Lovely Photo!

[Capt. J]

Check out these photos. Lovely stuff! Don't you agree?

http://www.airliners.net/open.file/637285/M/
http://www.airliners.net/open.file/637287/M/

Cheers :ok:

[Tantamount]

Cool :ok: photo. So cool it's now my official wallpaper on my pc!

Loads of comments from my colleagues....

[sheenboy]

Very nice. Both are completely made up of course by someone bored sitting in front of their PC.

[Capt. J]

Made up? I don't think Airliners accept 'fakes', I stand to be corrected on this.

However, the photo does make us wonder how he could take these air to air shots :confused:

[Photo]

Capt. J
You are correct Fake pictures are not accepted by Airliners.net.

The photographer in question is an SQ Pilot.

The rest of his pictures are here

http://www.airliners.net/search/photo.search?photographersearch=Bailey%20-%20AirTeamImages&distinct_entry=true

[jmc-man]

I must assume the cynics amongst you are a bunch of MS FlightSim specialists.

I have spent an pleasant 20 minutes looking at this Pilot's photo collection. He obviously takes pleasure in capturing those special moments we ( pilots) often enjoy from our priveliged viewpoint.

I have seen many spectacular sights, and often wish I had the skill and equipment to capture them on film.

So, sheenboy, please feel free to share YOUR photos (obvioulsy real) with us.

JMC-MAN

[Paracab]

How do they verify a pic is genuine?

Probably in the same way you verify that a picture is faked...

[Capt. J]

Doesn't look like photoshop material to me. It's not very rare to see these scenes if you're an airline pilot. It really just depends on how beautiful the photo is, in this case this photographer's photos are too good to believe.

Airliners.net doesn't accept fake photos as far as from what I know of, if you could find any evidence that the photos are fake, please point them out. I'm looking forward to what evidence you will find. If you fly as much as an airline pilot, passing over another plane is a very normal thing. Most of the time when you're on a aircraft travelling you won't look out the window much and therefore even if another aircraft is over or below you, you'd have no idea. How many times do you look out the window? Not as much as airline pilots. They have to observe everything and because they have a larger view, they will spot a lot of things you don't spot.

Cheers

[Farrell]

How do they verify a pic is genuine?
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Probably in the same way you verify that a picture is faked...




A most wonderful retort my friend! :E

[magpienja]

Looking at these picture reminds me of a web site that had lots of photos from airline pilots, but I cannot remember what it was, some brill shots of clouds ect, I dont think it was airliners net,anybody remember it.

Nick.

[BlueEagle]

SheenBoy - I flew for SQ for over ten years on the long haul fleets and I can assure you that pictures such as these could have been taken several times each and every day of that ten years.

[broadreach]

Lovely photos by someone with a passion. And patience. And good equipment.

[sharpshot]

I believe he's a 777 chap. And the two up front must sit there in the cruise looking at TCAS waiting for the fabulous shots he gets.

(Just green with envy) My old man flew for SIA - we always seemed to be up there on dark nights:{

[Captain Airclues]

sheenboy

Scenes like the first one are very common in RVSM airspace, we see them several times a day. Why would somebody waste their time trying to fake it when they could just click from the flightdeck window?

Airclues

[SV_741_India_Bravo]

Hi everyone,
the photographer is a SQ 777 pilot

[Rollingthunder]

And he's taken some great shots.

Real shots btw.

[Notso Fantastic]

They're genuine. And a rip roaring camera- wonder what it is! The boy's got timing!

[Tonkenna]

Agree Capt A,

Seen stuff like this many times and got pics/vid. Flew 1000' below a Canadian jet a few week ago and got a few great pics. Certainly couldn't be bothered to fake it, and the kids love to see what Daddy does for a living (wouldn't lie to them!).

Tonks

[eal401]

How about offering proof that they are fake "sheenboy?" Or, as others have suggested, show your own, better photos.

Hmm, it's all gone quiet..... :rolleyes:

[eal401]

Wanabees really wind me up.....
You wind yourself up? Gosh, that's a skill.

I can't prove they are fake. But I am not arrogant enough to suggest otherwise.

[No_Speed_Restriction]

Not impressed with the meal on offer. Do Alpha do a fly-thru service?:yuk:

[BlueEagle]

Like it says, it is the First Class cabin of an SIA744:D

[Photo]

It is Simple


You are an SQ 777 pilot.

Do You

1. Sit at your computer for hours composing fake pictures

Or

2. Point your camera out of the front window.

[JimmyTAP]

Don't worry about it folks, Sheenboy is obviously one of these people that cannot work out that some have talent , patience, opportunity and luck to take great photos but he doesn't and therefore they must be fakes.

The logic seems to be:-

good photos = fakes
mediocre photos = not fakes

Sheenboy, perhaps you would like to enlighten us with other photos you think are fakes or better still go onto airliners.net and express your opinions there.

Someone who taken 15000 "mediocre "photos i.e. not faked.

JT

[sheenboy]

http://www.aerospaceweb.org/question/planes/q0076.shtml

try this. This is actually I genuine pic, I was on this flight, very scary.


:}

[airborne_artist]

sheenboy http://www.aerospaceweb.org/question/planes/q0076.shtml

You are one big tw*t - read down the page and you see:

Thanks go to Dan R. who finally provided the convincing evidence that this photo has been faked. The true genesis of this picture can be found at Jez's Aviation Picture Gallery. Apparently the aircraft shown in the "back half" of the disintegrating 747 was in reality a retired Air France 747-100 used for experiments by the British Defence Evaluation and Research Agency (DERA).

In your dreams, Walter Mitty!

[sheenboy]

I'm one big tw*t eh? Lovely. You can't see sarcasm when its obvious!!

Of course its fake, I realise it says so.:rolleyes:

But if this was posted on here just as a picture I bet you'd still get hundreds of posters claiming it was real, they were there, they took the pic, they worked as an engineer on it etc etc ETC ETC

give me strength

[JimmyTAP]

Oh no! It's the old " I was being sarcastic and you didn't notice" routine. It is the cry of forum posters the world over when they have been rumbled.

Stuff reasoned debate with this bloke - it isn't worth the effort.

You are one big tw*t
Seconded

JT

[forget]

Gawd - I laughed! Never has anyone exposed themselves as a complete prat as successfully as sheenboy.

Sheenboy if you even vaguely believed that a 747, 'heavy-landing' or not, would disintegrate as shown then you need help! Perhaps your carer could arrange this.

'I was on the flight' he says. Love it!
:p :p

[sheenboy]

Is no one actually reading what I'm saying?

:confused:

another genuine one

http://www.cardatabase.net/modifiedairlinerphotos/search/photo_search.php?id=00000521

[BOAC]

Well, sheenboy has obviously not read Danny's 'rules' on language in posts and I think this thread has, anyway, started to disintegrate (no photos please of the event:D )

Sheenboy is threadbanned from this thread and let us hope we can settle down to a measured discussion on aviation photography.

Offending post now removed. Thanks PPP.

[WannaleaveRR]

I'll not bother with the real or fake discussion..... Oh OK it's definitely real!

Bailey used to shoot with a Canon EOS 10D, but has I believe recently upgraded to the Canon EOS 1D MkII.

Hope that helps!

WLRR

[Soulman]

Yes, the legendary Bailey is indeed on the 777 at SQ - as evidenced in the following picture:

Bailey greasing it on at AMS (http://www.airliners.net/open.file/323226/M/)

Check the caption.

Soulman.