POTW w/e 26th March 2023

[Fogey]

What a difficult job this has turned out to be, with some excellent shots from Stevedevil's Miami Beach, (https://www.tipf.co.uk/forums/topic/57845-miami-beach/),
 
Ryewolf's Conwy Bay, (https://www.tipf.co.uk/forums/topic/57849-conwy/)

and Clicker's excellent shot of the Merlin, (https://www.tipf.co.uk/forums/topic/57824-at-last-the-merlin-has-landed/),

all deserving of a mention, for the difficulty of the shot from shooting into the sun, the photographer's 'eye' for the scene, and scrabbling to get camera and lens assembled to capture a very elusive raptor.

Now this is where my problem starts as my POTW comes from Monkey's 'Cobra warrior' series.

I have studied this set time and again and could pick any one of them for the POTW winner, such is the excellence of the series. 

However, choose I must and I have chosen the shot of the turbo-prop plane, because Monkey must have taken the shot with a slow shutter speed of 1/60th to 1/80th of a second to get such a brilliant blur on the propellers,  yet the image is pin sharp and, even taking into account VR, shows Monkey's skill in panning on a moving subject.   

It's not so much the subject matter, but the photographer's skill in presenting the image as he has done, that I am applauding.  Well done, Sir.  

 

See the full series here.  

 

 

[Clicker]

Congratulations……. A super series of pics as  Fogey so eloquently described his reasoning for choosing this particular Image for POTW. There are many skills evident here  and it is great to have them highlighted and recognised.  
Well done Monkey !

 

[MattGrey]

Great choice!  I see hundreds of aircraft shots on various forums and media but rarely see one executed so perfectly.  They are either out of focus, massively cropped leaving no detail, blurry or lacking movement in the props...this one just gets everything spot on! 

 

[Hatter]

Congratulations, Monkey!

 

[Ryewolf]

Congrats a worthy winner.

[Kobione]

Congrats Monkey great shot and great set!! Well done.

Good choice Fogey.

[Paul]

Congrats Monkey

Paul.

[Monkey]

WOW thank you all for the nice comments. Slow shutter speeds are something i like playing with, I have some that go down as low as 1/20 sec of USAF Ospreys and RAF Chinooks they have exremely large rotor blades and rotate a lot slower than the average propeller planes will post up a few soon

[stevedevil]

Deserved winner, really good image(s), was just glad again to actually be in with a chance, Will keep plugging away

 

[CMunzel]

I appreciate the intentional technical skill described. It’s good learning for me. Well done. 
Also appreciate the thoughtfulness Fogey has given to the selection of POTW.