Caper has a lazy RIAT in 2017 (largish post)

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Caper has a lazy RIAT in 2017 (largish post)

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Another one come and gone, and after a hot mostly sunny summer, the weekend of Fairford just didn't play ball, so I slept instead. Wednesday was frustrating with the change of ends, it just doesn't leave it the best for anybody. Thursday very little caught the sun despite some prolonged sunny breaks and from a personal point of view, the Friday display just seemed a little short, and with some sun around seeing the Rafale, Tornado and Su27 just sat there doing nowt, while the usual acts performed seemed a waste really.

Still Monday relieved the frustrations somewhat and thanks to st24 for the amusing comedy moments in between the arrivals. :up: :grin:

Mostly departures but hey ho.
Forget the Americans being the stars when these are in town.
Imaget su27ub by Paul Downes, on Flickr

Imagem su27 pair by Paul Downes, on Flickr

Imagem su27a by Paul Downes, on Flickr

French flair
Imagem rafale 1 (2) by Paul Downes, on Flickr

Imagem alpha jet pair by Paul Downes, on Flickr

Imagemirage 2000d 3 by Paul Downes, on Flickr

Imagemirage 2000d 2 by Paul Downes, on Flickr

Imagemirage 2000d 1 by Paul Downes, on Flickr

Imagemirage 2000d 4 (2) by Paul Downes, on Flickr

Belgian Beauties
Imagem baf disp f16 (2) by Paul Downes, on Flickr

Imagem baf f16am 1sqn by Paul Downes, on Flickr

Imagem baf f16am 349sqn by Paul Downes, on Flickr

More paint than a Dulux superstore
Imagem ef18am (2) by Paul Downes, on Flickr

Imagem czaf l159 raf by Paul Downes, on Flickr

Imagem gaf tornado by Paul Downes, on Flickr

Imagem gaf c160d by Paul Downes, on Flickr

Imagem gaf ef2000 jg74 (2) by Paul Downes, on Flickr

Imagem haf f4e 2 by Paul Downes, on Flickr

Imagem king air by Paul Downes, on Flickr

Imagem pinky by Paul Downes, on Flickr

Imagem tucano by Paul Downes, on Flickr

Imagem atlas 70sqn by Paul Downes, on Flickr

Imagem taf f16c by Paul Downes, on Flickr

Imagem iaf tornado (2) by Paul Downes, on Flickr

polar opposite to last year's tail message :grin:
Imagem pakaf c130 by Paul Downes, on Flickr

Part two to follow.

Not sure why this year the images at 1600x won't load properly and at 1024x look fuzzy? Any clues? :dunno:
Last edited by capercaillie on Mon 24 Jul 2017, 5:40 pm, edited 1 time in total.
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Happy Birthday to you, happy birthday U2....
Imaget f22a by Paul Downes, on Flickr

Imagew u2 by Paul Downes, on Flickr

Imagem usaf tb by Paul Downes, on Flickr

Imagem usaf hh60g by Paul Downes, on Flickr

Imagem usaf f16c by Paul Downes, on Flickr

Imagem f15c 1 (2) by Paul Downes, on Flickr

Imagef osprey by Paul Downes, on Flickr

Imagem f15c 2 (2) by Paul Downes, on Flickr

Canadian debutants were most welcome, great effort on departures putting all the overseas helicopters past the FRIAT stand. :clap:
Imagem caf ch147f (2) by Paul Downes, on Flickr

Imagem caf cc177 (2) by Paul Downes, on Flickr

Imagem finnarmy nh90 (2) by Paul Downes, on Flickr

Imaget etps a109 by Paul Downes, on Flickr

Imagem slovaf let410 by Paul Downes, on Flickr

Imagem haf f4e (2) by Paul Downes, on Flickr

Imagem gaf ef2000t jg73 by Paul Downes, on Flickr

Imagem czaf gripen (2) by Paul Downes, on Flickr

Finally a couple of old timers arriving Friday
Imagef spitfire by Paul Downes, on Flickr

Imagef hurricane by Paul Downes, on Flickr
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Nice to see all those schemes.
Can you guess which day I dropped a while ago to invest in other trips and avoid repetition...... :sad:

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Great set, mate, though I think they could look a tad better with their shadows pulling.

