I was all set to head to El Centro for some fun next week, but the consistently goofy weather and my shooting backlog requires my undivided attention for the next few weeks. If only I was a 100% aviation shooter, then I could seal up the cardboard box I lived in, stick my thumb out and hitch a ride to the west coast...............
JWilsonphoto wrote:
Hey Steven, give me the cliff notes on attending RIAT, I might try to work that out next year if the prime spots aren't gone.
Thanks!
JW
The best seats are FRIAT. They’re sold in various Mach Levels with Mach 1 Being Saturday/Sunday, Mach 2 being Friday-Sunday (might include Thursday...not sure actually), and Mach 3 being Wednesday - Monday. Arrivals are on Wednesday/Thursday with some rehearsals. Friday is a half show day, plus more arrivals, some rehearsals, and usually they do some kind of special mass fly over on the Friday (and occasionally a royal attendee). On Monday all 300ish aircraft depart in an 8 hour period with departures scheduled every two minutes.
The issue with FRIAT is that they sell out EARLY. If you’re planning to go to next years show FRIAT will almost certainly be sold out before Christmas before they’ve even announced a single participant.
There’s shuttles from Swindon, Gloucester, and a couple other surrounding places, or if you prefer there is lots of on site parking with an exit strategy that makes it relatively painless.
Camera wise I’ve gotten by fine with a 400mm and 70-200 for the last couple years.
I don’t know...any other questions the brain trust here is full of info on it :-)
JWilsonphoto wrote:
I thought the same thing when I saw that image. What an unceremonious end for something capable of the miraculous. I'd almost rather they be smelted instead of sitting out and slowly decomposing.
Given the state of things around the world, this is way down my list of injustices though.............
True, way down the list, but on the list nevertheless.
Thanks, Brian. Yea, I was up around the North end. Jon was at the show too he said. Seeing the F-22 and getting a shot of it that I was real happy with made my day.
Don
You know how I feel about shooting weddings, the last one, or so I thought, caused me to fly back from an LA assignment, shoot the wedding in Austin then fly back to LA. I pretty much got cured of my weakness to saying "yes" over that weekend. About 10 years ago a good friend and ATC controller asked me if I would shoot his daughter's wedding when the day came, she was 10 at the time and all of us in the hangar complex bought Girl Scout cookies from her every year. She was a sweetheart and we bought a bazillion calories worth of cookies each and every year.When her Dad asked me to shoot her wedding I magnanimously agreed, thinking what's the likelihood they'll be here/I'll be here/blah, blah, in ten or 15 years? Well, time flies and the wedding was the weekend after AFW 2018. Gracie graciously volunteered to come home from college to help me out and she did an excellent job. She has a great eye and is a self starter so after an hour or so I just headed off to cover another angle and told her to shoot whatever she saw and she liked. She amazed me and took a huge amount of pressure off of me as well. The bride to be sent me her shot wish list a few weeks before the wedding..............seven pages printed on both sides!
I dreaded the event more and more as it drew closer, but having Gracie Girl by my side and the fact that she dug in and loved it, really made the whole thing tolerable. I told her on the way home that night that I'd consider shooting another wedding if she promised to help and the budget was 20K or higher...... Absent those parameters, this was my last wedding and I've adopted some advice Steve Z. gave me years ago..."No! Is a complete sentence."
I just spent 24 hours editing and creating a 1448 image "proof" album for the bride on Google Photos and fired off the link, that should keep her busy for a while.
The amazing technology at our fingertips continues to roll. Just ordered a new iPad Pro with 1TB of storage, I'll finally have enough space to edit my RYLO 360 footage.
Jim, what are you using to edit that RYLO footage?
Recall my decision to go ahead and pick up a new GoPro Hero7 Black. Nice little camera. Software, not so much. The new GoPro Quik software that replaced Studio is useless. Seems all it's good for is adding soundtracks, clipping out pieces, and posting to social media. That is when it works, and I don't think that is often. The ability to adjust white balance, color, and crop is gone.
Will Photoshop CC do that? Hoping I don't have to buy Adobe Premier Pro, but I could live with having to spend $100 for Premier Elements if I have to.
I'm sorry the GoPro hasn't wow'd you. I did some in depth research on the Hero7 and the hands on insights were less than glowing. I was thinking about getting one and experimenting with it at AFW this year but the reports kind of turned me off. I would guess that FCPX or Premiere is what you'll need, but I'm not certain .
The RYLO is great, it's Achilles heel is that the software is ios based. Actually the software works well and is pretty intuitive. Where I run into a snag is the fact that everything I have is constantly bumping memory limits so it makes the RYLO workflow tedious . The way RYLO works is, you have to connect RYLO to an iOS device, the RYLO app boots up and asks if you would like to pair that particular RYLO unit to that device, click yes and the 4:36 clips immediately show up in the app. You then have several options, tap the clips and they download to the device (you have the option to select 360 video or HD panoramic). Once downloaded you can edit, create 360 videos, create 180 degree pano videos from either or both of the lens perspectives, hit an option that lets you place a square where you would like the clip you are creating to center and the software will keep that point dead center and create the new clip. There are so many varying clips that one can create from a single clip it's amazing. I'm working on the footage from my time with "That's All Brother" and I've created forward looking clips where the runway screams at you on take off and the gear cycles up, rear looking clips that show the tail coming up and the runway falling away as the aircraft rotates and climbs, views down the left and right wings from underneath, and then the jumpers falling away showing the other C47's in trail, one camera, one clip. I used my Sony 4K POV's on the fuselage and wing positions so they are .MOV files and can be edited in FCPX. Once one has downloaded the RYLO footage to an iOS device it can then be imported into FCPX and, with the appropriate settings activated, can be edited on my MacBook, or iMac.
