Hello guys here are some pictures of the second day we spend on our Heathrow trip, I must say it’s something waaaaaay different then the usual Schiphol stuff. Today the weather was not that great so we decided to stay inside. Again all of these pictures are trough 2 layers of windows without a tripod. Enjoy once again.
Nice to kick-off when eating breakfast I must say. Emirates A380 reversing on runway 27R.
Old coloured Thai Boeing 747-400. I prefer the new ones.
Then the rain came in. I and don’t mean just rain… All aircraft that want to depart had a minimum delay of 1:30 hour and landing aircraft were stuffed in the holds above the London Area. Landing aircraft were comming in slowly, made a picture of a Qantas Boeing 747-400 that was on approach when it started to rain. You can clearly see the rain comming of on top of the aircraft.
El Al Boeing 747-400 taxiing towards 27L, one of the aircraft that was lucky to leave the line of 60 planes that wanted to push-back.
MEA Airbus A330-200 seen reversing on runway 27R from Beirut.
Air New Zealand Boeing 777-200.
Air India Boeing 777-200.
American Boeing 777-200 with some threatening skies in the back.
Virgin Atlantic Airbus A340-600 departing to Tokyo Narita.
Singapore Airlines Airbus A380 heading back to Singapore.
American Boeing 767-300.
United Airlines Boeing 767-300 to Chicago,O’Hare,Il.
Emirates A380.
Star Alliance Airbus A340-600 from South African being towed from the maintainance to it’s gate.
Air Seychelles Boeing 767-300 departing to Mahe at 1945.
Air Mauritius Airbus A340-300.
To kick off with the triple series! Japan Airlines Boeing 777-300 taxiing towards 27R for departure to Tokyo Narita.
By: T5 - 6th August 2009 at 13:03
Really great shots. I don’t suppose you were there the following day were you, in particular, for the arrival of N383AN (AA 767) at around 11.00am?
By: Larry66 - 4th August 2009 at 23:56
Impressive shots,and thats some rain there!
I wish our airport had public access like this but alas,no plane spotters allowed!
By: PMN - 4th August 2009 at 23:51
Maikel, they look much more balanced. Just be aware that you want to get the scene across to the viewer as naturally as possible, so if you’re outside and shooting in a nice red evening, don’t correct the white balance to make the aircraft look white because you’ll just lose all that lovely warm evening glow. This is more a technique to use when shooting through glass where the image has a false colour cast or under articial light, like a ramp lit by floodlights, for example.
🙂
Paul
By: Bristol_Rob - 4th August 2009 at 20:19
Nice post, I really like that Aviation Museum They have at LHR
Nice one
Rob
🙂
By: Myke - 4th August 2009 at 17:35
Some really nice shots, however, some are too “warm” 🙁
Nice ones though! Keep it going 😀
By: Maikel - 4th August 2009 at 17:09
Hallo,
Thanks for this tip. For editing I use Adobe Lightroom, so I had a further look at the options the program gives. I think a found a solution, here 2 examples:
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Thanks for youre help!
By: PMN - 4th August 2009 at 11:01
Nice shots, Maikel, and it’s nice to see some different angles from Heathrow!
One quick tip for shooting through glass is to custom white balance (your camera manual will explain how to do this). Almost all the shots here have quite a pronounced red tint, which although it can be removed in Photoshop it’s best to adjust your camera for the circumstances when you’re actually shooting. It’s much less work as well! Here are a couple of examples:
Here’s your original Thai 747 shot:
Applying correction using the Colour Balance tool in Photoshop gives us this, which looks a lot more natural. Custom White Balance would make a very similar difference.
And likewise for this A380. The original:
And after correction:
All you usually have to do to custom white balance is take a photo in the conditions you want to white balance to, and select Custom White Balance on the camera. You’ll then usually be asked which image you want to use for the custom white balance, in which case you select the one you just took. From then on, every image you shoot in those conditions should look much more natural, although bear in mind that if the light changes dramatically then you’ll have to Custom White Balance again.
Hope that helps, and thanks again for sharing these. 🙂
Paul
By: steve rowell - 4th August 2009 at 05:50
Absolutely fabulous shots…enjoyed every one of them!!!
By: Maikel - 3rd August 2009 at 19:03
Star Alliance Egyptair Boeing 777-200.
ANA Boeing 777-300.
Emirates Boeing 777-300.
Here again the ANA Boeing 777-300 with some fogged engines rolling on runway 27R with the last light of the day.
Star Alliance Boeing 777-200 on the roll.
Icelandair Boeing 757-200 just after the push from the gate.
That’s all for this day, next up some shots along the runway because weather was getting better.
Maikel
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