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In-flight photograpy challenges part II - 3 easy tips to improve your pictures

April 20, 2008 - Pilots Talk 2 Comments →

With digital photography, it’s very easy to modify and improve pictures using simple software. I will show how to easily improve an in-flight photograph using Photoshop, or any other imaging software.
For this demonstration, I selected a typical picture of an island, taken while overflying the Cannes’s Bay.
 

This photo is rather typical of what can be […]

Fisheye Fun

April 13, 2008 - Pilots Talk No Comments →

I don’t know a lot about photography, but I like to fly with good photographers in the right-hand seat. I already mentioned that I had the occasion to fly with a serious amateur photographer. I say amateur only because he’s not working as a photograph, but his knowledge and experience are certainly of professional level.
On […]

In-flight photograpy challenges part I - Autofocus

April 02, 2008 - Pilots Talk 5 Comments →

Taking pictures from a plane is challenging. Thanks to digital photography, it’s possible to rely on a “shoot a lot” strategy, hoping to find a couple of good shots in the series. I’m not an expert in photography, but I wanted to go beyond this strategy. This series is about what I found out to […]

Boeing 737 Landing in Samedan

March 23, 2008 - Pilot Reports No Comments →

Do you remember Samedan Airport (LSZS) ? It’s the higher airport in Europe (altiports excluded), at 5′600 ft. It’s located in eastern Switzerland, close to St-Moritz. There are no IFR approaches, but the runway is plenty long, and wealthy people often land their with business jets.
Even with small planes, the landing there is a bit […]

Reflections on reflections…

March 14, 2008 - Pilots Talk 1 Comment →

I stated months ago in the “Reflections on passengers” post that passengers nearly always take the same kind of photographs. The picture below is one new exception to this rule.
This picture shows two very interesting reflections: the city below is reflecting in the wing, and my reflect in the window is clearly visible. It speaks […]

Reflections on passengers - II

February 10, 2008 - Pilots Talk No Comments →

Nearly six months ago, I published a post about the tendency passengers have to take the same kind of in-flight photographs. If you don’t write to read all of it, it said that different passengers on different planes frequently make the same photographs and I illustrated with close shots of propellers, centered on the cone […]

British Airways Flight from Beijing Makes Emergency Landing in Heathrow

January 17, 2008 - Air Accidents 5 Comments →

A Boeing 777 flying from Beijing to London Heathrow (flight BA38) carried an emergency landing today, at 12:42 (UK time) in London Heathrow. It is not clear now if the landing gear collapsed after landing or if it was not extended at all. The plane touched-down in the grass before the runway and came to rest on its belly […]