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Hi Axel a belated welcome to the forum. I certainly have no criticism of that even with the lamp post.

haha thank you very much i really do enjoy this forum more than the other one i am still a member off

Hi Axel a belated welcome to the forum. I certainly have no criticism of that even with the lamp post.

After all the pros and cons, enjoy your photography – perfection is difficult to achieve, but with practice things get better. I’ve managed some awful shots, but they are a record of what I saw on the day, I’m always learning which improves my pictures, as the old saying goes “beauty is in the eye of the beholder”

Wow what a great shot of a Luminax 5000, the best damn street light this country has ever produced.

Shame the plane gets in the way a bit 🙂

Hi Axel,

I get the impression that you quite like the picture you took of Malaysian Airlines A380-841 9M-MNB, which as far as I’m concerned is fine since we all have different tastes and likewise all differ in terms of what we are trying to capture and what we can achieve when undertaking photography.

I concur with Derekf and consider his advice rather helpful if you are seeking to improve your work.

Personally I would not have taken that shot with respect to it’s composition which includes the cloud position at the nose for example plus proximity of the tail to the bottom of the picture. Then there is the imposition of the lamp post in the scene, which would have also given me pause on the shutter release as well. As to clipping the wing it happens sometimes, especially when capturing a moving subject. I will sometimes get a few shots that clip the edge off my subject aircraft in a panning sequence. When that inadvertant cropping occurs even if the picture is otherwise terrific I simply delete those images since they are from my perspective worthless.

There is nothing wrong with thinking your shot is terrific, if you like it and that is the type of shot you are seeking to achieve great you have reached your goal. If you want to go further and get better shots it helps to be ruthless when examining your own work.

I wish you all the best in your practice of aviation photography.

Cheers,

Daniel.

There is nothing wrong with cropping to improve an image. Did I see this on airliners.net where you asking opinions on there?

What you also need to learn is when to move on and stop trying to make a silk purse from a sow’s ear (or whatever it is….)

Take the advice, go and practice and your photography will improve.

i do take advice and it has never been on airliners.net would never post on there

There is nothing wrong with cropping to improve an image. Did I see this on airliners.net where you asking opinions on there?

What you also need to learn is when to move on and stop trying to make a silk purse from a sow’s ear (or whatever it is….)

Take the advice, go and practice and your photography will improve.

I like the shot, sure it would be rejected by a pro but I have hundreds of pics that alot would throw away but I took them for me, for my pleasure and for me to record the moment. I like that it shows how low the plane was.
You could also play around with the cropping.

Phill

it is al taken no croping has been done on this shot

To be brutal, you cut the wing tip off and got a lamp post in the shot so the photo doesn’t work. We’ve all done it. I still cut bits off and I’ve been taking aeroplane photos for over 30years (Wearing glasses is my excuse). Getting the subject in the frame where you want it takes practice. Take advantage of digital and take a series of shots of your subject as it passes. One your A380 taken a few seconds later may have been OK

I like the shot, sure it would be rejected by a pro but I have hundreds of pics that alot would throw away but I took them for me, for my pleasure and for me to record the moment. I like that it shows how low the plane was.
You could also play around with the cropping.

Phill

Hi (again) Axel

Depends what you want the shot to be?

As an amateur “snap shot” style record of how low the aircraft was, then the original is fine by me, exposure is good, focus is good, image is sharp, etc.

But, a perfectionist would probably say the “clipped” wingtip can never allow it to be considered a “perfect” shot, and another perfectionist might also say the street-lamp is unattractive foreground “clutter” which should have been avoided. Or maybe if you had positioned the streetlamp towards the bottom left hand corner then it may have looked like a more deliberate inclusion in the composition, rather than “accidental” clutter.

As chip 51 has shown, the lamppost can be removed with digital-processing, but it is then arguable whether the dramatic impact of the airliner’s low altitude is lost? Maybe if the lamp post was removed and “re-inserted” towards bottom left hand corner the image woudl look much better……?

For what it’s worth, I’d prefer the missing wingtip to be there, along with the street lamp, but as a strictly amateur photographer I think it is okay as it stands, as I’d be more than happy to have captured your original image myself.

Paul F

thank you very much for your reply and like i said i only didnt listen to people on the other site because they said there way is the only way but you said i would personally and thats all i wanted a reply like yours where it sees the good and the bad side of things not only the bad and i will take ur advice and use it next time

Hi (again) Axel

Depends what you want the shot to be?

As an amateur “snap shot” style record of how low the aircraft was, then the original is fine by me, exposure is good, focus is good, image is sharp, etc.

But, a perfectionist would probably say the “clipped” wingtip can never allow it to be considered a “perfect” shot, and another perfectionist might also say the street-lamp is unattractive foreground “clutter” which should have been avoided. Or maybe if you had positioned the streetlamp towards the bottom left hand corner then it may have looked like a more deliberate inclusion in the composition, rather than “accidental” clutter.

As chip 51 has shown, the lamppost can be removed with digital-processing, but it is then arguable whether the dramatic impact of the airliner’s low altitude is lost? Maybe if the lamp post was removed and “re-inserted” towards bottom left hand corner the image woudl look much better……?

For what it’s worth, I’d prefer the missing wingtip to be there, along with the street lamp, but as a strictly amateur photographer I think it is okay as it stands, as I’d be more than happy to have captured your original image myself.

Paul F

im not offended

The lamp-post is easily removed in Photoshop CS-5:

Now it’s a nice pic,

grtz,
Jan

PS: I’ll remove the photo if you’re offended by the manipulation!