Hey photographer types!

[Mike]

So I'm going to the airshow at Pease this weekend and would like to try my hand and getting some nice action shots of the planes. I have a Nikon D5000 and have managed to get fairly decent at composing still shots but have never tried anything like this. Any tips? I currently have the 18-55mm lens the camera came with, a 55-200 I bought because I needed a zoom lens but couldn't afford the two birds with one stone 18-200 and I just bought a 70-300mm lens because what I have been able to find recommends a lens that size for airshows.

Thoughts?

[GeoffC8]

Fastest shutter speed you can manage. Manual focus and tape down the focus ring at infinity on the 70-300 for shooting stuff in the sky.

[CanonShooter]

70-300. Try continuous autofocus setting and see how well the camera/lens combo tracks the planes.

ISO 400, aperture priority wide open.

[Aperture]

70-300. Try continuous autofocus setting and see how well the camera/lens combo tracks the planes.

ISO 400, aperture priority wide open.

This is an old thread but this guy knows his ****. Listen to him

[Mike]

Thanks for the tips everyone! I'll do my best to get some shots worth sharing tomorrow!

[Mike]

A few of the 800+ pics I took:


Click this. (http://www.facebook.com/album.php?aid=2048539&id=1242324567&l=48d4466936)

[im_so_blue]

i think you did pretty good!
i can imagine how hard it is to shoot jets as they are moving so fast and at air shows i imagine they are alot closer to the ground then a basic training session so they go by faster to the eye.