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[dark hare]

Prob shouldve bought

[rocky coyote]

Got this from one of the officers

[dark hare]

wiah thats sick

[uneven fog]

I had a dream last night that Polaris announced they were coming to Oceana

I think that means it’s real

[brisk hinge]

lol

just come to oshkosh next year

[dark hare]

They should come to abbotsford

[delicate silo]

Chat i just got a tour of messis private jet

[dark hare]

Hwat

How

[delicate silo]

Just kinda asked

[dark hare]

zamn

[rocky coyote]

I got a couple more bits and pieces and still have one more thing that I have to trade for

[dark hare]

i assume you got a big challenge coin collection?

ive got 3 challenge coins

[rocky coyote]

Only 4 coins at the moment

[dark hare]

oh i see

i have one from the b52, c5 and then one from my air cadets sqd

[rocky coyote]

I have heaps of patches

[dark hare]

ive got one patch of a c5 my friend got me

[rocky coyote]

I’ve got a few navy bases, a couple ships, a submarine, an old flight patch, an American patch, a few cadet patches and god only knows what else

By the end of the week I should have 4 patches from a single ship

[dark hare]

Woah

Awesome

Ive got this from some f15c people

The top is 3d printed

[rocky coyote]

25mm?

[dark hare]

I think so

Was 15 cad

Paid them in coins lmao

Still got 60 in that bag

Been a couple years since i bought

[rocky coyote]

I’m working on this trade I’ll see if I can get it done

[dark hare]

B52 coin

[rocky coyote]

Oh heck that’s sick

[dark hare]

C5

Let me take it out actually

312th airlift

Then our cadets one which was my first one

Id love to get more

[rocky coyote]

Why do the Americans get such cool coins

I do have an American coin actually

[dark hare]

Ive got no idea

Id love some canadian coins

My only canadian one is my cadets one lol

[rocky coyote]

Cool looking side of the American coin I’ve got

[dark hare]

Woag

Yeah they have sick ones

I regret not buying thr kc46 one this year

[rocky coyote]

Cooler than most of the Australian coins I’ve seen

[dark hare]

At abbotsford they had this limited edition coin

Like

100 units

[rocky coyote]

You know weirdly enough I’ve never bought a coin I’ve been given all mine

[dark hare]

Coin number 69 was taken lmao

Number 100 was there

Almost bought

[dark hare]

O

Ive bought 2/3

If i work hard enough this year in cadets i might be able to get tjis one called the "COs Coin" which is a special one given by our commanding officer

My friend was given one last year

Ill ask her for a photo

[rocky coyote]

I know CO’s Coins I’ve got one

[dark hare]

Ooo

Ive also got a cool canadian coin from that is possible to find in circulation

I got it from the mint people tho

Jt sits with my challenge coins cuz its so cool

[rocky coyote]

Mine isn’t a cadet one though mines from the CO of a fleet base that he personally presented to me in front of my cadet unit

[dark hare]

Woah thats sick

[rocky coyote]

Ah yeah not bad not bad

Reached an agreement for this patch that I want!!!

[dark hare]

Yummy

[delicate silo]

https://www.instagram.com/reel/DLtlRfPO5JD/ imagine if this livery was real

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[uneven fog]

They did it on the eagle

Strike Eagle is pretty much just a bone

So close enough

[delicate silo]

Ik

A b1 would be awesome tho

[brittle bridge]

this would be fucking sick

[dusk spindle]

I caught its fini💔

[viscid elbow]

Is this like an eagle demo team? Or is this a livery that lives at a specific base?

[dark hare]

probably the latter

[delicate silo]

Eagle demo doesn't exist and that livery was pretty recent I think

[viscid elbow]

Ah ok.. I’ve done some research… seems this is from Fresno California 144th air national guard wing ( unless I looked up the wrong one

[delicate silo]

Ah cool

Really wish I got to see it

[viscid elbow]

Same

[dark hare]

There used to be a West Coast demo team who operated the eagle until 2009 where they stood down

Then there was an East Coast demo team who transfered to the F22 in 2006

There is however some kind of a demo performed by the F15QA seen at airshows

F15 Advanced Eagle demo team or something like that

They started last year i think

[sage cape]

Correct

The airframe is donezo now though and is a gate guard at Klamath Falls I believe

[viscid elbow]

Klamath falls Kingsley OR?

