AT Shot of the Day Thread

[Gintaras]

Red Tailed came to my neighborhood on saturday...:

 

[CuriousMike]

Still doting on my new hound,

 

[VulgarDisplay]

Now you're just showing off....

:biggrin:

 

[Nohr]

 

[007ELmO]

Just got a Teahouse gazebo installed in the backyard.

 

[CuriousMike]

Dude's got a putting green for a backyard.

 

[Spoooon]

Now you're just showing off....

:biggrin:

A few from tonight (Bombadil (one of my favorites) and South Carolina Broadcasters (a bluegrass kind of group)), processing is slightly different with each shot, just messing around.

1. Sound check

2. Some bluegrass

3.

4.

 

[Gintaras]

Took these pics yesterday:

Qantas "Boxing Kangaroo" B747:

Virgin America "Beard - San Fransisco 49's" A320:

Jet Blue "Boston 'Red Sox'" A320:

Thanks for looking....

 

[Sunny129]

^ is that the roof of your house in the foreground of the first 2 pictures?!?

 

[Spoooon]

^ is that the roof of your house in the foreground of the first 2 pictures?!?

I was wondering the same thing.

 

[Sunny129]

I was wondering the same thing.

if that is in fact the roof to his home, i feel for him. my place of work is less than a 1/4 mile from airport property, and we're directly lined up with a major runway...so airplanes make our building rumble and shake when either taking off or landing (depending on the wind direction at the time). fortunately i'm in Sarasota, so while our airport is int'l, it isn't nearly as busy as say Tampa Int'l, LAX, O'hare, etc. judging by the size of the planes in the pictures and their proximity to the ground, i'd say the OP was approx. the same distance from that airport as our office is from our local airport when he took those shots. also, due to the limited size of our local airport, we rarely see birds as large as B747's and the like...usually its B737s, B757s, A320s, etc.

 

[Gintaras]

I was wondering the same thing.

Yes, there were roof of a house...

I was taking photos from "spot B" as on that map:

http://www.nycaviation.com/spotting-guides/jfk/

Airplanes were going to a landing on JFK Runaway 22L, there were also planes coming to runaway 22R, but these airplanes were backlit...

Besides me, there were other 6 guys taking photos of arriving aircrafts. Police drove by, but they didn't bother us much...just asked some questions, like: "where do we upload photos" and such....

I'm not that experienced, just a hobby...if you want more of my aviation photos:

http://www.airport-data.com/photographers/gbmax:5834/

I was also same afternoon at Wildlife Refuge that's close to JFK, took photo of juvenile heron:

 

[Gintaras]

if that is in fact the roof to his home, i feel for him. my place of work is less than a 1/4 mile from airport property, and we're directly lined up with a major runway...so airplanes make our building rumble and shake when either taking off or landing (depending on the wind direction at the time). fortunately i'm in Sarasota, so while our airport is int'l, it isn't nearly as busy as say Tampa Int'l, LAX, O'hare, etc. judging by the size of the planes in the pictures and their proximity to the ground, i'd say the OP was approx. the same distance from that airport as our office is from our local airport when he took those shots. also, due to the limited size of our local airport, we rarely see birds as large as B747's and the like...usually its B737s, B757s, A320s, etc.

Funny...but one of guys that were on that spot taking photos or arriving aircrafts at some point told: "For those people that live in these houses, aircrafts make a noise...but for us(who take photos of aircrafts)) plane engines do sound like a music to us..."

And another guy, that was taking photos, when Air France B777 came in, he just told: "I love those 777 engines(sound)..."

It was good for me, because a couple of guys had scanners...another guy had iPad...so, we knew what planes are coming in....

It's a very Serious Hobby...there are some "wanted", special aircrafts that you have to have a photo of it....And if people do have a photo of that aircraft, they always try to get a better photo of that airplane - different angles, better quality...etc...

 

[Spoooon]

Yes, there were roof of a house...

I was taking photos from "spot B" as on that map:

http://www.nycaviation.com/spotting-guides/jfk/

Airplane shots, and the heron, all great. I keep thinking about going to the local airport to see what I can get.

edit: Recent shot

 

[Gintaras]

Not so recent....:

 

[CuriousMike]

So, I lept before I looked.
I ordered a $39 flash on Amazon with hopes of replacing my SB400.
The SB400 is fine for my uses, but it won't tilt-bouce ( portrait. )

This Neener ( link: http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B00...?ie=UTF8&psc=1 ) seemed awesome, and it actually sorta-is ... except it doesn't meter (?) from the camera.
With my SB400, my Shutter speed locks to 1/60. I can fiddle with aperture, the shutter stays at 60 and magically the photos all turn out reasonable when the flash fires.

With this flash, I can be in a dark environment with my apeture opened up and it'll say "needs 2 second exposure", ignoring that I have the flash on.
The flash fires when I take the photo, but the exposure is 2 seconds.

The only way to use it is to go full manual mode, and I'm too lazy for that.

However, I did manage this photo with it.

Edit: Huh, looking at the EXIF data on the photo I just posted, it says "flash did not fire" but it clearly did.

 

[007ELmO]

Dude has a cat for a home

 

[CuriousMike]

Dude has a cat for a home

LOL, touche.

 

[Spoooon]

One of my shots made it into Dyxum Exhibition #324.

 

[justin4pack]

Sons football game today. This looks like it hurts....

 

[Nohr]

The Summer Triangle and Nova Delphini 2013 in moonlit clouds. Click to see the notes on Flickr.

 

[CuriousMike]

Sons football game today. This looks like it hurts....

Ho-ree cow.

That is some neck-snappin' fun right there.

 

[CuriousMike]

I've been trying the past week to get a good action shot of my dog.
I shot this at 1/1600th of a second, and her eye is still not in focus; although maybe her chest is?
I'm shooting with spot focus and AF-continuous, and trying like hell to keep that spot on her as she's hauling ass at me.

Is it possible the photo is in focus ( on her chest ), or is it blurry due to too slow of shutter? Or my movement?

 

[dougp]

I've been trying the past week to get a good action shot of my dog.
I shot this at 1/1600th of a second, and her eye is still not in focus; although maybe her chest is?
I'm shooting with spot focus and AF-continuous, and trying like hell to keep that spot on her as she's hauling ass at me.

Is it possible the photo is in focus ( on her chest ), or is it blurry due to too slow of shutter? Or my movement?

What aperture are you shooting?

 

[CuriousMike]

What aperture are you shooting?

That particular photo was f6.3 -- the ISO was already at 1000.

In the back of my mind, I'm trying to balance ISO to get a fast shutter speed... while stopping down my consumer 55-200 a wee-bit to get it sharper.

Maybe something like f8.0 would have more in focus ... but sacrifice a bit of noise?