Thanks John, what's amazing is this is straight from the camera with a little sharpening. Plus the other pilot I'm flying with is float plane rated and says clear glassy water is the most difficult to land on since it's almost impossible to determine how high off the water you are to land.
Yes I do have a tough life. Just finishing an 8 day trip to China and Hong Kong. My airline home to N.C. leaves at 1255am from here in Anchorage.
Good to see you enjoying life Duane , the flip side is I know it is tough to be away from the boys and your lovely wife.
I am just fretting over a wedding I have to shoot tomorrow , trying to get my mind around all the camera details so I can try to be a little creative tomorrow
Pray I weather the "storm"
As for landing on glassy water , yeah I bet it is also tougher on those tiny lakes they land on , these guys flat out can drop in and out of some tight places. The wind can do some very interesting things just below and above a tree line , and dark trees can have different lift areas due to heat rise . You guys amaze me
jmcfadden wrote:
Good to see you enjoying life Duane , the flip side is I know it is tough to be away from the boys and your lovely wife.
I am just fretting over a wedding I have to shoot tomorrow , trying to get my mind around all the camera details so I can try to be a little creative tomorrow
Pray I weather the "storm"
As for landing on glassy water , yeah I bet it is also tougher on those tiny lakes they land on , these guys flat out can drop in and out of some tight places. The wind can do some very interesting things just below and above a tree line , and dark trees can have different lift areas due to heat rise . You guys amaze me
I will definitely pray for you with a wedding shoot. Gees, you know the best you can do is break even!!! The groom could skip town, the dog could eat the cake and of course who's packing the shotgun!
And of course God has his own mind on what he plans on doing with the weather and light!!!!.
Just do the best you can and try and enjoy it as much as possible. I know you know you're equipment inside and out and it will come second nature once you start acuating the shutter!!!
weddings are such a different mindset , having to use flash all the time and all the different modes which have to be coordinated seamlessly is something I do not do enough of, but I went there today for a long time and worked out the settings so that I will have fewer surprises tomorrow
Duane, what a beautiful shot. I'm going to send Glenn Davy a link to this, he was a bush pilot for quite awhile and will love this image too.
John, you'll do well, your angst is running ahead of your talent right now, but you'll be in the 'zone' once you press the shutter, and your talent will shine.
Very nice. Like some recent postings from John McF, this reminds me of a painting. Great colors and composition, a lot of subtlety, and good detail without being overly sharp.
This is more proof that if people (me included) would concetrate more on the light and composition and less on the equipment we'd get better pictures.
beauty shot.... seeing more action with my D100 this week - a buddy of mine is having battery issues with his D1x - and had to use my D100 .... he was really glad I had a second body - to which I said..." well, thats what seperates the amateurs from the pro's" ... I was kiddin him, but its so true - got to have a backup plan!
Ahh, super shot Duane! Brings back some fond memories. I logged about 1500 hours PIC in those (almost all on floats and a bit on wheel/skis) before moving up to the Beaver. The 185 was always a favourite. I gather this is Lake Hood?
jacko wrote:
Duane, what a beautiful shot. I'm going to send Glenn Davy a link to this, he was a bush pilot for quite awhile and will love this image too.
Jack
Thanks Jack. Pretty soon this is going to be the Nikon Trains, Planes and Automobile site
Got lucky with the light on this one. Was sitting in the Millineum Hotel bar and all of a sudden the sun popped out on the horizon and I only had a few minutes to run out and take this one.
Doug Quance wrote:
Pretty nice shot - especially since it's with that lowly D100...
Hey Duane... maybe we need to move up a camera or two - since we know that all of our shots are pretty miserable...
Thanks Doug, I keep thinking I need something "newer" than the D100. You know to keep up with the "Jones" but since I'm not in this to make any money and so far I haven't been able to exceed the D100's capabilities I see no reason to get rid of it yet!
Very nice. Like some recent postings from John McF, this reminds me of a painting. Great colors and composition, a lot of subtlety, and good detail without being overly sharp.
This is more proof that if people (me included) would concetrate more on the light and composition and less on the equipment we'd get better pictures.
This was all light David. I had taken some shots earlier and the sky was overcast and just plain dull. But I had to have a couple shots of these great looking flying machines. Then I looked out
the bar window and all I could say was wow. I only had a couple minutes before it was gone.
lxdesign wrote:
beauty shot.... seeing more action with my D100 this week - a buddy of mine is having battery issues with his D1x - and had to use my D100 .... he was really glad I had a second body - to which I said..." well, thats what seperates the amateurs from the pro's" ... I was kiddin him, but its so true - got to have a backup plan!
Glenn01 wrote:
Ahh, super shot Duane! Brings back some fond memories. I logged about 1500 hours PIC in those (almost all on floats and a bit on wheel/skis) before moving up to the Beaver. The 185 was always a favourite. I gather this is Lake Hood?
Good stuff Duane!!
Glenn
Hey Glenn I bet you've got some great bush flying stories. Maybe one day we can hook up and do some shooting both with our cameras and talk!!!
And yes Glenn this is the Lake Hood Seaplane base area.
Just finishing an 8 day trip to China and Hong Kong. My airline home to N.C. leaves at 1255am from here in Anchorage.