Ramstein AFB - Feb 08, 2008

USAFE · Post by **USAFE** » 09 Feb 2008, 08:58

Hi gents,

spent a few hours in the 08 approach yesterday:

Hope you like them.

Cheers,
Johnny

andel · Post by **andel** » 09 Feb 2008, 09:17

Yep i like them

Warthog 71 · Post by **Warthog 71** » 09 Feb 2008, 11:11

Hej Johnny,

Nice shots, how about the shots with the other lens?

Grtz,

Marcel

USAFE · Post by **USAFE** » 09 Feb 2008, 12:42

Lens? You´re kidding! You mean monster!
Nice, clear images, love this gear, would kill for it (next time)!

Thanks again for this experience!

Aaaaargh...

ZeroOtto · Post by **ZeroOtto** » 09 Feb 2008, 12:50

Veri nice herky foto............

08

Frank · Post by **Frank** » 11 Feb 2008, 00:21

Nice to meet you up there Johnny. See you next time at the Bismarkturm.

Here some of my images of last Friday.

Post by **Key** » 11 Feb 2008, 00:46

Nice stuff, Frank. Although the distance does give me a 'detached' feeling, you got some neat compositions in there. I like the first KC a lot! And indeed picked the right weather for this kind of work.

Erik

mirage 69 · Post by **mirage 69** » 11 Feb 2008, 10:12

Hi,
you look like a couple of snipers over there!

Nice pictures and indeed good weather whitout heatwaves!
How much mm you need up there?

Grtz Rene

Redskin301 · Post by **Redskin301** » 11 Feb 2008, 10:20

wow, some really nice pictures frank. You needed a very steady hand to take this sharp pictures from this distance

Brian · Post by **Brian** » 11 Feb 2008, 12:37

Nice pics indeed! i like the first KC-135 pic and the first B.747 (too bad it's a civvie

) with the country side on the background.

Great shots!

Frank · Post by **Frank** » 11 Feb 2008, 13:35

Thanks !

The Bismarckturm is a very nice spot to give you an overview of the airfield. You do need to have some big lenses though and i can recommend to bring a good tripod.

Marcel used his 500mm 2.8 L and and 1.4 extender mainly. Myself I took most shots with a 300mm 2.8 L + 2.0 extender, but even sometimes I added a 1.4 extender to that configuration which gave me (300mm * 2.0 extender * 1.4 extender * 1.3 enlargement factor = 1092mm

The KC-135 picture was made with that configuration.

Sleegertje · Post by **Sleegertje** » 11 Feb 2008, 13:49

Hi Frank,
Really nice pics you've made.
I have one question did you also did some cropping with photoshop or are these the original pictures?

Regards, Rene Sleegers

Redskin301 · Post by **Redskin301** » 11 Feb 2008, 13:56

Frank wrote:but even sometimes I added a 1.4 extender to that configuration which gave me (300mm * 2.0 extender * 1.4 extender * 1.3 enlargement factor = 1092mm

A currious question; were many of those pictures unscharp or is it quite easy for a trained photographer to hold this config

Frank · Post by **Frank** » 11 Feb 2008, 14:05

Rene, Alex

I had to do a lot of photoshopping and no, these ones are not as sharp as "normal" ones. I used ISO 320 value to reach higher shutterspeeds (1/1000) and that gives grainy results, especially if you have to crop the images.

The Hercules pictures and the first KC-135 were considerably cropped, and I edited them outside Lightroom. With Noise Ninja and some Shadow / Highlights, I came to a reasonable result. The 747 was large enough so I did not have to crop that much. These ones were not Ninja-ed

Hope this helps !

USAFE · Post by **USAFE** » 12 Feb 2008, 11:12

Wow! Stunning pics!!!