KJFK - 7/12/2011

[Zee71]

The evening light was fantastic. A few specials popped in (even American Airlines with the retro scheme, but I was unable to catch it). The Omni image was taken at 8:45pm when there was very little light, and the APU from the Singapore killed my other images of it.

http://mbsphotography.smugmug.com/Aviation/Airplanes-and-Spotting/Kennedy-JFK/i-8g6NcjZ/0/L/OmniAirInternational01JFK12Jul-L.jpg

http://mbsphotography.smugmug.com/Aviation/Airplanes-and-Spotting/Kennedy-JFK/i-L7n84pN/0/L/Ryan01JFK12Jul2011Taxi-L.jpg

http://mbsphotography.smugmug.com/Aviation/Airplanes-and-Spotting/Kennedy-JFK/i-kWpBHCv/0/L/TAM01JFK12Jul2011Tow-L.jpg

http://mbsphotography.smugmug.com/Aviation/Airplanes-and-Spotting/Kennedy-JFK/i-GZKNv4W/0/L/BritishAirways01JFK12Jul20114L-L.jpg

http://mbsphotography.smugmug.com/Aviation/Airplanes-and-Spotting/Kennedy-JFK/i-fp47JJG/0/L/KLM01JFK12Jul20114L-L.jpg

http://mbsphotography.smugmug.com/Aviation/Airplanes-and-Spotting/Kennedy-JFK/i-mLf9Mnd/0/L/Swiss01JFK12Jul20114L-L.jpg

[Roush6NY]

Great catches, Mark. That Omni Air is a beauty !!

[steve1840]

Beautiful set Mark! Too bad you didn't get the AA retro. Love how that OAI looks, absolutely awesome!

[nexpos]

Great shots overall, love seeing shots of JFK the morning after I wish I could have gone, but didn't!

I have to ask a dumb question. I'm fairly new to the site (and of course, I have a few days worth of spotting that are old and I have yet to put on here). Where did you take those shots from, and did you use a teleconverter? I have a 5D Mark II with a 100-400mm lens, but even with a teleconverter I couldn't imagine some of those angles. Any tips or info on what I'm not doing?

Thanks!

[steve1840]

I also use the 5D MKII with the 100-400mm and I can tell you that those angles are possible using that equipment.

[Zee71]

Yeah...........for some of the shots I used my 300mm f/4 lens with a 1.7x teleconverter on my Nikon D300 (so that gave me 510mm of reach, throw my sensor crop factor of 1.5 now I have 765mm of reach). The heat and exhaust from the APUs killed a lot of what I thought were great shots (oh well!).

[wunaladreamin]

LOVE that Omni man! I wish I could have had that tail when I shot one a couple of years back.

[billv]

Nice set Mark. Yeah, that Omni is sweet!

[Zee71]

All...........thanks for your comments. Here is the remaining batch of images.

http://mbsphotography.smugmug.com/Aviation/Airplanes-and-Spotting/Kennedy-JFK/i-xHpj6LJ/0/L/KLM02JFK12Jul20114L-L.jpg

http://mbsphotography.smugmug.com/Aviation/Airplanes-and-Spotting/Kennedy-JFK/i-GdTV2rz/0/L/VirginAtlantic01JFK12Jul20114L-L.jpg

http://mbsphotography.smugmug.com/Aviation/Airplanes-and-Spotting/Kennedy-JFK/i-HTkG4vN/0/L/SingaporeAirlines01JFK12Jul201-L.jpg

http://mbsphotography.smugmug.com/Aviation/Airplanes-and-Spotting/Kennedy-JFK/i-TT22WPH/0/L/SingaporeAirlines02JFK12Jul201-L.jpg

http://mbsphotography.smugmug.com/Aviation/Airplanes-and-Spotting/Kennedy-JFK/i-T89xGJr/0/L/AirEuropa01JFK12Jul2011Taxi-L.jpg

[steve1840]

Nice Mark! Love the light on teh Air Europa! And that KLM 744 departing shot it terrific!

[Roush6NY]

Nice job, Mark ! Ditto on the light and I LOVE the head on shot of the Singapore

[AA757]

Great set Mark.... Love the KLM climb out shot...



Rich B

[megatop412]

Awesome man- these from inside T4?

[gonzalu]

Mark has special access from the ramp and a Scissor Lift :tongue: Even Chuck Norris couldn't do a better job!

Man that light was just perfect sir... loving the Omni with the hack-job titles lol. I mean what a horrible job of either decal or matching the paint to the rest of the fuselage.

As for the question on "ANGLE" vs. "REACH" (or focal length to be exact) since I am supposed to be the "big mouth" on the subject I will just state that focal length does nothing for your "ANGLE OF VIEW" so the look will be the exact same with a fisheye lens or a 10,000mm lens. All that will change is how much you see but the angle and relationship of all the objects in the scene is directly related to the position of the camera to that of the subject.

If you want to have some fun, take your zoom lens and shoot a static scene from the same spot. If you have a 100-400mm or a 80-400mm take four shots, one at 100mm, 200mm, 300mm and 400mm. Make sure your subject fits entirely inside the frame on all four shots so that your 400mm shot does not clip a wing or whatever it is you are shooting.

Later in photoshop, crop each image around the same subject/object in the scene... superimpose each one as a layer on top of the base 100mm shot and change the opacity of each layer to reveal each... Now, resize each layer to match the first or last layer aligning each to be exactly the same size... you will find that each object is in the exact same spot in each... meaning each should look identical to the other.

The only difference is resolution! :-)

OK I'll shut up now and enjoy the fine images from the Zee-Man !!