Air show photography.

This coming weekend I am going to see an air show with the Thunderbirds and I will bring a Canon Rebel XT with me.
As the show will be around 10:00 AM and the sky is bright at this time, I would like to know the best settings possible to photograph those fast aircrafts with the best photo quality. I have a 18-55MM and a 75-300MM Canon lenses and also filters like circular, linear polarizer and a GND.
Please send me your tip in how to photograph those quick moments when those aircrafts fly at high speed. As there will be opportunity to visit those machines, I want to photograph their interior and other details permitted.
Thanks

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Permalink Reply by vjekoslav antic on October 10, 2008 at 4:20pm

Most important is location,sun must be behind you.When I take air show photos I am afraid about speed.When fly low they have low speed and when they are high on sky, you have plenty of time.I have sunny day an set AV mode,F11,
exposure 1/400 and 100ISO.

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Permalink Reply by Nivaldo on October 10, 2008 at 9:01pm

Thanks Vejk.
Should I use any polarizer to compensate the sunny sky?

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Permalink Reply by vjekoslav antic on October 10, 2008 at 4:22pm

If you wish take a look on my Mig27 on
http://picturesocial.ning.com/photo/photo/show?id=1483478%3APhoto%3...

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Permalink Reply by Nivaldo on October 10, 2008 at 9:04pm

That was a fantastic shot.
Congrats.

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Permalink Reply by vjekoslav antic on October 11, 2008 at 3:01am

Yes, use polarized filter I forget to mention.

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Permalink Reply by Nivaldo on October 15, 2008 at 8:54am

Steve:
Thank you for you tip about air show photography.
You have gorgeous photos in your site and I would like to know what kind of lens you used to photograph those Thunderbirds because it is so sharp and clear. I saw people at show on 10/12/08 with all kinds of lens. I was using a Canon 75-300 MM f 4-5.6 III and at the time of the show the sun was in front of the public.