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2nd attempt at pictures...comments & advice most welcome

Postby Flying Trucker » Fri Nov 06, 2009 5:05 pm

Douglas DC3 on short hop between Kingston and Toronto Ontario along Lake Ontario and Bay of Quinte.
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Re: 2nd attempt at pictures...comments & advice most welcome

Postby EJW » Fri Nov 06, 2009 5:09 pm

No advice really needed. Great shots. Maybe a little less cropping in the 2nd and 4th shots???
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Re: 2nd attempt at pictures...comments & advice most welcome

Postby Daube » Sat Nov 07, 2009 5:51 am

The shots #1, #2 and #4 are great.
On the first, you managed to capture some very good looking clouds, and you used the virtual cockpit, producing a very nce 'I don't want to be there' feeling :)

On the second, you used a good view angle to show the nice colors of the plane, and you were close enough to show the details. The zoom and the background trees add a lot to the overall quality. Perhaps you should just try not to cut the nose of the plane, other than that, it's great !

On the fourth, you just show perfectly the beauty of the model and the repaint. Nothing to add.

Some more advises:
- zoom is dangerous. Too much zoom will limit the amount of details offered by the background scenery (if there is any. If the background is the sky, you don't care), and it might also emphasize the ground blurries, so choose your angle of view very carefully when you use a high zoom.

- zoom is dangerous (2): sometimes, instead of using the zoom to make the plane look bigger in the picture, you can simply get closer to it. Use CTRL+ "+" and CTRL + "-" to slowly (veeeeerrrry slowly :'( ) move the camera toward or away from the plane. When getting very close to it, you might want to decrease the zoom to something like 0.70 or 0.60. Be carefull with the lower values, you must avoid the "fish-eye" effect.

The other shots that I have not mentionned above are too classic, with few interesting details in them. You'll have to work on the view angles to make them a little bit more interesting and originals ;)
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Re: 2nd attempt at pictures...comments & advice most welcome

Postby Flying Trucker » Sat Nov 07, 2009 7:55 am

Good morning all... :)

Okay starting to have some fun with Flight Sim X and trying to take a picture or two now, certainly helps to fill in some time and I did not realize how much precision and concentration this picture taking took.

I still think this electronic gizmo thinks I should stay far  far away from it.   ;D

Thanks for the advice and comments and I shall try my hand at it again (I think this electronic gizmo just jumped and moaned).   ;D

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Re: 2nd attempt at pictures...comments & advice most welcome

Postby BrandonF » Sat Nov 07, 2009 11:54 am

Great shots! I can't wait for more.  :)

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