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A digital photo shooting session of airplanes in an air show

A few weeks ago I went with my friends to seesequence  of  photos.
an air show. The schedule was packed with
acrobatics and many types of planes. TheAs time passed my hands got tired from
highlight of the show was the blue anglesholding the camera and my stable grip was not
with their jets doing dangerous routines. Ias stable anymore. Unfortunately I did not
took my camera hoping to capture some goodbring a tripod - and probably I would have
digital  memories  of  that  show.not used it even if I had it since it is hard
to track airplanes flying above using one
I took my digital SLR camera to the air show.especially when you are with thousands of
I put it in my special camera bag alongsidepeople walking around you. When I looked at
an extra battery and lenses. I used an eightthe photos that evening I saw the results of
mega pixels DSLR with a 100-300mm zoonmy tired grip - the later digital photos were
lenses.not  as sharp and steady as the earlier ones.
I decided to shoot as many photos as I couldWhen I saw the results of my work my reaction
knowing from my experience that in such caseswas to go and get those fancy lenses with an
the rule of big numbers works very well -image stabilizer built-in them. There are two
shoot as many photos as you can and you mighttypes of image stabilizer one that moves the
be able to find a few photos which are reallysensor and one that actually uses gyroscopes
unique. So when the airplanes started to flyin the lens to move a floating optical
around I pointed my camera at them and fromelement that compensates for shakings. The
that point on I watched most of the air showlatter is more expensive and provides better
through  my  camera's  viewfinder.results. I saw some people walking around
with the Canon image stabilizing zoom lens I
I set my camera to automatic continuousam not sure how effective it was for them but
focus. I had my finger holding the shutterit  sure  did  look  impressive.
button half way down most of the time while I
am moving the camera to track those fastThere are also drawbacks to using image
flying airplanes. I could hear the camera'sstabilizers and actually some of these
motors working hard moving the opticaldrawbacks are very relevant to my air show
components in the lens back and forth to keepphoto shooting. Moving the camera erratically
the focus right. I also set the camera toto track an acrobatic airplane can confuse
burst mode so whenever I decided thethe image stabilizer that can detect that
composition was worth shooting a photo itmovement as being unwanted shakings and try
actually shot a fast sequence of four photos.to compensate for it. If I had an image
The idea behind that was first to get morestabilizer I would have had to use different
photos to choose from - with fast flyingpractices when shooting my photos like trying
planes these four photos were reallyto pan the camera on one axis and at a more
different from each other - and second toor less constant speed.
maybe be able to capture some motion in a



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