Igor, I have found low contrast and peculiar color casts to be real problems. I haven't tried shooting in RAW, but next time I will.
Rick --- Igor Roshchin <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > 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 > > > http://www.photo.net/photos/RickW __________________________________________________ Do You Yahoo!? Tired of spam? Yahoo! Mail has the best spam protection around http://mail.yahoo.com

