8 Photo Tips through Airplane Window
Definitely you will never get any reward from photo that takes inside airplane through airplane window, but it will be nice if we get memories from this unique photo for yourself or for share in social media. The most important thing is we can beat the boring and nervous feeling while fly inside big iron bird.
There are some tips that may can help you to get better photo if you want to take picture through airplane window, they are :
1. Choose the Suitable seat!
If you want to shoot from airplane window , definitely you have to sit close to window, and try to choose the seat that little bit far from airplane wing, so there are no things that block the view. But if you didn't get it, don't worry just let the wing include in the frame.
2. Make End of Lens and Airplane Window 'parallel and closer', but don't cling!
When you shoot fish in the aquarium , we should cling the lens on glass, when we shoot from airplane window, this way isn't applicable. Remember that airplane have vibration or tremor and it will make blurry photo. Set the end of lens as parallel as possible with window, as closer as possible with glass surface, but don't let it cling to glass.
3. Decrease the Window glass reflection.
Shooting through window plane make us must to try to lessen the refection from the glass in order to more contrast and sharp. To minimize the reflection, try use hood lens and make it close with window glass. If you don't have it, use one of your hand to covering around the end of lens.
4. Don't use CPL filter
Putting off the CPL filter from lens when you wan to shoot from airplane window, or you will get photo with fake rainbow if you still using CPL filter
5. Use Manual Focus
It's Hard to lock the focus using autofocus when you have to pass 2 window layer, you should use manual focus or set the focus point to infinity.
6. Turn off the Flash
Despite to make the glass reflection more worse, using flash can shocking the other passengers. But the true explanation is not worthy or useless using your tiny flash brighten the sky, mountain or anything because it's all far away dozens meters until kilos meters.
7. To shooting down, wait until the plane dip or sloping.
Airplane will sloping when landing or shortly before take off, so get ready in this position. Need to remember that when the plane reach maximum high, usually the airplane window become hazy or moreover the ice cling to window, so shooting as much as you can in the beginning when airplane fly.
8. Recommendation of Exposure Setting
Even jet plane have softer vibration and some lens are featured with IS/VR , but its more good if use fast shutter speed, following the rule of focal length , use speed above 1/250 and more fast when you shooting down. For the aperture, set in the number f/8, High ISO ( but don't too high), remember we will not take the perfect resolution from inside of airplane window.
Best of Lucks!
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