Cayo Largo, Cuba
05-20-2008, 11:42 AM
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Jungle, two questions:
1) How do you seem to make the camera focus beyond the windows of the aircraft? I mean it looks as though you just stuck the camera out the window at FL350, haha. Maybe my trouble is I only own point and shoots.
2) Did you guys have to roll to one side or the other to get this shot? You're practically right over it.
Awesome pics as usual!
1) How do you seem to make the camera focus beyond the windows of the aircraft? I mean it looks as though you just stuck the camera out the window at FL350, haha. Maybe my trouble is I only own point and shoots.
2) Did you guys have to roll to one side or the other to get this shot? You're practically right over it.
Awesome pics as usual!
05-20-2008, 12:02 PM
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Originally Posted by BaronPete
Jungle, two questions:
1) How do you seem to make the camera focus beyond the windows of the aircraft? I mean it looks as though you just stuck the camera out the window at FL350, haha. Maybe my trouble is I only own point and shoots.
2) Did you guys have to roll to one side or the other to get this shot? You're practically right over it.
Awesome pics as usual!
1) How do you seem to make the camera focus beyond the windows of the aircraft? I mean it looks as though you just stuck the camera out the window at FL350, haha. Maybe my trouble is I only own point and shoots.
2) Did you guys have to roll to one side or the other to get this shot? You're practically right over it.
Awesome pics as usual!
Make multiple shots if time allows and try a few different segments of the window, ten or twenty shots may yield just one keeper.
If you have to shoot up sun, moving the lens into a shady area of the cockpit may help prevent lens flare.
I never deviate for a shot, but I will often shoot an interesting subject many times over a year under differing conditions-I have probably shot this island over a hundred times.
Same island looking in opposite direction:
Last edited by jungle; 05-20-2008 at 12:18 PM.
05-20-2008, 03:01 PM
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Originally Posted by jungle
I never deviate for a shot, but I will often shoot an interesting subject many times over a year under differing conditions-I have probably shot this island over a hundred times.
05-30-2008, 04:54 PM
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Very nice composition and color in these two. You never disappoint us Jungle!
Perhaps the vertical angle was aided by having some rather large windows in the MD cockpit. I always liked that design. You can obviously see well from there. The designers must have been photographers in their spare time.
Perhaps the vertical angle was aided by having some rather large windows in the MD cockpit. I always liked that design. You can obviously see well from there. The designers must have been photographers in their spare time.
Last edited by Cubdriver; 05-30-2008 at 05:19 PM.
05-31-2008, 07:42 AM
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Jungle - that is a question I have always wondered about, but never asked. Some of the angles and viewpoints in your shots are hard to imagine without turning the airplane, etc. I believe the DC-10/MD-11 has HUGE windows, but I am always amazed at how you get some of the shots you do.
05-31-2008, 08:47 PM
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Originally Posted by t-cart
Ya'll ever see that Top Gun movie when they aint believing that Mav and Goose got that picture of the mig? I think they were inverted.....I'm just saying.
06-01-2008, 07:54 AM
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Originally Posted by t-cart
Ya'll ever see that Top Gun movie when they aint believing that Mav and Goose got that picture of the mig? I think they were inverted.....I'm just saying.
