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Hi All,

Hopefully room for another RIAT collection from what was a brilliant few days in Fairford. This was the best weather I've experience at a RIAT with plenty of sun and great photo opportunities. We had some friends of the family attend for their first time and I tried to get across that its not normally this sunny A couple of unfortunate cancellations but still a great show.

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Ukrainian Flanker by Jonathan Haylock, on Flickr
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Royal Canadian Airforce CF-18 by Jonathan Haylock, on Flickr
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USAF Heritage Flight F-35 & P-51 by Jonathan Haylock, on Flickr
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Armee de l'air Dassault Rafale by Jonathan Haylock, on Flickr
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Hellenic F-16 by Jonathan Haylock, on Flickr
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Raytheon Sentinel by Jonathan Haylock, on Flickr
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Ilyushin Il-76 by Jonathan Haylock, on Flickr
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Canadian Hornet by Jonathan Haylock, on Flickr
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Red Arrow by Jonathan Haylock, on Flickr
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RAF GR4 by Jonathan Haylock, on Flickr
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Mirage 2000D by Jonathan Haylock, on Flickr
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Meteor by Jonathan Haylock, on Flickr
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Finnish Army NH90 TTH by Jonathan Haylock, on Flickr
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Tribute by Jonathan Haylock, on Flickr
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Couteau Delta by Jonathan Haylock, on Flickr
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F-35 Furnace by Jonathan Haylock, on Flickr
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58 Blue by Jonathan Haylock, on Flickr
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Norwegian Vampires by Jonathan Haylock, on Flickr
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Polish Tiger Demo by Jonathan Haylock, on Flickr
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Belgian Air Component Agusta A109BA by Jonathan Haylock, on Flickr
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Blue by Jonathan Haylock, on Flickr
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Twin Mirages by Jonathan Haylock, on Flickr
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Hawker Hunter by Jonathan Haylock, on Flickr
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Czech Gripen by Jonathan Haylock, on Flickr
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Canadian Hornet by Jonathan Haylock, on Flickr
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Rafale Power by Jonathan Haylock, on Flickr
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Swiss Hornet by Jonathan Haylock, on Flickr
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RAF F-35B by Jonathan Haylock, on Flickr
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USAF Lightning II by Jonathan Haylock, on Flickr
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Alenia Aermacchi T-346A by Jonathan Haylock, on Flickr
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Turn 'n' Burn by Jonathan Haylock, on Flickr
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RAF 100 Typhoon by Jonathan Haylock, on Flickr
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Dassault Rafale by Jonathan Haylock, on Flickr
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Solo Türk by Jonathan Haylock, on Flickr
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French Navy Rafale M by Jonathan Haylock, on Flickr
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Osprey by Jonathan Haylock, on Flickr
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Flottille 12F 70th Anniversary by Jonathan Haylock, on Flickr
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Hunter by Jonathan Haylock, on Flickr
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Tip of the Spear by Jonathan Haylock, on Flickr
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The Dark Falcon by Jonathan Haylock, on Flickr
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Italian Typhoon by Jonathan Haylock, on Flickr
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A400M Atlas by Jonathan Haylock, on Flickr
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RAF Tornado GR-4 by Jonathan Haylock, on Flickr
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Sukhoi Su-27 by Jonathan Haylock, on Flickr

Thanks for looking

Wow what a great set of photos you got there they are awesome!!!

Agreed - awesome pictures.

Blimey. This makes me wish I was at RIAT 2018 and I actually was!!

Amazing set

Zac

Some of the best i have seen from RIAT keep up the good work and keep posting.

Lovely images and well caught. Would it be possible to show us one of the images pre the post process, so us mere mortals can see the work needed to reach that standard...

Great selection from a brilliant Tattoo. I can't get enough of those Coutuea Delta Mirage 2000s so those shots get my vote, but a terrific set all in all.

Fantastic shots,what camera do you use?

What an excellent set of images. All ultra-sharp with the possible exception of the MB. Meteor & IL-76 which are probably heat-haze casualties?
I too am in awe of your PP skills, providing it hasn't taken from RIAT 'til now to edit these.

jaybee wrote: ↑

Tue Aug 21, 2018 9:21 am

Lovely images and well caught. Would it be possible to show us one of the images pre the post process, so us mere mortals can see the work needed to reach that standard...

Hi Jaybee, I'm not sure posting a RAW file will help much, most of them are un-cropped, un-sharpended and with less contrast versions of the ones I posted. Interestingly the ones you might think were heavily cropped might not be! I think the idea is they maintain a realistic look and so I take an approach of many minor tweaks rather than one big edit. Drop me a PM if you need any more info.

Olief22raptor wrote: ↑

Tue Aug 21, 2018 11:59 am

Fantastic shots,what camera do you use?

Hi Olie, almost exclusive shot with the 500mm F4 version 1 on the 7D Mark II.

Supra wrote: ↑

Tue Aug 21, 2018 3:11 pm

What an excellent set of images. All ultra-sharp with the possible exception of the MB. Meteor & IL-76 which are probably heat-haze casualties?
I too am in awe of your PP skills, providing it hasn't taken from RIAT 'til now to edit these.

Heat Haze was a struggle at times for sure, happy to make an exception for the Meteor and Il-76 though

Cheers everyone.

Thanks for taking the time Jonouk and revealing some of your photographic process /insight habits.
RAW will answer a big amount of my quizzing and yes tweaking, Fine tuning after that , is understandable! .
I shoot JPEG for its return speed, and can see from your shots, the value of keeping the slightest amount of white does go a long way...cheers...

P/s ... The close up stuff in good detail though, does make an eye popping impact , we can all remember to use more stuff like that , to add more "pop" in the eye value

Brilliant set. Some of the best I've seen.

Fantastic selection!