We’re back from our long weekend trip to Colorado but I’ve not had any time to prepare new pictures yet so here’s another one from the archives to keep things moving along.
As you can probably guess, this was shot from the window of an airliner during a trip to New York 18 months or so ago. It shows downtown Manhattan and three of the well-known bridges, from right to left, the Brooklyn Bridge, the Manhattan Bridge and the Williamsburg Bridge.
As with all airliner-window shots, this one required quite a bit of mucking with in Lightroom. Haze is reduced by pulling up the black point and overall colour and contrast can be helped out using curves.
I usually am taking pictures from the plane with my iPhone. I think I need to pull out my dSLR next time I fly into NY. This is cool!
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Nice Lightroom technique Dave. I’ve got the version 4 beta to “learn” on. From your results, I may be tempted to buy it when the full version is released.
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Rick,
I spend a lot of time shooting with the iPhone when on planes but, for some reason, I had the D90 out this time (probably since I reckoned I may actually get a decent shot of the city). More frequently, if I want to use a “real” camera, I’ll use the Canon Powershot G9 which is a bit easier to handle in the restricted space of a coach seat.
Mark,
Once you try Lightroom, I’m pretty sure you’ll never look back. It’s now my software of choice for all but HDR processing. I probably take only about 10% of images into Photoshop these days.
Awesome, thanks for the tip. Love it.
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This came out so great. Especially for shooting out an airplane window.
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