Business 727 at LHR, plus a few others…

Cheers Si & Adam.

I checked out your Manchester pics Adam, they’re suberb!

I’ve only been to manchester twice, but on both occassions the weather was awful. On my second visit (during august), we didn’t even get out of the car as it was raining so hard. 😡

Fantastic shots Alex, these are brilliant. The Qatar A346 looks superb…

Great stuff!

Adam

Alex,
Nice shot of the 727, a rare catch indeed. It has also been good reading the thread about processing between you and Manc, I have just picked up some useful hints. I have never used layers to process my shots as I have always been afraid to delve to deeply into CS2.

All the best

Si

Thinking I’ll be saving for the 40D first.

Thanks for the advise Ian.

Much appricated.

Alex

I’m a photographer, not just an aviation photographer so the 70-200 gives you so much more. I use it for all sorts of photography as I’m not shooting stuff thats miles away.
I use the 17-55 for landscapes.

The 100-400 is used for most Aviation shots on the 30D. I keep the 350D and 70-200 handy for A346’s 😉

The extra stops down to F2.8 allow my football shots to have the DoF required at higher shutter speeds and lower ISO’s.
I might aswell stay at home if I wanted to shoot low light/evening games with the 100-400.
Thats why the 300 and 400 primes F2.8 are so expensive! Great pieces of kit.

For Aviation stuff you don’t want the F2.8 setting anyway as your mainly aiming to shoot F8-11.
If your just shooting Aviation then the kit you have will be more than enough. You’ll see a lot of my a.net images are on the 350D with 70-300, 70-200 and 100-400.

Cheers for that. I see where your coming from.

Unfortunately, fotopic tends to be cheap and cheerful. I’m not sure what compression they use, but it really affects the appearance of photos.

I’m now using photobucket for direct linking, as they don’t seem to compress images at all.

BTW. How much do you actually use your 70-200?

As I said in my previous post, it’s a great lens but for someone who has a 100-400, a 70-200 only gives 30mm wider angle?

cracking shot on a.net mate! A great way to start! I was there the week before doing sunsets, its difficult to master and also makes you blind!

The whites look a little to blue to me on the Virgin and your G-YMMM. It maybe the fotopic compression though which has caused it but maybe not. Try adding some red and reducing the blues in CS2. Also check your colours palette. I set Red to 5 and blue and green to 0.
I work in an sRGB colour space.

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I had the 70-300 IS on the 350D as my first digital set-up, which is a good light weight lens on that camera. However since moving to L I’ll never look back.
The 70-200 IS L F2.8 is just superb! I picked up a rare second hand one for a bargain price! If you whack a photo taken with the 100-400 with 500,0.2,0 you may need to add more, add the same to the 70-200 and its way oversharp! I checked your site, I agree the images are not as sharp as on here. Contrast and colours need sorting out though, but I’m sure thats just an editing feature rather than a camera/lens function.

A nice selection there. Thanks for sharing.

I’m only using two at the moment, the other lens being an 18-200 Tamron – which needs replacing. Its not very good in low lighting level conditions, not to mention the distortion at 18mm, but it was a good lens to get started with.

When I bought the 100-400, they put a 2x extender in as well – which is not bad for free. 🙂

Had been looking at the 70-200s and also the 28-300.

Looking forward to seeing what the spec will be for the new 40D. I imagine 10.MP will be one of the features.

yeah I reckon the 40D will be out in Oct / Nov time. I’d wait for that. You’ll feel the difference in holding the cameras. 30D is a lot more sturdy.

My others lens are the 70-200 IS L F2.8 and 17-55 IS F2.8. Also have the Speedlite 580ex flash.

Cheers Ian.

The 4 shots I’ve posted here look much sharper than the ones on my website, so it’s probably something to do with re-sizing.

Out of interest, what other lenses do you have?

I’m looking to upgrade to a 30D very soon, and looking it pair it up with a few new lens’.

Was there rumour of a Canon 40D though?

Cheers,

Alex

Alex

Oh right Canon, good lad. I have the same lens and camera, although I shoot on the 30D mostly.

The reason I ask was those images look way to oversharp. Not sure if this is due to re-sizing though?

I tend to de-select the sky and dup layer then whack a 500,0.2,0 then rub out or add spots more with the eraser/sharpen tools.

Don’t worry about a.net, I’ve had 5 straight rejections this week! nevermind its only a website.

Look like some cracking photos, not blurry and in focus. So seriously, practise a workflow, keep at it and the pics will become so much better as as your original capture will allow that!

Don’t bother with RAW + JPG, I just use RAW, edit in RAWshooter first then open in CS2 for the levelling, crop and sharpening.

Have a good at those settings I mentioned and re-post.

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Fab shots Alex . So thats the 727 I saw with winglets on Saturday think it was in MSE today not sure.

James

one more today – 727

its a nice spot!

I was around LHR on that day to and saw the 727 again. First time I’ve got a shot of it tho.

what camera/lens (nikon?) and sharpening did you use??