Share Your Photo Skills

[Poltavskiy]

While I took a break from 3D I have done a lot of things. Pissed of people, Had Clients, Moved my whole house around, Modded my car, and finally. Got into photography!

So okay, I am a complete noob at this, but I would like to share my photos. And I would like you all other photographers on here to share yours.

I basiclly took pictures of my car and a few random things just for practice.

I am also going for the more of an illustrative look.

Btw, on my car photos. I am aware that I took them in the wrong time of day and the shadows are too hard. I already learned a thing or two about that and will go out an another photoshoot as soon as my car parts get here and I install them.

[pedro.malheiro]

you have some nice photos... and a great car

i think its a good idea... heres my photos
Pedro Malheiro - Olhares.com

[Poltavskiy]

Wow pedro those are lovely! Do you have any special lense or just the default that came with camera? I have the stock one right now but am saving up for some high tech one so I can take closeup shots with great detail.

[pedro.malheiro]

thx
no ... i toke that photos from one compact digital camera, the finepix f700... but i love to have some professional camera. maybe one day ...

[cpd]

I haven't visited this place since I think 2005 - I do take some photos - see airliners.net (Aviation Photos: Chris P Denton)

I like going out with the camera - but it's difficult these days when people see you walking about with a large heavy camera and suspect that you are a terrorist or some other kind of criminal.

[Icekid84]

ROFL.. so thats where you were... prison

[cpd]

Originally Posted by Icekid84

ROFL.. so thats where you were... prison

No, not quite - but some people get a bit hysterical when they see someone carrying around a camera with a large looking lens.

Not that mine is so large, it's just a mid-range Nikon (with battery grip) and a 300mm Nikkor prime.. Fairly modest compared to some with their new D300s or D3s with 500 or 600mm AF-I or AF-S lenses.

But the 300mm is a good lens - superb optics, but slow to focus (non AF-S/AF-I - it uses the focusing from the camera). It's a real pain if you happen to get it out of focus (ie, the subject moves suddenly, or you get blown by wind.

Here is one from last year on my way over to Seattle:

http://www.racerplanet.com/photoplog..._ual_wing2.jpg

Interesting story behind this - all looks calm, but the plane itself, a UAL B747-400 had technical problems. One engine lost oil pressure, they shut it down and we diverted to PHNL. Out of Sydney, the flight was very rough - the clouds were quite high as well, and at FL300, we only just skimmed over the top of most of them, so it was quite a choppy flight for a long while. I don't mind it though, I love flying.

Nothing prepared me for how hot and humid Honolulu is, even at 4:15am in the morning. And the place is so slow paced. We ended up leaving at about 11:30am, by that time everyone was pretty looking like walking dead. But the surly and abrupt TSA people lived up to all the expectations.

One more for now:
http://www.racerplanet.com/photoplog...irstflight.jpg
1st ever A380 commercial flight - Singapore to Sydney, last year. The media were everywhere, I've never seen such a chaos. About 3 hours earlier, I got the 500mm lens, this was my first attempt with it - jostled by crowds of people.

The A380 now is a non-event, they fly in and out at least one per day. We have not only Singapore's A380's, but the prototypes from Airbus as well coming in and out of Sydney, and next month, Qantas' first will arrive.

One of my other favourites from a while back is this:

http://www.racerplanet.com/photoplog...52_smaller.jpg

Pity I had to compress this a lot, the sharpness goes badly. I can actually see my office building in the background - the small one to the right of Ernst & Young. Our 26 floor building looks small in comparison.

http://www.racerplanet.com/photoplog..._8184_copy.jpg

That's from the same set of images as the Jetstar A330 on my airliners.net collection. This is the better of the two - a nicer angle and shot, the winglets aren't cutting out the logo.

[multimediaman]

nice pictures, cpd... I've been meaning to take my camera out there and get some good airplane reference + texture shots, but it's quite hard getting a good distance from the airport to have them fly overhead at good angles (the textures I'm aiming for would be the direct underside of the plane, and perhaps one showing the windows nicely

got any cessna 172 pix?

[cpd]

C172? Hmm, I've never tried to photograph one. Don't see many of them around Sydney. Not many of them still fly around after the fuel crisis we had a while back that put a lot of small plane operators out of business.

The majority of the smaller private planes I see are:

- Gulfstream G-IV (450)
- Gulfsteam G-V (550)
- Cessna Citation / Citation X
- Dassault Falcon 900 / 2000 (3 engine / 2 engine respectively)
- Bombardier Global XRS

The larger private planes:
- Airbus A319 "ACJ"
- Boeing Business Jet 1 / 2.
- Boeing 747-200B (USA)
- Boeing 747-400 (Japan 1 / Japan 2).
- Boeing 757
- Boeing MD11/ER (HZ-AFAS - HRH Prince Abdulaziz bin Fahd bin Abdulaziz Al-Saud)

We had Japan 1 and 2 in together a few weeks back, along with a USA Gulfstream G-V (60500). I watched the USA G-V go, noting it on ACARS where it was listed simply as 60500. I've never seen a jet (other than our 'fast-jet' Hornets and Pigs) reach 39,000ft so quickly. It was sort of abeam Myall Lakes National Park and already at FL390.


Biggest problem with the little planes is getting close enough to photograph them properly. It's just about impossible to get right underneath them when they are low enough. I don't really have any top quality short lenses in my collection, only longer telephotos. The longer ones are not helpful with little planes - it's too easy for them to get blurred with heat haze.

For a plane, you could probably just as easily Photoshop it - then do a texture bake in 3dsmax or Maya. It'd be a lot easier.