Some snapshots @RSAF Open House at Paya Lebar Airbase (2-3 Sep)

[Clockunder]

I'm surprise that this forum has not been flooded with photos of the above event.

Camera : Nikon Coolpix 5700

No. of pictures : 15

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[zcf]

nice shots generally.

The sky look post processed and what with the white rainbow shape thing at the sky???

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[merkava74]

Originally Posted by Clockunder #7

This one looks scary! The blades are not turning, and the chinook is pointing down... looks as if it's going to crash...

[smallaperture]

Pretty well done using a non-SLR camera. I know many dSLR shooters could not capture the flying jets.

I am also surprised why there shouldn't be more members posting their shots here. Maybe, some of them got great shots, but wanna to keep for themselves.

I remember after the AA airshow, there were quite a few awesome shots.

[Clockunder]

Originally Posted by zcf nice shots generally. The sky look post processed and what with the white rainbow shape thing at the sky???

The skies in most pictures above are post-processed because the timing of the day wasn't really ideal as the dynamic range is too large to have both the subject and sky be properly exposed.

The rainbow is for fun.

Here's another shot of that artillery gun in the morning one day earlier :

[Clockunder]

Originally Posted by merkava74 This one looks scary! The blades are not turning, and the chinook is pointing down... looks as if it's going to crash...

The Chinook was taking off after leaving 2 vehicles on the ground and landed briefly. Then I quickly switched from the smallest aperture F/8 (to have a slowest shutter speed) in the previous shots to the widest aperture F/2.8 to freeze the rotating blades in the picture above.

Here's a picture of it shot with F/8 just before it landed briefly.

[Outlook]

Originally Posted by Clockunder #4 [/IMG]

Nice expression.

[Clockunder]

Originally Posted by smallaperture Pretty well done using a non-SLR camera. I know many dSLR shooters could not capture the flying jets. I am also surprised why there shouldn't be more members posting their shots here. Maybe, some of them got great shots, but wanna to keep for themselves. I remember after the AA airshow, there were quite a few awesome shots.

Yeh, I was expecting to see many nice shots of F16s and F5s with lots of details posted in this forum but so far nothing much. Those shots from AA a few months back were really stunning.

My camera doesn't have enough reach to catch the fighter planes with much details when they are high up flying. The closest I got to them was during their landings and I couldn't get as vivid details as those with long zooms on DSLRs. These 2 panning shots are quite similar in composition to those already posted by others :

[Clockunder]

Originally Posted by Outlook Nice expression.

Haha. I have quite a no. of shots on the provost display but another forumer has already shown many provost shots in this forum. I chose to show this picture because he looked as if his rifle was super heavy .... although I think his face would probably be better framed if it's a little higher in the frame.

[huaiwei]

Originally Posted by Clockunder Haha. I have quite a no. of shots on the provost display but another forumer has already shown many provost shots in this forum. I chose to show this picture because he looked as if his rifle was super heavy .... although I think his face would probably be better framed if it's a little higher in the frame.

A tad chubby loh.

I didnt post my provost shots coz I was right next to that photographer, so wont mind seeing yours if its from a different angle?

[Clockunder]

Originally Posted by huaiwei A tad chubby loh. I didnt post my provost shots coz I was right next to that photographer, so wont mind seeing yours if its from a different angle?

The provost display was already pretty well covered in the pictures posted by Stanly in his thread : http://forums.clubsnap.org/showthread.php?t=220272

I was standing at about the third row from the front and got blocked by lots of heads in front. So couldn't do very much in terms of compositions and shot by holding my camera with my outstretched hands above my head.

Here's a short video (less than 1 minute) of the provost display taken by my Nikon camera and you can see where I was shooting from :

http://www.yousendit.com/transfer.ph...E3DE473BD2F31C

Here's another provost picture :

[dRebelXT]

Originally Posted by smallaperture Pretty well done using a non-SLR camera. I know many dSLR shooters could not capture the flying jets.

that sounds like me. Click click, either shoot head or tail but never full aircraft.

[Clockunder]

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I'd set my camera to shoot 3 fps but after the first shot below (showing the first paratrooper jumping out of the C130), my camera battery went flat and I had to change battery and as a result, missed shooting the rest of this scene.

[smallaperture]

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I'd set my camera to shoot 3 fps but after the first shot below (showing the first paratrooper jumping out of the C130), my camera battery went flat and I had to change battery and as a result, missed shooting the rest of this scene.

Guess you must have taken like 500 or more shots at the show. Actually shooting itself doesn't take up that much juice; the culprit is the LCD, especially those huge 2.5inch or even 3inch LCDs.

[littlejt]

dam i missed the airshow.. was bz..
haha the army people looks constipated