I think Jo is just busy doing her thing, a couple of those names bolted because of my conservative leanings, Bobble unfortunately died a few years back after a battle with cancer. BA Driver is still around, busy with career and family, survived the loss of both engines in IMC and at low altitude right after take off, a miracle of epic proportion.
Just finished setting up and balancing the R5C on the new Ronin RS3 Pro. Took a couple of hours but was pretty intuitive. Stabilizers like the Ronin are wonderful, but balancing the camera is just the beginning, it takes a concerted effort to develop your muscle memory and customize the parameters to fit your needs. Once you get the hang of them you can really do some incredible work with them. Watching a YouTube review of something like the RS3 Pro is a bit deceptive because you don't just pop a camera on, balance it and begin creating gorgeous footage. Like everything else, there's a learning curve but it can eventually make a huge difference in certain types of work.
JWilsonphoto wrote:
Just finished setting up and balancing the R5C on the new Ronin RS3 Pro. Took a couple of hours but was pretty intuitive. Stabilizers like the Ronin are wonderful, but balancing the camera is just the beginning, it takes a concerted effort to develop your muscle memory and customize the parameters to fit your needs. Once you get the hang of them you can really do some incredible work with them. Watching a YouTube review of something like the RS3 Pro is a bit deceptive because you don't just pop a camera on, balance it and begin creating gorgeous footage. Like everything else, there's a learning curve but it can eventually make a huge difference in certain types of work....Show more →
Yep, I do ok until I use the multi button to shift the camera. I am working on that muscle memory, but it works great! Operator need a few more hours experience.
Bill Gass wrote:
Ya, Layers and Masking are a bad word, .
I knew quite a bit years ago but should have known a lot more.
Jo Hunter was really good at it. ( where is she anyways ? )
And NightOwl Cat ?
Bobble ?
BADriver ?
And many more.
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I would love to take some Photoshop and Lightroom classes.
Jo post daily on Twitter. I haven't been on Facebook in years, but she was active there too.
lad you and the the RS are making friends, it's challenging, but you will be glad you have it. I don't normally pop something out of the box and put it on assignment, but that's what this job calls for so we'll see. I have a back up plan if I'm not happy with how the footage is looking, but based upon what I'm seeing tonite, it'll be great.
Man, those F-16 images are fabulous Jim. I never realized how tight that cockpit is. Is it more cramped than most fighters? Sure looks it. Unless maybe that pilot is a huge man.
I reached out to Laura a few months ago. I had done some kind of FM search and came across some of her posts from 2017. She seems to post mostly on the MF Nikon board. She's doing OK.
I do miss Jo. And for some reason I was thinking of Bob Ledbetter (bobl) the other day. I knew he had passed. There was also Mark McGrath, from Scotland. I used to enjoy his posts. And speaking of the UK, I wonder how Donald is doing. We last heard from him 2 years ago (page 536).
JWilsonphoto wrote:
I realized something this weekend as I was hanging out with Boydo. There is so much in Photoshop that I don’t know and never use. I thought that I was pretty adept when it came to post processing , but Jeremy can run circles around me using layers and a dozen other features. I’ll sort of excuse my ignorance by saying that, with the volume of commercial work I shoot, there is no way in the world I could devote that much time to each image. My philosophy is to shoot it as perfectly as humanly possible, thus minimizing time in post. Yeah, I’ll go with that, because Jeremy can start popping out menus and brushes and layers that bring out unbelievably details and tones in his images. He has a sixth sense about when to quit too, nothing looks over cooked. He was showing me how to do this and that in layers and my brain began turning into a pretzel. I was amazed, but it was a bit like calculus, mind numbing.
Jeremy has long been a craftsman in everything he tackles, he’s amazing, truly.
Maybe whoever that knucklehead who popped up a couple of years ago to shred me and call me mediocre was right? 🤣...Show more →
The only feature I know in PS is to remove unwanted stuff like a tree branch.. I am fairly well versed with Lightroom though.
JWilsonphoto wrote:
This shoot made me want two things, the 600/4 III and the 100MP R1.................
WOW!!!!! Just super Jim!
I never really realized how little a cockpit the driver has!
I thought the Vietnam era Cobra was tight but this is like in the womb of a mother!
Super images brother!
RD
Bill Gass wrote:
Ya, Layers and Masking are a bad word, .
I knew quite a bit years ago but should have known a lot more.
Jo Hunter was really good at it. ( where is she anyways ? )
And NightOwl Cat ?
Bobble ?
BADriver ?
And many more.
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I would love to take some Photoshop and Lightroom classes.
I agree 100% Bill!
When it comes to post processing in Ps....99% of the tools are lost on me.
