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Andy

Nov-02-2004, 06:00 PM

52Caddy

Nov-02-2004, 07:04 PM

I love taking pictures in an airplane. Oh well.
One of my favorite shots, just because I've never flown over the Grand Canyon! I haven't adjusted anything on these shots, so they're not the best. Actually forgot about them until Andy's suggestion. Thanks Andy!!
Did somebody drop something?
http://cadillac.smugmug.com/photos/10798581-L.jpg

http://cadillac.smugmug.com/photos/10798586-L-1.jpg
Leaving San Juan
http://cadillac.smugmug.com/photos/10798596-L-1.jpg

Some mountains
http://cadillac.smugmug.com/photos/10798601-L.jpg

A fire someplace in AZ if I remember
http://cadillac.smugmug.com/photos/10798593-L.jpg

SeeMoon

Nov-03-2004, 01:23 AM

Like the Sierra Nevada one Andy!
I've made some too;

Greenland;
http://see-moon.smugmug.com/photos/997419-M.jpg

Iceland;
http://see-moon.smugmug.com/photos/997420-M-1.jpg

Somewhere on our way to San Francisco;
http://see-moon.smugmug.com/photos/8180333-L.jpg

Afghanistan;
http://see-moon.smugmug.com/photos/4465243-L.jpg

SeeMoon

Nov-03-2004, 01:34 AM

Oh, and another one; northern provence Friesland, Holland;

http://see-moon.smugmug.com/photos/10813601-L.jpg

Andy

Nov-03-2004, 03:27 AM

i kind of thought you'd have a shot or two :D

lovely. i like the crop circles, very much. and the shot of holland is so rich. amazing what detail we can get from 30,000 feet, eh? thanks for sharing :thumb

Nir

Nov-03-2004, 03:37 AM

Beautiful shots guys!

I never have time to take photos during flights - I have to keep an eye on the pilot ... :wink

wxwax

Nov-03-2004, 08:01 AM

Beauty, Simone. :thumb

http://see-moon.smugmug.com/photos/4465243-S.jpg

dugmar

Nov-05-2004, 05:22 PM

http://dugmar.smugmug.com/photos/5334294-L.jpg

tmlphoto

Nov-05-2004, 06:37 PM

Cool shot. I hope you don't mind me playing around with it a little.
http://tmlphoto.smugmug.com/photos/10929085-L.jpg

devbobo

Nov-05-2004, 07:07 PM

Hey Andy,

That first shot reminds me of when I was doing some work up in Northen Quebec, taking these little commuter planes (between Montreal and Alma). Funny thing was, they would read the safety stuff in French then as an after thought, say does anyone speak english. LOL

David

i was perusing some of my old stuff ...

early morning commuter plane to beantown (sony f717)
http://www.moonriverphotography.com/photos/1571623-L-1.jpg

52Caddy

Nov-05-2004, 07:30 PM

Hey, that looks much better!

Cool shot. I hope you don't mind me playing around with it a little.
http://tmlphoto.smugmug.com/photos/10929085-L.jpg

Andy

Nov-05-2004, 08:11 PM

Hey Andy,

That first shot reminds me of when I was doing some work up in Northen Quebec, taking these little commuter planes (between Montreal and Alma). Funny thing was, they would read the safety stuff in French then as an after thought, say does anyone speak english. LOL

David

thanks for looking dave :D i know exactly how you feel :lol3

Andy

Nov-06-2004, 07:54 AM

thanks for looking dave :D i know exactly how you feel :lol3

forgot to say,

welcome to dgrin! :wave

Thwack

Nov-06-2004, 10:11 AM

Mt. Hamilton - as seen from the air. I had the exposure comp set at -1.0 and the white buildings are still blown out (late afternoon, early evening). Sitting up in the open like that, they were almost like mirrors reflecting the sun. I tweaked the brightness and contrast a bit (the originals are worse):

If you bring up the original (full) size and look in the brown grassy area (lower right portion of the pic) you can see some of the twisty road leading up to the observatory...no wonder it's a favorite with local riders.

http://thwack.smugmug.com/photos/10948525-M.jpg (http://thwack.smugmug.com/photos/10948525-O.jpg)

Here's a shot taken from the last row of seats looking forward during flight. I think Andy's plane was considering larger than what I was in... :)

http://thwack.smugmug.com/photos/10948496-M.jpg

And here's a shot showing one of the problems trying to take pics from the air. We were flying over a local reservoir that I fish in from time to time. The water level is really low and that exposed some structure that I wanted to record (so I can find the little island in Spring when the water is up and the bass are hanging around it).

