I spent all day long at the San Antonio airport, photographing a Lear Jet 45 and a Citation Encore +, in 100 degree weather! Doing that will surely help you shed a few pounds, to say the least.
As I was finishing up a VERY long day, this unusual bird was departing KSAT.
Don't see a lot of these around any more, a Shorts 360.
I hope everyone had a great week and I wish all of you a great weekend.
Saw "Dunkirk" last evening. I anticipated a great film, but I'd give it two stars and that's being generous. Incredible story, but the portrayal was really mediocre. The editing was weird as well, I see all kinds of things now that I never noticed prior to my foray into cinematography. They switched from day to night over and over, sequences were shot on clear days, then the next clip (supposedly on the same day) would be dark overcast with raging seas. Watching the Spits fly and fight was pretty neat, but the last sequence was painfully edited and, from a pilot's perspective, pretty unrealistic.
The whole movie they let a German bomber circle and bomb the crud out of the ships trying to rescue the Brits from the beach, you just kept wanting the Spit pilots to knock him out of the sky, but it took the whole movie to get it done.
Anyone have any experience with Aquatica or Nauticam? I'm thinking about setting up a 5DSR for "wet" operations and just leaving it in that application. Underwater cases have come a long way since my Instamatic in an Ikelite days, and even my old Nikonos. Nauticam has a vacuum system with both a visual and audio alert if the seal in the case is compromised. Looks like the standard set up is the 5DSR with a 16-35 II in the dome port. I have an upcoming shoot on St. Maarten, and I think that would be a great tool to have.
Counterpoint on Dunkirk, I've seen it twice now. I thought it was a beautiful film.
I was expecting more of the same whiz bang Hollywood over the top mess that most movies are now. But what I saw was a quiet, understated film with beautiful photography that built tension like I have not experienced in the theater in a long time.
The time line is a bit jumbled, but it is explained by the titles. Everything that happened on the mole/beach took place over one week. The boat covered one day and the Spitfires covered one hour. (the circling Heinkel scene was actually just two passes if they had compressed the time)
And it all comes together in a bit of an odd way...but it worked for me.
I was impressed at the lack of CGI, most all of the flying photography was done in the air, or with large scale models. They had 60 boats in the water for the filming, including a WWII French destroyer that they had to tug around. Many of the small boats were actual 1940 Dunkirk survivors, so that was an added bonus.
Yes, typical of movie making there is some suspension of belief needed in parts...I didn't know Spits could glide like that!
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Now Bill, that is a F-15 paint job. No Earl Schieb stuff there😃😃😃😃😃😃👍✈️🍻Thanks for passing that along!
Thanks guys, to bad it's all coming off soon. Only on for a year but love it.
If it hadn't been 110 out I could of got a few more nice one's but that heat haze is killer.
Jim knows all bout that !
After shooting the two jets yesterday, I was rather tired, to say the least.
I still had to wait to leave until this one took off. Nevada One was parked right next to it, but I wasn't going to wait for Nevada to roll out. I was too pooped to party.
