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Post by Sepiana on Apr 25, 2016 5:38:55 GMT
Hi everyone,
Would you like to participate in the Weekly Photo Challenge? Just post a photo or photos which will be your interpretation of the theme.
The rules are rather simple.
Your photo(s) should be your own, i.e., they should not have been taken by someone else.
Your photo(s) should be taken during the week of the theme.
You are allowed to do some photoshopping.
You are to experiment and, most of all, have fun.
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Post by kathylee on Apr 27, 2016 20:16:22 GMT
I first saw the post for aviation on Monday. I flew home on Sunday, so I am including this picture of my flight leaving Orlando. It is a day before the announcement, but this will be the only time I am near a plane this week. Hope it is ok.  |
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Post by tonyw on Apr 28, 2016 18:25:46 GMT
We headed back to Canada from the UK this week and spent several hours in airport departure terminals so lots of photography opportunities. Here's Terminal 2 at London Heathrow at 9.30 in the morning taken with a fisheye lens. Lots of duty-free shopping opportunities needless to say!  I couldn't get the new image plug-in to work in IE11 but it worked fine in Chrome although I think it resized it so maybe I missed a setting. Tony |
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Post by Sepiana on Apr 29, 2016 15:10:35 GMT
Tony,
What a capture! Your use of a fisheye lens was perfect for this situation. I love how detailed and sharp your image is. Great job!
I use IE11. I have no problems with the new image upload plug-in.
I came across the same situation -- image reduction. I have brought it up to the attention of the other members of the Admin/Mods team.
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Post by whippet on Apr 29, 2016 18:47:06 GMT
I got soaking wet while out taking these pictures today. Quality not so good because of the dull, grey, rainy day. This spitfire is in the centre of a roundabout at Thornaby on Tees. From 1928 to 1958 the aerodrome there was used by the RAF Coastal Command. Now, in its place, is an industrial estate, housing estate, and the dual carriageway where this roundabout is situated.   |
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Post by Sepiana on Apr 29, 2016 19:33:30 GMT
whippet,
Kudos to you for going out in the rain to fulfill this challenge in a timely manner!
I think the gray skies and the mute colors enhance your image. I really like the way it is. The history behind this plane is a bonus. Well done!
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Post by whippet on Apr 30, 2016 18:52:35 GMT
Thank you. I forgot to say that I couldn't decide which photo to put on. That is why they are both here. Strange you should mention the grey sky. I had wondered if I could do anything with the background to make it look misty. I have now got my Elements 11 for dummies book. So when I get round to reading it . . . . .  |
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Post by preeb on Apr 30, 2016 21:27:20 GMT
The new face of aviation?  I wanted to take an aerial photo with it, but the weather has not been cooperating at all, so I had to settle for this instead. Just for fun, a photo from last summer. Crop Duster treating wheatfields for rust.  |
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Post by tonyw on May 1, 2016 0:34:21 GMT
Here's another one specially for Sepiana! Last night the local model airplane club were flying their electric models in the high school gymnasium and invited our camera club to take some shots of the planes in action. It's not easy! The light isn't the greatest and they fly fast but I was able to get some reasonable shots of one of the larger (and slower) models - a scale model of the Santos-Dumont Demoiselle aircraft built in France by the Brazilian aviation pioneer Alberto Santos-Dumont. This was No 20 - and the original dates back to around 1909 - en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Santos-Dumont_Demoiselle. Here's a sequence of shots of it coming in to land on the gymnasium floor. Taken at ISO 1600, f5.6 and 1/125 sec  Tony |
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Post by kdcintx on May 1, 2016 3:33:39 GMT
Natural Aviation  |
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Post by MarkN on May 1, 2016 21:20:22 GMT
This was a hard one ... not much aviation around here except high flying airliners .... However, this past week, there was flight after flight of Army helicopters' heading south over our area, went on about three days. I'm hoping they were just moving machines or their base and not being deployed in our latest deployment to Iraq. Hard capture, especially with a telephoto as they were moving fairly fast, even when they were right overhead it was still hard the catch them .... Tried to make it look like an old war torn photo or something ....  |
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Post by Sepiana on May 1, 2016 22:49:31 GMT
Rick - It is a pity you couldn't take a picture with it; on the other hand, this allowed you to come up with an original interpretation of this theme. Great example of creativity and a great image!
Tony - Thanks for this special treat! It is very meaningful to me in more than one way. I love how you captured the flying action and displayed it in a storyboard format. It exudes motion. Well done!
As a side note -- Your image had me looking for my copy of Wings of Madness: Alberto Santos-Dumont and the Invention of Flight.
kdcintx - Great thinking out of the box! You captured the Mother of all aviation -- birds. Your interpretation makes us stop and think about where it all began. Mark -- This may have been a hard theme but you rose to the occasion. You chose the perfect post-processing for this image. It is the kind of image that ellicits emotional responses. Well done! |
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