Aviation Photography Blogs

By Wayne Kenward

Using Your Synology NAS with Lightroom Classic – Part 4

If you haven’t already done it, sign up to the COAP Academy,  Rich and Tom will cover the Lightroom catalogue and folder structures. 

Lightroom Catalogue and Images

It is critical the Lightroom catalogue runs on a local dr...

By Wayne Kenward

Accounts, Mobile Apps and Desktop Apps

Synology Account - https://account.synology.com/ Set up an account, you will need this to register you NAS and manage support tickets and subscription or licences.   Also, the NAS and some services need this to work.

Synology Active Insights...

By Wayne Kenward

If you haven’t already ready my blog “Image Storage Guide”, please read it first.

Blog: Image Storage Guide | COAP Online

This blog is a follow on to the “Image Storage Guide” and covers selecting a Synology NAS, connection, configuration and some ideals on how to work with a Syn...

By Hayman Tam

Warbird fans and aviation history fans were undoubtedly aware of the recent final journey of the last great American seaplane, the Martin JRM-3 Mars “Philippine Mars”.  On February 9^th the Philippine Mars touched down safely in San Francisco Bay after a 4.5 hr flight from British Colu...

By Aled Phillips

Well, what a start to the year it’s been! Seems as though as soon as the January blues had set in, the photo market exploded with lots of exciting new products to get our inspiration whirring and our wallets shivering in fear! 

Sony

Sony announced their FE 400-800mm f6.3-8 G OSS ...

By Keiran Wilkinson

Ever wished you could travel back in time and photograph iconic aircraft in their prime? COAP Wings makes that dream a reality. I recently attended their Lightning Preservation Group shoot at Bruntingthorpe, featuring the mighty English Electric Lightnings expertly preserved. Le...

By Kev Baxter

The song rang in full voice throughout the Bar at the RAF Leuchars’, predictably well-oiled, Happy Hour, “Give to me your hand Fraulein, your lily-white hand Fraulein, for tonight we fly against England; England, England’s island shores, island shores, island shores…” and then somethi...

By Wayne Kenward

One big issue of shooting air to air, and in some instances ground to air, is giving you subject room to fly.  The image below is so typical of an air-to-air shot, the horizon isn’t level due to the banking if the photo ship and as the aircraft is so close, you had to shoot wide an...

By Hugo Pech

 Red flag exercises began in 1975 to provide United States Air Force pilots and weapons specialists with a safe training environment to perform mock combat missions.  Today, many U.S. allies take part in these powerful training exercises.  During the Vietnam War, U.S. pilots lacked air...

By Bradley Rogers

Sunday 25th August saw Bruntingthorpe once again throw open its doors for a fourth all-teams public open day. Like the Cold War Jets Open Days of old, it took place on the traditional Sunday of the August bank holiday, which saw 117 lucky people indulge in a jet fuelled day. The c...

By Richard Bryant

This is the fourth time IWM Duxford have put on an evening ai show. I had always been busy when this air show fell. Not so this year and I decided to book for Lesley and I and then kept my fingers crossed for good weather.

The weather Saturday 17th August turned out to be excelle...

By Kev Baxter

“Never volunteer!” intoned the barrack-room lawyers back in the day. The young shavers this sage
advice was aimed at invariably were young, keen and their fresh-faced enthusiasm was an
anathema to the cynical veterans. More often than not though, these cynics had made limited or
no progr...