Photo tip... images from 30000 feet
05/12/07 19:33 Filed in: Photo Tips
The things you can shoot from 30000 feet...
taken photos through an aircraft window.
For many of us it is this time a year when we go on vacation and for others it is a lot of hard work.
If you one of the lucky ones and fly home to your family or take your vacation try and get a good window seat on the plane, avoid the middle section since the wings can get in your way.
I took the images below on my way back from Europe and on my way to Tibet. I had a “clean window” and the weather was great.
The two shots below have been taken from a commercial Jetliner, I guess at about 30000 feet, one near the Russian/Polish border (I did ask the stewardess where we where at that time) and the other one on my way to Lhasa from Chengdu in China. (this one was not as high, approaching Lhasa)
Remember when you try this, you have to make sure to press the lens right onto the window, have your auto focus switched off and you might have to move around a bit to avoid glare, use a fast shutter speed and whola, you be amazed how things look on a good day from these heights.
If you don’t have this magic window seat, you can always ask politely for somebody to move for a few minutes to give you the nice view.
GD
taken photos through an aircraft window.
For many of us it is this time a year when we go on vacation and for others it is a lot of hard work.
If you one of the lucky ones and fly home to your family or take your vacation try and get a good window seat on the plane, avoid the middle section since the wings can get in your way.
I took the images below on my way back from Europe and on my way to Tibet. I had a “clean window” and the weather was great.
The two shots below have been taken from a commercial Jetliner, I guess at about 30000 feet, one near the Russian/Polish border (I did ask the stewardess where we where at that time) and the other one on my way to Lhasa from Chengdu in China. (this one was not as high, approaching Lhasa)
Remember when you try this, you have to make sure to press the lens right onto the window, have your auto focus switched off and you might have to move around a bit to avoid glare, use a fast shutter speed and whola, you be amazed how things look on a good day from these heights.
If you don’t have this magic window seat, you can always ask politely for somebody to move for a few minutes to give you the nice view.
GD
© Gunther Deichmann
- Aerial from about 30000 feet,
near the Russian and Polish border, Feb.
2005
© Gunther Deichmann
- Aerial near Lhasa Tibet, August 2006
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