Where my hang up comes in is, there's not enough memory left on any of my iOS devices to import much RYLO footage for editing. The work around is, stick the microsdxc card in a card reader, back it up in my typical four places, then put it back in the camera and deal with one 4:36 clip at a time, downloading it, editing it and exporting it from the iOS device to my back up devices and my MacBook Pro. Obviously very time consuming, clumsy, and next to impossible to accomplish on site for a client. I was a few days away from getting another 512 iPad Pro when my guy from Apple texted this morning to alert me of the new product release, I'll have it early in the second week of December.
Gotcha, thanks! The RYLO sounds very cool, looking forward to seeing those clips. The GoPro itself is fine for what I need, especially for the price. My mistake was not considering the software side. It sounds like the new program is a big step backwards. I found a copy of the old GoPro Studio online and installed that, but it doesn't work with the new clips.
RYLO just announced a couple of big updates. First, they are introducing a desktop editing application and second, a firmware update that takes current RYLO units to 5.8K native capture! Now we're talkin' !
I'm sorry the GoPro hasn't wow'd you. I did some in depth research on the Hero7 and the hands on insights were less than glowing. I was thinking about getting one and experimenting with it at AFW this year but the reports kind of turned me off. I would guess that FCPX or Premiere is what you'll need, but I'm not certain .
The RYLO is great, it's Achilles heel is that the software is ios based. Actually the software works well and is pretty intuitive. Where I run into a snag is the fact that everything I have is constantly bumping memory limits so it makes the RYLO workflow tedious . The way RYLO works is, you have to connect RYLO to an iOS device, the RYLO app boots up and asks if you would like to pair that particular RYLO unit to that device, click yes and the 4:36 clips immediately show up in the app. You then have several options, tap the clips and they download to the device (you have the option to select 360 video or HD panoramic). Once downloaded you can edit, create 360 videos, create 180 degree pano videos from either or both of the lens perspectives, hit an option that lets you place a square where you would like the clip you are creating to center and the software will keep that point dead center and create the new clip. There are so many varying clips that one can create from a single clip it's amazing. I'm working on the footage from my time with "That's All Brother" and I've created forward looking clips where the runway screams at you on take off and the gear cycles up, rear looking clips that show the tail coming up and the runway falling away as the aircraft rotates and climbs, views down the left and right wings from underneath, and then the jumpers falling away showing the other C47's in trail, one camera, one clip. I used my Sony 4K POV's on the fuselage and wing positions so they are .MOV files and can be edited in FCPX. Once one has downloaded the RYLO footage to an iOS device it can then be imported into FCPX and, with the appropriate settings activated, can be edited on my MacBook, or iMac.
Where my hang up comes in is, there's not enough memory left on any of my iOS devices to import much RYLO footage for editing. The work around is, stick the microsdxc card in a card reader, back it up in my typical four places, then put it back in the camera and deal with one 4:36 clip at a time, downloading it, editing it and exporting it from the iOS device to my back up devices and my MacBook Pro. Obviously very time consuming, clumsy, and next to impossible to accomplish on site for a client. I was a few days away from getting another 512 iPad Pro when my guy from Apple texted this morning to alert me of the new product release, I'll have it early in the second week of December....Show more →
Jim could you use a ext HD dedicated to the RYLO? or isn't that practical don't know about power usage etc...
Sure the RYLO files can be off loaded via card reader from the micro sdxc, but up until today you still had to edit the native files via an iOS device. That's where the memory glitch comes into play. However, what a difference a day makes. RYLO sent me a note this morning alerting me to the fact that not only have they listened to their clients and created a Mac desktop OS editing program, but they released a firmware upgrade that brings numerous new features to the unit and bumps the resolution to 5.8K.All of this is welcome news, I ordered two more RYLO's today for a project I've been asked to orchestrate. I just installed the os program and it is just what the Dr. ordered, solves the bottleneck.
I've been working with the RYLO OS program this morning and it's great. Maybe I'm missing something but I don't think one can edit and render a 360 clip on it. You can create a "small world" view (kind of wondering what in the world that's useful for?), or you can render a pano clip. Like the iOS version, you can select the view and framing you desire prior to rendering your final clip, but near as I can tell you can't create a 360 version with it. I'm itching to capture some 5.8K footage!
As soon as I have something put together that's worthy of the eyes here, I'll upload it to Vimeo and link it here for you. Working on the Spirit of Alliance AFW 2018 clips at the moment. Nothing like a high speed sequence in 800 BKN/1200 OVC, makes for some interesting views.........
Absent those parameters, this was my last wedding and I've adopted some advice Steve Z. gave me years ago..."No! Is a complete sentence."
