Well I was out and about with the camera and the 500mm ( as you do) today and the Red Arrows are flying near us so I pulled over and got some shots, will upload them as they go up as the files are rather large and taking a while to upload... but I managed to get one pretty much of the pilots, hello Mr Pilot man!

Nice

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1996 ST205 UK

Thanks! Got loads more just not uploaded them yet.

it wasnt particularly easy in the dull light as they were going pretty damn fast but in the probably 10mins tops i stood there i took 587photos. haha

Machinegun fire with a very fast focussing lens is bad on your HDD. haha

10 mins, 600 shots....pffft. Did you stop for a tea break?

Even my ole 6d will do 3 pps and TrackToy's water cooled, belt sdcard fed rig would probably result in Warthogs trying to hide their GAU-8 guns out of sheer embarrassment

Cracking pic though. It looks like the wing would have given you a good haircut

haha, yeah they were circling etc so i had plenty of break times, fired off full throttle on passes.

Shoots fast enough so i managed to get the whole barrel roll of one of them which i shall put up in a bit.

Cheers for that, they did fly rather low, i would say even as low as probably two times a normal 2 storey house so with it on 500mm and then add the Canon crop factor totalling 800mm it was pretty easy to get a up close shot..... but pretty hard with how fast they were flying!

I am suprised they don't hit anything though they go so so low I never actually realised it till paying full attention today like

Yeah giving it all the big guns like, was spectacular to watch even if it was a miserable, pants, dull day.

Well we went out tonight as it was a lovely evening and all i can say is wow, got some fantastic shots of the arrows flying full formation coming in to land on the sunset.... we are lucky indeed.

and just one more for good luck, epic pilots and machines

Nice atmospheric pics Dale if you pardon the pun!

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These are awesome!

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1996 ST205 UK

thanks guys!

They are only low resolution copies too so the full file look rather good viewed at 100 percent too.

got far too many more.

You really are getting some superb shots lately.

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Fantastic, thanks for the words guys!