KLM772ER From Germany, joined May 2006, 615 posts, RR: 19 Posted (5 years 9 months 2 weeks 3 days 3 hours ago) and read 2506 times:
I had the chance to take some photos of this An2 Cockpit while the plane was in Leverkusen, but I never tried to upload a cockpit-shot yet... Does it stand any chance, or would it get a motiv for the cut displays in the low left?
Lanas From Argentina, joined Aug 2006, 977 posts, RR: 15 Reply 2, posted (5 years 9 months 2 weeks 2 days 14 hours ago) and read 2441 times:
Björn
The angle is not that common. Generally cockpit pictures are not shot from such a close distance and angle. I think that the overexposed windows don´t help, as well.
I don´t know what will be of it. Leave it in for the moment. Maybe you can hear from a screener before it gets screened on the queue.
Hope it helps.
Cheers
Lanas.-
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Quoting Lanas (Reply 2):
The angle is not that common. Generally cockpit pictures are not shot from such a close distance and angle.
Yep I know, but I wanted to try something different, because I find it kind of boring to see the same pictures (ie same angle, same crop every time with just a different reg.) again and again....
As for the overexpose, it didn't wanted to flash but it was very dark inside... (taken at 18mm, F3.5, 1/20s, ISO200 handheld..)
I ll leave it in the queue and wait what happens or till a screener joins the discussion..
ThierryD From Luxembourg, joined Dec 2005, 2021 posts, RR: 52 Reply 4, posted (5 years 9 months 2 weeks 2 days 5 hours ago) and read 2403 times:
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Hi Björn!
I'm not so worried about the motive; the picture is nice to look at and it really puts you into the driver's seat. Well done! What concerns me more is the blurry/soft instruments (like the GPS on top); not sure if it's bad enough to qualify for a rejection though.
Concerning the blown out windshields, they are not nice but since they are almost completely cut out I don't think they pose a major problem (cutting them even shorter on the top might help though).
On a general basis I'd recommend you always use a flash when shooting cockpits as the cameras just can't cope with the big lighting difference between the interior of the cockpit and the brightness from outside.
See the difference between flash and no-flash:
KLM772ER From Germany, joined May 2006, 615 posts, RR: 19 Reply 6, posted (5 years 9 months 2 weeks 2 days 1 hour ago) and read 2382 times:
Quoting Viv (Reply 5): As Thierry says, always use flash in the cockpit. Meter for the light outside the window; keep those settings (camera on Manual); use the flash.
Thanks for the advice, I am going to try it next time! Hope it doesn't take that long till I am able to
Thanks all for your advices, otherwise I probably would have deleted it again from the queue
Just one thing out of interest, why would the cockpit category be removed from this shot? I ticked it, but right now when I look for it in cross data search, it isn't there anymore..
ThierryD From Luxembourg, joined Dec 2005, 2021 posts, RR: 52 Reply 10, posted (5 years 9 months 1 week 7 hours ago) and read 2188 times:
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Quoting KLM772ER (Reply 7): Just one thing out of interest, why would the cockpit category be removed from this shot? I ticked it, but right now when I look for it in cross data search, it isn't there anymore..
It's still there Björn but only in the thumbnail views; this issue has been there I think since the cross search has been introduced; when you open the image in medium or large format and then click on the cross search no categories appear. However in the tn views it works fine.
KLM772ER From Germany, joined May 2006, 615 posts, RR: 19 Reply 11, posted (5 years 9 months 1 week 7 hours ago) and read 2180 times:
Quoting ThierryD (Reply 10):
It's still there Björn but only in the thumbnail views; this issue has been there I think since the cross search has been introduced; when you open the image in medium or large format and then click on the cross search no categories appear. However in the tn views it works fine.
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