Karl Witt wrote:
Thanks Jim for the suggested shutter speeds. I have quite a ways to go to get there but will get more practice in soon. Some year soon I want to get to Oshkosh, I better have my act together then I better stop shooting wildlife birds at my fast shutter speeds and work on my panning and drag the shutter speeds
Karl
Since I haven't been able to go to many airshows, I try to practice panning vehicles at slow shutter speeds from a distance when they are traveling at least 60 mph. (Heck, here in Texas that could happen on any road!😂. Anyway, if you can get a vehicle with a sign on the door you can zoom in to see how your panning worked out. Here on the farm the highway is about a 1/4 of a mile across my cropland as I stand on my front porch. Nice place to practice...I keep hoping to get one of the butt heads who litter my right of way.
Jan-Arie wrote:
Went on a trip this weekend with Marcel a friend of mine, we went to Denmark for the Danish Airforce open day.
850 KM (531 miles) one way crazy right.
I was curious to see if I was still able to hold the gear after being sick for so long.
It was heavy to say the least and i fell a sleep in my chair even used high shutterspeed and auto iso but still the keeper rate was way low but by the looks of it I have a couple of keepers.
For the ones interested I will resume work on a full bases from Juli 1st so we will see were that goes.
It is great to see more of those patented Jan-Arie tack sharp photos! Glad you got out to an air show. If your work performance equals your shots posted here, you should be in good shape!
Karl Witt wrote:
Thanks Jim for the suggested shutter speeds. I have quite a ways to go to get there but will get more practice in soon. Some year soon I want to get to Oshkosh, I better have my act together then I better stop shooting wildlife birds at my fast shutter speeds and work on my panning and drag the shutter speeds
Karl
I always admire the disk motion Jim, Glenn Watson and others post here. Jim and Ray gave the best advice a couple posts back, but doing it in really life is a different story. I basically gave up trying unless the prop. planes are just taxing. My panning skill sucks. Last month I bought a variable ND filter per Jim's recommendation to reduce the amount of light so I can use slower shutter speed. I got a couple decent shots with prop. motion but only one or two of them showed the full disk. It's a work-in-progress but today's camera's high frame rate per second does increase the odds of getting at least one or two sharp pictures at slow shutter speed.
J-A, some terrific F-16 shots! Interesting that in one of them the smoke wasn't coming out from the tail. Glad you are back in action!
Ray Swindle wrote:
When you returned to CONUS after SEA duty, did you land at a USAF base or did you come back commercial from an island base? If you landed at a USAF base, which one?
Hi Ray! We flew( from Vietnam) into Ft Lewis, WA...McCord AFB(?) via commercial airlines.
Dan
Danpbphoto wrote:
Hi Ray! We flew( from Vietnam) into Ft Lewis, WA...McCord AFB(?) via commercial airlines.
Dan
Thanks Dan. I knew deployed SEA (and Pacific deployed) personnel returned to McCord and Norton AFB in CA. I was at Norton and saw many returning and leaving on commercial airlines when I worked on the flight line. Just wondering if we might have crossed paths. Have a great day!
Y’all be careful out there. Just learned that a women in our neighborhood was randomly shot at this morning by some bonehead in a silver SUV. Three shells into her hood as she drove down her dead end street. Suspect was “dark skinned” with a doo rag. Time to get a bigger magazine……..
Ray Swindle wrote:
Thanks Dan. I knew deployed SEA (and Pacific deployed) personnel returned to McCord and Norton AFB in CA. I was at Norton and saw many returning and leaving on commercial airlines when I worked on the flight line. Just wondering if we might have crossed paths. Have a great day!
Well we may have Ray. I flew out of CONUS via Norton(commercial airline) to RVN December 27, 1967. I only spent any time less than 1 day-24hrs at McCord on my way home. As soon as the flight landed and we received new orders, clothing and a steak and potato b'fast, my "six" was on a flight home! 2 years from home and "the world", I was tired Ray!
Thanks!
Below is my hometown friend, Ron, who was USAF out of Thailand flying F4's" call sign "Wildcat". A wish I could never fill! And the Army wouldn't give me a license, or an MOS/Warrant Ofc promo, for my "unauthorized flying" of a UH1!! !! Damn them!!
Dan
Pleiku AFB-1967-1969
Incoming-229th AHC- 12/31/68- I Corps-Lang VEI SFC-Illumination Flares-Perimeter Breach
Anyone else feeling like so much of what you believed all your life is no longer true, maybe never really was? I was walking down our driveway Sunday when a teenager in a hoodie stopped and told me that his phone was dead and he was a long way from his house. He asked if I might have a charger for his phone. I thought about it for a second , pictured one of my grandchildren in that situation and told him to hang on a minute. I went to my car, got a cord and a battery pack and told him to drop it by on my doorstep when he came back this way. Basically I handed the kid a hundred bucks and he walked away, guess what , never heard from him again. It ain’t “profiling” if it’s a fact boys and girls, it’s a different world we live in.
