2019 Abbostford (A city in BC) Airshow Photos.

"someoneatacura" (someoneatacura)
08/13/2019 at 01:21 • Filed to: None

Hey everyone! After battling with Lightroom for the past 2 nights (and losing most of those battles) I finally have some photos to share . To the uninitiated, I rented a big lens for this, which I shared earlier. The planes in this set is a RC AF CF-18 and then the USAF Thunderbird s, followed by the RCAF Snowbirds. Impressive displays by both groups, with the Thunderbird’s literally bringing the thunder, and the snowbirds showing some seriously impressive precision and finesse.

Anyway, enjoy the shots!

DISCUSSION (7)

SiennaMan > someoneatacura
08/13/2019 at 01:44

Awesome shots. It's amazing to see that much detail captured at a distance with them moving as well..

Brian McKay > someoneatacura
08/13/2019 at 01:51

Abbostford is “A city in BC?”

someoneatacura > SiennaMan
08/13/2019 at 01:55

Yeah you end up spinning around pretty fast, especially with the jets. I may have hit my wife with the lens a couple times...

phenotyp > someoneatacura
08/13/2019 at 02:05

Awesome shots.

pip bip - choose Corrour > someoneatacura
08/13/2019 at 07:29

i like the first one honestly

Wurrwulf > someoneatacura
08/13/2019 at 10:13

Great shots! Did you wind up using the 2x extender on either of the lenses? What did you think of the 300mm?

someoneatacura > Wurrwulf
08/13/2019 at 10:51

Yeah I actually used the 600mm setup for most of the day, I only swapped it off at the end of the thunderbirds and for all of the snow birds, just a bit too tight for formation flying. It was a great lens, super fast AF, even with the TC (being a version 3 helped). I think overall a 180-400F4 with the built in TC would be the perfect airshow lens, sometimes 300 was too tight, especially for the big planes , but 600 was perfect for smaller crafts or for cockpit shots. Having the built in TV for quick changing would have been perfect, as dismounting the TC and remounting the lens is a bit time consuming and fiddly.