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"Hardest" Airline For You To Photograph?

MartinairYYZ From Canada, joined Nov 2003, 1209 posts, RR: 7
Posted (8 years 10 months 3 weeks 4 days 12 hours ago) and read 2831 times:

I'm wondering what is your hardest airline to get a photo of. Always I have trouble or mess up with Lufthansa, KLM, and British Airways. Don't know why but It seems I always chop the nose or tail off of them.

Still going for BA but I got LH and KLM surpricingly well the other day......

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What are your hardest Airlines to take a photo of?

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Sulman From United Kingdom, joined Mar 2004, 2028 posts, RR: 36
Reply 1, posted (8 years 10 months 3 weeks 4 days 12 hours ago) and read 2797 times:

BMI Hybrid 'gray belly' colours, and Flybe Q400's in glossy white. The finish on the aircraft seems to be so smooth that all the detail is incredibly hard to pick out in many lighting conditions, and it's easy to blow the highlights.

I got a q400 I was finally happy with recently accepted, but I think the BMI livery will evade me..

more like polishmig29s.net am I rite

MartinairYYZ From Canada, joined Nov 2003, 1209 posts, RR: 7
Reply 2, posted (8 years 10 months 3 weeks 4 days 12 hours ago) and read 2772 times:

Which BMI livery are you talking about? I thought the old livery was replaced? (show a pic please Smile

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Chelsea Football Club supporter.

Sulman From United Kingdom, joined Mar 2004, 2028 posts, RR: 36
Reply 3, posted (8 years 10 months 3 weeks 4 days 11 hours ago) and read 2763 times:

This scheme:

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Never caught one on the ground, and when they've been in the air, I've never got the underside looking sharp either.

In the interest of a shameless plug, here's the Q400.

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I understand that it just looks like a regular white aircraft, but the finish is so smooth they almost look like buffed plastic. 146's on the other hand have so much craggy detail that they photograph really well.

more like polishmig29s.net am I rite

Dazed767 From United States of America, joined May 1999, 5447 posts, RR: 53
Reply 4, posted (8 years 10 months 3 weeks 4 days 11 hours ago) and read 2737 times:

Icelandair - I've noticed on a few occasions at MCO it's come in with a little daylight left. Summer time is the best chance to get it here though.

Rotate From Switzerland, joined Feb 2003, 1479 posts, RR: 18
Reply 5, posted (8 years 10 months 3 weeks 4 days 11 hours ago) and read 2710 times:

no doubt about it ..... , the caption says it all Smile/happy/getting dizzy

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robin

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LHRSIMON From United Kingdom, joined Apr 2002, 1342 posts, RR: 25
Reply 6, posted (8 years 10 months 3 weeks 4 days 10 hours ago) and read 2697 times:

Yep the old BMI Gray & Blue for me aswell. I must have taken about 50 photo's and everyone comes out to dark !!!!

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Diezel From Netherlands, joined Oct 2002, 646 posts, RR: 13
Reply 7, posted (8 years 10 months 3 weeks 4 days 9 hours ago) and read 2631 times:

BA and Varig. Because of the contrast between belly and top.

Roel.

Never be afraid of what you like. (Miles Davis)

INNflight From Austria, joined Apr 2004, 3765 posts, RR: 62
Reply 8, posted (8 years 10 months 3 weeks 4 days 8 hours ago) and read 2604 times:

Any B737-200, B727.... almost none around here Sad

regards, Florian

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DLKAPA From , joined Dec 1969, posts, RR:
Reply 9, posted (8 years 10 months 3 weeks 4 days 7 hours ago) and read 2576 times:

Hardest for me is probably UA old scheme in questionable weather. The grey just blends right into the background.

IL76 From Netherlands, joined Jan 2004, 2235 posts, RR: 51
Reply 10, posted (8 years 10 months 3 weeks 4 days 7 hours ago) and read 2567 times:

Old & new BMI and (now old) UA... Somehow they almost never come out nice for me.
Cheers,
E

Bigphilnyc From United States of America, joined Jan 2002, 4073 posts, RR: 56
Reply 11, posted (8 years 10 months 3 weeks 4 days 6 hours ago) and read 2551 times:

The brigth green of Song makes the shots look overexposed, and the gray of United jsut makes all the blue/gray/yellows in the shot look wrong.

Phil Derner Jr.

Txiki1uk From , joined Dec 1969, posts, RR:
Reply 12, posted (8 years 10 months 3 weeks 4 days 3 hours ago) and read 2486 times:

As soon as I saw this thread I thought "BMI".

I am glad that someone else is having problems with BMI's livery. I have never got any worth putting up for screening of either the old or the new. Having said that, I have got two of theirs in Star Alliance livery.

The old just comes out too dark on the underside and the new is very difficult to get right with the contrast and highlights., though I do like the contrasting blues on the main fusalage logo - it looks great when it reflects the light sometimes.

a.

F4wso From United States of America, joined Oct 2003, 974 posts, RR: 13
Reply 13, posted (8 years 10 months 3 weeks 4 days 2 hours ago) and read 2479 times:

US Airways has been my nemisis. The white lettering on black never seems to come out sharp. I guess I should be glad I don't live in Pittsburgh, Philiadelphia, or Charlotte.

From the looks of this thread, if I lived in Europe, I am sure BMI would be difficult for me as well.
Gary
Cottage Grove, MN

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Oly720man From United Kingdom, joined May 2004, 6180 posts, RR: 11
Reply 14, posted (8 years 10 months 3 weeks 3 days 17 hours ago) and read 2418 times:

People used to moan a lot about the JMC colour scheme and how hard it was to get the green tail to look right, on prints especially.

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Hardest one for me is LOT at Manchester. It comes in at 9:50pm so just about all the year it's dark when it lands. Hard for me to get to the airport early for when it goes as well.

Andy

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Mriya From United States of America, joined Apr 2004, 129 posts, RR: 0
Reply 15, posted (8 years 10 months 3 weeks 2 days 23 hours ago) and read 2307 times:

Malev. For one thing, it's only found in one place in this country thus far: JFK. I can only get shots of the magyar airline when I'm actually in Hungary or at least elsewhere in Europe. It's a pity too because I'm Hungarian and I can rarely get good shots of their aircraft!

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