I like the HDRs Fr3ak, and I like that they're 'cooked' a fair bit. If I want to go realistic, I'll get the scene right, not use HDR. HDR to me is for fun/art, like your stuff.

This weekend was the 2014 MCAS Cherry Point Air Show, and it was a great time! There was a whole lot more flying than I expected and the aircraft (and other Marine vehicles) on display on the ground were very plentiful.

This post will focus on what was my first time attempting to capture aircraft like this in flight. I had read around on the forum prior to going about shutter speeds for aircraft - ~1/2000+ for jets and ~1/60 for good prop blur. Let me tell you, for someone not used to it, 1/60 on a moving target is hard!

Everything here was taken with a 70D and EF-S 18-135mm IS (not the STM version), mostly on Tv (to select jet vs. prop shutter speeds). It is all SOOC, most with heavy crops, because I wasn't able to PP them any better than the camera could. There were a lot of hits and a lot of misses. These are the best from the day. I'll post one aircraft a day so it's split up somewhat.

MiG-17F

This guy was very entertaining. Did you know you can privately own a MiG? This guy did and he flew like it. He (or she) was much more daring then the pilots with government aircraft costing multiple-tens-of-millions of dollars.

MiG-17F by hokiealumnus, on Flickr

Here he/she is laying on the afterburner...it was on most of the time the MiG was flying.

MiG-17F Afterburnmcas-mig-01er by hokiealumnus, on Flickr