Twlight aircraft fast taxi run - advice needed

[brewers_fan]

Hi Everyone,

I will be going to see the LPG do a fast taxi run with a Lightning F6 at dusk in a few weeks, have only ever taken photo's of aircraft in daylight so just wondering if anyone can give me any tips or advice. I will be using my D40x with 75-300mm lens

 

[Hazza]

I was thinking about going to this but unfortunately unable to make it. I would imagine a tripod will be of for the static shots but likely hinder you for the taxi run itself. I'd probably have the ISO high enough to keep the shutter speed around 1/200 for handeld panning.

 

[cw318is]

Get as much panning practice in as possible if you want a nice dynamic but sharp shot with the reheat carrot. You may find yourself a bit restricted with the 75-300 especially if you want to get some of the HAS shots. You won't need the ISO stupidly high as there will be a little bit of ambient light around at the time (unless its cloudy and/or raining), for the static stuff tripod and f8-f12 is the way to go, don't forget to turn VR (or whatever you crazy Nikon kids call it) off.

And post the results!

 

[Bernie174]

I went last year. It rained, well, just while the Lightning was out of the Q shed, and doing it's run. Stopped immediately it was parked up out the front again.

Anyway, it's one of those events where everything has to change quickly. While in the shed, the lights not bad, with a highish ISO, you can hand hold.
Once the beast is out and running, then, as I recall it was around 800 iso. Then it's all change for the afterburner bit, as CW says, you don't need really high ISO for that.
But then they taxi back, and it's back to higher ISO.
After the run, they park it outside the Q shed, so I'd use a tripod for that and go to the lowest ISO you can. It's not moving so low shutter speed is fine.

My efforts are here if you want a look.

http://www.flickr.com/photos/bjcc/sets/72157629623396480/