common subject shot under cloudy and dull conditions

[Henry Tenby]

Thank you for the very good question above King, which I shall now answer.

My view is that any current day shot of a flag carrier, commuter, or military aircraft be it Lufthansa, Air Lanka, Saudia etc taken at any airport (be it a home country airport or special destination airport) must be shot under optimial conditions.

If an Alitalia 777 makes a special visit to YVR under terrible weather conditions, it should not be uploaded to the image database section of the website.

The goal of the website is to provide nice visual images of aircraft to viewers. If an aircraft visits an offline location in poor weather conditions, spotters are more than welcome to post this information along with an image in the forum section of the website as we have created a special catagory for this purpose titled "Airline spotting/holiday/airport Reports".

There are many photo galleries on the net where people can upload less than ideal images of aircraft. But we need to maintain a high barrier for the quality of images that are uploaded to this website.

And that means all images of aircraft are welcome to this website as long as they meet these three basic conditions:

1) The aircraft subject must be somewhat full frame (no dots in the sky please) although less than full frame images are acceptable for artistic shots.

2) The image must be pin sharp without image imperfections such as dust marks, vignetting, hot spots, jaggies etc.

3) The sun should be lighting the visible side of the aircraft. Bright cloudy shots are fine too but backlit shots cannot be accepted (unless the image is of historical interest and was taken many years ago).