affinity photo A Few Photos from RIAT 2023

[DWright]

Amazing flying display even with our English weather

[DWright]

For those who would like to know how I took and processed these shots in Affinity Photo

My camera is a Nikon D7500 with a Tamron 100-400mm lens and for the jets I used a shutter speed of 1/2000s and the helicopter was at 1/250s to get motion blur on the rotors.

As the day was overcast and shoot at such high shutter speeds the RAW files and very dark so to process them in Affinity Photo the first step I do is to use the Auto Contrast as I find this to give me a good baseline to make more refine contrast an brightness adjustments.

The next step I make is with a Level adjustment manly with the Master and blue channel due to the different dark clouds

The final step that I took on some of the photos is a colour balance adjustment in the midtones range

[Aammppaa]

I think the overcast day actually made for great images. The coloured smoke against the dark stormy sky is particularly effective.