Aperture and shutter speed?

Question: Aperture and shutter speed!?

its an overcast day with no evidence of shadows!.!.I want to take pictures of fighter JETS doing an airshow and I was wondering what aperture and shutter speed should i use for the best results!?

its a an overcast day with no evidence of shadows like i said before, and its one of those days where the day seems dark and dim but when you look up into a cloud, it would get extremely brightWww@QuestionHome@Com

Best Answer - Chosen by Asker:

Might as well use largest aperture!. The underside of jets is dark!. You will lose the sky!. Use the highest speed you can!.Www@QuestionHome@Com

Use center weighted or spot metering!. Then just make sure your exposure lock is done when then focus spot is on the subject!. If the subject is too small or too fast to get an exposure lock, then use a test subject!. Find a relatively stationary object where the sky is the background!. Like the air tower or a balloon!. Then use your camera to get the right exposure setting automatically and write them down!. Switch to manual mode and set those settings!. For fast moving subjects, you'll want a shutter speed of no less than 1/500s or even more than 1/1000s to freeze motion!. That means you'll have to adjust your aperture accordingly!. also, remember the longer the zoom the faster the shutter needs to be!.Www@QuestionHome@Com

unfortunately this shoot won't be easy alot of the time your gonna get underexposed jets or over exposed skies, and its not as if you can fill it in with flash simply because their gonna be to far away!. What I would suggest is to bracket your exposures meaning take one shot under exposed one over exposed and one normal, or more stops like this if you camera will allow it!.Www@QuestionHome@Com

Does your meter work!?!?!?

See the chart I put in the previous answer as well as my suggestion for in-flight shots in the answer before that!. I still stand by those answers!.

Without a meter, just bracket up and down one stop from my suggestions and something will come out okay to print!. Print film is very forgiving!.Www@QuestionHome@Com