Bill Gass wrote:
Thanks Dan, we all love those as well even tho it's a different state
But it is thee United States Bill! We have a couple A10's near me with very unusual paint schemes..Blacksnake and Camo at Martin MANG airport!
Bill Gass wrote:
Nice one Dan...
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Gotta love the art work. The white Bangal is coming soon and a digital one as well, can't wait to see the blue eyed tiger...
Bill,
Jim's nephew's helo aviation unit flies over my house weekly and gives me "a waggle-n-a wave" as they pass by and scuttlebutt is that a new Blackhawk and Apache paint scheme is coming soon.
Taiwan paints their Apache's in a tiger shark mode.
That should be very interesting!
Thanks!
Dan
Danpbphoto wrote:
Bill,
Jim's nephew's helo aviation unit flies over my house weekly and gives me "a waggle-n-a wave" as they pass by but word is that a new Blackhawk and Apache paint scheme is coming soon.
Taiwan paints their Apache's in a tiger shark mode.
That should be very interesting!
Thanks!
Dan
I remember you saying that, you lucky dog...Be neat to see the choppers all painted up.
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To bad all the world can't just have a paint scheme and flying competition every year with military equipment instead.
Winner gets a billion.
Check out my site and the B-25 Mitchell link, pretty neat.
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Also, still wanting to try the R7 for kicks even tho it's a few mega pixels less and a crop camera but curious to see how the focus is and how fast.
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Any of you shooting airshows with the R5 and using anything other than mechanical shutter ?
Bill Gass wrote:
Check out my site and the B-25 Mitchel link, pretty neat.
I just did Bill! WOW!!!!
A civilian never really understands what it takes in building aircraft. Especially the gigantic "beasts" of WWII and Vietnam-B52..These are super!
Danpbphoto wrote:
I just did Bill! WOW!!!!
A civilian never really understands what it takes in building aircraft. Especially the gigantic "beasts" of WWII and Vietnam-B52..These are super!
Ya, pretty kool. The back skins will be off next week, then a wash down, prime/paint and new skins...Gonna be pretty.
Might be doing the vertical stabilizers next if they have time.
Thank you all for the kind words, gentlemen! Bill, I like the HDR look of some of your shots, very artistic.
I picked some more files to work on last night. Rookie mistake, too many pictures of the same thing, will take forever to decide which ones to keep or to delete.
Have a blessed Sunday.
ILCE-7RM5FE 24-70mm F2.8 GM II lens53mmf/9.01/200s64 ISO0.0 EV
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Great shots, Rob. I think you have the perfect pair of lenses for airshows! My standard setups for airshows in recent year had been A1+200-600, another A1+600 f4+1.4XTC. I recently bought a Nikon Z8 and the 800 PF, thinking it would be a much lighter setup for airshows than using my Sony 600 f4+1.4XTC, but operating two different camera systems is just too much of an hassle. I learned this hard lessen the second time in less than 6 months. I even have trouble remembering the operation of of the Sony A1 and the Sony A7RV. I struggled quite a bit with two different cameras during the air to air shoot, resulting in wrong exposure in many shots. I regret selling one of my A1 bodies. The EVF blackout of the A7RV bugged the heck out of me for moving subjects, it's very hard to go back to that once you are used to blackout free EVF.
Douglas L wrote:
Thank you, gentlemen! Even my liberal daughter, who bought Michell Obama's biography and was a fan of AOC, moved out of DC and thinks giving debit cards to illegals when there are so many homeless Americans is wrong. Hey, let's welcome another 10 million illegals if people don't wake up.
Back to regular programming. I have lots of files to go through, it may take me months. Here are some I have worked out. I had a 24-70 on one camera and a 100-400 on another. I think the biggest mistake I made while on the skyvan was choosing the wrong focal length sometimes, in the midst of excitement....Show more →
Steller and spectacular set Doug. Immensely enjoyed viewing them
Douglas L wrote:
Great shots, Rob. I think you have the perfect pair of lenses for airshows! My standard setups for airshows in recent year had been A1+200-600, another A1+600 f4+1.4XTC. I recently bought a Nikon Z8 and the 800 PF, thinking it would be a much lighter setup for airshows than using my Sony 600 f4+1.4XTC, but operating two different camera systems is just too much of an hassle. I learned this hard lessen the second time in less than 6 months. I even have trouble remembering the operation of of the Sony A1 and the Sony A7RV. I struggled quite a bit with two different cameras during the air to air shoot, resulting in wrong exposure in many shots. I regret selling one of my A1 bodies. The EVF blackout of the A7RV bugged the heck out of me for moving subjects, it's very hard to go back to that once you are used to blackout free EVF....Show more →
Thanks Douglas!
Yeah, that pair worked out well for the show! There's that fiddly gap between 600 and 800 but truthfully it's near perfect.
And yeah, I think a mixed pair of cameras would be a bad thing, honestly. I originally tried out (and still have) a Z6 and the blackout problem is just immense. When the Z9 came out I jumped on it and the blackout problem was just gone. I thought about pairing it with a Z8 but in the end, I like the bigger form factor with long lenses and the batteries are just better for all day heavy shooting so I bought a second Z9.
The only thing I will say is that the 180-600 seems a little less capable in holding focus in difficult situations than the 800. In normal airshow shooting it's fine but I did have a drop focus twice when the Vampire went behind the tails of the Blues parked on the ramp. The 800 didn't seem to do that.
And speaking of batteries, I took three spares and needed none. I didn't even reach half on either body; more like 1/3.
The zoom is so much better than the 200-500. That was NOT an airshow lens with that looooong throw from 200-500. The 180-600 has a really short throw and I could follow with the zoom easily.
I haven't had much opportunity to try the TCs. I did (not at the airshow) try out the 1.4 on the 800 and that seems to be just about perfect. I haven't tried the 2.0 yet or TCs on the zoom.
My grandson was invited as a high school sophomore to play his tuba with the University of Texas Band at the Spring Orange/White football game. He has been wearing and supporting UT before he began elementary. I don't think I have seen him more excited about an event. (He is a very low key guy.) One of the UT tuba players switched tubas with him so he could play one the the UT Band tubas. He was stoked!
The was an unfortunate event at the game. An inflatable Longhorn Mascot with a person inside, had to be helped from the stands. Seems the inflatable outfit began deflating and the weight became too much for the person inside.
I told my daughter I wanted to print a couple of photos for him to hang on his bedroom wall, but I didn't think there is enough orange ink capacity in by Epson 8550 to print all that orange.
Thank you Douglas...I have one customer that bought another 5 prints and he said absolutely no hdr, he hates it. I also did some pictures of his airplane x-ray machine and only one was hdr and his wife loved it...
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I hear your pain on so many files to go thru, crazy isn't it, especially your pain as all are probably good, I'm so shaky I already know half are no good so that cuts my time down a lot.
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Love the Goshawk and L-39...Especially that head on dead center L-39, beautiful shot.
