Spotting At Nzwn (2 Of 2)

[JonARNZ]

Love the cloud on some of these 1900 and 340 shots...

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Sounds Air Caravan




Saab 340







Lucky last...



If anyones interested in Hi-res originals, PM me.

[ZK-Brock]

Hooray, I'm liking that Tomahawk there Jon.

[ardypilot]

Love the Saab 340/2000 fuselage shape

Also, someone really needs to paint a flyable Sounds Air caravan for FS, preferably in time for REAL NZ Marlborough (hint hint)

[JonARNZ]

Love the Saab 340/2000 fuselage shape

Also, someone really needs to paint a flyable Sounds Air caravan for FS, preferably in time for REAL NZ Marlborough (hint hint)

Who knows what will be released at the same time as the scenery eh B)

[JonARNZ]

Hooray, I'm liking that Tomahawk there Jon.

Do you know it personally monkeybdg?

[ashton]

gee that must of been a good spot there

you must of been very close to the start of the Rwy

B) B) B) B) B)

[ZK-Brock]

Hooray, I'm liking that Tomahawk there Jon.

Do you know it personally monkeybdg?

Nah, I just like Tomahawks in general

[JonARNZ]

gee that must of been a good spot there

you must of been very close to the start of the Rwy

B) B) B) B) B)

Yup, very close. If you check the spotters intelligence you will see a map of NZWN and most of the places you can go. This area allows you to be on the centerline, with the safety extension completed it provides protection from the northerly, and ideal low level head on spotting.

[Zöltuger]

that must be so weird for the pilots coming in, seeing some bloke standing near the threshold, on the centreline

[Alex]

Great shots, loving that Beech Jon.
What sort of camera/lens are you using?

Alex

[JonARNZ]

Thanks Alex, its a Fuji S5600 Finepix, 10X optical zoom

[FlyingKiwi]

Nice photos, that Tomahawk appears to be ZK-WAG which is usually based at the Auckland Aero Club just down the road from my flying school.

[JonARNZ]

Nice photos, that Tomahawk appears to be ZK-WAG which is usually based at the Auckland Aero Club just down the road from my flying school.

Its actually ZK-WAC..

[FlyingKiwi]

Ah ok. It has the same paintscheme. I don't think I'd want to fly a Traumahawk all the way to Wellington from Auckland anyway.

[JonARNZ]

that must be so weird for the pilots coming in, seeing some bloke standing near the threshold, on the centreline

I've wondered that myself sometimes, mind you not sure how much time they would have to look hard enough to see me, and with my concrete camouflage on...

[Kelburn]

I've flown ZK-WAC

[ardypilot]

its a Fuji S5600 Finepix, 10X optical zoom

Cool, I have a Fujifilm S7000 finepix

[JonARNZ]

Nice, whats the megapixels?

[ardypilot]

Nice, whats the megapixels?

Max is 12mp, but I take most my shots on 6mp, so they are still fairly large and I can crop them down and still get a decent image out of my rather badly taken photographs.

The camera is actually my Dad's but I borrow it frequently. It has loads of features on it which I still need to learn how to use such as the aperture settings. Also, I really want to get a shot of an in focus aircraft with a blurred 'moving' background- anyone know how to do this?

Also, another thing that I need to learn is how to get the sky the correct colour. There is an autofocus button which you click once aimed on the object you are taking a picture of, eg an airplane. Once that happens, the camera adjusts the light so the aircraft is sharp and in nice bright colour, but the sky either goes all white or a really bright light green/blue colour. Anyone know what I am doing wrong there?

[Charl]

Also, I really want to get a shot of an in focus aircraft with a blurred 'moving' background- anyone know how to do this?
Also, another thing that I need to learn is how to get the sky the correct colour. There is an autofocus button which you click once aimed on the object you are taking a picture of, eg an airplane. Once that happens, the camera adjusts the light so the aircraft is sharp and in nice bright colour, but the sky either goes all white or a really bright light green/blue colour. Anyone know what I am doing wrong there?

For the blurry background you use a relatively slow shutter speed 1/250th or so, and pan the aircarft as it flies past.
How you'd do that on a modern point 'n shoot is beyond me.
And, you can expose for ambient light by pre-pointing at the horizon not the plane and adjusting contrast etc later on your computer.