Da fwog From United Kingdom, joined Aug 1999, 867 posts, RR: 9 Reply 2, posted (11 years 8 months 3 weeks 3 days 19 hours ago) and read 736 times:
The quality of your shots is rather good. I particularly like "737grndcont".
It's a shame that quite a lot of the shots have the sun overhead or behind, because they would look a lot better if the sun had been behind you when taking them.
Craigy From United Kingdom, joined Jun 2001, 1118 posts, RR: 0 Reply 4, posted (11 years 8 months 3 weeks 3 days 17 hours ago) and read 725 times:
Again, nice shots. Hope to see them on A.net soon.
What camera settings do you use? As a Pro90 user, I always shoot in RAW mode with the contrast and saturation levels turned up in the camera.
Regards,
Craig
Planedoctor From United States of America, joined Mar 2001, 286 posts, RR: 2 Reply 5, posted (11 years 8 months 3 weeks 3 days 16 hours ago) and read 725 times:
I use the camera set to Jpg fine (not superfine), but only because with a 64mb card I don't have the luxury of using RAW yet (unless I want to drive 2 hours to CLE to get less than half the number of photos). I plan on getting a larger CF card in the future. I use normal saturation and contrast, but I think I may want to turn up the contrast, at least, because I seem to have to slighly bump up the contrast in Photopaint for just about every shot. For shots of moving aircraft that are at a distance I set the focus to manual, infinity to reduce lag/ search time. I still am fumbiling with the metering. Any suggestions on metering white fuselages with this or a similar camera would be welcome. That was especially difficult with the sun angle as was mentioned here. I realized that the sun angle would be bad before I even headed out to CLE, but since it was the only day in the foreseeble future when I could go and it was clear, I decided to try to put up with the sun...
This camera has its share of limitations, but the 37-370mm (35mm equiv) image stabilized zoom lens beats my other digital camera hands down for aircraft photos.
Brownphoto From United States of America, joined Jan 2001, 151 posts, RR: 3 Reply 6, posted (11 years 8 months 3 weeks 3 days 9 hours ago) and read 704 times:
Hi-
Overall very nice! however one comment - on my monitor and it may just be mine, the photos taken showing the "shady" side of the plane have a VERY distinctive blue cast to them.
This is common because "open shade" often registers blue on daylight film or pixels.
If you can - and I know this works wonders on my Nikon D1 - shoot with the white balance ALWAYS on "cloudy".
It has always worked for me, so you might wish to give it a try.
At the worst, you can just use photoshop to correct the colors.
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