Asian Aerospace 2004

[Jer76]

All taken with the Sigma 70-300mm APO F4-5.6... Those of you going remember to bring sunblock.. I just became a cooked prawn

Dhruv ALH Team


F111C


F-15C


Mirage 2000C


Rafale B.301


Kiran MK II ( India Aerobatics )

[mervlam]

Originally Posted by Jer76 F-15C

hmmm... looks more like the Echo instead of the Charlie

[roygoh]

How about cutting through the haze and adding some polarizer effect in PS?





Hope you don't mind.

- Roy

[dkw]

Originally Posted by Jer76 All taken with the Sigma 70-300mm APO F4-5.6... Those of you going remember to bring sunblock.. I just became a cooked prawn

Hey Jeremy,
really nice shots. Good to know the Sigma 70-300 is capable of these. Are these cropped or can you fill the frame with this lens? Do you mind posting the link to your pbase account please, just like to have a closer look at the EXIF for these.

Best Regards,

[lauLEE]

Originally Posted by roygoh How about cutting through the haze and adding some polarizer effect in PS? Hope you don't mind. - Roy

Wonderful PS!

[Jer76]

Wonderful PS.. its ok as i was tinking how to get rid of the haze effect.. those interested in the settings used can check out the exif data in my album http://www.pbase.com/jer76/asian_aerospace_2004 yes most of the shots were cropped.. hehe the sigma was fast enuf to capture those jets.. guess a canon L would be better

[Jer76]

Hey Roy how did you do those polarizer effects? Can share if its not a secret actually i brought along a polarizer but by the time i "tune" it i would have missed the shot

[Java_Guru]

Originally Posted by Jer76 Hey Roy how did you do those polarizer effects? Can share if its not a secret actually i brought along a polarizer but by the time i "tune" it i would have missed the shot

Did you need to be in the compound to take the photos of the aerial display? Or can you be at the changi beach(FOC) and take them?

Hoping to take some nice pics. But sky very hazy even today.

[roygoh]

Originally Posted by Jer76 Hey Roy how did you do those polarizer effects? Can share if its not a secret actually i brought along a polarizer but by the time i "tune" it i would have missed the shot

No secret lah...just adjust the levels. I used the smoke from the centre 3 planes as reference white point, so I sampled the brightest portion of the smoke and adjusted the max points of the R, G and B channels such that the sampled pixels have R=G=B=245. Since there is no black area in the photo to set the black point, I just used my judgement and pulled the min point for each channel until the hazy effect went away. I also played with the mid points to deepen the blue sky to give the polarizer effect.

[jbma]

Are you at Chanig beach or at the actual paid site. I was thinking of going to Changi beach. Would that be a good vantage point? I was there once many years ago and the air display was pretty good at Changi Point. Thanks.

[reachme2003]

I believe that one can go to the beach opposite the exhibition site using public bus without buying a ticket. For watching the aerial display only.

[Jer76]

Yupz you don't have to go into the exhibition to get good pics.. the beach oppersit the exhibiton offers a much better view IMO, and what more its free and if you lucky u can find a good spot with shady trees.. inside they provide stadium kind of seating under the sun..

[steely]

very nice F-15 shot!

[Jer76]

Originally Posted by steely very nice F-15 shot!

Thanks bro !

[Minimalis]

Originally Posted by mervlam hmmm... looks more like the Echo instead of the Charlie

Yup. it's a hard sell for Boeing of the E variant to the singapore government. I really hope they'll purchase this plane, quite dated, but still one of the best air superiority fighters in the world.

[hwchoy]

Originally Posted by Minimalis Yup. it's a hard sell for Boeing of the E variant to the singapore government. I really hope they'll purchase this plane, quite dated, but still one of the best air superiority fighters in the world.

I thought on bid is the updated "tango" version?

[Jer76]

Originally Posted by Minimalis Yup. it's a hard sell for Boeing of the E variant to the singapore government. I really hope they'll purchase this plane, quite dated, but still one of the best air superiority fighters in the world.

Ehh not sure leh bro coz in the flying program they put F-15C.. but wadever it is i am really impressed by the F-15 la, the sound of the engines oso shoik