Last week I had an amazing trip in Switzerland. Again a very successful photo trip, the year 2015 could not start better for me.
I start the photo series with the photos which I made during the dark hours. In Meiringen we had the unique opportunity to
structurally shoot night shots in the absolute darkness during the WEF. I had therefore the ability to train my night shot skills
again during this event. During the dark hours only the Hornets were flying sorties. I will post the photos of the Tiger later post,
because that was definitely the main purpose of the trip. In 2 days at least 8 different Tigers and 12 different Hornets flew.
The take-off and the shelter shots are made just before sun rise. I had to work with a very high ISO setting, but it was fun with
the orange afterburner stripes. The static shots on the runway were made when the aircraft were waiting for take-off with shutter
speeds of around 5 to 10 seconds. It was at this time really dark, because there was no moon light available due to cloudy
weather conditions. Sometimes I miss the back side of the Hornets, because I could not see the aircraft at all of due to the too
short distances!
1
2
3
4
5
6
7
8
9, i was way too close with 200mm!!!
10
11
12
13
14, this hornet forgot to switch on its light strips on the tail and fuselage.
15, James Bond used its light strips as it should be
16
17
