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2nd attempt at pictures...comments & advice most welcome (Read 240 times)
Nov 6th, 2009 at 5:05pm

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Douglas DC3 on short hop between Kingston and Toronto Ontario along Lake Ontario and Bay of Quinte.  Weather was a little wet and co-jo seems to have a small bladder or maybe he had too much fun last night.   Grin


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Hope you brought lots of bubble gum with you to plug the holes.



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Ready #1


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We are in the soup now #1.



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Let's drop down a little.



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That is Trenton.


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Weak bladder or did he go for help?



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Oh I always wanted to be a cook, not a pilot.  Number One you still back there?






 

Cheers...Happy Landings...Doug
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Reply #1 - Nov 6th, 2009 at 5:09pm

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No advice really needed. Great shots. Maybe a little less cropping in the 2nd and 4th shots???
 
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Reply #2 - Nov 7th, 2009 at 5:51am

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The shots #1, #2 and #4 are great.
On the first, you managed to capture some very good looking clouds, and you used the virtual cockpit, producing a very nce 'I don't want to be there' feeling Smiley

On the second, you used a good view angle to show the nice colors of the plane, and you were close enough to show the details. The zoom and the background trees add a lot to the overall quality. Perhaps you should just try not to cut the nose of the plane, other than that, it's great !

On the fourth, you just show perfectly the beauty of the model and the repaint. Nothing to add.

Some more advises:
- zoom is dangerous. Too much zoom will limit the amount of details offered by the background scenery (if there is any. If the background is the sky, you don't care), and it might also emphasize the ground blurries, so choose your angle of view very carefully when you use a high zoom.

- zoom is dangerous (2): sometimes, instead of using the zoom to make the plane look bigger in the picture, you can simply get closer to it. Use CTRL+ "+" and CTRL + "-" to slowly (veeeeerrrry slowly Cry ) move the camera toward or away from the plane. When getting very close to it, you might want to decrease the zoom to something like 0.70 or 0.60. Be carefull with the lower values, you must avoid the "fish-eye" effect.

The other shots that I have not mentionned above are too classic, with few interesting details in them. You'll have to work on the view angles to make them a little bit more interesting and originals Wink
 
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Reply #3 - Nov 7th, 2009 at 7:55am

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Good morning all... Smiley

Okay starting to have some fun with Flight Sim X and trying to take a picture or two now, certainly helps to fill in some time and I did not realize how much precision and concentration this picture taking took.

I still think this electronic gizmo thinks I should stay far  far away from it.   Grin

Thanks for the advice and comments and I shall try my hand at it again (I think this electronic gizmo just jumped and moaned).   Grin

Cheers...Happy Landings...Doug
 

Cheers...Happy Landings...Doug
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Reply #4 - Nov 7th, 2009 at 11:54am

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Great shots! I can't wait for more.  Smiley

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