river fire Brisbane

Did anyone get a shot of the F1-11 doing the fuel dump & burn. I was there
and it was an awesome site, but I failed to get a shot of it.

Dave

 

I have seen many floating around Internet.

For starters, visit www.pbase.com and search

 

Hi David and Ken,

Managed to grab these two from a hill side in the western suburbs. The
first one I was very lucky. It was the first pass by the F111s you can
see the line they traced through the photo and I was lucky enough to
get the lightning bolt in the background.

The second is the dump and burn.

http://www.ecn.net.au/~curtisg/riverfire1_large.jpg
http://www.ecn.net.au/~curtisg/riverfire2_large.jpg

Regards

Greg

 

Nice photos.

What was the celebration?

 

another brisbane dump & burn image
http://www.legislation.qld.gov.au/OQPChome.htm

 

I spoke to a bloke (who had a few home brews) the next day who said he went
to Mt Coot-tha on Saturday night and there were about a thousand cars there.
I went on the Sunday morning to check it out and took a few shots, but I
think it is too far from the city without having a 500mm+ lens attached.

Dave OP

 

Great pictures Greg! You had your shutter open far longer than I did

I was on Mt Coot-tha and, amongst many, got these:
Fireworks:
http://staff.dstc.edu.au/mcarthur/photos/280804riverfire/CRW_8021-1.jpg

First flypast of F-111 before fireworks:
http://staff.dstc.edu.au/mcarthur/photos/280804riverfire/CRW_8003.jpg

Dump and burn1:
http://staff.dstc.edu.au/mcarthur/photos/280804riverfire/IMG_8053.jpg
http://staff.dstc.edu.au/mcarthur/photos/280804riverfire/IMG_8054.jpg
http://staff.dstc.edu.au/mcarthur/photos/280804riverfire/IMG_8055.jpg

Cheers
Robert

 

Nice pictures. The dump and burn ones look like the city's on fire.

 

Should try St. Lawrence's next year. They have a pretty good view of the
Southbank fireworks, and bit of the Coronation drive ones, and a hint of the
Story Bridge ones. But the F111s came straight over the top of us there, so
that was quite good. Will try and post some pics later.

 

Great photos everyone and thanks for the comments.

I took the dump and burn photograph from a hill side in the western
suburbs, at the corner of Birdwood Tce and Stuartholme Road at Bardon.
There were a few people there but not as many as Mt Cootha. I used a
Canon 300D for the dump and burn photo in manual mode. The settings
were:

Shutter 12 seconds At f5.6
The ISO was set at 100
I had the standard 18-55mm zoom on, and set at 55mm.

Regards

Greg

 

You will find a couple in Michael's gallery at potd.com.au....

http://www.potd.com.au/gallery/index.php?cat=10236

 

Thanks for sending these links. Because I was there I can really appreciate
them. After seeing what a superb job some people can do, I think I'll leave
my camera at home next year and enjoy the show more.

 

Hi Rob,


What was the focal length on the 1st one? It is one hell of a picture.

Dave OP

 

What was the focal length on the 1st one? It is one hell of a picture.

It's a crop from a 10D shot (ISO100, f11, 10s exposure, -1.5 exposure
compensation, evaluative). The lens was a Sigma 100-300f4 EX lens
at the full 300mm (I didn't add the 1.4x TC onto any of the shot; would
have been good to since the Sigma is a fantastic lens and wouldn't have
suffered much, but it was all so fast!). That's a 35mm equiv of a 480mm
lens. Yes, I was on a tripod Taken in RAW, cable release, and processed
in C1LE v1.3 (anyone else notice the recent upgrade seem to have gone
backwards? I'm staying with 1.3).

The crop was an 1100x1300 or so from the original (1.5MP from the
original 6.2MP). Yes - that particular Sigma lens *is* that good :-]

Robert

 

What's the sigma 100-300 like ? I'm hunting around for something to replace
my 'entry level' canon 90-300. I'm guessing you're in brisbane (me too) ..
wouldn't want to demo the lens for me would you ?

 

http://home.iprimus.com.au/heygoose/00710016a.JPG
Didn't get the shot I was aiming for, but this one wasn't too bad.

Cheers,
Ryan

 

very nice!

 

Thanks!

Ryan