Air Show
Impressive photos taken from the air by brother Brian with his handy point and shoot. Most are of Logan, the Boston skyline and, as you follow the Charles River, on into Cambridge and beyond. The fountain with the plane in the background is in Detroit. I’m not sure where the row houses are, maybe near Evansville.
(back and forth arrows in the lower right and left corners)
Those were, as advertised, impressive. Were they through the regular kind of (usually dirty, small, multilayered, and not glass) seat-window? Is there some program that helps with that kind of noise, or did Brian get a particularly wonderful window? I assume he did crop the edges differently so as get them level.
On a different topic — Michael, did you lose the ability to change “Upcoming”? Because we’ve been looking forward to “Misery Pond Gallery” for … um, quite some time now. Of course, it’s (almost) all rather miserable, what we read on the blog, but “Misery Pond Gallery” SOUNDS like we’ll get to see photos from Misery Pond (and we already did).
Comment by Jennifer — February 18, 2007 @ 8:51 am
I didn’t lose it and I was just thinking you might call me on it. Now, I hope I can keep up my new list.
Yeah, shot through your typical dirty window. I never thought those shots worth the effort, but his photos proved how wrong I was. All I did was cut through the smog by adjusting exposure levels.
Comment by michael — February 18, 2007 @ 9:15 am
And if you shoot through the window with your lens almost touching the window, the scratches and imperfections are out of focus, so they just add a grey, uniform fog to the picture. Then later you tweak the contrast or the gamma up with your photo editor.
–contrastman
Comment by rakkity — February 18, 2007 @ 9:38 pm
After jawing about contrast tweaking, I actually clicked on photos
and was very impressed! Great shots, Brian.
Comment by rakkity — February 18, 2007 @ 9:44 pm
Really nice shots. I love our city from all angels, but from above is particularly nice.
Comment by Jen — February 20, 2007 @ 10:44 am