MAN 7th July (Help Needed)

All those photos look amazing not a thing wrong with any of them.

Please don’t take this the wrong way, from a non-photographers point of view there may not be anything wrong with them, and it’s great you appreciate and like the shots. In truth there actually is something technically wrong that’s in need of correcting. Matt knows this, which is why he’s asked for advice from fellow photographers. 🙂

Paul

Yep, it was nice to see an EI 321 instead of the usual 320s. Thanks!

I love the Shamrock321 obviously!

All those photos look amazing not a thing wrong with any of them.

Ahh looks much better Paul 🙂 Thanks! 😀

Hi Matt,

As has already been said, the over-exposed look is almost 100% caused by your exposure compensation being set to +.3EV. Jason’s advice is very good though with regard to keeping the sun behind you, so you’re between the sun and the aircraft. This should help give you a balanced exposure with good contrast.

Also, I hope you don’t mind, but I liked your 777/747 shot so much I did a little playing with it, just to try reduce the highlights and give it slightly better contrast. As a rough guide I’ll post both the original and the edit. The edit is still over-exposed, but the overall shot is more balanced. I just reduced the highlights using ‘Shadows/Highlights’, used the Colour Balance tool to lessen the greeny blue tint and increased the saturation slightly.

The original:

And a quick edit:

I really do think that’s a superb capture. Perfect timing!

Paul

Thanks very much for your help guys! Much appreciated!!

Cheers guys.

Nice shots Matt. I like the BA one the most 😉

Thanks for sharing.

Your White Balance is also on Manual. This is why your shot has a Green tinge to them, maybe set this back to Auto or the correct setting for the light you are shooting in. And the overexposure is almost certainly caused by the Exposure Compensation set at +0.3. Shooting with the sun in front of you will still cause images to be blown out even with exposure compensation set at -0.3 or -0.7 so try and shoot with the sun on your back :).

Looks like you’ve got exposure comp. set on +0.33. Set it back to neutral and your shots should be back to normal… 😀

Nice pics though anyway :p

Part Two

Cheers!
Matt.