First-Time Visit to Site E: Frank M Charles Park

[shamrock838]

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 the Song 757 ... see another different?

That gull in the SAA image was purely unrehearsed LOL.

Comments and critiques welcomed.

Mike (shamrock838)

PS - some of the local bugs "caught me" as well. I'll know better next time.

[T-Bird76]

Composition and framing look good, what shutter speed are you using? Some shots are blurry, speed up the shutter to 500th of a second in that kind of light and you should be ok. I'd add some contrast to the shots as well in your editing to reduce the washed over look. Otherwise pretty good! :)

[mirrodie]

I also like your composition Mike!

Nice catch of hte Patchwork Delta Song ;)

[AirtrafficController]

cool shots

[MarkLawrence]

Great shots for starting out - keeping it going Mike!

[shamrock838]

Composition and framing look good, what shutter speed are you using? Some shots are blurry, speed up the shutter to 500th of a second in that kind of light and you should be ok. I'd add some contrast to the shots as well in your editing to reduce the washed over look. Otherwise pretty good! :)

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 that was blown up to fill the screen. In bright sun conditions I often shoot in the 1/750 to 1/1000 range.

BTW ... another new post of mine ... in Photography Forum ... addresses the possibility of calibrating my desktop monitor since some of the "washed over" effects resulted from post-editing images that were actually underexposed in the field. Yet the images you saw here appeared fine on screen! The culprit re underexposures ... may be faulty camera metering selection that I hope to test in the field this weekend ... but that's another story.

Mike (shamrock838)

[nikon50bigma]

nice

[shamrock838]

Composition and framing look good, what shutter speed are you using? Some shots are blurry, speed up the shutter to 500th of a second in that kind of light and you should be ok. I'd add some contrast to the shots as well in your editing to reduce the washed over look. Otherwise pretty good! :)

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 remaining (smaller) image had to fill the frame.

As mentioned earlier ... I think ... I overcorrected the original underexposed images ... hence the washed-out effect. On my desktop monitor they appeared fine ... so I probably need to recalibrate said monitor.

BTW ... I've been using the Canon P (Program) shooting mode. Maybe I should try Tv (shutter-priority)? I also shoot at ISO 200 and ... if lighting deteriorates ... I usually up it the ISO to 400 ... and sometimes even to 800 ... but I try to avoid.

Sometime I'd like to compare my overall D60 camera setup ... from top to bottom ... with some of your fellow Canon guys. I may need to tweak some other stuff as well. Thanks.

Mike (shamrock838)

PS - Hope you like the Atlanta Icelandic.