JFK May 10th Spotting Review Pics

**Iberia A340-600** · 2008-05-11, 12:50 PM

It's been a good two months or so since I had spotted at JFK so yesterday my father and I decided to take a trip down to the airport. The weather report was rather disappointing and the weather certainly wasn't impressive. There was a thick ceiling and some broken clouds below however the sun was still visible but didn't do much to light up the planes.

Just as we were pulling into JFK ATC switched the airport from 4's to 31's so we headed over to Firestone and met up with Mat Sokol and his father. Art Brett and Josh Rawlin appeared a little while after we got there as well. The newest PIA 777-300ER and Finnair MD-11 in the moomis color scheme were probably the highlights of the 31's as well as finally shooting the Air India 777-300ER and Malev 767-300. A little after 5 ATC switched the airport around to 22's so off to the mounds we went.

At the Mounds the weather was slowly increasing but unfortunately ATC kept sending most of the European heavies to 22R instead of L. We did get the new TAM colors and the new Qantas colors which was an added plus. By 7pm the light was gorgeous.

**PhilDernerJr** · 2008-05-11, 01:56 PM

Nice stuff, Gordon. Good coverage in good light.

**MarkLawrence** · 2008-05-11, 02:01 PM

Nice shots - I love the light on that Eurofly!

**Three Forty** · 2008-05-11, 04:43 PM

Very beautiful !!

**Lezam** · 2008-05-11, 06:30 PM

I was at firestone earlier, what time were you guys there?

**Delta777LR** · 2008-05-11, 08:56 PM

I love the Eurofly and KLM PH-BFI shots... Great job Gordon

**stuart schechter** · 2008-05-11, 09:38 PM

Love the silhouette shots! Great Job Gordon.

**adam613** · 2008-05-11, 10:37 PM

Excellent shots, as usual.

How do you make the exposure work when you're shooting on a white background? My planes always get way underexposed when I do that, even if I expose two stops above my camera's meter...

**Delta777LR** · 2008-05-12, 02:27 AM

Gordon,, Who was that A340-600???? Is it Iberia or Virgin Atlantic??

**Iberia A340-600** · 2008-05-12, 09:46 AM

Thanks, guys.

Sergio, the A340-600 was the Iberia evening arrival. EC-JCZ operated IB6253. The Virgin A340-600 arrival was delayed till around 8:10pm and I did see it land on 22L while I was watching 22R departures from a different location. I also saw a Lufthansa Cargo MD-11 land which I thought was interesting since I haven't seen one in a while, only the World MD-11F.

Adam, I was shooting at F/5.6 and ISO 160 with no added exposure.

**INNflight** · 2008-05-18, 10:35 AM

Incredible shots Gordon......these AA birds are stunning with the darkish background! Didn't get to do real photography for like 3 months :? damn army

Cheers,
Florian