Taking Shots at Crop Dusters

On the way home the other day, I noticed a crop dusting plane up in the sky and I was happy to see it spraying a field very near my house. I quickly grapped the D90 and switched to the 70-300mm lense and cruised up the road to take some photographs. The majority of the photos were taking with the plane flying past me allowing me to get side shots but I ended with "head-on" shots. I almost didn't stop to take the "head-on" shots because I had turned the corner to go home but I thought these could be some neat photos. I'm glad I did!

Settings on the D90 were set to shutter-priority with ISO ratings between 400 and 800 because the sun was going down quickly. Zoom levels ranged from 70mm to 300mm so I'm glad I had that lense on the camera. I started out with very fast shutter speeds of 1/1600 a sec but quickly changed that to help blur the background behind the plane. In the end, I'm happy with the results from photographing a plane for the very first time.

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