A few weeks ago I went with my friends to see an air show. The schedule was packed with acrobatics and many types of aircraft. The highlight of the event was the blue angles with their jets doing dangerous routines. I took my camera hoping to capture some good digital memories of that program.
I took my digital SLR camera for the spectacle plane. I put in my bag special camera with an extra battery and lenses. He used eight-megapixel digital SLR with a 100-300mm lens Zoon.
I decided to take pictures that I have known from experience that the rule in these cases, a large number of jobs and take the photos you can and you might be able to find some pictures that are truly unique. So when the planes started flying around I had my camera on them and from that moment I saw most of the air show through the viewfinder of my camera.
I put my camera to continuous autofocus. I had my finger pressed the shutter button halfway for most of the time while I'm moving the camera to capture fast aircraft. He could hear the engine working camera optical components is difficult moving the lens back and forth to keep the right approach. Also, put the camera in burst mode, so when I decided that the composition of the penalty to take a picture of what actually caused a rapid sequence of four photos. The idea behind it was the first to get more pictures to choose from, with fast planes these four photos were very different and, second, perhaps, be able to capture some movement in a sequence of pictures.
Over time the hands are tired of hold the camera and the capture was not as stable anymore. Unfortunately I did not bring a tripod and probably would not have used, even if I did, because it is difficult to track aircraft in flight on one especially when there are thousands of people around. When I looked at the photos that night I saw the results of my hands tired of digital photos later were not as strong and constant, as the old.
When I saw the results of my work, my reaction was to go for fancy glasses with built-in image stabilizer in them. There are two types of image stabilizer that moves the sensor and that actually uses gyroscopes to move a floating optical element that compensates for the agitation. The latter is more expensive and offers better results. I saw some people around with image stabilizer Canon zoom lens I do not know how effective it was for them, but that seemed impressive.
There are drawbacks to using the image stabilizer and indeed some of these issues are very important for my program to shoot aerial photography. Move the camera to track a plane crash stunt can confuse the image stabilizer that can detect the movement and tremors that are unwanted and therefore try to compensate. If I had an image stabilizer that has had to use different practices to shoot my pictures and try to move the camera on an axis and in a more or less constant speed.
Overall, I was able to choose some great stunts without a lot of planes flying close to each other, a plane with some birds flying in what seems to be very close and the image as a digital photo of the aircraft in different situations . These will serve as a good reminder that I am the air and a lesson to get a better show in my next plane shooting digital photos.