Who takes pictures of planes in the air?
Pictures of planes in the air are generally real. They are not easy to take, but they are not difficult enough to justify any special effects replacements, either. It's a specialized domain of photography handled by a small number of photographers who often do only that. Others have already mentioned Clay Lacy, who is well known for his photography (you can see him interviewed in the documentary "One Six Right"). The photos are simply taken from another airplane nearby. The other aircraft may be an ordinary aircraft or it may have some modifications allowing for better photos. For example, some photographers in this field use special aircraft that have an open door at the side or back giving an unrestricted view of a large part of the surrounding sky. The photographers and their equipment are strapped in and they photograph the target aircraft directly, without any intervening window to mess things up. Obviously, these flights are conducted at relatively low altitudes where cabin pressurization and supplementary oxygen are generally not necessary—most of the time it's best to be low, anyway, because the terrain below can make a nice background. Of course there are limits. It's hard to photograph a SR-71 at Mach 3.5 and 75,000 feet unless you have another SR-71 handy to chase it, and even then, the SR-71 is designed for photography of the ground, not photography of other airplanes. But you can fly the aircraft at much lower speed and altitude for purposes of a photo session, and then a chase plane can keep up with it. If you look at photos like this, you can often see that the photographed aircraft is (probably) flying slowly from the pitch attitude, although choosing photo angles carefully can hide this. Anyway, it's not retouched or CGI or anything like that. It's real photography.
Why do people take pictures of their loved ones in the casket at funerals?
I guess I am just looking for understanding here. I have never taken a picture at a funeral. Please, help me understand this if you have taken this kind of picture.
Which one is correct: Did you take the picture or did you take this picture?
They are both grammatically correct. The difference between the two:"Did you take the picture?" - Scenario: You are with someone who has a camera and you ask them to take a picture of something. You can't tell if they actually took the picture even if you watch them looking through the camera viewfinder. So, you ask them if they took "the'' picture because you both know which picture is the subject of the question. There is no need to be more specific. If, however, you had asked them to take more than one picture, then you would have to be more specific. For example, if you asked them to take a picture of a mountain AND also a picture of a frog, then you would ask, ''Did you take a picture of the frog?'' or ''Did you take a picture of the mountain?''''Did you take this picture?'' - Scenario: You are looking at a picture, either printed or on a computer or phone...etc. You wonder who actually took the picture because just merely seeing a picture does not give you any information about who took it. For example, I have an iPad and my son frequently takes pictures with it. If I were showing someone the pictures on my iPad, they may point to a specific picture and ask, ''Did you take ''this'' picture?'' If this is still confusing, let me know and I will try to explain it another way.
How can we take pictures of Milky Way in the sky when our planet is in the Milky Way?
This is us. Presumably. Now, if you'll look carefully, you can see that we're a tiny little speck of light on the Orion Arm, near the 30,000 light year mark. Look at the picture of the Milky Way in the question. Looks awfully flat, right? Almost like we're taking a picture of the galaxy from the side, right?Exactly right. When you take a picture of the Milky Way, you're looking inwards at the galaxy. So in the picture above, it means you're looking up towards the top of the image from the Solar System. There's so many billions of stars and tens out thousands of light-years of gas and things that the Milky Way is this thick, dense blob of light in the night sky.But wait! If we're inside the Milky Way, doesn't that mean you can look in any direction and see the same view? It depends. The Milky Way is very thin (relatively speaking, of course) and looking "up" and "down" relative to the plane (geometric plane, I mean) of the Milky Way means you'll not likely see much of the galaxy.But what if you looked along the plane in the opposite direction of the galactic center? There's still quite a lot of stars if you look out, right? Sorta. Take a look at these two pictures. In the summer (the picture on the right), the Earth faces the inside of the Milky Way and you can see our galaxy in (almost) all of its glory. This is the picture most people see when they talk about the Milky Way.The picture on the left is what you get when you look outwards in the Milky Way. There's a definitive streak of light, but it's much more faint than when you're looking in for the simple reason that there's a lot less in the way. This is in the winter, when the Earth is facing the other direction.So that's the answer to why we can take pictures of the Milky Way from inside. We're seeing the rest of the galaxy, but not all of it.So one last thing then. If we're inside the galaxy, how do we take pictures of our galaxy when it looks like this?Simple answer is that we can't. We never have. All of these pictures of the "Milky Way" are actually other galaxies. We just kinda extrapolate what ours looks like from what we see of other galaxies. It's kinda like knowing you have a heart and lungs because other humans do. You've never taken yourself apart and seen it with your own eyes. At least, I haven't.
How does NASA take pictures of the ISS in space?
From arriving or departing spacecrafts. Like this one: File:ISS March 2009.jpg - Wikipedia, taken from the space shuttle back in 2009.
Do we take so many pictures these days because our parents didn't take enough?
The reason is clear: it's far easier to take pictures today. Back in my day (even as a professional photographer), taking pictures was nowhere as easy. We had to load the film, focus the wretched thing, click the shot, take film out for photofinishing, and then get to see the image on prints. It was bloody expensive overall. Compare that with today's instantness.Here's a costings example from my day (1983) for a day's recreational shooting:-3 rolls of no-brand film at 85p each = £2.55Photofinishing at £1.99 per roll = £6That's like £9 just for 108 total shots. My batting average is pretty good too: around 10% came out 'perfect.' That effectively means £9 for 10 prints, or 90p per good shot. Expensive.
How do I get my camera to take the picture by itself?
Next to the screen are four more buttons arranged in compass configuration. These buttons are used to navigate through the various menus, but they also have direct functions of their own. The top button sets the light metering, while the right button selects the flash mode. The left button toggles between macro and infinity modes, while the bottom button selects either continuous shooting or the self timer.
Why do some people take pictures of dead relatives at their funerals?
Wow! It's amazing how people assume the person they love that has died is now "just some dead guy" or "creepy" or "a corpse" I don't think people are taking into consideration that the dead person, was and is a person that they love, dead or alive. Now, to answer your question, no, I have never taken a picture of a loved one that has passed. I have however seen pictures of relatives that others took pictures of. I'm not sure my opinion of it. I have 3 people in my life that mean the world to me, I hope to pass away before them, but heaven forbid, I don't know what I would do. I would be in a complete different state of mind. Maybe I would, or maybe I wouldn't.
Which is correct: "Pictures I took of you" or "Pictures I've taken of you"?
As they stand, each is incomplete as neither is a complete full sentence. However, as others have said, either could be correct depending on context.To my mind, the first (Pictures I took of you) sounds more as if it refers to a particular set of pictures, so I want to put ‘The’ in front of it, saying something like ‘The pictures I took of you yesterday all look great’.The second (Pictures I've taken of you) sounds more general, as if talking about some nonspecific pictures and possibly some unspecified time. So I want to add some more information at the end and might say ‘Pictures I've taken of you in the past are all great’.