Spotting at YSSY 17th May 2010

[Jayden Laing]

Hey guys,
Here are the best of the photo's that I took yesterday whilst down at the airport. The weather was clearly not the most favourable for photos however I managed to do my best using the camera's different type of settings. Hope you enjoy! ;) (Any constructive criticism is good criticism)

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[matthew dobson]

I like 'em! :)

[NeilP]

Me too...

[Richard B]

Is the 4th pic a Gazelle?.....

[damien b]

Its a EC120, not a Gazelle.

Nice pictures.

[Jayden Laing]

Damien & Richard,
The CASA aircraft registration database has it down as a Eurocopter EC130B4 (http://www.casa.gov.au/scripts/airsresults.asp?framein=all&manuin=&modelin=&regholdin=&regopin=&serialin=&num_results=10&VHin=BPD&Search=Search&session=2009752272)

[Darren Butterworth]

Jayden - What camera, lense and settings were you using, I'm trying to get some ideas for my 50D.

Thanks

Darren

[Jayden Laing]

Darren,
All of those photo's I was using my newly acquired Nikon D90 with a simple Nikkor AF-S 70-300mm f/4.5-5.6G. I had the camera on the settings of around ISO320, F7.1 & was shooting at around 1/400th. As I said, the weather was pretty poor so I was just basically using different settings in the camera & getting the feel for aviation photography in general to see which settings work & which doesn't in those weather conditions.

[Beau Chenery]

Jayden,

Too much saturation on the magenta in the Emirates A380 , V Aus and Qantas 744. If it looks right on your monitor get your monitor recalibrated.

Cheers
Beau

[Jayden Laing]

Thanks for the tip Beau. Looking at again, your right!!!!!!:D