CYUL 09Aug11

[JDANDO]

Had a quick trip to Montreal come up. After a few pm and text I was able to meet NYCA member acote for some weekend spotting. Thank you Alexandre, I learned lots spending the afternoon with you!!!

Got out this AM for a few sunrise panning shots. I figured go slow or go home :cool:

Most of these are at 1/60th to 1/100th of a second, sorry for the dust spots and shoddy editing I am working from my laptop.

#1 A quiet Dash-8? A Bombardier corporate plane I think.
http://jeremyd.smugmug.com/Airplanes/09aug11-cyul/i-fXJkh4Z/0/X2/1S7T5622a-X2.jpg

#2 One of a bazzilion Air Canada Jazz Dash 8's
http://jeremyd.smugmug.com/Airplanes/09aug11-cyul/i-gbXQ7fj/0/X2/1S7T5676a-X2.jpg

#3 Air Creebec heading to the Great White North
http://jeremyd.smugmug.com/Airplanes/09aug11-cyul/i-5bKk6Wj/0/X2/1S7T5642a-X2.jpg

#4 The nasty American Eagle livery
http://jeremyd.smugmug.com/Airplanes/09aug11-cyul/i-vBfR72h/0/X2/1S7T5762a-X2.jpg

#5 The obligatory Air Canada shot
http://jeremyd.smugmug.com/Airplanes/09aug11-cyul/i-DgKM4PK/0/X2/1S7T5479a-X2.jpg

#6 Not a pan, but always nice to see Mexican planes!
http://jeremyd.smugmug.com/Airplanes/09aug11-cyul/i-WRvVcqd/0/X2/1S7T5460a-X2.jpg

#7 A nice little King Air
http://jeremyd.smugmug.com/Airplanes/09aug11-cyul/i-xktDBrX/0/X2/1S7T5495a-X2.jpg

#8 Av mode dropped me down to 1/30th for this one!

http://jeremyd.smugmug.com/Airplanes/09aug11-cyul/i-vMstS22/0/X2/1S7T5709a-X2.jpg

Bigger photos here
http://jeremyd.smugmug.com/Airplanes/09aug11-cyul/18457761_C7JsH8#1423771380_fXJkh4Z

[nssd70]

Very nice pics.

Doug

[threeholerglory]

nice shots! looks like you got one of the exceedingly rare PT-6 equipped BE-100's...excellent work!

[lijk604]

Great set Jeremy, that last AA pan shot is killer. What was your keeper rate for panning at these speeds, if you don't mind sharing?

[Ychocky]

Great panning!

[Spunker]

Great shots Jeremy, especially the Dash 8's!!

[JDANDO]

Thanks for the kind comments guys! CYUL has some great morning spotting locations, about 100-200mm full frame and a couple of dirt piles to help see over the fence! Regarding my keeper rate, let me give a long winded explanation; I was out two mornings, the first day I shot mostly high shutter speed and only panned 4 or 5 planes. The second day I focused on panning everything except a handful of unique planes. I was shooting with the 100-400mm zoom, IS mode 2. I estimated what zoom I needed to fill the frame when the plane would be perpendicular to my location and then took a sequence of 3-6 shots per plane. The first one or two were typically too far away, but allowed be to get the AF focusing and the camera/lens tracking. I tried to get an image when the plane was perpendicular to my location and then another a bit past. It was a partly cloudy morning and the shots in brighter sun worked much better than the cloudy images. I started out at 1/200 then went to 1/100 and then went for it at around 1/50th.

I would guess I saw about 20 planes and took about 200 panning pictures. I will review them on the home computer and probably keep 10 and submit 3 or 4 to jp.net.

It made the morning a lot more enjoyable than just looking a ton of Air Canada and Air Canada Jazz planes

So the short answer is a 5% keeper rate.

[steve1840]

Great panning shots Jeremy! Incredible