JWilsonphoto wrote:
Anyone else feeling like so much of what you believed all your life is no longer true, maybe never really was? I was walking down our driveway Sunday when a teenager in a hoodie stopped and told me that his phone was dead and he was a long way from his house. He asked if I might have a charger for his phone. I thought about it for a second , pictured one of my grandchildren in that situation and told him to hang on a minute. I went to my car, got a cord and a battery pack and told him to drop it by on my doorstep when he came back this way. Basically I handed the kid a hundred bucks and he walked away, guess what , never heard from him again. It ain’t “profiling” if it’s a fact boys and girls, it’s a different world we live in. ...Show more →
Take care Jim watch out for those crazy people there are a lot of those nowadays, maybe it's wrong to say because I know you and the family are people persons, only take care of yourself and your close one's it's getting weird everywhere.
Yeah, last week I saw a truck parked on my right of way. There was a guy about 40 yards in my field collecting some of the wheat heads that didn't make it into the harvester. When I bought this place, I got my insurance from a local agent. Given all the different types of insurance I had to have, he told me you can't keep people out of your field. When anyone gets injured, they will come after you because they think you must have money to have more than 1/6th of an acre. I drove my utility vehicle out to where he was and asked him what he was doing. Guess he didn't speak much English. He pointed to the wheat. That was when I got a lot louder (doesn't that compensate for a language barrier?) and told him he didn't ask to come on my property and if he got hurt he wouldn't hesitate to sue. He looked angry like it was his land too! A friend told me she stopped at the end of her drive where a family was picking their corn. She asked what they were doing and they gave her a look like she was stupid and said "We are picking corn!".
Jim, it is called respect. People don't respect each other much these days.😟. The US judiciary has kicked the 10 Commandments out of every building in the US. Look what it has done for us.
Douglas L wrote:
I always admire the disk motion Jim, Glen Watson and others post here. Jim and Ray gave the best advice a couple posts back, but doing it in really life is a different story. I basically gave up trying unless the prop. planes are just taxing. My panning skill sucks. Last month I bought a variable ND filter per Jim's recommendation to reduce the amount of light so I can use slower shutter speed. I got a couple decent shots with prop. motion but only one or two of them showed the full disk. It's a work-in-progress but today's camera's high frame rate per second does increase the odds of getting at least one or two sharp pictures at slow shutter speed.
J-A, some terrific F-16 shots! Interesting that in one of them the smoke wasn't coming out from the tail. Glad you are back in action!...Show more →
You know how a semi has exhaust stacks on their truck...Well these are plane smoke stacks.
Ray Swindle wrote:
Yeah, last week I saw a truck parked on my right of way. There was a guy about 40 yards in my field collecting some of the wheat heads that didn't make it into the harvester. When I bought this place, I got my insurance from a local agent. Given all the different types of insurance I had to have, he told me you can't keep people out of your field. When anyone gets injured, they will come after you because they think you must have money to have more than 1/6th of an acre. I drove my utility vehicle out to where he was and asked him what he was doing. Guess he didn't speak much English. He pointed to the wheat. That was when I got a lot louder (doesn't that compensate for a language barrier?) and told him he didn't ask to come on my property and if he got hurt he wouldn't hesitate to sue. He looked angry like it was his land too! A friend told me she stopped at the end of her drive where a family was picking their corn. She asked what they were doing and they gave her a look like she was stupid and said "We are picking corn!".
Jim, it is called respect. People don't respect each other much these days.😟. The US judiciary has kicked the 10 Commandments out of every building in the US. Look what it has done for us....Show more →
And removed the "Tablets" that are on the grounds of State or Federal property! And if you had a bust of a State or local hero, that was not of their liking, regardless of history, it is also gone. Even 1 bust of Supreme Court Justice from Maryland!
RD
I better stop shooting wildlife birds at my fast shutter speeds and work on my panning and drag the shutter speeds
. Anyway, if you can get a vehicle with a sign on the door you can zoom in to see how your panning worked out. Here on the farm the highway is about a 1/4 of a mile across my cropland as I stand on my front porch. Nice place to practice...I keep hoping to get one of the butt heads who litter my right of way.
And the Army wouldn't give me a license, or an MOS/Warrant Ofc promo, for my "unauthorized flying" of a UH1!! 
