Thundebird '08 show in Oregon

Luse · Post by **Luse** » Thu Jun 19, 2008 5:17 pm

Well. . .

As I woke up and looked out my window, there were 7 little white and shiny F-16's.

About noon or so, 6 of those 7 decided to take off, (I have a view of EVERYTHING, runway, entire airport from my bedroom) and I must say WOW the new show is AWESOME to say the least.

I decided to go get some pictures, they will follow

Post by **Lawndart** » Thu Jun 19, 2008 7:16 pm

@skru_luse, didn't know you live in Klamath Falls, OR.

BTW, there's nothing new about the show this year, but it's still awesome none the less!

Luse · Post by **Luse** » Fri Jun 20, 2008 4:47 pm

Yes LD,

This little town is my current place of residents

Hmmm...

Then its been a while since I've seen it!

These were taken very quickly : EDIT: Not show, Practice !

Luse · Post by **Luse** » Sat Jun 21, 2008 11:52 pm

I know LD will slap my hand for making a duplicate thread (

)

But, I decided to because I figured it would get more looks here than where its twin is.

Here are the photos I took today of TOK 08. These are my first real try at aviation photography!

I have broken them down into three categories:

THUNDERBIRDS 08 - http://www.mediafire.com/?9ggbnx2lnvs
CURRENT FIGHTERS-TRAINERS - http://www.mediafire.com/?g9n3i4glego
CLASSIC AIRCRAFT - http://www.mediafire.com/?wmw2bw3vhjo

These were taken with a Samsung S73 (best I can do right now).
Please, comments, criticism, Thank You's, whatever is welcome! At this point I am just trying to improve.

Thank you for looking!
~Alex"Luse"Klein

Post by **Lawndart** » Sun Jun 22, 2008 2:49 am

skru_luse wrote:I know LD will slap my hand for making a duplicate thread ( )

Darn straight skippy!

Re: your pics; Nice to see some photos, but they are quite blurry. My only suggestion would be, and I don't know if your camera is up to par or not (?), but the pics are somewhat fuzzy and pixelated. If you were using any type of digital zoom, stop using it. It's a waste of time and should never have been included in consumer cameras IMHO. Use only whatever optical zoom your camera can produce through its lens and then crop and resize the raw image into a the frame you want (size you need). Most of today's cameras have enough Megapixels that you can crop quite a bit off the image's edges and end up with a nice portion of it left, properly framed and as long as no fuzzy digital zoom was used, you can make even a picture taken with a point and shoot camera look almost pro. Another useful tool for somewhat blurry photos is using unsharp mask. Contrary to what it sounds like, it sharpens your image and can turn a little blurry picutre much clearer or sometimes real sharp.

Get a good image editing tool! PhotoShop is obviously great and very complex, but no doubt the best out there! Another quick editing/viewer I like a lot is ACDSee. I've used it for years and Cinch uses it too on the fly. If you want something entirely free try Picasa (from Google). I've heard good things about it.

Thanks for sharing your photos! Hope you enjoyed the show!

Luse · Post by **Luse** » Sun Jun 22, 2008 11:10 am

Thanks LD

,

My camera is just a little 99$ Digital one,

I agree, On the show line, they looked great

but as I was importing them to my pc, I see that they do look REALLY pixelated!

Well LD, I will try everything you've told me next time.

Thanks again!

Thundebird '08 show in Oregon

Thundebird '08 show in Oregon

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