Army Plane C&C please.

[10-Dee-Q]

Hi i took this on gloomy day, but being new to DSLR i still learning how to get the belly of the plane brighter ?
all the shots are original, only cropped and auto level adjusted on CS3.

taken with 450D + Tammy 17-50

i'm learning everyday as here in my country, my shops is near to the airport so the plane are passing directly above my shop, and mostly are army plane like hercules and such, but sometimes a few foker-F28 or boeing 737 air asia as well. i took the shots on the top deck of my shops.







please guide me on what setting would be suitable to take those plane,
thank you.



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[Pete-eos]

Hi,

Nice shots, do you have the EXIF data for them and remember what settings you used?

You need to try and read up on the camera's metering system, as it looks like the camera has exposed the image for the bright sky, this has made the planes very dark. This can be recovered slightly in CS3 with the Shadow/Highlight tool but isn't ideal.
If you set your profile to Image Editing Ok I can post up an edit for you?
http://photography-on-the.net/forum/showthread.php?t=115805

You need to set up your camera to expose for the plane, you can do this several ways. Set the metering to partial (I think), as this will expose for the middle 9% of the image and the plane hopefully. You could shoot in fully manual if your happy with the understanding of ISO, shutter speed and aperture. You could also stick with what your doing now but use Exposure Compensation, you'll want to dial it to the right to get the exposure for the plane. Have a read of the manual about EC.

[Robert_Lay]

You could use the Monochrome Picture Style and also pick the Red filter and set the contrast to its lowest setting.

That will darken the sky and make little difference to the underbody of the plane. You should use Manual mode and check your playback histogram to see how it's going. Keep upping the exposure until you see a small amount of clipping indicated by the Highlight Alert and then back off by 2/3 of an f-stop.

If you insist on shooting color forget the Monochrome setting and filter and just set up for minimum contrast and give it an overexposure per the last paragraph above.

[10-Dee-Q]

Shutter speed: 1/1600
Aperture: f/8.0
ISO : 200
evaluative metering
i shoot in AV mode.

[10-Dee-Q]

here's the picturewith exif intact
http://i15.photobucket.com/albums/a372/10-Dee-Q/IMG_0048.jpg
http://i15.photobucket.com/albums/a372/10-Dee-Q/IMG_0081.jpg
http://i15.photobucket.com/albums/a372/10-Dee-Q/IMG_0082.jpg
http://i15.photobucket.com/albums/a372/10-Dee-Q/IMG_0084.jpg

[10-Dee-Q]

another set that i took today, this time i shoot RAW and use spot metering,
is it better ?

http://i15.photobucket.com/albums/a372/10-Dee-Q/0030003.jpg
http://i15.photobucket.com/albums/a372/10-Dee-Q/0030004.jpg
http://i15.photobucket.com/albums/a372/10-Dee-Q/IMG_0037.jpg
http://i15.photobucket.com/albums/a372/10-Dee-Q/IMG_0038.jpg

[Meaty0]

Just a personal preference, but with propellor driven aircraft, I like to see a bit of motion blur in the prop blades. I'd probably use a slower speed, say 1/800 or less. You could also add the motion blur in Photoshop I guess.