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17-07-2007, 8:21 PM
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All these were shotg on the same day within about an hour from the Bath Road near Heathrow Airport:
I like the sky on this one.
My plane of choice, preferred seat 2K 
Yes, they do let small planes land at LHR.
A Lufthansa airbus.
The 777s are OK, but I still prefer the jumbo 
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17-07-2007, 8:27 PM
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#2 fo me...really nice details....I suppose you were a bit to close to afford them a bit more room in the frame....that aside very nice  | |
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17-07-2007, 8:33 PM
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Nice shots John 
I like no. 2 too.
I will be passing that way tommorrow - mum lives near terminal 5.
You get some good view of the big birds landing and taking off there...
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17-07-2007, 8:46 PM
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Nice.. Where I live you can see up to 15 planes circling Heathrow at a time.on a nice clear day...At night they look like moving stars but Ive never though of moving toward the A4 ( Bath Rd) to shoot them
Very clear shots
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17-07-2007, 8:51 PM
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I will be passing that way tommorrow - mum lives near terminal 5.
You get some good view of the big birds landing and taking off there...
| Didnt know any one actually lived near T5 I just see it off the M25  !!
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Like the second one... what lense you using for these?
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the jumbo's the best plane and looks the best picture some nice shots mate!
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i like the jumbo shot, best of the lot IMO
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18-07-2007, 8:20 AM
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Thanks for all the nice comments. These were taken using a Nikon D80 with the 18-135 kit lens. I like the shot of the BA jumbo, but I only just got in frame hence the tight crop. As for the others I have cropped all tight to keep the file size within limits.
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18-07-2007, 8:23 AM
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Originally Posted by Mark123 Like the second one... what lense you using for these? | Nikon D80 with AF-S Nikkor 18-135mm 1:3.5-5.6G ED.
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18-07-2007, 8:31 AM
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Nice shots. Like the composition of the little plane myself.
Can't remember the name of the road as I haven't been down it in a while, could be A4. It's the one that goes in to London and has a PC World on it near Brentford? I seem to remember going down there and seeing a jumbo coming in and due to the perspective it looked like it was just about to knock chimneys off the roofs of houses on the street. I'd have thought a long lens and some patience could get you a nice shot showing some sort of scale as well. .....mmmm....got me thinking....
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18-07-2007, 1:10 PM
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Sorry about this but......
They're all underexposed and the RJ isn't sharp at all.
More practice necessary.
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Originally Posted by charliecossie Sorry about this but......
They're all underexposed and the RJ isn't sharp at all.
More practice necessary. | All of them??.. Not on my monitor
Perfect ?.no ., Worthy of posting.. ? Definitely
Can be improved on ?Yes... I agree with practice and some PP
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All underexposed.. ?? No Sir
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18-07-2007, 1:36 PM
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OK, never mind.
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18-07-2007, 3:30 PM
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Originally Posted by charliecossie OK, never mind. | Dont be like that..
If you can improve them in software Im sure the OP wont mind a play in Photoshop .. we all have something to learn
but
Sincerly they dont all look underexposed on my monitor, TBH a little dull but that and any lack of sharpness ( not on the Jumbo, 777 and Airbus) could just as easily be due to compressing for the web
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