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Head on shots offer an interesting focusing problem.

My method is to "follow focus" despite advice by my mentor, Neal Nurmi. (one of these days, I may learn to listen to Neal!) Neal’s suggested method for this type of shot, is to "pre focus" on an object at the point you want to capture the airplane… then take the shot when the airplane comes into focus. I have yet to develop the discipline to not attempt to follow the airplane with the focus and zoom, an act made particularly difficult by my lens choice.

I shoot with the Tamron 28-300 zoom... a very nice and reasonably affordable unit but due to the layout of the asymmetrical lens, a "ring zoom" is necessary. In lens choice for this type of shooting, a "push-pull" zoom would be superior. The Tamron 28-300 has about the greatest range of any lens on the market (it did when I got it a year ago at least) if your lens budget is limited, the Tamron is one you might want to take a close look at. It works particularly well on the "short end" and the range of zoom is very nice for ramp work, where you are continually changing lenses or, in the case of some photographers with several cameras, changing from camera to camera.

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Wayne Sagar and Mark Johnston (used with permission)
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