Aviation

嘉嘉

I am in fact a bit obsessed with cathay and JAL....^_^

BiscottiGelato

Kinda small so can't tell exactly, suffers from a bit of motion blur? Probably want a higher shutter speed? Also consider using a CPL to boost contrast (if the sun is at the right angle tho).

嘉嘉

yeah.........sometimes I do wish to have a 400mm

can you be more specific on which pictures are a bit blurred? or they are all blurred?
cuz I think most of them are in the range of 1/300-500 so shouldn't be too slow.....

thanks, I need to get myself a 67mm CPL.....
only have a 58mm +_+

playingtoy

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BiscottiGelato

yeah.........sometimes I do wish to have a 400mm

can you be more specific on which pictures are a b ...
嘉嘉 發表於 2010-7-19 19:27

Not very sure if it's blur or just compression artifacts introduced when LYK's jpeg resize engine downsized your photos. Unless you post some photos properly downsized photos hosted outside of LYK it's kinda hard to tell. Seems a bit blur to me, but maybe the originals aren't like that tho.

With a 200mm x 1.6, you are looking at 320mm equivilent. Even with the rule of thumb you are looking at 1/300+ to get a reasonably sharp photos. If you are panning and chasing after the plane, you might want a faster shutter speed than that. I often go up to very high values (1/800 or 1/1000 for 400mm w/ IS) in airshows, etc. I am also taking it that you used Servo mode for AF?

Having that said, all your photos might actually have been sharp, hard to tell for the size and compression.

billleevanchi

a little bit blur to me too, and the JAL ones are pretty nice.

嘉嘉

yes I was using servo mode
Thanks for the comments!
I will try with higher shutter speed next time

but if I want a motion blurred background
is it a bit hard to achieve since i need lower shutter speed? I am always kinda unsuccessful with that >_<

ricrick

i think it is not too obvious that you want to blur the background, i guess you need even slower shutter speed ...and then pan your camera to follow the airplanes as they move through the frame

嘉嘉

I did "want" to but I always end up not doing it ^_^;;;

how slow do you think the speed should be?
anything below 1/200?

Look4chrisng

Looks like the Sun is on the wrong side.  They are underexposured?  How do you meter?  The last 2 looks good, good color.