I had to shoot out the left side of the plane and the sun wasn't cooperating. That's not a double-exposure, it's my reflection on the window (which didn't show up in the tiny 1.5" LCD screen on the back of my camera...d'oh):

http://thwack.smugmug.com/photos/10948447-M.jpg

Oh well, at least I know where that island is now... :D

Thwack

Nov-06-2004, 10:19 AM

As we entered the pattern for landing, I had to sun behind me and grabbed a quick picture of the airport we flew out of...Reid Hillview in San Jose, CA.

http://thwack.smugmug.com/photos/10948826-L.jpg

If you've ever flown through Dallas-Fort Worth Airport, Reid Hillview is sort of the opposite. :)

cmr164

Nov-06-2004, 03:30 PM

I love taking pictures in an airplane. Oh well.
... I haven't adjusted anything on these shots, so they're not the best. ...

A fire someplace in AZ if I remember
http://cadillac.smugmug.com/photos/10798593-S.jpg
If I may add my touch....

cmr164

Nov-06-2004, 08:20 PM

Shots from airplanes are really suceptible to level adjustments.

http://www.iisc.com/dgrin/plane_view_s.jpg

http://www.iisc.com/dgrin/plane_view_sa.jpg

devbobo

Nov-07-2004, 04:01 AM

Thanks Andy :D

forgot to say,

welcome to dgrin! :wave

dugmar

Nov-07-2004, 04:27 AM

Flying to Montana for Thanksgiving. I'm hoping our flightpath takes us over some mountainous terrain. I will post to this thread with my results.

Doug

JoRobert

Nov-07-2004, 08:54 AM

These are all great images.

I am like a kid in a plane, always looking out the window, watching the land move by. I took this some time ago using a 1.3mp digi. All my air travel shots need alot of work to look decent. This is of San Bernardino mountains.

http://jorobert.smugmug.com/photos/10293380-M.jpg

JoRobert

Nov-07-2004, 09:59 AM

One more picture, this is of the Grand Canyon. Its hazy, worked on alot, and the two white blobs lower center are my reflection.

Joel

http://jorobert.smugmug.com/photos/10990740-M.jpg

Andy

Nov-07-2004, 10:02 AM

nice work on your shots :D

obelix

Nov-09-2004, 01:37 PM

Flying from Miami to San Francisco.

http://www.anands.net/photos/fromThePlane/slides/1308.jpg
http://www.anands.net/photos/fromThePlane/slides/1309.jpg
http://www.anands.net/photos/fromThePlane/slides/1310.jpg

landrum

Nov-12-2004, 08:22 AM

These were all taken leaving Miami in June 2004.

http://landrum.smugmug.com/photos/11221185-M.jpg

http://landrum.smugmug.com/photos/11221188-M.jpg

http://landrum.smugmug.com/photos/11221186-M.jpg

http://landrum.smugmug.com/photos/11221187-M.jpg

GREAPER

Nov-12-2004, 01:57 PM

I love this thread, I have never taken a shot out the plane window, I bet next time the camera doesnt spend the whole trip under the seat in front of me.

Great shots all of you.

I always fight me wife and kids over the window seat, I cant stop watching the world go by underneath.

Allen

Nov-13-2004, 09:52 AM

Had the thrill of flying in a Ford Tri-Motor resently.

http://atsmith.smugmug.com/photos/8745908-L.jpg

http://atsmith.smugmug.com/photos/8745914-L.jpg

Dig them overhead bins.:rofl
http://atsmith.smugmug.com/photos/8745661-L.jpg

http://atsmith.smugmug.com/photos/8745645-L.jpg
Only a short flight but exciting.
Al

dugmar

Nov-13-2004, 11:06 AM

http://atsmith.smugmug.com/photos/8745645-Ti.jpg

Only a short flight but exciting.
AlWow, some basic instrumentation. This tri-motor looks completely unrestored. Pretty amazing.

wxwax

Nov-13-2004, 12:17 PM

Flying from Miami to San Francisco.

http://www.anands.net/photos/fromThePlane/slides/1308.jpg
http://www.anands.net/photos/fromThePlane/slides/1309.jpg

Wow, great stuff.

photocat

Nov-14-2004, 03:41 AM

I am afraid of flying. My husband has to sedate me to get me in that plane.The only thing that makes it slightly bearable is that I can take pics out of the window. I am looking forward to my first flight where I can take my D70... The ones below are with my minolta dimage 7I

http://photocat.smugmug.com/photos/11295643-L.jpg
This is flying from Phoenix to Chicago. Too bad that there is no way of knowing where you are flying over...

http://photocat.smugmug.com/photos/11295554-L.jpg
The crop circles. If anyone could help me out as to where they are, I would be so pleased. It is again flying from Phoenix to Chicago

obelix

Nov-14-2004, 08:44 AM

Wow, great stuff.

