One more caveat. If you see a UFO, don't worry about all the stuff I just
said and start firing away! :-) And let the government USM it all they want.
Tom C.
From: Igor Roshchin <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Reply-To: [email protected]
To: [email protected]
Subject: photography from an airplane and unsharp mask
Date: Tue, 18 Apr 2006 19:32:28 -0400 (EDT)
Hello!
I have two questions that are somewhat related to each other.
1. Photography from a commercial airplane.
What suggestions do you have for taking pictures from a
commercial airplane?
How to make them sharper and overcome some type of cast
that is often seen in the day-time images of this kind (not clouds
yet, but enough to decrease he overall contrast)?
How to avoid the flat look of the images (e.g. when taking
photos of the mountains below)?
I remember somebody's advise that one shouldn't use polarizers
while shooting through airplane windows, but don't remember why.
Can someone clarify this?
2. When do you use sharp/unsharp filters in the PS or
other software? (any hints on how to judge a reasonable level?)
As an example, here is my photo of San Diego downtown taken from the plane.
It is not a photo for presentation, just something that I am
practicing on, and I am not happy with it.
I wonder what else can be done to improve it.
"original" photo:
http://www.komkon.org/~igor/PHOTOS/SanDiego/IMGP2417-2sm.jpg
and the one after "unsharpen mask" applied in PS:
http://www.komkon.org/~igor/PHOTOS/SanDiego/IMGP2417-2sharpsm.jpg
In your opinion, is this image oversharpened?
The full size JPEGS are ~2MB each are in this location:
http://www.komkon.org/~igor/PHOTOS/SanDiego/
Thank you,
Igor
