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  1. Vintage "Texan Trainer" over "The Narrows"

    Greetings,

    I was mosing along the Bay Ridge Shore Promenade in Brooklyn last Saturday when I heard a single-engine prop job from the past droning up The Narrows at several thousand feet or so ......
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    Getting to LGA

    Greetings,

    From the Village on the east side ... you can take any uptown Lexington Avenue Line ... #4, 5 (express) or #6 (local) from Union Square to Grand Central Station ... go downstairs to the...
  3. Best User-Friendly Post-Production Software

    Greetings,

    Best post-production software? Probably PS ... PhotoShop CS ... right? It's what the pros use after all. But ... user-friendly and easy to learn?

    And what about those who don't...
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    Recent Rockway Beach Stand-in

    Greetings,

    On a recent foray to the parking lot off Cross Bay Boulevard (JFK Spotting Site A) I caught the usual mid-afternoon departures from 31L.

    Later on I noticed an increasing number of...
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    Old Photo Gear

    Greetings,

    And what do you do with your old photo gear?

    By default I haven’t done anything with mine for soooo many years. Guess I’m reluctant to dump or give away gear I spent what seemed...
  6. SS United States

    LGA777,

    Do you know if this article is anywhere online ... or how else I may be able to access it? Thanks.

    Mike (shamrock838)
  7. MacNeil Park in College Point

    Greetings,

    Nice shots. I know the site well. How long were you there?

    BTW ... what camera/lens were you using?

    Mike (shamrock838)
  8. SS United States Still Afloat in Philadelphia

    Greetings,

    For those of you who are also ship spotters ... here are some images ... taken on a recent visit to Philadelphia ... of our once "glory of the seas" ... the Blue Ribband winner SS...
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    Yes ... the D60 starts at ISO 100 ... which I was...

    Yes ... the D60 starts at ISO 100 ... which I was using early on ... until I found it to be too slow for many picture needs. Perhaps I should try it again ... especially in bright day situations and...
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    Part 2 of Original Post:

    Greetings,

    From where I left off in my previous post ...

    Drive Mode: - Single-Frame Shooting.
    White Balance: - Automatic.
    Primary AE Mode: - P(rogram) … Tv … Av … M … A-DEP in that general...
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    DSLR Camera Settings – Part 1

    Greeting,

    Being ever on the lookout to improve my craft … here is a tally of current camera settings for my aging … but still faithful … Canon EOS D60 (to be replaced on active service in a...
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    And How Much Post-Editing Do You Do?

    Greetings,

    No matter which of the (3) metering modes I use on my Canon EOS D60 … my images almost always need post-production … almost always to lighten underexposed images. And my exposure...
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    The One That Almost Got Away

    Greetings,

    Great meeting some of you at The Mounds yesterday on a perfect 4.0 day. My first time there thanks to Tom Turner. Finally I'm getting to met you guys!

    You probably outshot me re...
  14. T-Bird76, OK ... the composition/framing comes...

    T-Bird76,

    OK ... the composition/framing comes from post-edit "creative cropping." My shutter speeds were mostly 1/750 and 1/500. Any fuzziness probably came from over-cropping where the...
  15. USS WASP Images from Fleet Week Arrivals [16 images]

    Greetings,

    I was stationed along the Shore Promenade at Bay Ridge on Wednesday, May 23, 2007 (vacation week) and caught the USS WASP as she passed under ther V-N Bridge and proceeded up harbor.
    ...
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    British Airways Concorde in 2005

    Greetings,

    As you know ... a British Airways Concorde [G-B0AD] stood ... incongruously ... on a floating barge within a stone's through of USS Intrepid when she was moored at a Hudson River pier...
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    I'm open to any suggestions ... leads ... etc. ...

    I'm open to any suggestions ... leads ... etc. Thanks.

    Mike (shamrock838)
  18. T-Bird76, I'm not at home now so I'll check...

    T-Bird76,

    I'm not at home now so I'll check the shutter speeds later. Since I "creative crop" most of my images for greater impact ... what you saw as blurry may have been a more extreme crop...
  19. Some Recent LGA images from College Point

    Greetings,

    These cloudy day tele shots were taken from Herman MacNeil Park and other locations along the west shore of College Point last month.

    At the time ... runways 4 and 22 had just...
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    May Need a Monitor Calibration ...

    Greetings,

    As I'm starting to post photos to the forums [finally] ... I'm noticing how my posted images often appear a tad overexposed. Yet on my home desktop monitor they appear fine after I...
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    Polarizing Filters Falling Out of Favor?

    Greetings,

    When I got my Canon EF 100-400mm IS L recently, the sales guy at J&R recommended a UV fulter over the "haze" variety, saying the latter was all but useless. He also suggested the...
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    Greetings, You guys are right, of course. I...

    Greetings,

    You guys are right, of course. I guess old habits die hard ... but I'll try to "loosen up" as they say.

    I'm just not very good at "explaining myself" orally ... so I try to avoid or...
  23. First-Time Visit to Site E: Frank M Charles Park

    Greetings,

    I visited here last month late on a sunny Saturday and caught some of the Europe-bound "heavies" ... especially those that didn't veer seaward right after takeoff from 31L.

    Check out...
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    PhotoBucket Tutorial

    Greetings,

    OK! ... OKAY!! ... O-K-A-Y!!! ... you remember the one about the soft drink entrepreneur who came s-o-o-o-o close to undying fame ... but stopped just one step short of success. His...
  25. Test Message re PhotoBucket Images Insert

    Greetings,

    This is just to see if I can insert a PhotoBucket stored image that will display as a photo image in a NYCA forum.

    If this doesn't work as hped for ... I guess Photobucket is not the...
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