Perspex Perspective

Shooting from an airplane presents quite a set of photographic problems.
First, there are the double-glazed Perspex windows, which is four extra surfaces...
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Shooting from an airplane presents quite a set of photographic problems.
First, there are the double-glazed Perspex windows, which is four extra surfaces of transparent material to create internal reflections.
There's also the cabin light reflecting the cabin interior.
Then there are ubiquitous smears and fingerprints left by the passengers that have been seated there before.
Then there is various outside dirt, a combination of waterdrops, jet smoke and soot, dust scratches, micro-cracks, chemical aging and fogging...
Of course, outside lights playing with all of the above do not help the situation.
The trick is to pick conditions with as little of said influences as possible, holding the lens almost touching the window, and even then there is no guarantee...
On the other hand, crazy conditions like that can be interesting.
So keep shooting! :)
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