FighterControl

Arranged the family holiday for the Cotswolds this year, it just happened to coincide with RIAT. Spent the Friday and Sunday on Rhymes and Saturday on base.

Still going through the 4000 shots, but I've processed a fair few now. You'll probably notice that i'm having some trouble with banding on some shots when I've resized the image to 1200px, resized in PS CS6 in 500 px increments.

Friday, spent the day in Rhymes with pwingrove (Phil), a grey day but some superb vapour especially in the morning.

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Team Ninja by Darren James, on Flickr

2. The morning practice display from the A400M was very special
A400M Practice Display - RIAT 2015 by Darren James, on Flickr

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missing - see my flickr

4.
Polish Mig29 at RIAT15 by Darren James, on Flickr

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missing - see my flickr

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Ramex 1 by Darren James, on Flickr

7.
BAF F-16 AM by Darren James, on Flickr

8.
Viper by Darren James, on Flickr

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Mig 29 Polish Air Force by Darren James, on Flickr

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Mig 29 Polish Air Force by Darren James, on Flickr

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Polish Mig 29 by Darren James, on Flickr

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Finnish Hornet by Darren James, on Flickr

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Finnish Hornet by Darren James, on Flickr

Saturday - Slightly brighter

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The Fast Jet Flightline RIAT 2015 by Darren James, on Flickr

15. The star turn!
JMSDF Kawasaki P1 by Darren James, on Flickr

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Kawasaki P-1 JMSDF by Darren James, on Flickr

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CV-22A Osprey by Darren James, on Flickr

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CV-22A Osprey by Darren James, on Flickr

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USAFE Bell Boeing CV-22 A Osprey by Darren James, on Flickr

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That flypast by Darren James, on Flickr

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Reds / Vulcan Flypast by Darren James, on Flickr

Sunday - Started grey but ended with a belting blue sky

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Zeus by Darren James, on Flickr

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missing - see my flickr

24.
Ramex Singleton by Darren James, on Flickr

25. Osprey through a brief rain shower
CV-22 Osprey through the rain at RIAT 15 by Darren James, on Flickr

26.
Czech Mate - RIAT 2015 by Darren James, on Flickr

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missing - see my flickr

28.
Hind Gunship by Darren James, on Flickr

29.
Red Jet - RIAT 15 by Darren James, on Flickr

30.
missing - see my flickr

31.
BAF F-16AM RIAT 15 by Darren James, on Flickr

32.
BAF F-16 AM by Darren James, on Flickr

33.
BoB by Darren James, on Flickr

34.
Polish Mig 29 by Darren James, on Flickr

35.
Polish AF Mig 29 by Darren James, on Flickr

36.
missing - see my flickr

37.
Mig 29 Polish Air Force by Darren James, on Flickr

38.
Apache Closeup by Darren James, on Flickr

39.
Who's looking at you by Darren James, on Flickr

40. And finally
Finnish Hornet by Darren James, on Flickr

Amazing set of shots.

WOW! what a truly magical selection of images! stunning!

Thank you for kind comments, much appreciated.

cupradude wrote:Umm Speechless.........
Hope you don't mind me asking but what hardware do you use (camera, lens etc)
Because viewing on my iPad and they are Crystal....

Most were shot on a Nikon D7200 with a 400mm f2.8, the static shot was a D3 with 24-70 f2.8 and the flying shots from the airfield were D7200 with a 70-300 f4-5.6. All processed in PS CS6. I hope that helps.

Hi Duncan, You have some superb images there, keep up the good work.

All amazing quality That Atlas is a cracker

Wow, they have to be some of the best shots I have seen of RIAT this year, just really startin some aviation pics, clearly my Lumix Micro 4/3rds has a long way to go !

Also are these handheld or on tripod ?

Simply stunning....

Thank you all much appreciated.

kph100 wrote:Wow, they have to be some of the best shots I have seen of RIAT this year, just really startin some aviation pics, clearly my Lumix Micro 4/3rds has a long way to go !

Also are these handheld or on tripod ?

They are all hand held. I don't use a tripod much, just for long exposure shots, mainly landscapes.

Superb set of pics!

Hi Darren

You, sir, are a star

Simply stunning images, and I, for one, do NOT care what processing, post-shot, you used

You may get some negative comments from the usual suspects, but ignore them totally

Superb post: THE best I have seen from RIAT (IMHO)

Best regards and thanks for sharing

Paddyboy

Again thank you for all your kind comments, it's much appreciated.

They are definitely some of the best Photographs I've seen on this site. Can you give me a little more info on how you used 'Photo-Shop' to give them that kind of 'sinister' quality (I mean that in a good way). Absolutely amazing stuff, well done.....

Fantastic set sir