JFK 04/21/2011

Out for a bit this afternoon.

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I was out at this morning and then later in the afternoon at HoBe. Eric.....I saw all that good stuff arriving on 31L from HoBe. I'll be posting some of my stuff shortly.

Nice stuff Eric

Here are just a few...........still plenty of more photos to go through.....

Finally got a few good shots of the Lufthansa A380 departing in good light!
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Air France A340 departing off 31L
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Nice shots Mark. Looks like you had a nice walk. windy?

Nice walk, but the wind was kicking!!! Just as bad or worse than last time, but well worth it! After I got my shots I returned.

Awesome shots guys! Mark, I love those A380 departures!

Nice shots guys!!!

Mark, Eric, great stuff... what's the regi on the AFR A340?

Pic. number 3. B747 from eric8669.. which Airline is that??

Zee71:
I love the shots of the Big Whale departing.. wauw! :wink:
Also the one with the tower in the background..
Looks like a lot of Zoom and Cropping :confused:

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Originally Posted by [email protected]

Pic. number 3. B747 from eric8669.. which Airline is that??

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El Al (Israeli Airlines)

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Pic. number 3. B747 from eric8669.. which Airline is that??

Zee71:
I love the shots of the Big Whale departing.. wauw! :wink:
Also the one with the tower in the background..
Looks like a lot of Zoom and Cropping :confused:

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He was a lot closer then you think.

very nice shots Eric, you had a great background of blue:)

wow Zee excellent, great clarity love the first whale shot!

The reg ID on the AF A340 is F-GLZS

Here are two of the original images, so you can compare.

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Nice catch of the British Airways A318. Don't see many baby buses.

Zee71: is that 400mm on a NOT full-frame camera?
50% cropping on the first one.. uhhhh :frown:

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El Al (Israeli Airlines)

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okay.. I kinda like the livery.. Is El Al a regular visitor of JFK?

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Zee71: is that 400mm on a NOT full-frame camera?
50% cropping on the first one..

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For those particular images I used a 300mm f/4 prime lens with a 1.4 teleconverter, plus throw in the camera crop-factor of 1.5, I get 630mm and an f-stop of f/5.6

Although it seems like I'm close I'm still far, but shortening up the distance definitely helps.

Here are some more (but still have a bunch more to look through):

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Belly
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Coming right at you....
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Sweet late afternoon light
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Mark, awesome stuff my friend .... Love the Finn shot !

Agreed, the banking Finn shot is superb!

Just wondering is 400MM enough for those banking shots?

Depending where you are positioned ...... 300mm to 400mm should be fine, then a little cropping. Here is the final batch of images from me. Right around 5-ish the oversea flights started departing!!!! All the images I posted in this thread were 31L departures.

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One more Lufthansa A380 shot, but with the other camera (the first few were with the 300mm+1.4 TC) with the 80-400mm lens.
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Great shots!