Thoght I would share a photo

[F9 Buff]

http://www.airliners.net/photo/Frontier-Airlines/Airbus-A319-111/1500298/L/

Took it at night next to DCA while waiting for my wife's late flight to come in. I thought it turned out great. Hope you all like it!

 

[cjdriver]

Nice photog. Would be cool if you could get a still of the aircraft at the end of the light trail. Don't know if that's possible or not.

 

[Toobdrvr]

Great shot!!!

 

[F9 Buff]

Nice photog. Would be cool if you could get a still of the aircraft at the end of the light trail. Don't know if that's possible or not.

It is possible but that would requie the most intense strobe light on the planet to go off and probably blind the crew right as they made their turn away from P-56 and the National Mall.

 

[Hooch]

Awesome

Hey that is one awesome shot. Are you willing to share your tips?

Shot on a tripod with a slow shutter?
Anything done in "post"

Cheers,
Hooch

 

[701EV]

What kind of camera and lens?

Sweet Picture!

701EV

 

[Raskal]

Beautiful shot, well done

 

[F9 Buff]

Hey that is one awesome shot. Are you willing to share your tips?

Shot on a tripod with a slow shutter?
Anything done in "post"

Cheers,
Hooch

Sure,

Tripod, low winds, cable release, manual focus (auto doesn't seem to work so well for dark shots), 35 second exposure, used photoshop to clone out some hot pixels and grain in the sky, sharpened it a tad using the USM filter and save.

 

[F9 Buff]

What kind of camera and lens?

Sweet Picture!

701EV

Canon DSLR with the cheapest Canon lens on the market, the 18-55mm kit lens.

 

[clippyrip]

cool man

 

[KCPilot]

That is a sweet pic!

 

[tathepilot]

Very nice!

 

[InTransit]

Had to put this one on the desktop, nice work!

 

[recallsomeday]

Ditto !!

Great shot.

Had to put this one on the desktop, nice work!

 

[GuppyWN]

Frontier used to have a 737 with a howling coyote on the tail and steam coming from his mouth. I have a pic of it overlaid on a dark full moon night.

Way cool. Was that you?

Gup

 

[chuckthepilot]

Thank you for sharing! Very cool.

Charlie

 

[FDJ2]

Very nice.

 

[F9 Buff]

Frontier used to have a 737 with a howling coyote on the tail and steam coming from his mouth. I have a pic of it overlaid on a dark full moon night.

Way cool. Was that you?

Gup

http://www.airliners.net/photo/Frontier-Airlines/Airbus-A319-111/0322086/L/

That is as close as I get to what you are describing, but there was nothing overlaid on that photo, its a real picture.

 

[TWA]

Man, those are some awesome pics you took. I love long exposure pics!

 

[328dude]

Awesome shot, almost looks HDR.

 

[Brasilia Pup]

Very nice pic! You should print it and frame it.

 

[skidbuggy]

How many times was it rejected by a.net before it got accepted? The picture itself is easy... what was the post-processing workflow?

 

[F9 Buff]

How many times was it rejected by a.net before it got accepted? The picture itself is easy... what was the post-processing workflow?

Any picture is easy... All you have to do is press the button. Kinda like flying a plane in some respects.

As for the photoshop work, it was minimal. Resized, cloned out a few hot pixels, sharpened it just a tad and that was the result.

Photos like this are all about trial and error and giving a good guess at the best settings that reduces the amount of tries and errors. Then you actually have to have something to take a picture of and bring all of it together at the right time.

 

[jws717]

What type of camera?

 

[shuttlepilot]

Very nice picture!

 

[Amish RakeFight]

Excellent photo. Very rich in color and texture.

 

[Going2Baja]

Great Shot! Was it shot in RAW?

Baja.

 

[AC560]

Very nice pic

 

[F9 Buff]

Great Shot! Was it shot in RAW?

Baja.

jpeg all the way... RAW is a waste of time if you get the settings right in the beginning.