Thanks Sid.

obelix

Nov-14-2004, 08:45 AM

I am looking forward to my first flight where I can take my D70... The ones below are with my minolta dimage 7I

Nice shots, interesting set of camera, I had / have the same ones.

photocat

Nov-14-2004, 08:56 AM

Love this shot. Is this mountains or something like the grand canyon.
It is a magical photograph. I love the brown border running through it.
Where has it been taken? There are so much beautiful spots in the States.

neiluj

Nov-14-2004, 10:45 AM

Hi, this is my first post. In fact, the first post I've ever done, so here goes.

8 miles up over Iceland using Canon Sureshot about 7 years ago

Andy

Apr-30-2005, 03:42 PM

http://williams.smugmug.com/photos/20903758-L.jpg

lynnesite

May-02-2005, 12:00 PM

Enjoying these! Olympus 2100UZ -2 mpx was my instrument of choice, during a 2 year obsession with aerial shots. Galleries here (http://www.photo.lynnesite.com/gallery/120152) and Alaskan ones from a float plane here (http://www.photo.lynnesite.com/gallery/118388). Had lots of neat cloud ones but they aren't online. Alaska Airlines has the cleanest windows. All taken from commercial aircraft.

Northern Cal frozen lake
http://www.photo.lynnesite.com/photos/4314234-L-1.jpg
Santa Monica mountains above the fog
http://www.photo.lynnesite.com/photos/4314248-L-1.jpg
I always tried to get the plane's shadow on a parallel runway, here's the closest I got:
http://www.photo.lynnesite.com/photos/4314371-L-1.jpg
Plane's shadow in the clouds
http://www.photo.lynnesite.com/photos/4314372-L-1.jpg
Float plane, logged area north of Ketchikan
http://www.photo.lynnesite.com/photos/4248882-L.jpg
fun framing from the float plane
http://www.photo.lynnesite.com/photos/4248915-L.jpg

gus

May-02-2005, 01:05 PM

Coming into land in zimbabwae with the mist from victoria falls off in the distance. I thought it was a fire.

Im off on a flight on big tin bird over UnZud tomorrow so maybe i can get something there.
http://wadjelaphotography.smugmug.com/photos/6554617-M.jpg

mushy

May-02-2005, 06:19 PM

What a great thread, just makes you want to travel.
Here are a few from a recent trip to New Zealand

http://mushy.smugmug.com/photos/14773577-M.jpg

http://mushy.smugmug.com/photos/14495068-M.jpg

http://mushy.smugmug.com/photos/14491756-M.jpg

ian408

May-02-2005, 11:50 PM

5 minutes out of San Diego...

http://ian408.smugmug.com/photos/17897368-M.jpg

Ian

JohnR

Jun-13-2005, 07:01 PM

Wow..great shots!

adrian_k

Jun-14-2005, 05:10 AM

some where East of O'Hare

douging

Jun-14-2005, 06:46 AM

Flying over northern Italy.

http://douging.smugmug.com/photos/24872568-M.jpg

pete w

Jun-15-2005, 06:22 AM

Japan Usa and Europe all here

Many more can be found at

http://wraight.smugmug.com/30000%20feet

http://wraight.smugmug.com/photos/14215895-M.jpg
http://wraight.smugmug.com/photos/14215457-M.jpg
http://wraight.smugmug.com/photos/14215456-M.jpg
http://wraight.smugmug.com/photos/14215450-M.jpg
http://wraight.smugmug.com/photos/10620158-M.jpg

tlittleton

Jun-15-2005, 10:50 AM

It was a little cloudy between the plane and ground, but I liked how the sky turned out...
http://tlittleton.smugmug.com/photos/25080274-M.jpg
http://tlittleton.smugmug.com/photos/25080312-M.jpg

rutt

Sep-23-2005, 12:56 PM

There was a pretty good show on the NY-Boston shuttle the other day.

http://rutt.smugmug.com/photos/36995191-L.jpg

http://rutt.smugmug.com/photos/36870292-L.jpg

zigzag

Sep-23-2005, 01:27 PM

I got a few of those...

http://Cusac.smugmug.com/photos/26507537-L.jpg

http://Cusac.smugmug.com/photos/26507577-L.jpg
http://Cusac.smugmug.com/photos/26507563-L.jpg

schmoe

Sep-23-2005, 07:58 PM

Here one of Hoover Dam coming into Vegas. 20D and 70-200 f/4 L. AZ on the left and NV on right.

http://Vegasschmoe.smugmug.com/photos/18216833-M.jpg

This second one is of the Grand Canyon. Sony f707.

http://Vegasschmoe.smugmug.com/photos/6025703-M.jpg

Stef

Sep-24-2005, 01:03 PM

This was taken Labor Day weekend when my DH and I went to spend our anniversary in Sedona, AZ. He told me that he wanted to go up in a Cessna for my present to him. WHY would anyone want to do that? :dunno I caved and went on the flight with him.