There was a gentleman/pro photographer that had a magazine years ago and also had "webinars" of the "How To's" of the Ps tools. Can't remember his name
I found that most of what was addressed was still "above my pay grade".
I need an "Idiots Guide" in slow motion.......
Dan
Thanks Guys, glad you liked the JRB shots, it was a fun day. The 457th is deploying in a couple of months so Jeremy is trying to put a couple of days together so we can shoot them before they leave. Think about that cockpit, then think about sitting in it for 7 or 8 hours while you hit the tanker. No wonder they need drugs!
JWilsonphoto wrote:
Think about that cockpit, then think about sitting in it for 7 or 8 hours while you hit the tanker. No wonder they need drugs!
When I worked on the F-101, the two cockpit seats had relief tubes. Basically, a conical receptor that flowed into a plastic tube and exited into the atmosphere.
Ray Swindle wrote:
When I worked on the F-101, the two cockpit seats had relief tubes. Basically, a conical receptor that flowed into a plastic tube and exited into the atmosphere.
"An Airbus 380 is on its way across the Atlantic. It flies consistently at 800 km/h in 30,000 feet, when suddenly a Eurofighter with Tempo Mach 2 appears. The pilot of the fighter jet slows down, flies alongside the Airbus and greets the pilot of the passenger plane by radio: "Airbus flight, boring flight isn’t it? Take care and have a look here!” He rolls his jet on its back, accelerates, breaks through the sound barrier, rises rapidly to a dizzying height, only to swoop down almost to sea level in a breathtaking dive. He loops back next to the Airbus and asks, "Impressive?" The Airbus pilot answers: "Very impressive, but now have a look here!" The jet pilot watches the Airbus, but nothing happens. It continues to fly stubbornly straight, with the same speed. After five minutes, the Airbus pilot radioed, "Well, do you have to say now?" "What did you do?" Asked the confused fighter pilot. "I didn't see anything impressive." The other laughs and says, "I got up, stretched my legs, went to the back of the flight to the bathroom, got a cup of coffee and a cinnamon cake and made plans for a date with a stewardess tonight. Impressive?"
Douglas L wrote:
Not my joke, but somewhat related to the topic:
"An Airbus 380 is on its way across the Atlantic. It flies consistently at 800 km/h in 30,000 feet, when suddenly a Eurofighter with Tempo Mach 2 appears. The pilot of the fighter jet slows down, flies alongside the Airbus and greets the pilot of the passenger plane by radio: "Airbus flight, boring flight isn’t it? Take care and have a look here!” He rolls his jet on its back, accelerates, breaks through the sound barrier, rises rapidly to a dizzying height, only to swoop down almost to sea level in a breathtaking dive. He loops back next to the Airbus and asks, "Impressive?" The Airbus pilot answers: "Very impressive, but now have a look here!" The jet pilot watches the Airbus, but nothing happens. It continues to fly stubbornly straight, with the same speed. After five minutes, the Airbus pilot radioed, "Well, do you have to say now?" "What did you do?" Asked the confused fighter pilot. "I didn't see anything impressive." The other laughs and says, "I got up, stretched my legs, went to the back of the flight to the bathroom, got a cup of coffee and a cinnamon cake and made plans for a date with a stewardess tonight. Impressive?"
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Appears those Airbus drivers have the right attitude.
Long first day for my Triple 7 clients. We started at 6am am rolled right on thru the day. I'll bet that I walked five or six miles in the hangar, a lot of it suspending the RS3 Pro out in front of me. Sore doesn't cover it...............but we got some wonderful stills and video clips. Unfortunately, I signed a long non-disclosure agreement this afternoon so I'll have to sit on them. These guys are creating prototype freighters so they are pretty protective at this point.
Ray, you are probably used to this from all of your years in the service, but yesterday as I got deeper and deeper into this assignment I was struck by the sheer magnitude of the work that I was capturing. Just inspecting something as large and complex as a 777 is an unimaginably daunting task, muchness modifying and rebuilding one. Talk about a perfect example of the old cliche "How do you eat an elephant...........?"
Once I got the RS3 Pro configured I did a little research and found a set of arms that DJI offers with a grip that has all the controls in it. FedEx is dropping that product at my door today. I found it a bit clumsy trying to suspend the gimbal and control it from the joystick on the center column. I think this accessory will help a lot. FYI, in the situation that I had yesterday I found that my footage was smoother if I left lens IS "On" rather than "OFF". I had read several IS reviews relating to using the RS, IBIS should be "OFF" but lens IS seemed to help. All the video I shot yesterday was on the R5C so in body stabilization wasn't an option anyway. This is the first time I really put the R5C to the test and it was the perfect scenario for it, we'll see.
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. I am fairly well versed with Lightroom though.