...And puff... God created the aeroplane Photo

Photographer’s Note

So many people mentioned that I should have cropped the roofs on the original photo, so here it is.
I prefer to post photos as they were shot (with MINOR color or sharpness correction if really necessary).
Why would I crop the roofs? It, at least tell people something else... that I've took the picture from the ground next to small houses and not from the top of a mountain or in the airport.

I also would like to grab the opportunity to EXPRESS that: I and many other people on TE, don't like to see heavily post process photos with radical changes in contrast or removing wires from urban street shots. Why do that if the wires are there? You can see for example that in Portugal many wires are in the walls, in Iceland normally underground and other countries they are always suspended. The point is...! How would I know that about wires if everybody erased them in Photoshop before posting in TE?

Original photo note:

London, near Heathrow airport.
Following a heavy rain the sky began to clear. I've notice that the sun was about to pop from behind the clouds and did a quickly run to get my camera from the draw in my room. As I came outside the house point, shoot and "voila". Right on time to catch the sun popping behind the cloud. It's a simple photo but the sunrays make a divine effect.

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torre (891) 2008-04-11 16:29

Olá David. Bem conseguido. O efeito de refracção da luz solar dá um efeito mistico à foto. Bom trabalho
Abraço

atsouth (253) 2008-04-11 17:00

hi, amazing sky! v nice composition with the plane well positioned, the clouds and sunrays look amazing. funny title too.

I agree with others about the roofs for the following reasons:

"Why would I crop the roofs? It, at least tell people something else... that I've took the picture from the ground next to small houses and not from the top of a mountain or in the airport."

I think the main reason in this case is that the roofs seem to be accidentaly part of the photo, not a deliberate compositional effort, maybe you meant to add them which is ok, to tell where you took the picture, but at least for me it seems accidental because they are too much in the corner and are too dark which is distracting in relation with the rest of the image, so i think those might be some reasons for the feedback on that.

" I and many other people on TE, don't like to see heavily post process photos with radical changes in contrast or removing wires from urban street shots."

Again it comes to composition i think, sometimes there can show up things in the photo that were not part of the composition or distract from the composition, i think it's ok to remove things when that happen, the original photo could always be posted as a ws.
In the case of wires sometimes they are part of the composition but sometimes there is only one or two wires that distract from the composition and are visually too "weak" too be part of it.

So to sum up i think both possibilities are ok, rules are not set in stone, the photo could be with or without the houses or with or without wires, but always depending on the overall composition intention, and in this case the roofs were distracting imho but it doesn't mean that it's wrong to add them, just that each case depends on how it is composed.

i hope i made sense

regards
Allen

Gundog68 (194) 2008-04-11 17:04

David
Fun title for a interesting shot. Nice timing!

Mark

lopshang (628) 2008-04-11 20:30

Hi David

Amazing shot and a very sharp too. Love the composition and love the cropped version. Those rays are looking fantastic and the plane is looking awesome too.

Regards,

Lopshang.

MichaelTrezzi (3140) 2008-04-11 22:16

Hello David, excellent composition in the contra light, excellent contrast and the plane placed exactly in the thirds and atop of that in the most important segment of the light. Well done. Thanks for sharing.
To your note on post processing - photography is a extremely broad field where all kind of photographers have enough space to live. Some of us feel like documentarists and are happy if the documentary like picture has some poesy in it. Fine many nice pictures have been created that way. And then you start thinking, this is really a nice picture, how could I enhance the poesy in it. Some of us feel rather like artists and use the picture as the starting point of expressing themselves and use post processing to stress certain part and suppress another part of the message, which the picture contains, while keeping the main structure of the message untouched. You may not like my pictures, as I belong to the second part of the photographers, however I think, that photography would loose part of its attraction, if only one part of the photographers would remain. I think you well managed to do a documentary type of a picture strongly charged with poesy, and this is what I like at it. Thanks & Rgds, Michael

sonkai (1017) 2008-04-12 2:37

Hi David.
I find your shot fun and interesting,all above related to the title.I like this shot more than original,I agree with some elements are there and why delet it?but I think it's not always the same case,in this case I find the roofs can be croped and what you want to show in the shot isn't changed arround.And about colours,well,I understand the saturation or small alteration in colours taking into account that the upload in TE almost always wash out colours.
Regards,
Sonsoles.

Kenggaroo (799) 2008-04-12 4:19

Wonderful shot, David
Great form of clouds, great rays of the sun and of course, great position of the plane in the highlight spot. You've captured a wonderful shot.
Congratulations,
kenggaroo

dkeus31 (25984) 2008-04-12 10:08

Hi David,
good improvement, the slight cropping of the houses makes the picture great, the light being fine
regards
didier

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danasam (1057) 2008-06-09 23:48

Hi David, what a perfect moment to freeze, i love it. excellent contrast and sharpness, lovely colors. very well seen and captured my friend :)

i agree with you on the wire thing, i think erasing an element from a photo takes a lot from its value.
Sam.

arturo (31) 2008-07-24 13:16 [Comment]