Taken with Sony F828, and not the best shot. I'm still learning and was having a hard time taking pictures while I was constantly wondering if I was going to need the cute little white bag in the seat pocket in front of me. :sick

Oh yeah, I'm still kind of a lurker, but I have learned that I still have alot to learn. You guys are good at what you do!:thumb

http://stefani.smugmug.com/photos/34888289-M.jpg

rutt

Sep-24-2005, 01:48 PM

Hey, Stef, glad to you are delurking.

Your shot is like an advertisement for something I'm doing. It's a reading group for a new book: Photoshop LAB Color : The Canyon Conundrum and Other Adventures in the Most Powerful Colorspace The first thing this book teaches is a recipe for shots just like this. (The book isn't called "Canyon" for nothing.)

Using this recipe, it too me under a minute to modify your original to this:

http://rutt.smugmug.com/photos/37303791-O.jpg

using these LAB curves:

http://rutt.smugmug.com/photos/37303827-S.jpghttp://rutt.smugmug.com/photos/37303810-S.jpghttp://rutt.smugmug.com/photos/37303818-S.jpg

I think that if you (anybody) are going to learn to do one thing with photoshop, it should be this. Tune in on the reading group, here: http://www.dgrin.com/showthread.php?t=18203

gus

Sep-24-2005, 01:54 PM

DavidTO

Sep-24-2005, 01:57 PM

gus

Sep-24-2005, 02:00 PM

By steepening curves:

A will increase magenta and green.

B will increase yellow and blue.

You can go by eye, or the numbers. Positive A values are magenta, negative are green. Positive B are yellow and negative are blue. You have to look at the colors and think about what's possible in the shot. Is it possible for that part of the shot to have some blue in it? Or that much?
:thumb

Stef

Sep-24-2005, 02:01 PM

Is that something that I can do in Photoshop Elements? I have it, and to be honest, have NO idea what I am doing. Like I said, I am new to this. But if I can get those results out of Elements, cool! If not, it will be awhile before I can justify spending the money on PSCS. (I wish I had it, though)

DavidTO

Sep-24-2005, 02:02 PM

rutt

Sep-24-2005, 02:10 PM

Rutt i hope to get some 10-22 mm shots for you today re its sharpness.

In 30 words or less...in LAB how do you know whether to move A to the left & B to the right or vise versa or the same way as you did here.

ie is it just eye or is there a set formular ?

Remember ..keep it simple for me.

Gus

David is on the money, but I have a "For Dummies" answer.

Start off doing the simple thing. Steepen both the A and B curves equally and symetrically, by moving each of the four endpoints inward somewhere between 10 and 20 percent.

(Exactly 30 words.)

Most of the time this will be great, but there are certain things that just have to be certain colors or the shot will look wrong (David's impossible colors). Fleshtones are the most important. Vegetation. Sky. Check the values for these with the color sampler. Fleshtones have to have both A and B positive with B at least as high as A. Vegetation has to have A negative and B positive, A more negative than B positive is better. Clear blue sky needs A slightly negative and B strongly negative. Clouds should be neutral or perhaps a little B negative (except sunsets.)

OK, Gus, now move this whole discussion to David's Chapter 3 discussion where it belongs, please. Make a link to my original post in your question. Thanks.

Khaos

Sep-25-2005, 08:25 AM

When it's cloudy, you get clouds.

http://www.smugmug.com/photos/35299537-L.jpg

http://www.smugmug.com/photos/35299538-L.jpg

Mike Lane

Sep-25-2005, 09:48 PM

I've got some pretty cool air travel shots:D More at http://mikelane.smugmug.com/gallery/837781

http://mikelane.smugmug.com/photos/37539689-L.jpg

http://mikelane.smugmug.com/photos/37539158-L.jpg

http://mikelane.smugmug.com/photos/37539741-L.jpg

http://mikelane.smugmug.com/photos/37538517-L.jpg

MainFragger

Sep-25-2005, 11:34 PM

http://www.dgrin.com/showthread.php?t=18695

Hope you like...

MainFragger

neiluj

Sep-26-2005, 01:41 AM

I clean forgot about these I did 13th July on the way from UK to Canada - I was very lucky with conditions. There are quite a few here, but it's what was honed from about a hundred, so they're pretty good, I think (without wanting to sound immodest). There's always the problem of smudge/scratches/steamed up windows in an aircraft, isn't there, which is why I took so many. Hope you like them.

rutt

Sep-26-2005, 04:20 AM

I've got some pretty cool air travel shots:D

Great, great shots, Mike.

Francois

Sep-26-2005, 04:27 AM

@Mike: yours can't be beaten !! :lust Love those Phantoms!!!!

@all others, some really amazing shots here, wonderful thread !!!

