I live at the back of a Microlight Training School and they come over quite low most of the time, any tips as ive never photographed any Flying Objects and would love to try.
I am a microlight pilot and been a photographer for what feels like all my life, certainly since being about 8 (some 32 years I make that then). I have a microlight community web site www.microlightwings.com and have plenty of photos I have taken over the last couple of years. Most of the ones you will see from the air whilst flying are taken with my trusty Canon G9.
If you go to the links on the Popham Microlight Trade Fair all of the photos of moving aircraft were taken with my Canon 10D and 70-200 IS 2.8L.
I tend to keep to low ISO weather/daylight permitting and use shutter speed of 500-1000 and let the camera take care of apperture. To get a good blured affect on the props I'll go for 250 or even 125, but bare in mind i'm using a very fast lens and with image stabalization so panning on servo is a dream.
If daylight is good you cannot go wrong with 1000+ shutter speed. That way you can almost guarntee a good sharp image. Remember composition is much more important though, so you may end up cropping your images.
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