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Skymileman From , joined Dec 1969, posts, RR:
Posted (11 years 9 months 3 weeks 1 day 19 hours ago) and read 821 times:

I have been taking aviation photos for only a short time, and am only 13 years old. I cannot seem to take a photo that doesn't have part of the nose and/or tail cut off. I was wondering if anyone had some suggestions for me.

-Lane Michael Parrott

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PUnmuth@VIE From Austria, joined Aug 2000, 4161 posts, RR: 56
Reply 1, posted (11 years 9 months 3 weeks 1 day 19 hours ago) and read 793 times:

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1.) Which kind of camera?
2.) Which kind of photos (moving acft, standing acft)?
Peter

AKE0404AR From United States of America, joined May 2000, 2534 posts, RR: 50
Reply 2, posted (11 years 9 months 3 weeks 1 day 17 hours ago) and read 780 times:

One and only one rule applies here........practise practise and again practise.....

Peter asked a good question, moving or standing still.

If I were you, I would start with the static a/c. Give it a couple of shots and once you get more comfortable give it a try on moving objects....It doesn't have to be a big jet.....try a small one first and go from there.

Good luck
Vasco Garcia

Aus_Spotter From United States of America, joined Sep 2000, 286 posts, RR: 4
Reply 3, posted (11 years 9 months 3 weeks 1 day 17 hours ago) and read 777 times:

When I first started taking photos of moving aircraft I had a problem with not zooming in far enough for fear of cutting off parts of the aircraft. Obviously this was not what I spent the money on a 300mm lens for. Once I did start zooming in far enough I ended up with many photos of aircraft missing noses and tails. After several rolls of film I finally started to get the shots I wanted.

I don't really have any suggestions other than what was already said....lots of practice.

Jason Knutson - Austin, TX

Mirage From Portugal, joined May 1999, 3120 posts, RR: 16
Reply 4, posted (11 years 9 months 3 weeks 1 day 11 hours ago) and read 748 times:

The only sugestion, as Vasco and Jason have told, is practice, practice, pratice. That happens to everybody in the beggining.

Luis

Qantas737 From Australia, joined Jul 2000, 738 posts, RR: 4
Reply 5, posted (11 years 9 months 3 weeks 1 day ago) and read 734 times:

The same thing happened to me in the beginning, and yes I still do it sometimes. I got frustrated with the noses and more often some of the tail going missing in my photos, so i switched to taking static photos for a while. Now I have begun to take more action photos and I still sometimes unfortunately do it, but the constant practice has been slowly paying off to create some brilliant photos.

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