Katsudo Aviation Photoblog

Sunny Saturday at Schiphol

admin — Sat, 12 May 2012 19:40:31 +0000

Just an ordinary day along the fence at Schiphol Airport.

Frisian Flag 2012

admin — Sat, 21 Apr 2012 06:12:28 +0000

Every year an exercise called Frisian Flag is held at Leeuwarden Airbase in the Netherlands. Jets from several countries participate in this exercise which makes it en excellent opportunity to catch some rare birds.

Below are a few of my shots of April 20th, 2012. I hope you enjoy!!

For a larger amount of pictures: these are hosted at Photobucket.com.

Snowworld at Schiphol

admin — Sat, 04 Feb 2012 18:16:59 +0000

A wonderfull day at sunny Schiphol in the snow.

Rafale in HDR

admin — Wed, 01 Feb 2012 14:01:56 +0000

Just to try something different for a change, I processed this picture of a banking Aronavale Rafale with HDR-software. High dynamic range imaging (HDRI or just HDR) is a set of techniques that allows a greater dynamic range between the lightest and darkest areas of an image than current standard digital imaging techniques or photographic methods. This wide dynamic range allows HDR images to represent more accurately the range of intensity levels found in real scenes, ranging from direct sunlight to faint starlight, and is often captured by way of a plurality of differently exposed pictures of the same subject matter (source: Wikipedia).

Nato Tiger Meet at Kleine Brogel 2009

admin — Thu, 26 Jan 2012 12:43:32 +0000

Spotterdays at Kleine Brogel in Belgium never ever dissappoint. This one was for 2009′s Nato Tiger Meet.

Top 10 pictures of 2011

admin — Tue, 03 Jan 2012 15:36:14 +0000

By the time the end of a year is nearing, there’s always someone on the Scramble-message-board who starts a “best off topic”. Below is my contribution to that topic about 2011. Most of these are in other posts on this site too, but I thought it to be nice to have the best in one post, so here we go:

Scans of pictures from the 90′s

admin — Mon, 02 Jan 2012 20:51:37 +0000

In the 90′s we used to travel to former East Germany whenever a Russian regiment was to be retired from it’s base, back to storage fields in Russia. Also we went to the Ukraine to take pictures of aircraft that were rare in Western Europe. Below are a few scans of pictures made in those days. Stay tuned for more!

Testing new camera at Schiphol

admin — Thu, 29 Dec 2011 13:16:05 +0000

Bought myself e new (second hand) Canon EOS 50d, which of course had to be tested. So I did on december 29th, 2011.

Weather wasn’t so great, but still some nice pics.

Luchtmachtdagen Leeuwarden

admin — Fri, 16 Sep 2011 08:00:13 +0000

Op vrijdag 16 september 2011 was ik aanwezig op de Luchtmachtdagen op de vliegbasis Leeuwarden. We werden getrakteerd op prachtig weer en zo mogelijk nog mooiere vliegtuigen zodat het een memorabele dag werd.

Warbird Fly in Lelystad

admin — Sat, 20 Aug 2011 08:10:49 +0000

Op 20 augustus 2011 was ik in de gelegenheid om op vliegveld Lelystad bij het Aviodrome de zogenaamde vintage fly-in te fotograferen. Helaas vile de opkomst van vliegtuigen een beetje tegen, maar wat er was, kon wel mooi worden vastgelegd.

Zie hieronder het resultaat.