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Noisemakers

            My social plans didn't involve attending an air show. But they did involve being somewhere airshow-adjacent. One can only have one's conversations interrupted so many times by screeching jets before one picks up a camera and starts shooting.

My major takeaway lesson is that I would have sucked as an anti-aircraft gunner. These things are very very fast and by the time you react to the sound, you're looking at the empty spot in the sky where they were a few seconds ago.

It was another good outing for the E-M1, even though its focus tracking feature wasn't meant to lock and maintain focus on anything moving so quickly. My windows of opportunity were literally two seconds long apiece...and that wasn't always enough time for me to even to get the things inside the viewfinder.

The answer? Manual focus, the tiniest aperture possible, shooting at 10 frames per second...and LUCK. I can't even imagine the amount of skill required to get a shot like this with a film camera. I would have blown through four rolls of film and I absolutely needed the E-M1's full 10 frames per second.

Notes for Future Andy: Start off with the zoom at its widest and zoom in when you've got 'em in frame. And: go for a smaller aperture (f16 or even f22 for maximum focus-forgiveness) and an even shorter shutter speed, even if it means losing a stop or two of ISO. You might have nabbed more than one good image if you'd figured all of this out sooner.

(Good call, by the way, on going for overexposure. It lightened the shadows up enough to bring out the details on the fuselages.)

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Taken on: May 17, 2014

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Blue Angels

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Sets appears in: • Olympus E-M1

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