(Now I'll have to go dig for my 'air shots' .. good thing I don't play golf.. <grin>).

Francois

neiluj

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neiluj

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neiluj

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neiluj

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neiluj

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neiluj

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neiluj

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neiluj

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neiluj

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neiluj

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neiluj

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neiluj

Sep-27-2005, 06:08 AM

neiluj

Sep-27-2005, 06:09 AM

neiluj

Sep-27-2005, 06:48 AM

i was perusing some of my old stuff ...

early morning commuter plane to beantown (sony f717)
http://www.moonriverphotography.com/photos/1571623-L-1.jpg

i really dig how you can see the faintest outline of the prop here on this one. same plane as above, landing in boston. (sony f717)
http://www.moonriverphotography.com/photos/1571696-L-1.jpg

sometimes, you can get really lucky with the atmospheric conditions (this one taken with a sony p&s, a p9)
http://www.moonriverphotography.com/photos/1337314-L.jpg

high above the sierra nevada, heading to california. this one looks so cool, printed big at 13"x 19" (canon 10d, 16-35L)
http://www.moonriverphotography.com/photos/6080311-L.jpg

won't you share some of your air travel shots?Excellent photos - I'm not having much luck doing multiple pics as you have set up here, I managed one picture and then tried to send others by successively using the 'reply' button - one at a time. Consequently there are about 10 replies by me with no pics on. I must be really stupid, but how do you do multiple photos like you have done?
ps - I'll take this opportunity to post another pic, if that's ok!

Mike Lane

Sep-27-2005, 07:37 AM

Excellent photos - I'm not having much luck doing multiple pics as you have set up here, I managed one picture and then tried to send others by successively using the 'reply' button - one at a time. Consequently there are about 10 replies by me with no pics on. I must be really stupid, but how do you do multiple photos like you have done?
ps - I'll take this opportunity to post another pic, if that's ok!
Use a link from your smugmug gallery instead of an attachment. Do you see the little icon above the reply text box that looks like a mountain with a yellow sky and a moon in it? Click that and put in the web address of an image.

Also consider posting your best few shots and then let people go to the associated gallery. 10 shots is (IMHO only) a bit overkill. :dunno Just saying.

benbo

Sep-27-2005, 11:39 PM

Over the Grand Cnyon on my way to Hawaii...

http://img363.imageshack.us/img363/9430/decahawaii20045587lk.jpg (http://imageshack.us/)
http://img363.imageshack.us/img363/8599/hawaii1727vo.jpg (http://imageshack.us/)
http://img363.imageshack.us/img363/3784/hawaii1679zy.jpg (http://imageshack.us/)

Juste before L.A
http://img363.imageshack.us/img363/2940/hawaii2815sr.jpg (http://imageshack.us/)

BenBo

coldclimb

Sep-28-2005, 12:06 AM

This thread makes me wish I'd done a better job shooting Manila, Philippines. One of the most densely populated areas of the world, it would have been cool to catch that aspect as well as some of you folks have displayed in this thread. I got pics, but with my film camera, and I don't have a scanner. Mostly smog and dense city.

neiluj

Sep-28-2005, 12:27 AM

Use a link from your smugmug gallery instead of an attachment. Do you see the little icon above the reply text box that looks like a mountain with a yellow sky and a moon in it? Click that and put in the web address of an image.

Also consider posting your best few shots and then let people go to the associated gallery. 10 shots is (IMHO only) a bit overkill. :dunno Just saying.
Thanks for that, I appreciate your advice. :D

neiluj

Sep-28-2005, 12:40 AM

To all
I have several pretty good air travel photos at this address http://neiluj.smugmug.com/gallery/788301

Please peruse at your leisure - it's easier this way and there is a better quality in the gallery anyway (not limited to 117Kb/pic)!

Hope you like 'em.

Jesmol

Sep-29-2005, 04:47 AM

My aeroplane travel shot, taken at 6am flying from Adelaide to Sydney. One of my favourite photos this one.

SnapHappy

Sep-30-2005, 12:46 AM

On a plane to Spain:
http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v68/pepperchilli/dgrin/DSCF2531.jpg

http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v68/pepperchilli/dgrin/DSCF2535.jpg

W.W. Webster

Sep-30-2005, 01:44 AM

On a plane to Spain:

... the plane in Spain?

Richard

Nov-15-2005, 04:55 AM

won't you share some of your air travel shots? Somewhere between San Francisco and Chicago....

http://rsinmadrid.smugmug.com/photos/44632485-L.jpg (http://rsinmadrid.smugmug.com/photos/newexif.mg?ImageID=44632485)

Click on pic for Exif.

Cheers,

ian408

Mar-19-2006, 08:52 AM

I thought I'd bump this thread with a book review :thumb

http://www.oreilly.com/catalog/covers/windowseat.s.gif

Julieanne Kost uses her shots from the window seat of an airplane as examples
in a discussion of photography and the creative thought process.

