Heathrow Today

Nice shots andrew like the Austrain A319 & the Emirates A380 😎

James

Thanks all for the great feedback

Although I didn’t realise it when I uploaded these shots, 7 out of the 9 are pretty new liveries introduced in the last 5 years!

My favourite has to be the US Airways colours… a huge improvement on on the previous!

Andrew

Gota love that Air Canada livery.

Great Shots!

Nice shots.

Nice Shot’s Andrew

Glad the weather was great for you

Loving the Emirates A380

Nice one
Rob
🙂

Hi Andrew,

Very nice work indeed! They’re well composed, well exposed and sharp but my only criticism if I were going to be picky is that a couple of them look a little ‘flat’ and lifeless. This is very easy to sort simply by slightly increasing the contrast and saturation. Here you see the original:

It’s a nice shot, but with the darks made a little more pronounced, mid tones lightened just a touch and a moderate increase in saturation it really jumps out of the screen at you more. It’s bolder and more life-like.

The same is true of the A380. Here’s the original:

And after the darks have been increased, mid tones lightened slightly and saturation added:

When you see aircaft like these in real life when you take the photo, you see bold colours and contrast with your eye, so try and replicate that as closely as possible on the screen. This isn’t always easy as the human eye has a far greater dynamic range than the digital camera (dynamic range refers to the difference between the darkest and lightest parts of a scene and how much of that difference your eye or your camera perceives), but as you see in the above examples, with two simple steps (levels adjustment and saturation) they look much more ‘real’ and vibrant.

Something else to try is playing with composition. Try maybe getting in a little closer and taking photos from different angles. Cropping the front of the aircraft from the nose to just behind the main landing gear is a great perspective, and adding different angles keeps the images you post here or upload to photography sites more varied and interesting.

All in all a very good set, though. You certainly have the essential elements of quality pretty much sorted (exposure and sharpness). Perhaps now just spend a little time improving the more aesthetic side of things, i.e. composition and colour.

Feel free to drop me a PM if I can help further. 🙂

Paul

Nice load there Andrew. Like the Kuwait 777 and the Emirates 380. 🙂