Posted by Nigel Blake on March 21, 2008 at 9:22 AM
A tight telephoto landscape taken at Ringstead in Norfolk, the usual canon kit, and RAW processing in Breeze white bal changed to cloudy for more punchy sky colours, PP CS3.
2008:01:27 17:32:10
840mm
1/250 sec, f/13
Mode: Av
Metering: Evaluative
ISO: 400
AF mode: AI Servo AF
Drive: Continuous: frame 1
White balance: Auto
Flash: Off
File size: 13.8MB
Image size: 4992 x 3328
Color matrix 4: Adobe RGB
Color space: AdobeRGB
Saturation: Normal
Contrast: -1
Sharpness level: 0
Tone: Normal
I've been braving snow, ice and hail up in the Welsh mountains again this week http://ngbjets.blogspot.com my hand-held high-speed panning with the 600mm is getting some serious practice! and I managed to get some corking "air to air" shots of Raven, Buzzard and Red Kite whilst there, I will post some in due course.
Posted by Andy Astbury on March 21, 2008 at 9:44 AM
Cracking image Nigel - I do like these tele landscapes
Some great jet shots there too - top gun on
If ever you are up in the Borders there's a great place for high speed jets on full afterburners at super-low level.
Go to Moffatt and take the Selkirk road and anywhere up the valley from Craigieburn up to St.Mary's loch is awesome for heavy traffic from the fly-boys and really spectacular as they hug the contours and try to follow the twists and turns in the Moffatt Water river.
There's a big lefthand downstream bend in the river just above the Selkirk end of Craigieburn and if you follow the forestry track you come out above the tree line - last winter there was a fair bit of snow hanging in the trees and every day jets came down there and overshot the bend slightly which brought them above the trees - it was like the sequence out of Behind Enemy Lines - bloody great rooster-tails of snow and the pine tops swaying like they'd been hit by a nuke blast - spectacular in an understatement to say the least!
Posted by Nigel Blake on March 21, 2008 at 9:49 AM
Cheers Andy,
and yes I have done the Selkirk Moffatt area too, its better when the sun is higher in the middle part of the year, as the jets are often right down in the shadows in the winter months. Its also pretty good at Tebay near Junction 38 on the M6.
Posted by Paul Inglis on March 21, 2008 at 9:55 AM
Hi Nigel,
Awesome! What's left to say!
Posted by Andy Astbury on March 21, 2008 at 10:04 AM
The middle part of the year!!!??? Up there!!!
You are a braver man than me - way too many midges then - I keep away
In the winter I'm usually up there in full cammo doing things with Roe deer, sneaking about like some demented terrorist. The silence is deafening when there's snow down and the mist is around, then suddenly the world splits in two as a Tornado flashes past with two stacks of dancing-diamonds behind it, and just as quick as it arrived, it's gone.
I always leaves me feeling the same - " if the RAF is on your case then you might as well forget everything!"
Have fun Nigel
Posted by Major Gilbert on March 21, 2008 at 1:33 PM
Just begining to worry about you a bit Nigel.
Whats with all these good looking landscapes
Still I can see you had to come to Norfolk where the sun always shines on the righteous.
Major.
Posted by Nigel Blake on March 21, 2008 at 1:46 PM
No need to worry Major, I'm just getting some new bird images ready for the blog at the mo! and the new "all singing and dancing" web-site is not far off now either!
Posted by John Arthur on March 21, 2008 at 4:43 PM
Very nice, looks more like the serengeti than Norfolk
Discussion
7 replies2008:01:27 17:32:10
840mm
1/250 sec, f/13
Mode: Av
Metering: Evaluative
ISO: 400
AF mode: AI Servo AF
Drive: Continuous: frame 1
White balance: Auto
Flash: Off
File size: 13.8MB
Image size: 4992 x 3328
Color matrix 4: Adobe RGB
Color space: AdobeRGB
Saturation: Normal
Contrast: -1
Sharpness level: 0
Tone: Normal
I've been braving snow, ice and hail up in the Welsh mountains again this week http://ngbjets.blogspot.com my hand-held high-speed panning with the 600mm is getting some serious practice! and I managed to get some corking "air to air" shots of Raven, Buzzard and Red Kite whilst there, I will post some in due course.
Some great jet shots there too - top gun on
If ever you are up in the Borders there's a great place for high speed jets on full afterburners at super-low level.
Go to Moffatt and take the Selkirk road and anywhere up the valley from Craigieburn up to St.Mary's loch is awesome for heavy traffic from the fly-boys and really spectacular as they hug the contours and try to follow the twists and turns in the Moffatt Water river.
There's a big lefthand downstream bend in the river just above the Selkirk end of Craigieburn and if you follow the forestry track you come out above the tree line - last winter there was a fair bit of snow hanging in the trees and every day jets came down there and overshot the bend slightly which brought them above the trees - it was like the sequence out of Behind Enemy Lines - bloody great rooster-tails of snow and the pine tops swaying like they'd been hit by a nuke blast - spectacular in an understatement to say the least!
and yes I have done the Selkirk Moffatt area too, its better when the sun is higher in the middle part of the year, as the jets are often right down in the shadows in the winter months. Its also pretty good at Tebay near Junction 38 on the M6.
Awesome! What's left to say!
You are a braver man than me - way too many midges then - I keep away
In the winter I'm usually up there in full cammo doing things with Roe deer, sneaking about like some demented terrorist. The silence is deafening when there's snow down and the mist is around, then suddenly the world splits in two as a Tornado flashes past with two stacks of dancing-diamonds behind it, and just as quick as it arrived, it's gone.
I always leaves me feeling the same - " if the RAF is on your case then you might as well forget everything!"
Have fun Nigel
Whats with all these good looking landscapes
Still I can see you had to come to Norfolk where the sun always shines on the righteous.
Major.
John