Thank you for all your nice words.
Originally posted by Bert Bates:
What's the cool snaky building in the 5th picture?
I don't know. I guess it lies in northeast Germany or some country northeast to Germany. The plane was pretty high then, the original photo is not so clear-cut.
Originally posted by Joyce Lee:
Ellen, you've a knack of capturing great scenaries!
Thank you Joyce. The most important camera settings for the scenaries in this
thread is:
focusing model: Aparture Priority
metering model: AF spot ( partial )
for the images in daytime ( the ones I took in Germany ), normally one doesn't want to emphasize one
singal object on the ground, rather, a big depth of field( set your aparture at at least f 8.0. If you are using SLR then bestly f 16.0 or above, if the light is strong enough to keep the shutter speed faster than 1/60 s. ) can capture the texture on the ground and the also the cloud.
when the sun rises, one can make the image really dark or pretty bright, depends on what kind of a feeling one wants to present. If you measure the light on the dark sky you'll get a very bright image, the texture of the cloud will be clear but you might not be able to capture the shape of the sun. But if you measure the light right at the sun, you might get too dark an image, everything is not viewable except the sun. Matrix metering usually brings you a pretty bright image with a completely white sun.
Originally posted by Ashok Mash:
if I get a window seat with a clear window panel, I 'll see what my Sony 717 can do.
Oh that sounds really good! About 1.5 years ago I was hesitating a lot about which camera to buy: Sony 717 or Nikon cp5700. I read the detailed reviews of both of the two cameras on dpreview.com and both of them have their unique strengths. Sony 717 has a much shorter starting time, focusing time and image-storing time, for those who like to shoot sport or stage, the cp5700 might be unbearable. I bearly shoot any sport or stage, so lucky this big drawback of cp5700 doesn't bug me too much. Then, 717 works better on focusing and its images are sharper while cp5700 has excellent white balance and its colour appears very natural without any green or yellow cast. Oh yes we have to check what the sony 717 can do on plane.
More for Nikon's fans, cp5700 is an excellent one among the 5.0 million pixel prosumer peers, but very sadly, it seems to me that the new cp8700 is not so outstanding among the 8.0 million pixel prosumer peers. While the other brands have so great improvements for their 8.0 M pixel prosumer babies, Nikon seems like merely changed the cp5700's CCD to a 8.0 million pixel one and rushed to the market without better image processing. More information and detailed reviews of the family of 8.0 million pixel prosumer cameras can be found at dpreview.com.
The day before yesterday I spent four hours ( due to the slow internet connection )watching the video I found in Kishore Dandu's latest blog( I found the link from his signature
). It's a presentation on the
Java Technology made by Bruce Eckel. Very informative and insightful, even more interesting than most movies, well worth the time. Thank you very much, Kishore!
The Bruce Eckel guy looks soooooooo good and he has a nice voice.....