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    Re: Spitfire MH434

    Lovely image of a beautiful lady. IMO, the Spitfire and the Mustang (the P-51D and later with the Rolls Royce - Packard built engine) were the two most beautiful airplanes ever produced...

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    Yes but; was it upside down or on its side. The rudder is dead straight old chap. Not that it couldn't be but I could remember kicking in a bit of rudder on the old Chipmunk you know.

    I wished I could take photo's as good as this.

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    A fine shot of an iconic aircraft. The flowers (daisies and buttercups?) work really well to help make this shot.

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    My brothers & I love Spitfires. Read lots of war books as a child & saw all the movies, sang all the songs. I think it's good to see a Spit in what appears to be a field of flowers, rather than as a reminder of what they had to do in the war. I worked with an older lady who had been one of the ones moving the plane symbols around in central command (?).

    Both great photos.

    Nihia

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    Great pictures. I love the angle the first shot is taken from and the second shot has way more detail than I managed to get!

    Here is my feeble attempt from the same air show:

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    Quote Originally Posted by beckyhumphries View Post
    Great pictures. I love the angle the first shot is taken from and the second shot has way more detail than I managed to get!

    Here is my feeble attempt from the same air show:

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    er,......'feeble'??? Wow, Becky! Gorgeous! The only thing is.....you're voting for the wrong side!

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    Re: Spitfire MH434

    Another cool shot!

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    Re: Spitfire MH434

    Being a pilot, I love these aircraft shots! Keep them coming, and thank you for posting them!

    Although I have collected over 800 aircraft images over the years, many from http://www.airliners.net/, sadly, I have almost none of my own that are worth posting. Gotta get out and take with the new DSLR. OK, I do have one that I shot inside the Boeing Museum in Seattle. I took it up for a test flight in Photoshop to see how it might have looked in flight.

    Spitfire MH434

    It's just not anywhere as nice as the vintage aircraft photos posted here.

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    Quote Originally Posted by Dave Humphries View Post
    The classic wing shape we all love ...

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    This was trickier to get detail in (against the light) - without washing it out or making it look over saturated.

    Cheers,
    I cannot wait till my oldest son gets home (the men of the family are off on a three hour tour - okay, three days - of Lake Champlain.) He's an aspergers/autistic kid and one of his special interests in world war I and II aircraft. He's going to be ecstatic and tell me all about it. These shots are making me pretty darn excited, too, honestly.

    Ack! racing thunderstorm gotta go..

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    Aww shucks, you're making me feel all warm inside, but honestly (as the pilot also gesticulated when he got his sustained applause from the appreciative crowd), it's the plane that is the star

    Thank you one and all for the kind comments, as Rebecca knows, I have plenty more ...

    Quote Originally Posted by beckyhumphries
    Here is my feeble attempt from the same air show

    Spitfire MH434
    Nothing wrong with that my girl (but I won't shout, you have a cold )

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    Re: Spitfire MH434

    Quote Originally Posted by arith View Post
    Yes but; was it upside down or on its side. The rudder is dead straight old chap. Not that it couldn't be but I could remember kicking in a bit of rudder on the old Chipmunk you know.
    Yes and I think there is a touch of rudder in, keeping the nose up.

    It was part way through a barrel roll, but probably closer to on its side than inverted as seen here.

    Cheers,

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    Quote Originally Posted by beckyhumphries View Post
    Here is my feeble attempt from the same air show:
    'Feeble' is certainly not the word I would have used. Maybe if there had been a bit less at the back and a bit more in front, so that it was flying 'into' the space (See the old man's image above. Oh yes, he knows how to place a subject in the image).

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    Quote Originally Posted by Donald View Post
    Maybe if there had been a bit less at the back and a bit more in front, so that it was flying 'into' the space (See the old man's image above. Oh yes, he knows how to place a subject in the image).
    Yes looking at his pictures is definitely useful to get some pointers for next time. Inspiring but also lens and photographer envy! Thanks for the cropping advice. I may go back to the picture tomorrow and have another go. I am still a bit afraid to play around with it much in post production.

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    Re: Spitfire MH434

    #3, our pilot (I haven't been able to find out who he is);
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    The name "Mylcraine" is apparently that of the wife of the South African fighter ace Flt Lt Henry Lardner-Burke DFC (1916-1970), whose personal aircraft it was. source

    #4: The underside for the Airfix/Revell kit builders
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    #5: On the roll out from landing, flaps still down;
    Spitfire MH434
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    I made the first shot my PC desktop background

    Thanks for viewing,

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    Re: Spitfire MH434

    Quote Originally Posted by Dave Humphries View Post
    I made the first shot my PC desktop background
    I can well understand why. And another nice set, Dave.

    I'm sure that pilot may well have been interested in getting a copy of that first one in this latest set.

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    Re: Spitfire MH434

    Beautiful, Dave, simply beautiful!

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    Quote Originally Posted by Donald View Post
    I'm sure that pilot may well have been interested in getting a copy of that first one in this latest set.
    Definitely, great capture.

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