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Winter operations Austrian Air Force

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Like many others, this week I'm staying in Austria for some skiing. Last couple of years I've been going to the same spot and since a couple of years the Austrian Air Force is seemingly liking the spot too as they mostly are using this place for dropping paratroopers. As my main purpose on the slopes is skiing I usually don't carry all of my gear with me. Most pictures I've made over the years up to now weren't suited for publishing or at least weren't meeting my criteria for publishing. However, a couple of days ago I noticed they were up in the air again so as of yesterday I've been carrying some of my gear with me. And then finally at one point I was able to take some decent pictures. I haven't been posting a whole lot here yet but feedback is always welcome. I always try to find the balance between sharpness, composition and dynamic range in a picture. To me, movement of rotors, prop blur, is most important in these kind of shots as then you'll see some kind of movement. Trade off obviously is having to have a steady hand which, wearing ski shoes on a slope, is an excercise in it's own.

Location: Hochfilzen (47.478152,12.610964), Austria, February 2nd
Aircraft: AB212
Reg.no: 5D-HT
Gear: Nikon D300, 24-120mm f/3.5-5.6G ED-IF AF-S VR NIKKOR

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Exposure time: 1/400
F-Number: f/13
Focal length: 100 mm

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Exposure time: 1/160
F-Number: f/20
Focal length: 58 mm

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Exposure time: 1/160
F-Number: f/20
Focal length: 58 mm

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Exposure time: 1/50
F-Number: f/20
Focal length: 98 mm
Last edited by FAB on 03 Feb 2010, 21:06, edited 1 time in total.
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Re: Winter operations Austrian Air Force

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Just the job and would have loved to have known about this place last Week :)
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Re: Winter operations Austrian Air Force

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Wow, "Cool"! :mrgreen:
But seriously, I like both the effort and the result. The last one is awesome.

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Key wrote:"Cool"
Hehe, true that! Fingers freezing off. And thanks for the compliments. Got a whole lot of white out pictures, trouble of course is you can't read any serials or anything of them, but maybe I'll head over to the arty-farty thread for a couple more :)
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Re: Winter operations Austrian Air Force

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Good notice!!

Really great shots!! that last one rocks!
If you have some more.. don't hesitate to post.

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ok, one last one then, got totally covered in snow taken this pic, but so worth it!

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The last awesome pic certainly looks like a Jingle Bell to me! :lol:

Nice combination of sport in this time of the year en looking at a nice military chopper = winterspot
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k, now for real the last one :)

Cannot recall ever having seen this phenomana, a helicopter producing contrails... and I know I've seen some! This was taken the day before the other images, when I was in the hotel allready. I can only assume it's the same AB212, as it has the same broken right hand side ski. Now that i think about it, pictures I took last year also where of an AB212 with a broken right hand side ski. have to look that one up when I get back home.

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Exposure time: 1/500
F-Number: f/11
Focal length: 400 mm
(no prop blur this time, was hoping to be able to make out the serial this time hehe)

@ebauer, you're so right! I've been blessed with good weather, military aviation, a wife waiting patiently for me to finish the shots (it took off and landed a couple of times, been at that spot for I guess about 30 to 45 minutes)... pretty much I can ask for on a day :)
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Fantastic 'out of the ordinary' shorts :respect:

Also the first time I have seen the phenomena in the last short, looks awesome :shock:

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Re: Winter operations Austrian Air Force

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Looks nice!! Well done. 8)
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Re: Winter operations Austrian Air Force

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Some weeks ago Nick and I saw an Apache flying overhead Gilze-Rijen, with contrails!, very impressive!!!!! :shock:

Awesome shot! :worship:

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Thanks everyone for the positive reactions, that's quite the ego boost :) especially @jimmy, judging by your posts & pictures, you're about the absolute expert on taking pics of helicopters. As EHGR officially is my home base, I really should go try hang out at and around the base more.
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Re: Winter operations Austrian Air Force

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FAB wrote: trouble of course is you can't read any serials or anything of them,
I don't see the trouble in that at all!
Nice work, show us some more.

Hans.
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