Heathrow

Nice shots! 🙂 I really like the ANA one 🙂

Nice catches. What’s that on the nose of the Delta B767-400?

Thanks very much.

Nice stuff Neil. Heathrow has great light in winter on the rare occasion the sun appears.

very nice shots well done

http://www.flickr.com/photos/indiaecho/archives/date-posted/?view=md
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Handy if the standard flickr display is jerky

Some lovely photos there. Nice to see some from Heathrow as I fly there every day for work. Pick of the bunch is definitely the TAM 76′.

Nice one Neil. That TAM 767 is blooming beautiful.

Nice 🙂

Nice work Neil, as always!

excellent, i was near the resevoir. Moor lane i think it is. first time ive ever been there. some nice banking shots but a little out of my reach. 400mm+needed

I’ll update my images to show the location on the map. For 747s, A340s & A380s (and other low, slow departers), there’s a grass verge just east of the Southern Perimeter Road Esso filling station (TW6 3PF) that overlooks T5.
For lighter and more agile aircraft such as the 767, 777 & A330 – you want to be slightly further back from the runway so as to get a better perspective, so I suggest the Oaks Road bridge next to The Rising Sun pub (TW19 7LB). 😉

The two are within easy walking distance of each other.

I was on pretty much arrivals all day :), i did try departures but i was too far away. Just looked at your flickr and you were shooting heavies at 170mm? where the hell were you? where i was i struggled with 300mm. You’ll have to show me 😉

Ive been down there today.

Hmm… 😎 Chris were you viewing departures or arrivals? I was there too capturing departures, great blue skies ;).

some lovely shots :), Ive been down there today. These taken from outside the BA hanger? shame not to see the firefly and BMI anymore 🙁

It is always best to use the fastest shutter speed as long as you use some f-stop setting above the widest. The widest aperture will use the edges of the lens and this is the least sharp part. It is better to use a small amount of closed aperture to force the light through the cente of the lens (the part that will have least defects and thus be sharper).

Back in the day I used SLRs for aviation photography. A zoom lens would averagely use an aperture range from f5.8 to f22 and f8 was good enough for air shots. Use a smaller aperture for parked aeroplanes to get a deeper depth of field (focus). Don’t know what the dSLR apertures are but you get the idea. 🙂

FWIW: 500 of a second was better for an all around action shutter speed as 250th often showed slight camera shake. But this may not be so crucial if your camera has shot-steadying software option.

Nice set of pictures Neil.

To answer Matt’s question. It looks like all the pictures are made with 1/250th of a second. It therefore looks like the camera is set to timepreference 1/250th. The f stop is then adjusted by the camera to the setting needed for a correct exposure.
1/250 is indeed not always a guarantee for a shakefree picture, especially when a longer lens (or more zoom) is used.

rgds
EC

Nice 🙂 Good catches.

Some cracking shots Neil, well done! 🙂 I love the framing in the first few, and you are right – the 777 does look great in BA colours. An AA 777 is also a welcome sight to me any day of the week 😉

When I clicked on the images for a bigger picture, I noticed there’s quite a lot of camera shake? I don’t know what others would suggest? But perhaps a higher shutter speed?

Matt

EDIT: Actually, I think the culprit may be the F-Stop? It seems a little high to me.

Nice set 🙂