Surprisingly, the book has more photographs than I would have thought. Many
are of places I recognize from my own travels around the country in the window
seat.

The author starts out with a list of things that contribute to the creative
process. Such things as mastering the tools, being open to things that come
your way and my favorite, sharing what you know and learning from others.

From there, we learn about the desire to be creative given the demands of
travel and subsequently through the process of creating a book.

The appendix does give information on data management and some on editing
in PS but otherwise, this is not a book that will teach you step-by-step how
to be creative. I found it usefull to contemplate some of the things in the
first chapters as I looked at the photographs in the book (I would guess the
book is maybe eighty five percent pictures).

I enjoyed the book. It's a quick read and you'll enjoy looking at the pictures
as you think about the creative process.

Window Seat
The Art of Digital Photography and Creative Thinking

By Julieanne Kost
Publisher: O'Reilly Books
First Edition February 2006
ISBN: 0-596-10083-3

photocat

Mar-19-2006, 09:59 AM

[QUOTE=ian408]I thought I'd bump this thread with a book review :thumb

http://www.oreilly.com/catalog/covers/windowseat.s.gif

AGGGRRRRRR, I just wrote a letter to double exposure... Her pics are great, nice, beautiful, but I hate the descending tone she applies to readers.
She is called a genius, and frankly, I have seen shots here from air from smugmuggers that are as good as hers. Not everybody gets to travel though every week.

My feathers are ruffled because she gives the impression that she is the only one to take pics out of a plane window. I hated it when she wrote : "most people don't even bother to look outside". DOH... I bother, and I did it from the first trip I took in a plane, and that was before she started shooting.

I had the same problems she has, not sitting in a window seat, although I always ask for one, stewards telling you to close down, sitting on the wing, night travel... I have seen it too.

So it bugs me that she gets all the credit and is called a genius...
(Yes, I am jaleous...):rofl :rofl

ian408

Mar-19-2006, 03:40 PM

I think she's right about not looking out though. I can spend the entire trip
wondering where I am based on city lights. Others don't often share my
enthusiasm :D

Certainly the window seat shots are just a vehicle for her creativity and
shouldn't (IMHO) be viewed as anything special.

Andy and I met her at PMA and from our short conversation, I don't think she's
at all condescending.

photocat

Mar-20-2006, 12:36 AM

Andy and I met her at PMA and from our short conversation, I don't think she's
at all condescending.[/QUOTE]

Good, then she comes over better in real life... I don't know her and have not met her, so maybe she is the most friendly person on earth... I was just venting. Having said that, there are some passages in the book (that I bought BTW) that I find really condescending... Maybe I need to read it again.

gus

Mar-20-2006, 01:18 AM

I will get to an airport 6 hours early (yep 6 full hours) to make sure i get a window seat & the emergency exit cause i have feet like water skis.

wxwax

Mar-20-2006, 07:55 AM

I will get to an airport 6 hours early (yep 6 full hours)
:lol3 Your family must love you very much.

Malte

Mar-20-2006, 09:14 AM

My girlfriend and her mum admiring the Kitty Hawk in Sydney harbour.

11404

Malte

Malte

Mar-20-2006, 09:16 AM

A better view of the ship.

11405

Malte

wholenewlight

Mar-20-2006, 09:40 AM

Leaving Reno, NV.

http://cs-pics.smugmug.com/photos/56664879-L.jpg

DoctorIt

Mar-20-2006, 09:47 AM

Seattle, WA

http://doctorit.smugmug.com/photos/12015326-M.jpg

donek

Jun-29-2006, 05:01 PM

I shot about 100 images as we approached Knoxville during a lightning storm. I was lucky enough to get 4 lightning strikes. This was the most defined. I was shooting at ISO 1600 so it's a bit grainy.
http://donek.smugmug.com/photos/78563728-L.jpg
I took a few shots as we landed. Might work for the blurr challenge 68, but it's outside the time frame.
http://donek.smugmug.com/photos/78563729-L.jpg
Spectacular clouds on the way home from Knoxville.
http://donek.smugmug.com/photos/78563727-L.jpg

All photos shot with Nikon D200 and Nikon 10.5mm fisheye. Other EXIF data available by visiting smugmug site.