F-22 topside is a beaut! :up:

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Very nice! Love the first Flanker shot and the Mirage shots.

I agree the shadows could bear lifting a bit... and cropping on a few shots is just a wee bit tight for my taste.. but no big deal :-D
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Cracking stuff mate, that lens is still working well for you - no doubt where you need to be on Mondays. And it was your absolute pleasure to have me with you again..! :grin: Much needed and much missed amusement to lighten the mood.. :clap:
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Thanks for the feedback guys, I've adjusted a few with the shadows, hope they look a little better, its always tricky to know how much to adjust to leave it as natural looking as possible. A last few added after another look.

Wrong lens :mad: :wall: :cuppa:
Imagem il76md by Paul Downes, on Flickr

Imaget isaf c130j-30 by Paul Downes, on Flickr

Imagew czaf l159 by Paul Downes, on Flickr

Imagem wedgetail by Paul Downes, on Flickr

Imagem gn seaking by Paul Downes, on Flickr

Imagef baf sea king by Paul Downes, on Flickr

Imagem ef2000 jg74 by Paul Downes, on Flickr

Imagem czaf c295 by Paul Downes, on Flickr

Imagem a400m gaf by Paul Downes, on Flickr

Imagem red arrow by Paul Downes, on Flickr

See you all next year :wave:
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Nice one! Some look a bit blue on my screen - what colour space are you shooting/processing with?

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It's an interesting how tastes vary. I'm not a big fan of over-processing.

Which days were you there and where?

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Dr, I was there Wednesday to Friday for arrivals and first show day, frustrated by all the good static stuff which according to the published list should have been in the public zones, instead being out of bounds in green, whilst awful company tat was readily available and taking up vast areas in the middle. No idea why so much was out of reach when only four aircraft arrived after the flying display into the static on the Friday - three F-16s and an Apache, if ever the opportunity to open up existed?

I skipped the airdays down to the weather and ventured back on the Monday which was glorious :biggrin:

Rich, I have no idea :grin: I point the glassy bit at the aircraft, shoot, put them on the laptop, crop and straighten and that's about it. My photoshop program is on my broken PC, so not much else I can do at the moment. :dunno: I appreciate there is a skill in post processing, which can also be taken too far at times, I really don't like these HDR images.
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capercaillie wrote:Dr, I was there Wednesday to Friday for arrivals and first show day, frustrated by all the good static stuff which according to the published list should have been in the public zones, instead being out of bounds in green, whilst awful company tat was readily available and taking up vast areas in the middle. No idea why so much was out of reach when only four aircraft arrived after the flying display into the static on the Friday - three F-16s and an Apache, if ever the opportunity to open up existed?

I skipped the airdays down to the weather and ventured back on the Monday which was glorious :biggrin:

Rich, I have no idea :grin: I point the glassy bit at the aircraft, shoot, put them on the laptop, crop and straighten and that's about it. My photoshop program is on my broken PC, so not much else I can do at the moment. :dunno: I appreciate there is a skill in post processing, which can also be taken too far at times, I really don't like these HDR images.

Did park and view east Wed-Fri (or should I say yellow zone on Friday?!). Didn't bother going up west on Wednesday afternoon as we realised we'd only got one ladder in the car and can hardly share. Mind you I'm not that worried, it was nice to see the Phantoms with their chutes and the man handling of the U-2. We were out and about on Sat/Sun but the clag was awful leading to very little decent photography. It's meant that some contributors have had to massively over-process, understandable but not really my cup of tea.

Binned Mondays a couple of years ago ...... :sad:

Non-access of decent static on Friday sounds a pain. Couldn't be bothered with trying personally - too busy enjoying the relative solitude.

Good trip though. They usually are!

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