Woke up to find my DFW zero sector drone authorization request approval! They granted it for a six month window on top of that! My client will be elated.................and I'll be nervous............
Getting some airtime...
One reason I don't like f/2.8 for sports is how the field of view for focus is very limited. When I shoot at f/4.0, the ball would have been in focus.
Funny story: When I went up to the top of the bleachers to process my photos at halftime, the reporter had a concerned look on his face and he was very frustrated. I asked what was wrong and he told me he just dropped his first half play notes through a hole in the bleachers. I looked through the hole and told him they were unretrievable. I left him alone and processed my photos, then I had to leave the stadium to upload the photos to the editor via the internet. (The internet doesn't work good in the stadium.) After I got home, I waited for his report to be uploaded to the paper website. The home team was behind 12 -29 at the half. In the second half, they roared back to tie the visiting team, but lost on a last second shot by the visiting team. I read his article and congratulated him on how it turned out. Seems he was able to report on the second half as it was the most important...saved his story. Like us photographers, you gotta take what you are given. I congratulated him on a great save.
Ray Swindle wrote:
Getting some airtime...
One reason I don't like f/2.8 for sports is how the field of view for focus is very limited. When I shoot at f/4.0, the ball would have been in focus.
Funny story: When I went up to the top of the bleachers to process my photos at halftime, the reporter had a concerned look on his face and he was very frustrated. I asked what was wrong and he told me he just dropped his first half play notes through a hole in the bleachers. I looked through the hole and told him they were unretrievable. I left him alone and processed my photos, then I had to leave the stadium to upload the photos to the editor via the internet. (The internet doesn't work good in the stadium.) After I got home, I waited for his report to be uploaded to the paper website. The home team was behind 12 -29 at the half. In the second half, they roared back to tie the visiting team, but lost on a last second shot by the visiting team. I read his article and congratulated him on how it turned out. Seems he was able to report on the second half as it was the most important...saved his story. Like us photographers, you gotta take what you are given. I congratulated him on a great save.
Danpbphoto wrote:
Yes they are, but they retract to the wall and the notes would have been under the retracted bleachers. Also, the bleachers do not have an open side as they go from wall to wall.
A scene never to be seen again.
The Fort Worth Spads of the 301st have moved on from the F-16 and F-35s are on the way, sometime next year.
As much as some of us locals have grown tired of the same old F-16s buzzing around, suddenly I feel a longing for the good old days. And I'm old enough now to remember the same feeling when the F-4s left town. (I don't really have a memory of the F-105s leaving, but I do remember when they were here )
Time marches on.
From my Instamatic on a ROTC trip to Carswell @ 1981
Love those F-105...I remember those at Air Shows a long, long time ago...
The F-15 are leaving here as well and the F-35 are coming really soon.
Will really miss the F-15.
Zane Adams wrote:
A scene never to be seen again.
The Fort Worth Spads of the 301st have moved on from the F-16 and F-35s are on the way, sometime next year.
As much as some of us locals have grown tired of the same old F-16s buzzing around, suddenly I feel a longing for the good old days. And I'm old enough now to remember the same feeling when the F-4s left town. (I don't really have a memory of the F-105s leaving, but I do remember when they were here )
