Osea Island

© Douglas MacGregor, on July 13, 2007, said:

Photo taken through the Window of a Ryanair flight just after crossing the English coast.

Ian Stehbens, on July 16, 2007, said:

Hi Douglas. I enjoy aerials and this one has me looking in my Road Atlas. Do you have Photoshop or Photoshop Elements on your system? May I suggest you try using "Control L" for Light, then try "auto" on this. It will usually simply remove the window grey off the entire image. Sometimes it doesn't work, but you may be able to improve the image using manual adjustments if you have "Photoshop". Hope this is helpful.

© Douglas MacGregor, on July 16, 2007, said:

Hi Ian,

I already did some optimatisation in Photoshop. I tried what you suggested, but it did not produce any further improvement.

I was surprised when I took a few aerial shots that they came out at all. This one was taken from an altitude of about 36,000 ft and it is surprising just how much detail it contains. I can easily match the field boundaries with the Google Earth satellite image of this area.

I have a couple of other shots of Lochmaben Photo 1 and Photo 2 which were taken from a lower altitide as we came into land at Prestwick airport. These are more detailed and do not show much greying at all.

In future I will take my camera with me when I am flying and take advantage of more gaps between the clouds.