These images are from my recent flight out of Reagan National Airport at sunset. These provide a good example of the limitations of shooting with a camera phone instead of traditional camera. In the first image, the center weighted meter point was on the wing so that I could capture some detail of the plane. Clearly the sky is over exposed and the highlights are blown out.
![looking at the wing and engine of a Southwest Airlines Boeing 737-700 with a dramatic sky in the background](https://i0.wp.com/larryshapiroblog.com/wp-content/uploads/2015/04/20150410_193525.jpg?resize=600%2C338&ssl=1)
For this next image I raised the camera (phone) to allow the sensor to read the bright areas of the sunset but the foreground went to a virtual silhouette (and the plane was in the same relative position and angle).
![looking at the wing and engine of a Southwest Airlines Boeing 737-700 with a dramatic sky in the background](https://i0.wp.com/larryshapiroblog.com/wp-content/uploads/2015/04/20150410_193555.jpg?resize=600%2C338&ssl=1)
I took both images into Adobe Photoshop to merge them together to create a composite with the detail of the sky and enough of the foreground to recognize what it is.
![looking at the wing and engine of a Southwest Airlines Boeing 737-700 with a dramatic sky in the background](https://i0.wp.com/larryshapiroblog.com/wp-content/uploads/2015/04/20150410_193525A.jpg?resize=600%2C353&ssl=1)
There is just enough of the foreground to clearly identify the wing, engine, and the experienced traveler will know the airline as well.