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Great pics!

I actually much prefer posting them here where the subject is of more interest than the “quality” of the picture. It’s about the planes, not necessarily the pictures.

I know what you mean…But with me I have an inbuilt critical eye I am afraid..My grandfather and father were excellent photographers and taught me about photography and composition,colour,shading etc from a very young age…I used to do alot of photography until work and kids took up the vast majority of my time…
When I see a photo that strikes me for its artistic and visual quality I have to comment on it…
Sorry if annoys anyone..
I will try not to do it in future..
🙂 😉

Try using a higher ISO setting or shutter speed to sort out the blurs. Experiment in increments.

Looking at the cockpit picture again I wish I had evened out the brightness on all the CRT tubes and LCD screens. The FMS screens are good but a couple of the other screens are too bright and started to “burn” the image in the picture. Learn something every time. 🙂

Originally posted by tenthije
How did you do the last one, my night time pics always end up blurred. Did you use a tripod and how long was your exposure time?

My tripod for the cockpit picture was my knee. 🙂 The air was perfectly smooth in the climb that night which allowed for the crisp picture. As you know, even the slightest bump or vibration blurs the picture.

You can see in the picture out the window that even with minimal ground movement at altitude that I got tons of blur. Too bad its so hard to capture because the view looks great.

I’m still a complete novice to photography, especially digital photography so I’m doing a lot of experimenting to figure out what settings to use when. For the night pictures I left the ISO on AUTO, flash OFF, I tried using the S-mode (which I think is Shutter priority) and set the speed to something around 1/50 and fine tuned it using the Exposure compensation (around +1.0). The shutter speed could very well be different than 1/50 as I took about 5 different pictures with different settings.

If I get an opportunity to take another picture in conditions like this I’ll make sure pay closer attention to the settings for future reference.

Does anyone have any words of advice to use when shooting at night like that?

Originally posted by Woundsinger
Wow..Excellent quality photos….
Do you post on A.net etc…

I submitted some scans of negatives to a.net about a year ago but got all of them rejected. This is my first go at a digital camera which seems to provide a hugh improvement for digital picture quality over the negative scans. Once I get a better hang of the whole medium I’ll probably try and submit some again.

I actually much prefer posting them here where the subject is of more interest than the “quality” of the picture. It’s about the planes, not necessarily the pictures. 🙂

Thanks for the kudos.

Great pics WD, well done. The overview of NY is excellent!

How did you do the last one, my night time pics always end up blurred. Did you use a tripod and how long was your exposure time?

Really great shot! Definately a.net material there!

Wow..Excellent quality photos….
Do you post on A.net etc…
I would really like to see more of your photos..
The colour rendition on the South West 737 is gorgeous…

Originally posted by wysiwyg
Brilliant with just enough difference from the usual photos posted here

Do you ever take any pics from your seat Wys ?

Brilliant with just enough difference from the usual photos posted here

Lovely pictures!

Thanks. 😀

Excellent , I love New York pictures and the night shot of the cockpit is great too.

Excellent photo’s.

The last picture. It was a smooth night so this picture turned out great.

The winglet of the EMB-145XR over the NYC nightscape.

The southern part of Central Park with the Empire State Building in the middle of the photo.

Newark, New Jersey (EWR) after takeoff from 22R.

A somewhat blurry picture of a passing 757 on a takeoff roll.