Simple Click – Simple Joy
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Here’s one of the “worst” images from the air to air shoot. Yeah, I Loved It All!
PRS Rocks!
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What an amazing, amazing week! In the last two days I’ve shot everything from corporate portraits to group PR portraits to pylon racing to air to air with a five ship T6 flight. I’ve been averaging 8000 images a day and loving every moment! The shooters, RARA volunteers, ground crews and the pilots (who I’m getting to know more and more) make this THE event in my books. I have 105GB of unedited images from that last two days of shooting, uploading until 1am and back at 5am on the flight line shooting filling up cards again. I’m bone tired, beaten up from the air to air and in the Nikon Center (rather then being a field rep today) today just trying to get caught up. We’re making plans for Oshkosh (end of July), lining up new air to air projects and editing images and thoughts I would through up one.
This gorgeous P-51D owned by Chuck Greenhill is painted up in the original Yellow Jacket Squadron and is part of the Unlimited Class. One of the best things about the June PRS are the afternoon thunderheads that hopefully form. On this day, we had some nice clouds so I positioned myself so if the planes stayed on the right track running the course, it would put them in front of the clouds. On this pass, I scored. I’ve been experimenting and pushing my photography this week. My keeper rate has gone down but the number of “cool” and “romantic” images has gone up. I’m a very happy and tired shooter!
Photo captured by D3s, 200-400VR2 on Lexar UDMA digital film
Simple Click – AHhhhhhhh
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Thursday was an amazing day, 98GB of images that I’m still editing. There is MORE to COME! Here’s a F4 Corsair to hold ya over.
A Class I Usually Don’t Hit Hard
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It’s just me, but I typically don’t get excited about shooting the more “modern” jets. But today this L-39 Albatros in the afternoon light was just darn cool so click I went.
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At first I tried to make interesting clicks of it coming and of it going but after a couple of orbits, I decided I wanted to do better than the norm so decided to get shots that looked like I was shooting down on the plane. This meant seeing into the cockpit.
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To get that shot meant being in the right place when the L-39 banked to shoot around the pylon. I didn’t quite get it but I do like this shot. So, it’s something I’m going to pursue the rest of the week. Which me luck. Oh yeah, it’s going by at 400-500′ doing 540mph. Not bad panning if you ask me :)
Photos captured by D3s, 200-400VR2 on Lexar UDMA digital film
A Class I Usually Don’t Hit Hard
[swf]http://www.moosepeterson.com/swf_imgs/_bmp6016.swf, 585, 473 [/swf]
It’s just me, but I typically don’t get excited about shooting the more “modern” jets. But today this L-39 Albatros in the afternoon light was just darn cool so click I went.
[swf]http://www.moosepeterson.com/swf_imgs/_bmp5960.swf, 585, 473 [/swf]
At first I tried to make interesting clicks of it coming and of it going but after a couple of orbits, I decided I wanted to do better than the norm so decided to get shots that looked like I was shooting down on the plane. This meant seeing into the cockpit.
[swf]http://www.moosepeterson.com/swf_imgs/_bmp5955.swf, 585, 473 [/swf]
To get that shot meant being in the right place when the L-39 banked to shoot around the pylon. I didn’t quite get it but I do like this shot. So, it’s something I’m going to pursue the rest of the week. Which me luck. Oh yeah, it’s going by at 400-500′ doing 540mph. Not bad panning if you ask me :)
Photos captured by D3s, 200-400VR2 on Lexar UDMA digital film
Go Dennis, Go!
You might recognize #33, it’s the T6 that has been in a lot of my aviation photographs. The owner is Dennis who actually has three of his planes in PRS this week. But he’s not flying #33.
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Now I don’t know if it’s ethical or not, but I was naturally rooting for Dennis even though he was racing. There is no racing going on, no laps and not timers. The pilots are here to get use to the course, test out their planes and just have a great time. #43 in the hands of Dennis has won the races in the past, I’m pulling for him to repeat. Only Sept will tell. I’m excited because I’ll be in #43 flying this week along with some other planes. Be sure to stay tuned for the excitement!
For those who are wondering, to get the blurred prop, you need a shutter speed at most 1/250. To get that speed, this is the only time I use Shutter Priority.
Photos captured by D3s, 200-400VR2 on Lexar UDMA digital film