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A Lovely Pair of Bristols


A Lovely Pair of Bristols
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Copyright: Martin Mitchell (Mitch) Gold Star Critiquer/Gold Note Writer [C: 77 W: 1 N: 158] (705)
Genre: Places
Medium: Color
Date Taken: 2009-07-12
Categories: Action
Camera: Canon 20D, 70-200 / 2.8 L IS, 77 mm HOYA circular Polarizer
Exposure: f/10.0, 1/160 seconds
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Photo Version: Original Version
Date Submitted: 2009-08-04 13:57
Viewed: 293
Points: 18
[Note Guidelines] Photographer's Note
Pardon the pun of the title folks, but the Bristols I refer to are the engines on both of these aircraft. (The Brits among us will understand).

The Westland Lysander to the left, and the Gloster Gladiator on the right.
The Lysander was used extensively during the Second World War primarily as a reconnaissance aircraft, but among other roles, it acted as a taxi cab for high ranking officers, a light transport carrier, crew recovery behind enemy lines, and was famed for it’s secret missions working with the French resistance.
The Bristol engine powered the plane which, with it’s extremely large wing area could run at relatively slow speeds to reduce the noise of the already quiet running engine, which was an absolute necessity in the plane’s role of reconnaissance and secret missions.

The Gloster Gladiator was the last fighter biplane produced for the RAF of the Second World War, and served in virtually all theatres of the war.
Despite its relatively low-tech attributes, the Gladiator was often praised for its ability to do well in combat against more formidable foe.

This again was shot at the Duxford Airshow.
EXIF data shows settings.
f10 used to increase DOF to ensure both planes were in focus.

Handheld, no panning, taken as they approached, as I liked the picture they presented. I think it also shows a scale of the two aircraft.

Thanks guys,

Martin
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Great shot of these old birds Martin,
the shutter speed is spot on and the planes are nicely composed in the frame
cheers
Jack

Hi Martin,
A beautiful capture of these vintage aircraft!
Accurate focusing and an adequate shutter speed to pan and aquire a sharp capture with the propellers at full movement!
Excellent lighting and very natural colors.
Well presented.
Good work!

Francis Xavier

Great work getting these with such fantastic detail and clarity! Excellent weather seems to be the norm for airshows all around the world, no exception here!
Cheers
Otto

Love the pun! Not sure it will translate globally, but I appreciated it :-)

Nicely done with both planes in shot and I particularly like the blur and glinting light from the props as well as the perceived tilt of the plane on the right - gives an impression of how these things can get blown about. Nice use of f10 as well.

Good shot!

The double entendre of your title will probably be lost on most - the English connection is fairly essential, I would think - but the shot itself works well, although personally I would be tempted to lighten the upper-left quadrant of the frame to brighten the nearer plane.
Would also be interesting to see how a tilt and a tighter top/bottom crop would work!
Rew

Martin,
Excuse the pun, corrrr what a pair.....your explanation of how you took the shot wants me to go out and try to master it .....your quality work in this shot is jumping out ...perfect positioning and great clarity and detail, thanks for sharing
Bill

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  • Jonela Gold Star Critiquer/Gold Note Writer [C: 377 W: 2 N: 378] (2765)
  • [2009-08-05 10:09]

Hi martin,

This is another fine example of airplanes from the past your pov is excellent good sharp details and the colours are very good well done.

Regards
Jon

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  • tyro Gold Star Critiquer/Gold Star Workshop Editor/Gold Note Writer [C: 220 W: 79 N: 827] (3923)
  • [2009-08-06 14:32]
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Helo, Martin.

This is Beautiful!

A wonderful picture of this beautiful pair of old flying machines. Incredibly sharp and clear and perfectly exposed. A fine sky produces a great background.

Looking at your exif data, however, I see that this was taken at 200mm, so I reckon this was taken with your 70-200mm L f/2.8 IS lens and not your 60mm Macro. Not that that, of course, detracts from your picture.

An interesting note too. Although I appreciate that neither of these machines used the engine, I thought you might like to see this picture of a Bristol Hercules engine taken in the Museum of Flight, East Fortune, near Edinburgh.

Kind Regards,

John.

Hello,
Another magnificent shot!
Perfect sharpness, stunning POV.
TFS

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