BRU 08/02/2005 Pictures

RobinZartos · Post by **RobinZartos** » 08 Feb 2005, 17:17

Hello,

Went some spotting today to catch the expected OO-TUC. Sadly she was, again, changed to a B763 of Belgiumexel:
http://members.airliners.be/displayimag ... m=50&pos=6
Some other regulars taxiid via Wisky too :
American Airlines B767-300
http://members.airliners.be/displayimag ... m=50&pos=5
http://members.airliners.be/displayimag ... m=50&pos=4
Sn Brussels Airlines A330-300
http://members.airliners.be/displayimag ... m=50&pos=7
Star Alliance A320
http://members.airliners.be/displayimag ... m=50&pos=8
Adria Airways Canadair CL-600
http://members.airliners.be/displayimag ... m=50&pos=0
Bmi British Midland Emb-135
http://members.airliners.be/displayimag ... m=50&pos=9
Sn Brussels Airlines Avro Rj-85
http://members.airliners.be/displayimag ... =50&pos=17
And we also had this visitors landing and taking off from/on runway 25R :
Dhl Express A300
http://members.airliners.be/displayimag ... m=46&pos=6
Dhl Express B757-200 "Formula1"
http://members.airliners.be/displayimag ... m=46&pos=7
Ethiopian Cargo B757-200
http://members.airliners.be/displayimag ... =46&pos=10
Korean Air Cargo "100th" Take-off B747-400
http://members.airliners.be/displayimag ... m=51&pos=2
After 3 hours of waiting on the soundwall, i decide to go to the watertorwer (25L) were i saw these beauties :
Atlas Blue B737-400
http://members.airliners.be/displayimag ... m=45&pos=1
British Airways A320
http://members.airliners.be/displayimag ... m=45&pos=3
Thomas Cook A320 (Santa Claus close-up)
http://members.airliners.be/displayimag ... =45&pos=21

Greetz,
Robin Z.

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dre · Post by **dre** » 08 Feb 2005, 17:23

Link of the BelgiumExel does not work:

Very strange to see that TUI Netherlands invests money in Exel, that TC Belgium decides to end the agreement with BelgiumExel and that BelgiumExel is now operating flights for TUI Belgium....and quite often lately...

Greetz

Dre

25L-25R-07 · Post by **25L-25R-07** » 08 Feb 2005, 17:31

verry nice pictures Robin.
I hope i can get that camera to

Jense · Post by **Jense** » 08 Feb 2005, 18:13

And the OO-TUC landed 25L around 14.30hr LT from a testflight. Picture(s) will probably follow

waldova · Post by **waldova** » 08 Feb 2005, 18:24

Nice pictures!

A question I have, with what camera did you take the pictures? Also I always wonder what to do with photoshop to make the pictures look nicer. The only thing i always do is resize the picture and perform sharpen once. But I'm sure that there are a lot of other possibilities to make the pictures look nicer. Could you tell me how you do it? And do you use any special lenses?

Zorba · Post by **Zorba** » 08 Feb 2005, 18:25

A question I have, with what camera did you take the pictures?

Robin is using a 300D.

Bye bye

RobinZartos · Post by **RobinZartos** » 08 Feb 2005, 18:26

And the OO-TUC landed 25L around 14.30hr LT from a testflight. Picture(s) will probably follow

Aaaah!

I just left Brussels at 14:00... Why? Why??

AN124 · Post by **AN124** » 08 Feb 2005, 18:33

Nice shots Robin,
Mine will follow later this week.

To bad you left that early Robin. In the afternoon we also had "Cindy01" landing at 25R being a C9A Nigthingale in full "Andrews" livery.
And around 15:15 Silver Back came in at the 25L

Some REQ's from my side of today.

Gulftstream landing 25R in the early morning
Premier 1 landing 25R in the afternoon
Learjet landing 25R in the afternoon (just in front of the C9)
Second Malmo of the day landing 25R
Cathay Pacific Cargo B747 landing 25R
And the Unitid B767 in Star Alliance livery.

A full log will follow.

Best Regards,
Yvo

Dreamflight · Post by **Dreamflight** » 08 Feb 2005, 18:50

Hello Guys,

Indeed today it was a very nice and pleasant spottingday. Together with some other luchtzak-member we saw the following highlights:

HL7601 B747-4F Korean Air Cargo (with special promo-sticker)
ET-AJS B757F Ethiopian Cargo
EI-DFO A320 Windjet (for maintenance)
4X-EBU B757 El Al
OO-TCY A320 Thomas Cook (Santa)
10876 C9A USAF
N751SA B747-2F Southern Air (for CX)
and
9XR-SC DC-8 SilverBack Freighters

and a lot of sunshine

Best regards,

:dance:

RobinZartos · Post by **RobinZartos** » 08 Feb 2005, 18:59

Thanks for the replies !

