tax dodging b******s

Babylon 5? 🙂

Good enough for me.

and so it begins…

SORRY GUYS…

Please don’t take offence.. But

If you have to do all this to every photo you take.. Then, You either need to change your camera, or learn how to take photographs properly….

LOL, no offence taken. I do not do this with all photos. Just those that go onto jetphotos.net since they are my showpieces if you will.

How did you manage before Digital???

Quite miraculously, considering my camera (Pentax Espio 200 compact camera). Mind you, nothing ever got online. With my Sony F717 is only did a little editing (basically only leveling and sharpening) but looking back I can see that those photos for the most part can be improved.

Cropping should be down to Composure..

At times I shoot a photo from planes that are too far away to fill the frame completely. But since my camera has almost 6MP this is not a problem. By cropping I still get a full frame with the required 1024×768.

Brightness should controlled by your TTL or light meter…

Not sure what you mean with TTL. I do no have a light meter though, so that settles that.

And Sharpness is done by either your eyesight or through your Lens…

EYESIGHT!!!! My current glasses are -4,8 and -3,5. My new glasses, to be delivered two weeks from now, will be -4,5 and -3,25.

And as far as removing objects.. I think we have had this discussion before…

Yeah, let’s not start that again!

This is what I do:

1) level the horizon
2) crop the photo
3) resize the photo to 1035×780. When sharpening a photo you get a white line around the photo. This can be cut out later by leaving some margin at this early stage.
4) change colours/saturation. Just a very little bit to make the colours more lively.
5) change brightness and contrast to make the bits in the shadow more visible, and to make the overexposed bits somewhat darker (overexposed bits can never be saved completely though)
6) remove dust spots
7) unsharp-mark
8) selective sharpening if required
9) resize it down to 1024×768 (standard monitor size) or 1024×683 (standard print size). Both these sizes are regularly accepted at JP.net and airliners.net so cutting the heigth down makes no difference. Often it helps the image by removing background. Also, my camera shoots at 1024×683 size so using that size is just more convenient.
10) save the file using a compression of no less than 10 on a 1-12 scale (12 highest)

In the Netherlands during the cold war a massive system of defences where build. The general idea was to flood the plains and defend the provinces of Noord Holland, Zuid Holland and parts of Utrecht until the allies could come in. The flooded plains would prevent tanks and trucks from coming in.

Those dykes/dams/pumps and fortresses cost a whole lot of money and where thankfully never used. However, had there been a Soviet invasion they would not have helped. Either the Soviets could have gone in through the air like the Germans did in 1940. Another option would have been to use a few bombers to pinch the dykes around the coast thus flooding “fortress Holland”. With the exception of a few dunetops there would not have been a square metre of land left.

I use a Sigma 70-300 F4-5.6 II. It’s a reasonable lense which offers a whole lot of mm for little money. I paid just under 200euro (+/- 130 pound) in a normal store. It’s not a great lense, but it does a good job.

Also, since are new with DSLR so you are unlikely to get the most out of you lense anyway. I’ve found that there is a learning curve when stepping from a compact camera (in my case a Sony F717) to a DSLR. So while you are learning you can safe some money for a better lense.

If you drop me an e-mail/PM I will send you a few unedited photos so you can compare.

I know someone who’ll be sitting on a cloud right now having a damn good chuckle about this thread.

Rob

oops, I had not noticed the sticky (I always tend to ignore them). I hope my previous remark is not considered insensitive otherwise I’ll remove it immediately.

Are their plans to start operations to AMS from august 19th still on?

Their proposed schedule:
GSM7201 arr. @ AMS 10:10
GSM7202 dep. @ AMS 10:45
GSM7203 arr. @ AMS 21:55
GSM7204 dep. @ AMS 22:30