SAAF Zwartkop AFB Museum Warbirds Airshow 2012-05-12
SAAF Oryx firing flares. Right place right time.
It pays to be prepared and know your camera/lens inside out and major effort and cost go to these shows regularly. This chopper came out of nowhere and fired flares very far from the crowds. I had to react very fast to get a shot sequence. This was image 7/9 and each shot was fired individually, not as part of a high FPS burst hold button down and hope for a good shot nonsense. Slowish s/s was required to capture (and enhance) running flares and get some blur of the rotors.
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NEF-Adjusted WB to Daylight to get the blue back on a very dull day, cooler temp, sharpened.
NEF-TIF 8bit
TL Detail 2, TL DeNoise 5 Clone out sensor dust bunnies
Cropped 800px 72dpi
Smart Sharpened
SFW 100% JPG Nearest Neighbour
Changed Title from my "Fire and Light" to "Wings" and increased Saturation at the recommendation of a friend. Cropped with more -ve space at the top and tight at the bottom at the recommendation of another friend.
Who would give this a 1? Regardless it is still a great shot and I love it Harvey! Good score and probably not as high as you wanted but you should feel good about regardless. Nicely done!
This is my pick for the win, which means you won't be in the top 10.
Simply love it. I might have titled it something different, like You're F*cked or something along those lines, but that won't detract from my score.
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