@Yvo : Yes... It's very sad because i came to Brussels just because of that OO-TUC...

Only got one request :
United Star Alliance B763 N653UA

AN124 · Post by **AN124** » 08 Feb 2005, 19:05

Thanks for the United Robin.

@ Dreamflight
When looking to that list we can't do else then conclude we had a very noce day at BRU today.
I'm working at the log at the moment.

Best Regards,
Yvo

Avro · Post by **Avro** » 08 Feb 2005, 19:24

waldova wrote: A question I have, with what camera did you take the pictures? Also I always wonder what to do with photoshop to make the pictures look nicer. The only thing i always do is resize the picture and perform sharpen once. But I'm sure that there are a lot of other possibilities to make the pictures look nicer. Could you tell me how you do it? And do you use any special lenses?

Since nobody is responding to you I will do it, or at least try to do it

I shoot with a Canon EOS 300D and a Tamron 28-300 lens.
First of all I shoot in RAW, which enhances the quality. But unfortunately the memory card is quickly full when doing so...
Then I download the pictures and the first thing I check is if the picture is leveled or not. if it isn't I make a small rotation CCW or CW. then i crop the picture(if needed). And finally if I find the picture not sharp enough I apply one or two times the sharpen effect in photoshop. Note that you can always finish the sharpening with a fade sharpen mode in photoshop.
That's basically how I proceed.

To see the results you can have a look at the following link: http://www.airliners.net/search/photo.s ... entry=true

Cheers
Chris

RobinZartos · Post by **RobinZartos** » 08 Feb 2005, 19:34

A question I have, with what camera did you take the pictures? Also I always wonder what to do with photoshop to make the pictures look nicer. The only thing i always do is resize the picture and perform sharpen once. But I'm sure that there are a lot of other possibilities to make the pictures look nicer. Could you tell me how you do it? And do you use any special lenses?

Sorry for the late reply.

I use a Canon EOS 300D with a Canon USM 90-300MM Lens.

I save my pictures in .jpg-format as i dont see many differences between that mode and RAW-mode. First of all i look if the picture is level, doing so by rotating it a little. Then, i crop it like needed and resize it to 1024x***. I select the air, the engines and the main gear, then select "Inverse" and push on the "Sharpen"-button. When needed i change the levels, colors, hue, saturation, brightness, shadow, highlights, or contrast a bit. Most of the time i add +5 to brightness and +5 to contrast. As a final movement if i'm happy with the picture i save them first to .bmp in photoshop, open them in Irfanview, and save them then as high quality .jpg-formats.

Hope this helped.

waldova · Post by **waldova** » 08 Feb 2005, 19:35

@RobinZartos: THX for you answer! I just looked in photoshop. I found the fade sharpen tool. At what opacity level do you normally put it?

RobinZartos · Post by **RobinZartos** » 08 Feb 2005, 19:38

@RobinZartos: THX for you answer! I just looked in photoshop. I found the fade sharpen tool. At what opacity level do you normally put it?

Well i don't know exactly what u mean

, but i do this :

Filter -> Sharpen -> Sharpen

Avro · Post by **Avro** » 08 Feb 2005, 19:48

waldova wrote:@RobinZartos: THX for you answer! I just looked in photoshop. I found the fade sharpen tool. At what opacity level do you normally put it?

Well after I sharpened and if it is slightely oversharpened then I use the fade sharpen tool. The level of opacity depends on the result you want to obtain. Most of the time when the picture is slightely oversharpened you just decrease the level of opacity and stop at the point when you are satisfied with the result.

Chris

Vonsmalhausen · Post by **Vonsmalhausen** » 08 Feb 2005, 20:35

here's TUC'ske

http://tfp.fotopic.net/p11634801.html
the Southern Air who made a emergency landing and blocked the 25R for the following Silverback http://tfp.fotopic.net/p11634802.html( who had to divert to 25L

)
http://tfp.fotopic.net/p11634803.html
and when i returned to 25R (again

) to shoot this BAC 1-11 http://tfp.fotopic.net/p11634804.html
a MD 900 Explorer of the fed.police made a 360° over the graveyard spot to give way to a landing Virgin

http://tfp.fotopic.net/p11634805.html

RobinZartos · Post by **RobinZartos** » 08 Feb 2005, 20:45

:dammit: Man i'm too stupid. Typically something for me to go away 10 minutes before an emergency landing, the most special plane of the previous month and the oldest smooky beauty ever.

Nice shots, Thomas ! Especially that long blue one. 8)

Dreamflight · Post by **Dreamflight** » 08 Feb 2005, 21:39

Hello Vonsmalhausen,

Great shots !
Fortunately for us there were no obstacles on the road !

Regards

Vonsmalhausen · Post by **Vonsmalhausen** » 08 Feb 2005, 21:47

Dreamflight wrote:Fortunately for us there were no obstacles on the road !

yep, it was a sportive day