Blue Angels and Lightroom2

I love playing with Lightroom. I did a couple of things here. First i went in with an "adjustment brush" and brought up the yellow lettering and trim. Then I put in a slight vignette to focus the eye on the center aircraft. Lightroom is a wonderful tool. It has many applications which can only improve the quality of the images we produce for our clients.

Salinas California International Airshow - 5 Blue Angels

Did I mention that I love airshows and especially The Blue Angels? :)

I'm rather tickled how the Canon 70-300 IS behaved this day. Pretty good clarity. I manually focused, set the ISO at 200, set the shutter at 1/500th and just shot away. Worked out OK.

Why manually focus? Sky confuses the heck out of Canon system for some reason. I learned that lesson a long time ago. Judging by the sharpness, this was the right decision.

LR2 was used to make the planes pop a bit.

Salinas California International Airshow - Blue Angels and More

Another great show by The Blue Angels. They never disappoint.

I had a wonderful opportunity to see them take off from the end of the runway. It is a totally different experience from watching them from the grandstands. For anyone who does this in the future, bring good ear plugs and be prepared to be blown away as they take off in afterburner.

Here are a few images I captured:

Salinas California International Airshow - Blue Angels - A Slideshow

Too many images to post all, so here is a slideshow to provide viewers with a bit of the flavor of this great show by the Blue Angels.

http://montereyjohnphotography.com/Galleries/Blue_Angels/index.html