Pix from work

Very nice! If it wasn’t for the little bit of blur like you mentioned, that’d be airliners.net material!:D

That is nice, WD!

Cheers for the photos to show what i meant Ren, and cheers for the explanation WD!

Wicked pictures of NYC – Just amazing to look at from above like that!

We got a goofy vector our of Newark that took us over Manhattan island. It was just dark enough to blur the pictures due to the low light and the aircraft movement. Here’s the best of the lot looking south with the Empire State Building in the lower right.

Here’s my attempt at including the wing in a picture. Plenty of reflection from the cockpit interior.

Originally posted by steve rowell
Nice pics Whisky Delta, how about some shots out of your office window during flight

Ok then. Here are some from 2 days ago. The first is the western mountains on the Vermont/New York border. Lake Placid, the home to the 1980 Olympics, is somewhere in there. 🙂

Originally posted by EGNM
nice stuff, just another thing i’ve noticed about your Embraers as opposed to the UK versions that i usually see it the differant swing door and its associated lack of airstairs.

The airstairs came on the first 30 or so jets but then all subsequent deliveries had the plug door at my company. Those original jets with the airstairs were retrofitted with plug doors in a matter of a few months. Since then all the operators of the ERJ family in the US seems to have the plug doors.

Nice pics Whisky Delta, how about some shots out of your office window during flight

Always like to see your embraer pics!

Originally posted by Whiskey Delta
By smaller do you mean CRJ/ERJ/AVRO/Bizjets or really small like GA stuff? I come across both in my travels.

Yes I mean CRJ/ERJ/AVRO kinda stuff. But I mean some pictures maybe of the smaller airports? Whether you can get them whilst taxiing or on approach of whatever? I know the pressures of the job may not allow this, I thought I may aswell ask!;)

Or on this BA 145 example…

Originally posted by EGNM
I thought that most of the British examples i had seen had stairs loacted in the door which folded down with them on the revers (sorry can’t find a photo to expalin better)

A bit like on this 135 you mean ?

oops – forgot to add it!

nice stuff, just another thing i’ve noticed about your Embraers as opposed to the UK versions that i usually see it the differant swing door and its associated lack of airstairs. I thought that most of the British examples i had seen had stairs loacted in the door which folded down with them on the revers (sorry can’t find a photo to expalin better). Would this be associated with the Embraers use of airbridges in the states at the mojor airports?

Heres one of my Emb photos… again (not got many on my p.c.)

Originally posted by wannabe pilot
Excellent pics WD! All of them are very interesting indeed, nice to see some of these kinda shots. I know that those Embraers can get into fairly small airports, is there any chance of you being able to get some shots from some of the smaller places? Sorry but I have this kinda obsession for smaller aircraft and smaller airports 😀

By smaller do you mean CRJ/ERJ/AVRO/Bizjets or really small like GA stuff? I come across both in my travels.

Originally posted by Ren Frew
I don’t know which model you have, but a lot of digi cameras have manual over-rides and you should be able to ride the exposure level a little in either direction. It’s worth reading the picture information on the display that you got with the shots you’ve already done and experiment with the exposure readings manually. Look for the f-number and try adjusting by let’s say half stop increments. The higher the f-number the darker it gets and the lower the f-number the brighter it gets.
If you can’t do this with your camera then try keeping the snow out of frame to let the auto exposure work more closely on the subject matter.

Thanks for the tip. My camera does have a Manual mode but I’m still pretty new to that aspect of photography so I’ll have to play with it a bit. Rather nice that it doesn’t cost anything to play around with a digital camera. 🙂

Excellent pics WD! All of them are very interesting indeed, nice to see some of these kinda shots. I know that those Embraers can get into fairly small airports, is there any chance of you being able to get some shots from some of the smaller places? Sorry but I have this kinda obsession for smaller aircraft and smaller airports 😀

Originally posted by Whiskey Delta
Is there a way of adjusting for that when you’re taking the picture?

Yes, but you’re camera may not be able to do it. In principle you would want to have full manual control of exposure, such as with a full manual camera like an SLR. You want to expose the shot on the main item of concern (i.e. the plane) If there is a large area of contrasting information in the shot such as snow, sky or suchlike then your average handy snapper will be fooled into evening out the brightest part of the shot and underexposing the dimmest part, which in your case is the plane.

I don’t know which model you have, but a lot of digi cameras have manual over-rides and you should be able to ride the exposure level a little in either direction. It’s worth reading the picture information on the display that you got with the shots you’ve already done and experiment with the exposure readings manually. Look for the f-number and try adjusting by let’s say half stop increments. The higher the f-number the darker it gets and the lower the f-number the brighter it gets.
If you can’t do this with your camera then try keeping the snow out of frame to let the auto exposure work more closely on the subject matter.

Originally posted by Ren Frew
Great shots WD, those whiteout shots aren’t bad at all, if your camera has auto iris then it’ll underexpose the rest of the picture a little to try and compensate for what it thinks is a big over-exposed area.

Is there a way of adjusting for that when you’re taking the picture?

brill pics mate 😀