Mildenhall and Lakenheath 21/8/13 (Pic Heavy)

[Olicat]

Arrived at Mildenhall nice and early yesterday morning, soon we were greeted by a visiting KC-135

IMG_9280 by O.C.Photo, on Flickr

After putting up the tent we went out to Lakenheath where it was very busy, loads of F-15s up and around all morning

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Missed focus slightly... need to go back and try again...

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F-15D

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Went quiet for a few hours, so headed back to Mildenhall where a KC-135 was in the circuit

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After the KC-135 landed they pulled one of the Ospreys across the runway although, unfortunately it was the only Osprey movement we saw all day

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The nice light had vanished when the next movements happened

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And finally, my alarm clock that morning...

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Thanks for looking, comments welcome

[Jigsaw]

Great set mate.
Some really good shots there

[Dan4th]

My fave is that Herc leaving the room

All good, Mister Cat, especially the 135s

Danf.

[Olicat]

Thanks guys

[Ipso]

Great low speed shutter shots Mr Cat. There does appear to be a bizarre pattern in the shadow areas on some of the pictures though?

[Olicat]

Thanks, it's a watermark

[Ipso]

How do you do that?

[MOD]

Or why? As it ruins some great images

[Olicat]

This is how I did it...
In Photoshop, in a blank document with a transparent background type out your copyright message or logo and make it a repeating pattern across the photo, make sure this is all in it's own layer. Turn the layer opacity down to about 2/3% then make another text layer along the bottom with text (where mine says who the photo was by e.t.c) and make this layer 100% opacity. Then save the file as a .PNG (important not to save as a .jpg)

Then go into Lightroom, edit watermarks and create a new graphic style watermark using this .png file. If too noticeable you can turn down the opacity

As for why, since starting taking photos of peoples cars I have a lot more people using my photos as profile pictures and they assume that because it's their car in the photo it belongs to them, so they send them off to be posted on the internet to audiences of 1000s of people... without my permission so I decided on an impossible to remove watermark (the old one could be cropped or cloned out in a matter of seconds) You see what I'm getting at?

[Aceyone]

Well they're great shots anyway

[Lucas1860]

Nice set bud.

[Ray C]

Brilliant set....looks like their "Revving up" for action.....!!

[Olicat]

Thankyou guys!