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I was out shooting at a Airshow/Fourth of July thingy a couple days ago and it was the first time I've tried shooting something like this before. I know I don't have a very good camera but I hoped I might be able to get something half way decent. Anyhow, does anyone have any tips for this kind of high speed outdoor shooting? These were all hand held as were my fireworks shots (oy!). Needless to say the fireworks didn't come out well...
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>> Anonymous
I had good results with an 80-200 zoom but black & white with a red filter looked better than most of my color. 30 to 60 minutes after the end of the last show many departing planes do low level passes over the main runway. I never want to see a C5A do that again...EVER!
>> Anonymous
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>> Anonymous
>>219441
Do you have any examples of pictures you took like that? It sounds strange.
>> Anonymous
if you cant track as fast, decrease your shutter speed and live with postprocessing
>> Anonymous
>>219899
Red filter just adds contrast to B&W film.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Image:El_Gouna_Egypt_BW_Filter_Comparison_EN.png

No point in digital.
>> sage !i/euDJmWr2
>>219905
Filter effects can still used on black and white with digital, the filtering is just usually applied in-camera so you don't need to use filters over the lens...
>> Anonymous
What do you mean? There's no point putting a light-eating red filter over the lens with digital when you're going to take the color raw file and run it through channel mixer. It does the same thing.
>> Anonymous
>>219922
What if you weren't shooting raw though?
>> sage !i/euDJmWr2
>>219922
channel mixer is to digital black and white what filters are to black and white film.

What I was referring to is that your camera should allow you to pre-choose a filtering effect in its built-in black and white mode. And contrary to popular belief, in-camera black and white can look perfectly fine if you do it right.
>> Anonymous
>>219927
Ah so some cameras allow you to choose a color filter in black and white mode? Mine offers no options for the black and white mode : / It's not a DSLR it's just a bridge camera.
>> sage !i/euDJmWr2
>>219928
Yeah, most DSLRs have that option. On Rebels, you set a custom black and white mode and set the filter effect that way, it's useful for saving time in post.
>> Anonymous
>>219926
A) You're doing it wrong.
2) Should work just as well with color JPEG, you take it into PS cooked.
3) You're doing it wrong.
>> Anonymous
>>219946
Some of us can't afford a nice camera yet and so we have to shoot in JPEG...
>> sage !i/euDJmWr2
>>219948
which bridge camera do you have?
>> Anonymous
>>219953
Fujifilm S700
>> Anonymous
>>219931
That is called doing it wrong.
>> Anonymous
>>219970
How about actually helping out
>> Anonymous
>>219971
Honestly sick today so I don't really feel like it.
>> sage !i/euDJmWr2
>>219970
lolno.

Black and white is still RAW too. If you know before hand what you are you to accomplish with the picture, it's best to get it as close to that as possible in-camera and then post-process it to further correct it.

Like, I could take a picture in color with raw and then convert it to black and white in post, OR I could take a picture in black in white with raw, correct the conversion in post, and end up with the same picture. I fail to see how that's "doing it wrong", but I'm going to assume you're just someone who never bothered to try yourself and always listened to the "in-camera black and white is shit" stuff and never tried it.
>> Anonymous
>>219976
cocksucker.
If you shoot in color you have much more options in post, becouse you can adjust each color individualy.
>> Anonymous
I think the pictures turned black and white in Photoshop look a lot better than in camera black and white on my bridge camera. I don't think it does a very good job : /