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Flight 1324 to Newcastle - Guest - 03-08-2008 My latest flight in the 757-200 took me from Heathrow to Newcastle. Here I prepare to follow the BUZ2K SID from runway 9L. Positive rate of climb, gear up. Climbing away from Heathrow I aim to cross BUZAD @ 6oooft. Looking back at London, which is just waking up. Having completed a short cruise, I decsend through the cloud and prepare for vectors to runway 25. I get vectored out over the North Sea and I prepare to turn to intercept the ILS. Here I am having intercepted the ILS, will soon be down on terra firma. Gear down and adding the flaps I begin to slow the aircraft. On target as I hand fly this approach and final, why should 'Auto' have all the fun. Nearly there, speeding along I drop down past 100 feet. Safely down I reverse thrust and prepare to leave the runway. Well thanks for looking, feel free to leave a little feedback if you can. Cheers Darren - camdog88 - 03-13-2008 Hey Nice shots there. I would have to say that the last one looks edited along with a few others. Do you edit them? - Guest - 03-13-2008 Hi, yes, I do edit most of my shots. I am a semi pro photogapher and so try to make as pleasing an image as possible, and so feel the need to 'meddle' with my images. The first thing I do is enlarge them and give them a crop to make the composition a little more interesting. I then tend to add a little blur to knock out the detail in the ground as I like the effect this has on the image as a whole (it adds a fake depth of field effect). I will then just adjust contrast and dodge and burn to add more depth to the highlights and shadows on the aircraft. If the lights look a little fake I will add my own effects to these too. Also, if you look at some of the final images, you will see I have been experimenting with adding some exhaust haze effects. I know some people like just straight screenshots, but I find they look poor compared to a well edited shot - whats your opinion. I should point out that all my edits would be for nothing if the sim looked poor in the first place, but I have hundreds of pounds worth of addons running to get it looking good in the first instance.