"Fire and Light" – SAAF Oryx Firing Flares © Harvey Grohmann Photography
SAAF Zwartkop AFB Museum Warbirds Airshow 2012-05-12
SAAF Oryx firing flares. Right place right time.
It pays to be prepared and know your camera/lens inside out and major effort and cost go to these shows regularly. This chopper came out of nowhere and fired flares very far from the crowds. I had to react very fast to get a shot sequence. This was image 7/9 and each shot was fired individually, not as part of a high FPS burst hold button down and hope for a good shot BS. Slowish s/s was required to capture (and enhance) running flares and get some blur of the rotors.
The image was chosen for ODP’s Weekly Choice Award, a few Pixoto Awards (Day, Week, Month), and a respectable 36/269 in the Monthly Free Study at DPChallenge.
Shot Details:DSC_6539
NEF-Adjusted WB to Daylight to get the blue back on a very dull day, cooler temp, sharpened.
NEF-TIF 8bit
TL Detail 2, TL DeNoise 5
Clone out sensor dust bunnies
Cropped 800px 72dpi
Smart Sharpened
SFW 100% JPG Nearest Neighbour
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