A couple pics from LBA this afternoon 26/01/06 15:20 till 16:15

Alright guys, you had your fun earlier :D. Bloody camera turning itself off as LSAA started its take off run!

Was incredibly cold up there, couldn’t feel my toes! or my fingers… or my legs.. oh well!

Nice shots!! im liking the Learjet and the 2nd FlyBe shot 🙂

Hey jus a bit cold haha, we stuck it out until the jet2 Tenerife left and then we didnt wait anoter second. Tom we will have some good photos but you forgot to do one important thing … lens cover? haha soz tom jus had to put it.

Lens cover…Not just once…But TWICE!

Also let’s not mention the power switch. Err…I just did didn’t I?…

Silly Tom… 😀

Paul

Hey jus a bit cold haha, we stuck it out until the jet2 Tenerife left and then we didnt wait anoter second. Tom we will have some good photos but you forgot to do one important thing … lens cover? haha soz tom jus had to put it.

Tom
never thought to look there was bloody cold and abit wet i went home to warm up after jet2 to tenerife left, try o catch you another time
Jonathan

Paul
i was up there about 1 30 in cemetry and did not see anyone about so i drove up to the other end of the runway behind the hangers
jonathan

Hi Jonathan,

We moved round to the tunnel entrance (We never realised what a great spot that was!), so myself, Steve and Paul will have shots to show :).

Brilliant pictures there love the KLC Fokker 100.

James

Paul
i was up there about 1 30 in cemetry and did not see anyone about so i drove up to the other end of the runway behind the hangers
jonathan

Probably around about mid day but I might well be there from around 9am. We should all be there by 12-ish though.

Paul

what time will you be up there

Jonathan…Myself, LBARULES, LBA-EGNM and Mark L will be up there tomorrow. You joining us?

Paul

great pictues there anybody up there friday??

BTW, here is my 4 minute edit of one of your photos. With the original files no doubt this edit would have been better.

Nice photo!

Some tips on photoshop. This is the order I normally use when editing photos (names of functions may be slightly different as I am translating from Dutch from a slightly older version of PS):

Leveling
Press the U and you can draw lines. Draw the line paralel to a line you know 100% certain to run straight and vertical (a house, lamp post etc). Then go to: Picture – Rotate Canvas – Choose rotation. The computer will select the right amount of levelling to make the line you draw perfectly vertical.

Picture – Edits (adaptation/changes???) – colourtone/saturation (CTRL-U)
Change the colourtone and the saturation. Usually a slight increase is best. The brightness depends on the weather. Bad weather needs more brightness, good weather needs less brightness.

Picture – Edits – Brightness/Contrast
A bit more contrast usually works best.

Picture – Edits – Curves (CTRL-M)
Great tool to make dull colours a bit more vibrant. Remember you can also select the colour you want to change. Mostly I find that a bit more blue works quite nicely. My lense is (or rather was since it passed away) rather cheap and tends to make pictures a bit greyish at long zoom due to fog/smog/glare. This tool should remove the worst of it.

Filter – Sharpening – Unsharp Mask
This is a great tool that will sharpen your photos very well! The below settings are what I normally use. Do not go higher for the radius or the threshold, as that will give edges. The amount can be changed as you like.
amount: whatever you like but usually 200-250% works for me
radius: 0,3
threshold: 3 levels

Have fun but be warned, photoshop can be a very adictive program!

Very Nice Shots!

Great shots there! CS2 can be great once you get the hang of it 😀 I know from experiance!

Too bad it was freeeeezing though. ^

A small matter of insignificance to silly ‘photographers’ like myself, who will be spending most of tomorrow sat on the wall of the Cemetary 🙂

Paul

Nice pics! 🙂

Too bad it was freeeeezing though. ^

Nice to see a bit of sunshine up at LBA!

Paul