A few days ago I went up to the roof of my building and set up my camera for some nice night shots of planes landing. I live in the vicinity of the Mumbai International Airport and can see planes landing from my living room window. Fortunately I can ony hear them if I listen real hard.
Anyway, I wasn’t able to take any shots of the planes landing from the roof because there was another building blocking the view of the landing path. Also, I don’t have a sufficiently powerful zoom lens. So I just had to contend with shots of the airport itself with planes already there. Fortunately it’s all very well lit up and taking shots from so far away was not difficult. I also took a shot of the moon. The images are below, you can click on the thumbs for larger images.
A Wider View of the Terminal
A Lesser Exposure Shot
The Planes at the International Terminal
The City Scape from my Roof
The Moon
I really want to get a good shot of a plane coming in to land. I know exactly where I need to be to get those shots but there is so much ambient light in that area that it might be a problem to trace the path of flight.
you need to walk down to the airport man.
Yeah right! Its not as close as it looks! Thats about 1.5km straight line. 2km if I go as everyone else does!
Go down directly to the airport to take pics??? Not a good idea with the security issues. If they see you taking pics, you're in trouble…..
@Kev
This entry is quite old. At that time there was no such photography restriction. Anyway, I think Shekhar was joking when he said that I need to go there.