F-111 at Amberley Air Show – Spectacular Dump and Burn

This F-111 was captured at the Amberley air show doing a dump and burn, this is a most spectacular sight to see. The image was taken with a Nikon D2H and 300mm f/4.0 lens using a monopod. The image was processed in Photoshop and adjusted by cropping, saturation increase, sharpening and a slight curves adjustment to improve the image.

Amberley Air Show Image

This is an image from the Amberley air show taken with the Nikon 300mm f/4 lens on a monopod.  This image was taken with a Nikon D2h, with this camera there is not very much room left for cropping, as the image is only 4MPixel. With many of the more recent cameras, 10MPixel or more, there is much more capability to crop the images. Irrespective of cropping, it is important to frame the image as well as you can.

Composite Image, Amberley Air Show

This composite image of the Amberley air show was made in Photoshop using two layers. The first layer the air show image from an image using the Nikon D2H and 300mm f/4 lens and the second image from a film image of the sun taken many years ago. 

Digital Photography is Marvelous

As we have moved to the digital generation of cameras we have gained many advantages to enhance our photography. We havw access to programes like Photoshop to modify and improve images. We now have full frame cameras with sensors the same size as the original 24x36mm film and we also have cameras with sensors with a crop factor which is a great advantage with telephoto work.

I recently went to the Amberley air show here near Brisbane, Australia. I used a Nikon D2h camera which has a 1.5x crop factor. This effectively turns a 300mm lens into an effective 45mm lens which is a great advantage for this type of photography. All the images below were taken with the Nikon 300mm f/4.0 lens which is a compact and easy to use telephoto lens.