Joan

Oct-07-2006, 06:27 PM

Here's one of Paulina Lake and the obsidian flow:
http://jbarnett.smugmug.com/photos/94803030-L.jpg

and another of Crater Lake that the pilot graciously turned the plane to fly over:
http://jbarnett.smugmug.com/photos/91115762-L.jpg

and a last of Mt. Shasta in Northern California:
http://jbarnett.smugmug.com/photos/94794662-L.jpg

gus

Oct-07-2006, 07:11 PM

go away...go away...go away....go away....

http://wadjelaphotography.smugmug.com/photos/6554612-M.jpg

ummm..no idea sir......maybe he thinks i have some cuban cigars possibly :scratch

http://wadjelaphotography.smugmug.com/photos/6554613-M.jpg

Skippy

Oct-07-2006, 07:53 PM

go away...go away...go away....go away....
ummm..no idea sir......maybe he thinks i have some cuban cigars possibly :scratch

:rofl .....ummm does this all equal CAVITY Search :rolleyes :rofl Skippy

W.W. Webster

Oct-08-2006, 07:39 PM

Brisbane, Queensland, Australia

15406

greenpea

Oct-08-2006, 09:03 PM

You know that picture that looked like a face on mars?

Here's my terrestrial version taken from 30,000 feet on a flight returning to Seattle from Colorado.

For the first one I looked down and I swear there it was a smiley face inside a lemon on the ground:

http://InitialPhotography.smugmug.com/photos/66460344-M.jpg

This second one is a little harder to see, but to me it looked like a bearded man...

http://InitialPhotography.smugmug.com/photos/66460385-M.jpg

gus

Oct-08-2006, 09:58 PM

Brisbane, Queensland, Australia

15406
Thats a nice pic...i can see my place nice & clearly.
That would have been taken about 18-24 months back.

DavidTO

Oct-08-2006, 10:00 PM

You know that picture that looked like a face on mars?

Here's my terrestrial version taken from 30,000 feet on a flight returning to Seattle from Colorado.

For the first one I looked down and I swear there it was a smiley face inside a lemon on the ground:

http://InitialPhotography.smugmug.com/photos/66460344-Ti.jpg

This second one is a little harder to see, but to me it looked like a bearded man...

http://InitialPhotography.smugmug.com/photos/66460385-Ti.jpg

The first looks like an eye, the second IS Vincent van Gogh.

W.W. Webster

Oct-08-2006, 10:15 PM

That would have been taken about 18-24 months back.It was taken at 8.20am on Friday, 25 August 2006, 21 seconds after this one! :nod

15410

gus

Oct-08-2006, 10:38 PM

It was taken at 8.20am on Friday, 25 August 2006, 21 seconds after this one! :nod

15410
ahhh ok...i missed by a building. Thats the only way i can age the place....by whats standing.

marlof

Oct-08-2006, 11:36 PM

http://marlof.smugmug.com/photos/77572126-M.jpg

http://marlof.smugmug.com/photos/77572133-M.jpg

http://marlof.smugmug.com/photos/77572155-M.jpg

DoctorIt

Oct-11-2006, 10:18 AM

wow! awesome elephants, Marlof! :thumb

marlof

Oct-11-2006, 12:02 PM

wow! awesome elephants, Marlof! :thumb

Yah, it was quite the experience. Esp. since everybody but me got airsick. :D

Swartzy

Oct-18-2006, 09:45 PM

Mt. Bachelor, Sisters, Jefferson, Hood (Oregon) shot from my buddy's Piper:

http://Swartzy.smugmug.com/photos/90587176-L.jpg

Smith's Rock state park (outside of Bend, OR)...Mt. Jefferson in upper left corner

http://Swartzy.smugmug.com/photos/90587177-L.jpg

Tanuki

Oct-19-2006, 05:47 AM

This is the outskirts of the capital city of Tchad. The country is pretty much all dirt, but it has a compelling beauty to it nonetheless.

Tanuki

Oct-19-2006, 06:03 AM

I'm not quite sure what the mounds are. They don't look like termite mounds.

digitalpins

Oct-19-2006, 01:38 PM

Here are a few of mine during my flight to hong kong from NYC

http://digitalpins.smugmug.com/photos/48523066-S-2.jpg

http://digitalpins.smugmug.com/photos/48523057-S-2.jpg

http://digitalpins.smugmug.com/photos/48523094-S-2.jpg

Fred Maurer

Dec-09-2006, 05:16 PM

Just came across this old picture and thought of this thread. Over the Florida Keys;
http://fredmaurer.smugmug.com/photos/12879844-L.jpg

Bendr

Dec-10-2006, 09:54 PM

Cool Shot, I really like it!

Ben

Psymatic

Dec-12-2006, 02:40 PM

I just thought I share my airpics with you...

Over Asia

http://psymatic.smugmug.com/photos/114677441-M.jpg

A fuel ship before Sydney
http://psymatic.smugmug.com/photos/114677673-M.jpg

The cost at Sydney
http://psymatic.smugmug.com/photos/114677832-M-2.jpg

Skippy

Mar-01-2007, 04:39 AM

Found an old shot from about 2 years ago, taken from the plane window when flying either to or from Denver USA. :D

I have no idea how many thousands of feet in the air we were, but the image was soooooooooo ghosted out, I had orginally planned on dumping it.

