Farnborough – A different set of pics

Great shots. Although I am involved with “ordinary airliners” day to day I do like the Global Express, Falcon and Gulfstream types. I was recently given a 1/48 scale Global Express model, what a beautiful design! Thanx for sharing those images.

Thanks Alex.
I actually found a wee tutorial which explained how to do it. however,a bit different from your instructions,going to give your way a wee try later on some shots i took at a colourful parade in Glasgow recently.
Appreciate you taking the time to explain that,thanks again.

Excellent photos there. Makes a refreshing change to see some unusual angles.

Yeah sure, no worries. 😉 The key to Photoshopping is with layers. Heres a few quick pointers on how to do this:

– Make two layers (one with colour, one without).

How do you do this? Open up your image and get the cropping and any re-sizing done first. After you’re happy with it – press CTRL+A, then CTRL+C, then CTRL+V. This has copied and pasted a new layer on top of the original shot.

– Desaturate

To take the colour out you can either make the saturation -100, or use the ‘desaturate’ option: (in PS CS2: Image/Adjustments/Desaturate).

– Expose colour

Now the top layer is B & W, you can cut out the desired bits by using the ‘Lasso Tool’. Just follow the edges carefully and then join it up to where you started. After you’ve made a shape around the whole tail – press delete and this will expose the colour on the first layer.

Hope that all makes sense. If not, drop me a PM and I’ll send you some screenshots.

Cheers,
Alex

Just tried that in Paintshop Pro X2, works a treat…:D

Yeah sure, no worries. 😉 The key to Photoshopping is with layers. Heres a few quick pointers on how to do this:

– Make two layers (one with colour, one without).

How do you do this? Open up your image and get the cropping and any re-sizing done first. After you’re happy with it – press CTRL+A, then CTRL+C, then CTRL+V. This has copied and pasted a new layer on top of the original shot.

– Desaturate

To take the colour out you can either make the saturation -100, or use the ‘desaturate’ option: (in PS CS2: Image/Adjustments/Desaturate).

– Expose colour

Now the top layer is B & W, you can cut out the desired bits by using the ‘Lasso Tool’. Just follow the edges carefully and then join it up to where you started. After you’ve made a shape around the whole tail – press delete and this will expose the colour on the first layer.

Hope that all makes sense. If not, drop me a PM and I’ll send you some screenshots.

Cheers,
Alex

Fantastic stuff there Alex
Perhaps i could pick your brain on how you manage the colour on specifically the 2 shots of the learjet, How did you ,for example, get the red bits red and the rest of the shot B/W? been fiddling about with Photoshop,with no luck to do this.(probably second nature to most you guys, but, i have very limited knowledge of the workings of Photoshop)
Cheers for any advice.

Thanks guys! Got a rare opportunity to get up close with these beauties so tried to make the most of it.

When you’re confronted with an aircraft that is effectively yours for 10 minutes, the pressure is certainly on to bring home the goods. Knowing what you want out of the shoot is vitally important. You could spend hours and hours photographing the same winglet or nose, so I took with me a few “key angles” as examples.

There are several business jet conventions held all around the world every year. The next ones coming up are:

NBAA – October 6–8, 2008 • Orlando
ABACE – February 11–12, 2009 • Hong Kong
EBACE – May 12–14, 2009 • Geneva

Really appreciate your feedback. 🙂

Alex

I have to say, it’s very rare we see people thinking ‘outside the box’ when it comes to aviation photography. We usually stick to the same angles and perspectives that certain websites deem to be the norm, but venturing outside that zone of normality really can be interesting to do and I think it’s something every photographer should try and do at least occasionally.

This is a superb post, Alex, and one of the most interesting I’ve seen on this forum for a good while. Very tasteful composition and almost every image holds your interest and makes you want to see more. Very nice work indeed! 🙂

Paul

Different!!

Superb!!!!

These are exscellent Alex – very nice indeed!

Love the learjet 60 pics, the tail one in particular. The cabin shots are also very nice too, they look lush inside! 🙂

Thanks for the comments guys!

Had lots of fun sticking my camera up engine exhausts. 🙂 It got even better when they started inviting me inside. 😀 Only a few million dollars a piece. 😉

OOOOOooooooooooo very sassy:)

Nice

that last one is a cracker!