It is really hard....

[NicoleScraps]

to photograph a paper airplane in mid air. Did anyone else know this? LOL. My kids are outside having a contest to see who can build and then fly an airplane the furthest. I told them that I would give a cookie to whomever could hit my camera with a paper airplane. My idea was to get the airplane coming out me with one of the kids out of focus a bit in the background.
Didn't work out so well. Not really. At All. LOL!

[Jim Poor]

THAT sounds like a load of fun!

Originally Posted by NicoleScraps

to photograph a paper airplane in mid air. Did anyone else know this? LOL. My kids are outside having a contest to see who can build and then fly an airplane the furthest. I told them that I would give a cookie to whomever could hit my camera with a paper airplane. My idea was to get the airplane coming out me with one of the kids out of focus a bit in the background.
Didn't work out so well. Not really. At All. LOL!

[NicoleScraps]

Originally Posted by Jim Poor

THAT sounds like a load of fun!

It is fun! What they are doing is proof that my daughter has the awesomest teacher ever. She does not do very much book work. She does experiments with them (in math and science) instead of lecturing them. My daughter cannot WAIT to come everyday to share and recreate the experiments. I love that teacher!!

[AnonymousKiwi1]

Oh, what a great project! I bet the kids are keen to keep tyring for that cookie.

[AnonymousKiwi1]

And yay for awesome teachers!

[NicoleScraps]

Originally Posted by AnonymousKiwi1

Oh, what a great project! I bet the kids are keen to keep tyring for that cookie.

I was out there for about an hour, trying to get them to hit the camera and then trying to pan a paper airplane in flight. I got a whole bunch of really bad photos, so I gave up. LOL. They are still competing though.

[Tamster]

Haha ... That sounds like fun! WHat a fun idea!

[tasmo2]

This may be a dumb question, but were you set to AF-C?

ETA: Now I REALLY want to try this! LOL! And I bet a ton of other people do as well... we will have to see how many paper airplane shots there are by monday! LOL!

[NicoleScraps]

Originally Posted by tasmo2

This may be a dumb question, but were you set to AF-C?

ETA: Now I REALLY want to try this! LOL! And I bet a ton of other people do as well... we will have to see how many paper airplane shots there are by monday! LOL!

Not sure what AF-C is, but I had the camera set on continuous shooting, and al servo for focus.

[tasmo2]

Originally Posted by NicoleScraps

Not sure what AF-C is, but I had the camera set on continuous shooting, and al servo for focus.

LOL sorry.. AF-C is what my nikon calls it, yes its the same as continuous servo!