I've never sat next to a window that wasn't so hazed or scratched up that I could take any photograph worth looking at.
Might be a result of my never having the money or need to fly across the country with a carrier that takes care of or buys new planes when the older ones get dirty. On Sep 9, 2012, at 18:59 , Tim Bray wrote: > I appreciate all the kind words, but let’s be frank: I’ve been flying > a lot on business for over twenty years and I’ve never seen anything > remotely like that out of the window before. I pointed and shot with > the point-and-shoot; those mountains took their own picture. -T > > On Sun, Sep 9, 2012 at 6:21 PM, Mark Roberts <postmas...@robertstech.com> > wrote: >> Tim Bray wrote: >> >>> 1/1000 sec, f4.5, ISO 80. The grain came from some combination of the >>> plane window, the intervening 5 miles or so of air, the fact that I >>> had to crank contrast & boost blacks quite a bit to counteract the >>> aerial bleach-out, and, well, inflating a 3000x3734 picture to this >>> silly degree. -T >> >> That's still a magnificent picture. Very well done. >> >> In 2002 or 2003 I did a one-day workshop with Frans Lanting. He >> confessed that he always kept an SLR with a 28-200 zoom (he was still >> shooting only film back then) with him on airline flights because he >> just couldn't resist taking shots out the window of the plane. I got >> the impression none of his turned out as well as yours clearly did. > If it doesn’t excite you, This thing that you see, Why in the world, Would it excite me? —Jay Maisel Joseph McAllister pentax...@mac.com -- PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List PDML@pdml.net http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net to UNSUBSCRIBE from the PDML, please visit the link directly above and follow the directions.
