May 23 2004: Landing by Ray :)

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May 23 2004:
Landing

London-Heathrow

Went up to Heathrow Airport today. It was my interest in aircraft that got me going in photography in the first place and I’ve been up to this place many times in my life with various film cameras. A small selection of my aviation photos I’ve posted to a web site HERE.

Today, I took some slides and some digital, and yes, I still use Kodachrome!

Here is a bmi British Midland Airbus just seconds before touchdown.

Photoshop:
Cropped and resized
Contrast +11
Channel Mixer: Green
Red +58%
Green +72%
Blue 0%
Framed in Pantone 7499C

Canon EOS 300D Digital Rebel
1/640s f/11.0 at 100.0mm iso200 full exif

other sizes: small medium large original auto

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photo and copyright: Ray Pettit

John Buffin		06-Jun-2004 18:51
Cool shot!

Chris Brooker		04-Jun-2004 20:59
A nice crisp shot Ray.

Guest		29-May-2004 00:34
You did this very well!! Plane shots are usually NOT interesting to me...LOL!! But this is cool!!

Guest		28-May-2004 18:57
Incredible shot! Love the coloring too.

Guest		26-May-2004 11:07
Very impressive Ray and the website looks really awesome.

Guest		24-May-2004 23:50
A beauty, Ray - really nice.

Guest		24-May-2004 22:18
Very cool shot Ray. Nice old shots on the other site as well. Funny, I wonder how many people started at airports with their cameras. A whole generation of people will fail to be awed by airtravel like we were a skids. A real shame

Guest		24-May-2004 17:07
This is a very impressive plane shot! Oh and that sky is amazing!

Pall Gudjonsson		24-May-2004 09:53
Powerful !!

Karen Leaf		24-May-2004 04:08
Awesome. The wings being clipped make it look bigger (if possible)than what it must have been from your angle.

Vinay		24-May-2004 02:46
Nice shot

Robin Reid		24-May-2004 02:40
Love it!

Jill		23-May-2004 21:39
Flying into the sun..hoping when I opened the thumbnail you were telling us you were coming for a visit to the U.S. Impressive aviator gallery too.

Guest		23-May-2004 21:27
Another question Ray, do you get any trouble from security for taking pictures of aircraft, and where do you park?

Karthik Raja		23-May-2004 21:25
I love plane shots! awesome

Guest		23-May-2004 21:25
Good shot, nice processing. I was Heathrow today, twice. T1 and T3.

Guest		23-May-2004 20:37
I (we) went to the US in one of those last year - maybe that one? Cool shot Ray - but when you go to the airport do you not wish you were going someplace?? The other thing I do now we live under an air lane is wonder where the plane above my head is going a and who is on it?? Maybe even a PaD'r? BTW they are at 35,000ft + so only see them when clear and rarely hear them.