I was on the other side of town, looking at you over on the hill. Unfortunately this year the Arrows chose to cross behind a big pine tree
I was using a 100-400mm on a 40D. No chance of getting to Torquay, I'll still be at work.
I'm still trying to work out how to get images up!
Hi Jon thanks for sharing and pleased you sorted out the vagaries of posting it does get easier (honest). I was doing a wedding on Saturday and spent Sunday ploughing through 1,000 RAWs deep joy
Sorry you cant make Wednesday Torquay is a nice display, I just hope the weather sorts itself as it is dark and miserable at the moment. Looking back I must admit that Dawlish turned out to be a very small show, I still do not know what happened to the Battle of Britain flight it was a shame especially when compared to the enviable and complex flying schedules offered at Bournemouth and Shoreham even Dartmouth is greatly restricted this year!
Your camera lens combination should be more than capable of delivering the goods, especially adding in the 1.6 factor of your 40D body - making that white trombone a handy 160-640 equiv the only advantage about being up the hill was that you were at cockpit height. The downside was that you are well away from the main axis of the display, which is centred on the town.
Picking up on your images, they do seem a bit muddy not sure if it is a problem of the processing or at the taking stage - I have looked at a couple in PS and there is more to be had out of the images, in several they can be improved by using levels and curves not sure what level you are with these tools I also find that in this age of whizzo moniors, it is not quite as simple as it used to be, on my work machine these are not looking great, but possibly on my home machine they would be better. Re taking there is an element of trial and error with these things, I find that with my 1D MKIIN using Evaluative Metering the camera exposure is fine as displayed, with my older MKII I have to dial in between -1/3 and -1/2 stop to nail the picture I also tend to use ISO 400 most of the time
I am also relatively new on here and still trying to work out how it all works, I tend to lose things, but I will try to keep an eye out for your next pictures.