This edit is probably over saturated, but gosh you can really see just how barren the land was that we were flying over, I believe we were very close to the Canyons that form the Grand Canyon if my memory serves me correctly :scratch ......... enjoy.... Skippy

http://OzzieSkip.smugmug.com/photos/132912073-M.jpg

kres

Mar-01-2007, 07:25 AM

Just stumbled into this thread... thanks for the bump Skippy.

Here's one for the collection:

http://uttenweiler.smugmug.com/photos/36710874-L.jpg

tlee

Mar-01-2007, 07:52 AM

The Big Island, Hawaii

http://studioTphotos.smugmug.com/photos/132934441-L.jpg

TylerW

Mar-02-2007, 08:32 AM

For all the time I spendd on planes, I should have more of these:

http://www.tylerwinegarner.com/photos/40305812-L-1.jpg

Harp

Mar-02-2007, 02:26 PM

http://flyingharp.smugmug.com/photos/14972257-L.jpg

This is my favorite air travel photo. My wife Karen skydiving at 10,000 ft. in the sunset over Carolina Sky Sports in Louisburg NC. (Did it have to be in the airplane??).

Skippy

Mar-02-2007, 05:01 PM

This is my favorite air travel photo. My wife Karen skydiving at 10,000 ft. in the sunset over Carolina Sky Sports in Louisburg NC. (Did it have to be in the airplane??).

This is such a Cool Shot :clap :bow :bow I love it :clap
Very Very Clever Harp :D .... Skippy
.

ajgauthier

Mar-02-2007, 08:10 PM

I do believe my Comet McNaught photo should go in this thread :D

http://ajgauthier.smugmug.com/photos/122609378-O.jpg

Skippy

Mar-03-2007, 02:07 AM

I do believe my Comet McNaught photo should go in this thread :D

Ohhhh cool, yes indeed you should show it off on this thread for sure :clap
:ivar very nicely done indeed :D .... Skippy
.

Llywellyn

Aug-27-2007, 04:14 PM

Just found this thread and felt it was so cool, it needed a revival. :D

Landing in the tiniest plane I've ever flown on (Placencia Bay, Belize)
http://blackcatphoto.smugmug.com/photos/164323359-L.jpg

One of the most serene things I've ever seen (leaving Placencia, Belize)
http://blackcatphoto.smugmug.com/photos/164320830-L.jpg

Passing a thunderstorm over Belize
http://blackcatphoto.smugmug.com/photos/164324515-L.jpg

And one last view over this awesome country
http://blackcatphoto.smugmug.com/photos/164319120-L.jpg

Pindy

Aug-28-2007, 10:34 PM

http://pindy.smugmug.com/photos/121947560-L.jpg

That's from my 3rd solo flight, KSMO.

Mr. 2H2O

Aug-29-2007, 05:26 PM

Hong Kong International from one of the last seats on a 747-400. Its just a bunch of dirt in the middle of the ocean with tarmac on top - a very lovely gift from the British to the Chinese and one of my favorite airports.

- Mike

Bill Curnow

Aug-29-2007, 08:24 PM

The view looking aft from the escape hatch of a B-17G.

http://curnow.smugmug.com/photos/187834688-M.jpg

z_28

Aug-29-2007, 11:04 PM

Final approach to MIA (Miami International) in heavy storm.
747 Air France
http://i162.photobucket.com/albums/t247/CameraSouth/IMG_0674-600.jpg
Actual, on ground view few seconds later.
http://i162.photobucket.com/albums/t247/CameraSouth/IMG_0678-700.jpg

Antonio Correia

May-20-2008, 03:49 PM

http://antoniocorreia.smugmug.com/photos/43599771_Mn96s-L.jpg . http://antoniocorreia.smugmug.com/photos/43599512_RqdT2-L.jpg

and Lisbon

http://antoniocorreia.smugmug.com/photos/65797751_EhZbd-L.jpg

Andy

Oct-28-2008, 04:53 AM

http://www.moonriverphotography.com/photos/392548747_kP5Wt-X3.jpg

Canon G10 - just outside Grand Junction, Colorado.

jhelms

Oct-28-2008, 08:16 AM

I love these, from a 2006 trip to Atlantis / Bahamas...

This is a pic of Disney's actual island, they use this with their cruise line. Check out the Mickey Mouse cloud - how cool is that?

http://jhelms.smugmug.com/photos/274622693_iokzx-L.jpg

http://jhelms.smugmug.com/photos/274624601_Yd8EQ-L.jpg

And on the flight home, my happy wife peeking back at me from her seat:

http://jhelms.smugmug.com/photos/274600469_d8kSc-L.jpg