A few photos that just came back from the lab

[ak_powder_monkey]

Westchester lagoon
http://www.biglines.com/photos/blpic27277.jpg
http://www.biglines.com/photos/blpic27278.jpg
Sunset from the tunnel
http://www.biglines.com/photos/blpic27279.jpg
Mt. Susitna
http://www.biglines.com/photos/blpic27280.jpg
A landing plane from the dockshed
http://www.biglines.com/photos/blpic27281.jpg
Cockpit of a cessna 206
http://www.biglines.com/photos/blpic27282.jpg
The otter, 99J
http://www.biglines.com/photos/blpic27283.jpg

[seldon]

Nice sunset pic but I highly recommend getting the horizon line square - an almost straight horizon just makes the pic weird - if you want an artsy look, make it enough of a diagonal that it looks like it was meant to be a diagonal, not like it was a mistake.

I heart the sunset pic through the tunnel.

[dipstik]

I think its safe to say that either your scanner sucks, or that the "lab" is a hole in the ground.

[ak_powder_monkey]

Originally posted by seldon
Nice sunset pic but I highly recommend getting the horizon line square - an almost straight horizon just makes the pic weird - if you want an artsy look, make it enough of a diagonal that it looks like it was meant to be a diagonal, not like it was a mistake.

Definately, I wish they came out a little better but I was biking at the time I think

[ak_powder_monkey]

Originally posted by dipstik
or that the "lab" is a hole in the ground.

or wall mart

[Toque]

It's pretty safe to say that Wall Mart is a hole in the ground

[seldon]

I think Wal-Mart is also a hole in the ground. Then again, being a dick about spelling is kinda like living in a hole in the ground.

[ak_powder_monkey]

Originally posted by Toque
It's pretty safe to say that Wall Mart is a hole in the ground

holes in the ground are cheap!

[FNG]

What, no fishing pics?

[1080Rider]

Isn't that last picture a caravan on floats? Maybe its an otter but I think Otter's are twins. Pretty sure that's a cessena caravan, but I might be drunk too.

[HyRUPz]

Sorry AKPM, but my Grandmother can take better pix . . . and she's six feet under!

Work on composition/light/color/balance . . .

I got a digi-cam a few months ago and it's pretty friggin' amazin'

Can't stop taking pics of, well, everything - so I can relate.

Good luck this winter, let's see some QUALITY!

[cab9]

I think your scanner messed up those shots, you can see consistent lines through them. That looks like a single Otter, the twin is one of the most incredible planes ever built, but the single is pretty sweet too.
Get your horizon lines straight and there will be a lot less "maggot heckle". Sunset shot is cool.

[GeoMatt]

deHaviland Beaver converted to turbine power running a three way aluminum Hartzell Propeller

[grrrr]

Correct me if I'm wrong, but I believe the Beaver came out as a stock turbine model during the laste 1960's.

The Otter has a more blunt nose, and the Caravan windshield slopes back more.

Both the Beaver and Otter (and the Goose and Widgeon) are common Bush planes. The Caravan is used more down here as a commuter. In fact, Caravans are our regularly scheduled commuter in and out of here.

[splat]

Originally posted by GeoMatt
deHaviland Beaver converted to turbine power running a three way aluminum Hartzell Propeller

nice call.

[1080Rider]

Impressive GeoMatt. That's why it didn't look familiar. Pretty sweet ride no matter what!

I wish i had time/$$$ to fly. We had a 172 growing up. I remember weekends w/ my dad going down to the airport and just flying around the puget sound. Pretty cool memories. I especially remember the fall days. Man I wish I were a kid again...

[Buzzworthy]

Just keep takin em man. Listen to the suggestions, take the "bashings" with a grain of salt. At least you are out there trying and better shots will come with practice and knowledge of the camera.

I gotta say that for some reason maggots seem to gang up on the younger ones, take Samwich back in the day, then DINMS, then Max and AKPM,........hell, I got it good too, but then again I am a no-good snowboarder.

Personally I think we are jealous that you are at an age where life is simple and a lot easier.

Constructive criticism is a great thing and will help you mature with your hobby/work. These guys have their shit down, listen for sure.

Roll with it, learn, improve, make us proud.

And screw the fish pics, we want to see snow pics and you gotta be having that white stuff up there soon, right?

[hev]

people tend to make photos (even artsy ones) a lot more interesting i have found. seems obvious, but think of it more when you get your camera out.

[TomK]

Originally posted by hev
people tend to make photos (even artsy ones) a lot more interesting i have found. seems obvious, but think of it more when you get your camera out.

Good suggestion. Think how much cooler the Otter pic would be with someone posed on the float to give a better sense of scale and to draw the viewer into the pic by imiagining standing in thier place.
(a little more to the left so that the prop was all there wouldn't have hurt either).

Nice capture on the sunset pic.

Have you signed up for an art or photography class? Both will help with composition.

[ak_powder_monkey]

Thats a turbo single otter sweet airplane, the skyvan is a cessna 207, also a sweet plane

I agree people make things better unfortunately there were no people with me in the pictures but I try to take people pictures if I can.

I took a Photo class last year and hope to take more classes whne I hit college

[Foggy_Goggles]

Originally posted by hev
people tend to make photos (even artsy ones) a lot more interesting i have found. seems obvious, but think of it more when you get your camera out.

Yeh, photos of piles of dirt would be pretty stupid.

[homerjay]

Originally posted by Foggy_Goggles
Yeh, photos of piles of dirt would be pretty stupid.

Well played!

[ak_powder_monkey]

Originally posted by Foggy_Goggles
Yeh, photos of piles of dirt would be pretty stupid.

Fair enough, but the photos of the piles of rocks are the money shots

[Trackhead]

I flew with Paul Claus in his turbo Otter. The thing was bad ass, and his piloting skills weren't too bad either.

[ak_powder_monkey]

Originally posted by Trackhead
I flew with Paul Claus in his turbo Otter. The thing was bad ass, and his piloting skills weren't too bad either.

I've seen that thing nearly flying backards the winds were so high, but the most fun is watching Dan our Otter pilot with an empty aircraft he hauls ass. He taught me how to start it too

The Dock Crew Wrote a song about him:

Sensay Dan the Otter man does what no other pilot can
He'll jump off the floats to save his plane
Most others think that he's insane
he lands his plane with great skill
he bends the otter to hiss will
He's sensay Dan the otter man

Heres the cockpit of the DeHavilin DH-3 Turbo Otter