Cool night pic
 

not sure if this has been posted before. a friend of mine emailed it to me. the guy who took the picture says it is a ups 767. Doesn't that look a little steep or is it just they way we are looking at it?

http://www.airliners.net/open.file?i...ev_id=&next_id=

one more question for you photographers out there. if this was a long exposure picture how come you cant see the airplane?

Looks like a Boeing 767-34AF/ER to me. UPS even. My guess, is that it's N306UP. Just a hunch I have. :D

well i'm not a photographer...but on long exposure pictures you often can't see moving objects, i'm kinda suprised you can even see the strobes and beacon lights, typically they just blur into one solid streak of light...

Guess it does look kinda steep, but, this was a takeoff and not a landing, so, it'd be possible. That and you can't get a really good feeling of depth because there's no actual object to be seen, just the light flashes. Just noted that the picture was taken @ DSM, is that one a class C? kinda thought it was, if so...holding 200 could require the steep climb as well.

Could've been an empy plane ferrying somewhere else. I used to see empty (or very lightly loaded) FedEx/UPS widebodies blast off from MHT using very little runway and a very steep climb. I think the FedEx were just making the short trip to BOS to maybe pick up more cargo.

To answer your question about photography:

since the shutter is open for so long, the aperture which controls the amount of light entering through to lens to be exposed onto the film or sensor, depending on whether it's digital or not, does not allow much light to enter, or else the image would be overexposed. Since it's night time and there's not much light, only very bright objects or objects that sit in the same spot for a long time will be visible in the photo. Since aircraft lights are very bright, the light makes it's way through the aperture easily so the lights are exposed to the film/sensor more easily than the fuselage will be. So the lights are seen better in the image than the less light fuselage.

That's about the best explanation I can give you off the top of my head, it's been a while since photo class.

That is a fake picture......

I've seen it before. Quite interesting!

Very cool picture and easily possible with a decent length exposure. I took a similar picture with my digital camera out shooting an eclipse of the moon. I saw a small plane coming over and so I quickly turned around the camera to try it out. The steady lights do appear as streaks, however because strobes and beacons are only on for a very short period they appear as dots in the final image. Lots of fun doing exposure shots....make yourself appear as a ghost in a fully lit room by running in front of the camera, stopping for a moment, and running out the other side!