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This photo is seemingly not great. Consider that it was taken from the ground (it was about 10,000 feet high) with a 150 mm zoom the first day that I had my new Oly E-500 and the camera was hand-held. I cropped this from the center of the photo shot at SHQ 3264 x 2448 resolution. I plan on using it on aircraft maybe several HUNDRED feet in the air. I'll post those photos as I make them!

BTW, I'm a private pilot and have been a plane-nut for over 50 years. Had this been taken with my C-5050 zoomed as far as it would go, or with my 35 mm SLR with a 200 mm lens, I wouldn't have known if it was a DC-9, Super 9 or MD-80 (or other name for this type of aircraft).

Photographer:	X Tom Griffith
Folder:	TomLou Photos
Uploaded:	17-Nov-2005 04:07 CET
Current Rating:	7.00/1 View all ratings Delete my rating
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Camera:	Olympus C4000
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Processing applied:	Paintshop Pro was used to "clean up" the image. Aside from the cropping, not much more than changing contrast and gamma correction was done to the image.
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Image resized to:	1088x1450

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Nicely captured Tom you have the exposure spot on as this is a difficult one to get right against a bright sky, a couple of points try resizing to around 800x600 so the image fits onto the screen in one piece, also you could get away with a little sharpening and a tighter crop around the plane.
Best wishes Steve

Steve Elliott at 10:25 CET on 17-Nov-2005 [Reply]

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Steve Elliott wrote:
> Nicely captured Tom you have the exposure spot on as this is a difficult one to get right
> against a bright sky, a couple of points try resizing to around 800x600 so the image fits
> onto the screen in one piece, also you could get away with a little sharpening and a tighter
> crop around the plane.
> Best wishes Steve
>

Steve - I used to do exactly what you said - crop to 800 x 600 for the very reason that you mention. I've got a couple thousand photos on the Internet, and I have most of them at 800 x 600 resolution. I get requests for the "larger" version of the photos so that people can print them out on something larger than 4" x 6". I'm not saying that this photo is worth printing, but you know what I mean.

Anyway, thanks for the compliments.

Tom

Tom Griffith at 00:53 CET on 18-Nov-2005 [Reply]