[MIL] Volkel EHVK 03-04-2013

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[MIL] Volkel EHVK 03-04-2013

Post by Nebbor »

From a still cold and windy (but not so sunny) Volkel:

Today's morning wave
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J-884
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J-011
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J-646
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J-062
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Re: [MIL] Volkel EHVK 03-04-2013

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Nice to see these birds in their own element and with no AZ on the tail, great shots
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Re: [MIL] Volkel EHVK 03-04-2013

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Thanks for the compliment. I would rather see them in Tucson with the AZ markings though. :wink:
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Re: [MIL] Volkel EHVK 03-04-2013

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Nebbor wrote:I would rather see them in Tucson with the AZ markings though. :wink:
AGREE! :)

By the way, nice pictures.
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Re: [MIL] Volkel EHVK 03-04-2013

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Does this mean that a morning wave now consits of four (4) airframes?
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Re: [MIL] Volkel EHVK 03-04-2013

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How do you get your 'scherpte/diepte' effect in your foregrounds? I only get this effect on my foregrounds when I'm using my camera lying down on the ground and then taking a photo of something far away. Your shots were clearly made standing up, and still you get that out-of-focus foreground. I'm curious to learn how you do this?

(to the moderators: I realize this is a question for the 'photography'-forum, but then these particular photos are not available there to comment on :wink: )

Nice pics! 8)

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Re: [MIL] Volkel EHVK 03-04-2013

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Flyboy wrote:Does this mean that a morning wave now consits of four (4) airframes?
Lately there are indeed only 4 airframes per wave. :(
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Re: [MIL] Volkel EHVK 03-04-2013

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Stephan Lodewijks wrote:How do you get your 'scherpte/diepte' effect in your foregrounds? I only get this effect on my foregrounds when I'm using my camera lying down on the ground and then taking a photo of something far away. Your shots were clearly made standing up, and still you get that out-of-focus foreground. I'm curious to learn how you do this?

(to the moderators: I realize this is a question for the 'photography'-forum, but then these particular photos are not available there to comment on :wink: )

Nice pics! 8)

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the out-of-focus effect you see is due to the great distance between camera and subject and the use of a telelens. Distance was between 500 and 700 meters and the lens used was a 500mm lens combined with a 1.4xTC around F5 aperture. Online you can find various depth of field calculators where you can calculate the DoF for various camera's, lenses, apertures and distances. As an example: using a DoF calculator in my circumstances you get a DoF roughly between 400 and 600 meters. So everything between 0 and 400 meters will be out-of-focus as will be anything beyond 600 meters. I hope this explains it to you, else just send a pm.
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Re: [MIL] Volkel EHVK 03-04-2013

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It's probably photography-basics, but I'm not the most technical kind of photographer in the world, so thanks for the explanation Hans! :wink:

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Re: [MIL] Volkel EHVK 03-04-2013

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Heck a launch of 4!

My first visit to Volkel in 89 yielded,

J-653, 641, 631, 636, 194, 620, 885, 193, 649, 628, 202, 864, 880 and 875!

Visiting 82922, 83070, 83085 and 83095 HS F-16's

ZE293 AC, ZE295 AR and ZE251 AX Tornado F-3's

H-20 Alouette

A-452 Alouette

5854 D0-28

7142 Iroquois

That was just in a hours visit around 11:00, the next year we turned up and the Netherlands was awash with loads of visiting US fighters!

Some of you will remember!
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Re: [MIL] Volkel EHVK 03-04-2013

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Tim Jones wrote:Heck a launch of 4!

My first visit to Volkel in 89 yielded,

J-653, 641, 631, 636, 194, 620, 885, 193, 649, 628, 202, 864, 880 and 875!

Visiting 82922, 83070, 83085 and 83095 HS F-16's

ZE293 AC, ZE295 AR and ZE251 AX Tornado F-3's

H-20 Alouette

A-452 Alouette

5854 D0-28

7142 Iroquois

That was just in a hours visit around 11:00, the next year we turned up and the Netherlands was awash with loads of visiting US fighters!

Some of you will remember!
Uhm...that was during a TLP exercise...that was hardly a standard day, even in that era :wink: I remember the day well with the visiting Homestead F-16A's!

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Re: [MIL] Volkel EHVK 03-04-2013

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Tim Jones wrote:Heck a launch of 4!
My first thought too. I remember Twenthe in the mid 80s : 20-25 different NF-5s making 3-4 missions a day, which was regular ... :?
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Re: [MIL] Volkel EHVK 03-04-2013

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TLP?

17/06/91

J638, 620, 628, 869, 873, 624, 619, 648, 875, 656, 617, 198, 636, 637 and 627.
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Re: [MIL] Volkel EHVK 03-04-2013

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:D 8)
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Re: [MIL] Volkel EHVK 03-04-2013

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Certainly good days!
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