Thanks everyone for your advice on which camera I should go for. In the end I went for the Nikon D70 (as I said in the previous topic).
So, last Sunday I went to LHR to try out my new camera. 😀
Whilst the rest of the country was getting washed out, here in London we were getting blown out! Recorded wind gusts were in excess of 50mph.
But I’m pleased with how the images came out – I wasn’t expecting anything amazing given my price range – but it was definitely worth the hours of freezing wind.
However, I had to edit dust bunnies out of all the images 🙁 My rocket blaster’s in the post, so hopefully I’ll have ousted the dust by the time I next visit LHR…
AA104 graciously catching the first of morning sun after its flight from JFK.
1 of 9 of the Canadian ‘invasion’ this one from Vancouver
…and this one from Toronto
Despite the aircraft name Jammu and Kashmir this flight’s actually fresh in from Bollywood
Tolkien would be proud!
The always mighty 747 coming home as BAW284 from SFO
“Welcome home sir!”
Looks like this bird’s a few feathers short of a full set :p
Not quite what I was expecting, but I like it
Cathay Pacific …Now from Delhi?! :rolleyes:
‘Thanks for making us dream’? Tribute to the national basketball team
By: AlanR - 6th December 2012 at 13:52
Love the Air New Zealand (Hobbit) shots 🙂
By: EGTC - 5th December 2012 at 17:06
Great 🙂
By: Matt-100 - 4th December 2012 at 20:01
Thanks KAL, honoured.
I hope I haven’t offended too many Lebanese? :p
I look forward to capturing the A350 in MEA colours (2018 earliest?), it will be a treat!
Matt
By: KALIMITED - 4th December 2012 at 19:42
MATT-100
You cheeky Git with that Christmas tree joke of yours, Ill be sure to let the management know what you said I have quiet a few friends in that company, I can give you an exclusive they are changing the Livery upon new delivery of new A350s being ordered not long into Q1 2013, I met the Aircraft engineer that actually designed the current livery a couple of years back and the new livery doesnt look half bad at all, love your MEA photos for someone who has almost 10 000 Photos of that airlines some dating back to the LIA days before they were absorbed into today’s MEA, love the rest of those shots as a not soo good photographer who has hardly anytime to do some photography I admire your and other’s work on here and I comment usually when I feel I need to comment and have time to comment so feel proud from an industry veteran that his giving you time to comment on your cheeky jokes and brilliant photos well done Matt.
KAL…
By: MSR777 - 3rd December 2012 at 20:31
Nice shots there. I’ve always liked the Iran Air colours.
By: longshot - 3rd December 2012 at 01:02
They look fine to me…..people tend to over-crop these days partly because the software exists and partly because airliners.net have pushed ‘the norm’ in that direction.
By: Matt-100 - 2nd December 2012 at 20:21
Well composed shots! I like the way you are allowing more space round the nose than the tail/wingtip of the aircraft. airliners.net might have issues with that but I think they’ve got it wrong. Are you cropping much or are they ‘straight from the camera’?
Thanks, but believe me, the composition was unintentional! I was trying to make the aircraft sit as centrally as possible in the frame.
Most of the shots are roughly how they came off the camera – there’s a little cropping involved (above and below the aircraft) to minimize open areas of sky.
I think a lot of it was down to my location. For those familiar with LHR, they were either taken just in-front of or just behind the roundabout where Eastern Perimeter meets Northern Perimeter road. I switched my position half way through.
By: longshot - 2nd December 2012 at 19:41
Well composed shots! I like the way you are allowing more space round the nose than the tail/wingtip of the aircraft. airliners.net might have issues with that but I think they’ve got it wrong. Are you cropping much or are they ‘straight from the camera’?
By: Culpano - 2nd December 2012 at 19:04
they weren’t Christmas trees on the MEA they were Cedar trees Lebanon’s national emblem
Hee hee – excellent !
By: Matt-100 - 2nd December 2012 at 15:06
they weren’t Christmas trees on the MEA they were Cedar trees Lebanon’s national emblem
Haha, it was meant to be an ignorant joke 😮 I have to admit, their call-sign is a bit of a give away.
By: nibb100 - 2nd December 2012 at 15:00
they weren’t Christmas trees on the MEA they were Cedar trees Lebanon’s national emblem
By: Matt-100 - 2nd December 2012 at 14:41
Thanks for the feedback guys, @Culpano http://imaging.nikon.com/lineup/lens/zoom/telephotozoom/af_zoom70-300mmf_4-56g/index.htm
By: ThreeSpool - 2nd December 2012 at 13:44
I’d be proud if they were mine, well done!
By: Culpano - 2nd December 2012 at 13:44
Good stuff Matt. Which lens did you go for ?
I’ve PMed you….
By: Matt-100 - 2nd December 2012 at 13:19
One of the last remaining A300s still flying passengers!
KLM’s take on the polished aluminium look – this time, with paint
Not to be outdone, Star send a 747 as a response
MEA’s flagship aircraft (registration OD-MEA) – sporting festive Chirstmas trees…
Soon to become a 787 🙂
Definite crosswind component
G-VFAR, all the way from Cape Town
Soon to become Spain’s #1? :diablo:
There are some other pictures I didn’t upload, http://www.flickr.com/photos/90708027@N04 – feel free to have a browse.
If anyone would like to recommend any camera settings (shutter speed, ISO etc.) it would be appreciated – I’m still very much a photographic virgin.
Thanks for viewing!
Matt
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