If you never have landed in San Diego, CA it is quite an experience. In the final 30 seconds the flight path is directly over buildings that seem awfully close. Living here, it is very much a part of the city as it is not cast out to some far flung suburb but instead, smack dab in the middle of it all!
This was my second time to go to this location for this specific shot. Ive been to this little pocket park on Coronado Island to shoot time-lapse of the downtown skyline before. But I am trying to get a starburst off the new glass encrusted skyscraper and a sharp plane. There is about 10 minutes when the sun does this phenomenon. The planes come by pretty regularly, although there can be 10 minute lags... Now it looks like it will take a third time.
To create a starburst you have to have the fStop closed way down. In my experience, preferably f18 or more. But doing so, requires that you have to slow down the shutter to compensate for the fStop. This in turn makes it very challenging if not impossible to get sharp moving objects. I was quite surprised and happy to see that I pulled off the starburst with an f14 using my Tamron 70-200 lens on my Canon 80D body. The settings: ISO 100 f14 1/60. I think I can freeze the jet with 1/80 now. Next time will be ISO 200 f14 1/80 and 1/125 for good measure.
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