Persistence pays off

Persistence finally paid off for me this morning with a successful outcome to the mornings photo shoot.
I went out yesterday morning and ended up deleting all twelve pictures, if there was a mistake to be made, I certainly made it yesterday.
Lessons learned and paying a LOT more attention to detail I shot this time exposure shot of five aircraft departing Edinburgh in the space of ten munutes.
Shooting conditions were a single 600 second exposure at f16, on 100 ISO. I used the Aputure (a Chinese copy of the Canon TC80-N3 Remote Timer) bought from eBay and still "jury rigged" to my Canon RS-80N3 cable release. The plug on the Aputure release does not lock onto the camera body so I had to modify the Canon cable release by fitting a 3.5mm stereo socket into the body. The male plug melted so I had to temporary hard wire the Aputure timer to the canon release.
I was going to get one from Edinburgh yesterday, that was until my Dad collapsed at lunch time (I thought he was having another heart attack) and was taken into hospital. He is making a recovery.

Creative photography always give me a buzz, I love when it all comes together.

I'll go back there again and try to improve on the duration, the number of aircraft in the shot and see if I can find a better place to shoot from.

It is not all abed of roses, I shot eight photographs this morning, three were mistakes, three did not turn out the way I wanted them to do, one successful image and one mediocre image.