New Orleans Air Sea and Land Festival 2018

[Schweik]

This little event, which started out as just a static display of a few warbirds, has gradually morphed into a full fledged airshow. This year for the first time I brought a nice camera and got some decent photos. There were several interesting Warbirds flying this year including a P-63 Kingcobra, a couple of P-51 Mustangs, an FG-1 Corsair, an FM-2 Wildcat, an SBD Dauntless, a navalized B-25 bomber, an A-26 bomber / attack plane, a B-17, a B-29 (Fifi), a C-47, a very pretty C-45 / Beechcraft 18, a Steerman and several AT-6 Harvard / Texans.

These are all photos I took of planes on the ground:

P-63 KingCobra dressed as a NACA test aircraft

One of the P-51s

Beautiful Beechcraft 18 / C-45 next to a T-6

Fm-2 Wildcat (note the padded headrest is a leopard print!)

FG-1 Corsair

 

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B-25 (this was some kind of naval version, a PV something)

A-26 Invader

Dauntless

 

[Schweik]

And I got a bunch of flying shots, most of which I'll post later but here is one of a P-51

 

[Schweik]

P-63 Kingcobra in flight

 

[special ed]

Very good work. I know the airport well. Great views with out clutter. What kind of camera equipment?

 

[Schweik]

It's a Nikon, i just got it, not certain the precise model but I can find out later. Not a super expensive one, it's from COSTCO. It came with two lenses one about 4" and one about 7" long (this is my completely non technical description) and I used both. I think I may have had it on the wrong setting which contributed to the darkness of some of the photos.

Been kind of getting into photography for a while but just with my phone, my wife got me the camera as a birthday present. So I'm just figuring it out, first steps on the leaning curve so to speak...

 

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[Schweik]

Dauntless in flight

 

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[Gnomey]

Good shots!

 

[Schweik]

More of the Mustang

 

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[DerAdlerIstGelandet]

I was going to go as I only live 45 minutes from New Orleans, but the wife and I are on baby watch so I will just have to wait until next year.

 

[special ed]

The only reason it is a little dark is that you had to be shooting into the sun. Spectators have no choice at an airshow. One of the other members told me his cameras were inexpensive and his camera yet his shots in museums were excelloent. Keep up the good work.

 

[special ed]

I think they are supposed to be in Hammond the 20 and 21.

 

[Schweik]

The only reason it is a little dark is that you had to be shooting into the sun. Spectators have no choice at an airshow. One of the other members told me his cameras were inexpensive and his camera yet his shots in museums were excelloent. Keep up the good work.

Thanks!

At this one you can actually try to watch from a few different vantages, some of my friends were outside the show watching from near the old Art Deco airport building.

This thing seems to get better every year and always has a slightly different mix of planes.

 

[Glider]

The only reason it is a little dark is that you had to be shooting into the sun. Spectators have no choice at an airshow. One of the other members told me his cameras were inexpensive and his camera yet his shots in museums were excelloent. Keep up the good work.

When I had my first manual camera many years ago to get over the problem of always getting dark photos of the aircraft I did the following.
Step 1 set the shutter speed to what I wanted normally 1/250 (I think)
Step 2 focus the camera on the grass at the other side of the airfield.
Step 3 set the exposure so if I took a photo I would get a nice photo of the grass
Step 4 don't touch the exposure settings for the rest of the day. Only the zoom and focus.
It normally worked for me

 

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B-17

 

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A-26