P51 Mustang & F15 Eagle- Geneseo Air Show, Geneseo, NY-USA

[absgtr]

From Digital Photo School

P-51 Mustang & F-15 Strike Eagle.
Even if you're not into aircraft, you might enjoy this photo. I took this photo July-12th-2009 at the Geneseo Air Show, Geneseo, NY-USA.

It is of a WW II P-51 Mustang Flying in very tight formation with a modern F-15 Eagle Jet. AMAZING to watch in person. Once in a while you get lucky and nail one like this !

I am a total newbie with this camera and this was my very first time ever shooting high speed action subjects. I learned really quickly you have to do everything in manual mode, set the zoom, leave it and make minor adjustments to the focus and squeeze off as they fly by.

Image Data:
Camera: Nikon D90
Date_Time: 2009-07-12 14:18:28
Exposure Time = 1/2500"
F Number = F6.3
Exposure Program = Shutter Priority
ISO Speed Used = 320
White Balance = AUTO
Focus Mode = MANUAL
Lens Type = Nikon G series Lens 70 - 300 mm
Focal Length = 210mm

[Hayward Taylor]

Hello and welcome if this is your first post - wow .. this is exciting stuff .. the whole package here .. very well photographed

[tycooder]

Great capture perfect focus exposer and framing nice job

[absgtr]

Thank you for the kind comments. Slowly I am getting back in photography as a hobbie after many years of only using a point and shoot. Between 1976 and 1990 I was a pretty avid amateur and I'd like to think that back then I knew hot to "get the shot".
Now, I feel I have a great camera, but I have to constantly refer to the users manual to figure out what I want to do and how to set it up.

This digital-photography-school.com web site, it's forums, the weekly newsletters, etc....are just fantastic for someone like me trying to re-learn it again.

[fstopMike]

Wow! You learn quickly. This is a great shot, and something special to see a couple of the greatest warplanes of all time, side-by-side. Thanks for sharing.

[vakeel]

Awsome shots, man. It is amazing how a 30,000 lb. jet with 60,000 lb. thrust can stay in formation with a piston engined WWII machine. I also love your Negative Space. Great job.

[leonaashlee]

P51 has always been my favorite plane...this is a great shot.

[Ella1267]

Welcome to DPS.....AWESOME SHOT!!!

[gturner]

that is a super shoot! Nice work.
it gives a fantastic perspective on how aircraft have changed. The mustang was not small for its day and the F15 makes it look like a toy

[Luck Chaser]

Great one, really cool!

It seems to me that the most important thing is to know how to "get the shot". The rest just takes a bit of practice with the camera and getting used to new possibilities, like having the third lever for exposure, ISO.

Great photo, keep them coming!