what lens you use for all of these?

DB_SamX · 23 May 2011 at 23:29

rexehuk said:
Brilliant work... what lens you use for all of these?

Fantastic set indeed. Look on the individual flickr pages - Nikon 300mm f/4.

pmbuzz · 23 May 2011 at 23:30

Fantastic, thanks.

BruceLee · 23 May 2011 at 23:53

Thanks again everyone

rexehuk said:
Brilliant work... what lens you use for all of these?

Yep as DB_SamX said I use a Nikon 300mm f/4 AF-S lens which I got last October, it's honestly a great value lens, even when that value is nigh on £1k. I first started out with a Sigma 70-300mm APO Macro lens, which was OK but looking back at those shots I took with it they aren't anywhere near as sharp as the Nikon lens. I also have a 1.4 teleconverter I use at times for extra reach.
Also noticed a big difference moving to a D300s in focus speed and fps over my D90. Unfortunately with these aircraft shots you really need fast kit to do them justice, although you can get away with lower end stuff to start out and I've seen great results but you have to work harder for them.

I geotag my photos if anyone ever wants to make a trip to Wales