Air Shows are obviously few and far between. Not a lot of opportunities to shoot them unless you have the time to follow them around the country. Car Shows on the other hand occur every weekend on Long Island. Just grab a copy of the local event newspaper and you will find tons of information on public events that you may never actually hear about because there is a very select crowd.
There are some really beautiful cars on Long Island. You have to appreciate the care that goes into keeping them looking so nice. I like the fact that it is also challenging to shoot on a very bright day when the subjects sometimes have some wild paint schemes and a lot of shine. It is a nice break from shooting people when you are an event photographer.
Most people like to take pictures and they leave their cameras on full auto. This means that they are fully reliant on the decisions that the camera is making to determine the exposure, but do not understand how it comes to make this decision. The fact is, the camera usually does a good job in determining the exposures correctly (or in the ballpark), but the camera can get fooled sometimes. If you do not care to find out and are happy with the cameras decision all of the time, then that's one less thing you need to learn. But if you would like to explore the cameras capabilities to take different types of images with the same light and subjects, then turn the camera on manual and explore.
The first place to start when shooting outdoors on a sunny day is to try the Sunny 16 Rule. Put the camera on manual exposure, set the aperture to f16, and set the shutter speed to whatever the ISO is set to. If your ISO is set to 100, then set the shutter speed to 100 (or 125; it doesn't have to be exact). Take some pictures with this setting and see how they look. Then, make some adjustments based on how the images look.
Next, I will post some landscape from around Long Island.
Peace!
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