More effectively known as the Air Show, these shots are from last year’s show. I wish I could have gone to this years event but they did such a great job of scheduling it on a weekend that was more overcast than last year (not their fault) and on the same weekend as about 10 other events in the area(ok partially their fault).
In any case I have been going to Air Shows at Andrews AFB for years since moving to the DC area in 1989 with my parents. Of course it helped that at the time my father was stationed on the base and we lived there.
For the most part any shot you see that is of a plan flying I can guarantee it was done with my 80-400mm Sigma lens, and everything on the ground was done with the 18-200 Nikor VRII lens. To give you an idea notice in some of the photos you can see the pilot, none of these are cropped, in fact all they have had done to them is re-size them to be more web friendly.
For the planes and jets in flight I slowed down the shutter speed so not to stop the blades, I wanted to insure the look of motion in the photos, obviously this was not a concern with the shots at ground level. There were a few unfortunately where I did not slow things down enough, oops, guess I’ll just have to remember that next time.
