Did that a couple of years ago. 1. Everything takes on a blue or blue-green cast at altitude, so shoot RAW.
2. The vibration in a light plane is remarkable, so use a high shutter speed and try to keep your camera-holding hands away from the plane. 3. In addition to dirty Plexiglas windows, there will be lots of reflections. They can be tamed partially with a polarizer. They can be tamed more if you open the window, but it makes things =much= windier and noisier in the cabin. 4. Noise-canceling headphones are your friends. 5. It's cold up there, even if you're only a few thousand feet up. Have fun! I did, even though none of the resulting pix met my standards for posting. Cheers, Rick http://photo.net/photos/RickW --- On Thu, 7/7/11, Brian Walters <[email protected]> wrote: > From: Brian Walters <[email protected]> > Subject: Photographing from a Light Plane > To: "Pentax-Discuss Mail List" <[email protected]> > Date: Thursday, July 7, 2011, 6:45 PM > G'day all > > In a few weeks my wife and I will be heading off to Central > Australia. > On the way we plan to take a flight over Lake Eyre* in a > light aircraft. > > I've never photographed from a plane before so I'm > wondering is there > any special "gotchas" I should be aware of. Lens > choices, shutter > speeds, filters, etc.... > > Any advice will be gratefully received. > > > > Cheers > > Brian > > ++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++ > Brian Walters > Western Sydney Australia > http://lyons-ryan.org/southernlight/ > > > * For those unfamiliar with Lake Eyre, it's a huge salt > lake near the > centre of Australia. At 15 metres below sea level, > it's also the lowest > point in Australia. It has a large catchment > extending into western > Queensland but water rarely reaches the lake because of > evaporation and > being soaked up in channels and creeks along the way. > Occasionally > there is so much rain in the catchment that the lake partly > or fully > fills. That's happened for the past couple of > seasons. Seeing Lake > Eyre filled is a 'bucket list' item for many Australians so > I don't want > to bugger this up. > > http://www.lakeeyrebasin.org.au/ > > > > -- > > > -- > http://www.fastmail.fm - Access all of your messages > and folders > > wherever you are > > > -- > PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List > [email protected] > http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net > to UNSUBSCRIBE from the PDML, please visit the link > directly above and follow the directions. > -- PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List [email protected] http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net to UNSUBSCRIBE from the PDML, please visit the link directly above and follow the directions.
