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Clipsal 500 aircraft shots

Postby DanielA on Sun Mar 22, 2009 9:36 pm

OK, apart from the girls of the Clipsal 500, there were some other things going on. My automotive shots are pretty boring, so here are some other shots:

The Roulettes:
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One of the RAAF aircraft trying to land on pit straight:
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While this isn't the best shot, I do like how the angle makes it look like it was taken from another aircraft:
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I took lots of photos of the V8 cars, but here's one of Jamie Whincup:
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Interesting, three of these shots were taken with my D70. Only the last one was taken with the D2Xs. All using the 80-400VR.

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Re: Clipsal 500 aircraft shots

Postby biggerry on Sun Mar 22, 2009 9:45 pm

One of the RAAF aircraft trying to land on pit straight:


nice.... :up: pictures pretty awesome too...on a side note, whats with all the yellow and black test dummy stickers? (maybe this is the raafs fatigue testing model :shock: )

angle makes it look like it was taken from another aircraft:


certianly does! excellent work on the composition of this one!
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Re: Clipsal 500 aircraft shots

Postby aim54x on Mon Mar 23, 2009 8:47 am

I have to say that #3 is really good. I love it, it does look like you were in another aircraft for that one!
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Re: Clipsal 500 aircraft shots

Postby DebT on Mon Mar 23, 2009 3:37 pm

they sure are up close and personal - well done
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Re: Clipsal 500 aircraft shots

Postby Matt. K on Mon Mar 23, 2009 6:23 pm

Nice work! :D
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Re: Clipsal 500 aircraft shots

Postby fozzie on Mon Mar 23, 2009 7:02 pm

Daniel - very nice work, but the Jim Beam girls are smokin' hot :)
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Re: Clipsal 500 aircraft shots

Postby photoaffinity on Mon Mar 23, 2009 7:07 pm

great work!
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Re: Clipsal 500 aircraft shots

Postby DanielA on Mon Mar 23, 2009 9:40 pm

Thanks everyone.

biggerry wrote:nice.... :up: pictures pretty awesome too...on a side note, whats with all the yellow and black test dummy stickers? (maybe this is the raafs fatigue testing model :shock: )

I don't know. Looking at previous years they didn't have them.

fozzie wrote:Daniel - very nice work, but the Jim Beam girls are smokin' hot :)

Thanks. Did you see the ones of the Fox Models beachwear parade?

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Re: Clipsal 500 aircraft shots

Postby Catcha on Mon Mar 23, 2009 11:32 pm

great shots......
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Re: Clipsal 500 aircraft shots

Postby Ben.bb on Tue Mar 24, 2009 12:05 am

Number 3 is amazing, may i ask how you achived that effect?
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Re: Clipsal 500 aircraft shots

Postby Big V on Tue Mar 24, 2009 7:35 pm

Great shots Daniel, as for the FA18 it is the ARDU plane from the base - it is a test and development plane, it regularly conducts tests up at Woomera. The stickers are there so that the cameras have a sense of scale when they are analysing the footage of the results. This plane and the new weapons gets put through the ringer and when the Aircraft Research and Development Unit deem the new weapons safe, they get fitted to the ones flying for the Defence Force.
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Re: Clipsal 500 aircraft shots

Postby DanielA on Tue Mar 24, 2009 9:52 pm

Thanks Ben.

Ben.bb wrote:Number 3 is amazing, may i ask how you achived that effect?

Luck. 8)
The plane was flying overhead on probably a 90degree angle. I don't remember but I guess he was banking around. That day had a little bit of rain, so for once we had some nice looking clouds around. I tracked the plane with the 80-400VR/D70 (at 300mm apparently) and held down the trigger. In post processing of the NEF, just blackpoint, contrast, saturation and I rotated the image a bit to make the plane horizontal.

Big V wrote:Great shots Daniel, as for the FA18 it is the ARDU plane from the base[...]

Ah, that explains it, thanks. This looks like the same plane as back in 2006, but last year they had a different one.

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Re: Clipsal 500 aircraft shots

Postby superroo on Thu Mar 26, 2009 9:46 am

DanielA wrote:Interesting, three of these shots were taken with my D70. Only the last one was taken with the D2Xs. All using the 80-400VR.
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Great set of images... and just goes to show how good the D70 was and still is!!! You don't always need huge pixel counts to get great images!!! :)

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Re: Clipsal 500 aircraft shots

Postby DanielA on Thu Mar 26, 2009 9:35 pm

superroo wrote:Great set of images... and just goes to show how good the D70 was and still is!!! You don't always need huge pixel counts to get great images!!! :)

Thanks Paul. The D70 is a capable second body, but I do prefer the D2Xs. :D
I like to crop my images in post to better frame the images and I find the 6Mpx a little small sometimes. I find 12Mpx is plenty for me.

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