Aperture Settings for Fighters?

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Christian Borchmann

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Posted 22 May 2014 - 21:27 CET

Hallo,

i have taken some shots of fighterjets at Berlin Air Show yesterday. Always with the classic one f/8.

While checking Exif data of many pics here i noticed that many photographers using low aperture sizes like f/5.6 or f/6.3.

What settings you are using while hunting for fast movers?

Thanks

Christian

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Wallace Shackleton

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Posted 22 May 2014 - 22:22 CET

The answer is in the relationship between aperture and shutter speed. Understanding this is a fundimental element in photography basically a fast shutter speed will lead to a wide aperture and vice versa unless the photographer had the camera set to Program mode...

The trade off is a fast shutter speed with a low depth of field which means some parts of the aircraft may not be in focus.

Christian Borchmann

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Posted 22 May 2014 - 22:45 CET

Thank you Wallace,

i will try it tomorow.

Mostly i use Av Mode, set to f/8 and ISO 200.

Wallace Shackleton Full member Joined in February 2007 Posts: 1897	Posted 22 May 2014 - 22:57 CET
	The fist thing that any photographer should do, is understand the relationship between aperture, shutter speed and ISO... and then start using that lesson to ones advantage.

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