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As you may have seen on the first post, I had my digital camera on this flight and it proved to allow me to shoot and not be worried about wasting film....I'm not sure how many shots I took but here are a few selected ones from this flight out of Toronto.....

As we take 23R and do a rolling check, I see the hold behind us and its too bad, I might have liked to get a shot of this A-340 as it departed.........


.......as we roll and gather speed, we pass numerous taxiway and runway markers......


.......rotating, we see a humidity compression stream over the lead edge from the left engine nacelle.....


......in a flash we are 300 ft in the air and the hazy day to the south is very apparent.......


.....gaining height, we can see the hulk of a "fire exercise" practice fuselage........


........below us, is Hwy 410 and one of its many spaghetti overpasses.......


........heading north-west, we pass over the farmlands around the Orangeville area........home for me at the time......


Looking over the lead edge again, open skies are ahead as we still continue to climb into the blue.......


The low level fluffies are getting smaller now and the horizon is getting further away........


Up in the bright sunlight, its nice to see a pleasant day to be going to the waters edge for those below us......


Passing over the Rockies, it appears that the weather for them, isn't quite as nice as what we have up here in the open........


Even higher above us, the jet-stream shows itself with the long stringy clouds........


After feeling the engines throttle down, and the nose drop, the next tell-tale of getting close to our destination is the pop-up of the spoilers to begin the braking during decent.........


Shooting a last view of the tops, I know its not going to be a clear day as we land at YVR........


On final and about 2-3 miles out, I take one last shot before changing the camera to shoot a vid of the landing.......nope, its not all that nice a day here.....


Next, the flight to Vancouver Island......

great shots:) I am definatly gonna get a bigger memory card before my trip to the us in june. 47 pics just isnt enough.
Can i ask when taking those shots do you set the zoom to infinte? or do you try to zoom in towards the ground a little?

Craig, when I shoot every shot, I try to minimize the distractions to my main subject and maximize the content for what I want to show......although for posting here, I usually find myself able to take off a bit of the sky or foreground or both, to reduce my filesize ......
.......just remember when you shoot people, "don't step back, step forward and get rid of the unwanted background "
When you shoot scenics, zoom in or out, and only include what you want anyone else to see ........ if there is a guy sitting in a cafe drinking coffee but he isn't part of what you are shooting, then by all means, use the zoom to "crop in the camera" or try another vantage point.....usually, what you see is what you get.....check out how much of what you see in the camera, is what you actually photograph,...it should be in your manual  8)

Thank you for the advice. Personally i find getting advice from websites or manuals of little help. They are either written for people who have no idea what they are doing at all and are to simple. Or written by experts not realising we arnt all that good:) At least here the help is actually helpful.

Saw that livery in the first shot for download on Avsim. I just thought somebody had made that up. I had no idea that plane actually existed.

Saw that livery in the first shot for download on Avsim. I just thought somebody had made that up. I had no idea that plane actually existed.

Hmm...that is a very unique A340! I see Air Canada, Lufthansa, Untited Airlines, Varig, SAS, and Thai all mixed in one! Nice pics Rifleman!

Great shots and commentary Ken

You now have me convinced to put pressure on the kids and the old girl to buy me a camera LOL

Cheers...Happy Landings...Doug

there is also a 767 in those colors, its the star alliance

Ken you didn't try and sneak a trip up to the cockpit to show the pilots how its really done? I'm shocked

Mark

Wow! You're tryign to make me jealous aren't you!

Beautiful shots as well...:-)

Wow! You're tryign to make me jealous aren't you!

Beautiful shots as well...:-)

Aye, definetly!
There absolutly great. Nice to see ones in the air 4 real.

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Ben