[sage cape]

Yeh Kingsley Field

[delicate silo]

yeah ik

[uneven fog]

At some point there were 3 F-15 demos

I think f-15c east and west, and then the strike eagle

[lavish loom]

Got some more done
Idk if ill ever be finished with these, i still have like 3000 that i havent even looked at

[sage cape]

That’s fucking mint

[native basalt]

yee

[delicate silo]

These are awesome

[uneven fog]

Paddles is locked in.

[rocky coyote]

Which ship have you been on

[dark hare]

FIRE

[sage cape]

VFA-213 is the Gerald R Ford

[rocky coyote]

Nimitz Class Carrier?

[brisk hinge]

you an AB or something?

i’m going to take this opportunity to plug a book that a family member just published. It’s a coffee table book about the flight deck, but instead of focusing on the pilots and the jets like so many other stories do, it focuses on the deck crew. The pictures are amazing, and everyone here should go buy one

https://lifeontheflightdeck.com/

[native basalt]

No I'm a photographer

[brisk hinge]

super cool

do you use navy gear, or your own?

[native basalt]

It's a mixture of both

[brisk hinge]

i see

[lavish loom]

damn

how do you even get in contact with people for something like this

[brisk hinge]

i assume he’s navy

they have photographers on the ship

[brisk hinge]

but also. my family member and photographer friend who did this project ^ happened to stumble into the right people to get the access they did as civilians

they had pretty much unlimited access to the ship

[native basalt]

its my job

[delicate silo]

awesome !

[rocky coyote]

The military has their own photographers/videographers

[rocky coyote]

I’m jealous, navy photographer looks like the coolest job

[dusk spindle]

@native basalt Are you comcam or PA?

[native basalt]

comcam

[rocky coyote]

You get much sea time?

[uneven fog]

I’ve peaked

[brisk hinge]

nice

[dusk spindle]

Ah sick, af just denied my med waiver so lookin like navy will be my next attempt

[delicate silo]

mightve peaked before you sorry bro 💔

[delicate silo]

rip gl with navy

A guy got declined from the AFA for sleep walking once

[native basalt]

im about to go work for them

[brisk hinge]

so cool

you going to be at NAS Oceana with them?

[wary wren]

They’re in NH this weekend

I will miss the show but plan to go see the practice day, which is going to be better anyway since I can bring my big lens

[brisk hinge]

very cool

[uneven fog]

Just had an insane day out here

3 flights

Also the lens restriction isn’t a thing

[uneven fog]

That’s not as good Brotato 💔

[wary wren]

Nice

I’ve been told that the media day is tomorrow so I’m hoping for a full run of the show

[delicate silo]

its better

[brisk hinge]

yeah it should be a full show

[wary wren]

Good news

I will try to get west of the airfield so things aren’t super backlit

[delicate silo]

show center matters more than backlit yeah? unless the lighting really sucks

im juist hoping I get some clouds for my airshow lol

[wary wren]

Tomorrow is supposed to be quite cloudy

And since it’s the practice day there will be no access to the field, so I’m trying to get the sun behind me

[delicate silo]

at least at the airshows ive been to people have gotten field access for practice or media

[wary wren]

Not this one

New England is a restrictive shithole

[delicate silo]

Ah

yall think its worth getting tickets to airshows on back to back weekends? both just have the thunderbirds

got tickets to the f18 one rn

[delicate silo]

thats awesome

typhoon?]

[wary wren]

NATO exercise I bet

[delicate silo]

ah

[rocky coyote]

PHOTEX

[rocky coyote]

That’s sick

[sage cape]

military medicals are fucked

my mates got a sesame seed allergy from when he was 4 that has never affected him since and the Australian Defence Force have made him see like three specialist doctors about it

[delicate silo]

rip did he get in?

[dark hare]

thats insane

[delicate silo]

Mine better

[lavish loom]

id get tickets for any interesting airshow possible

central europe has so little

[uneven fog]

L take

[lavish loom]

green guy is so tuff

[uneven fog]

Wonder what he did to get that one

[uneven fog]

Wait

When’s that from

[brisk hinge]

still going through mach loop photos

guy in the back is taking video of the flight

[dark hare]

are you just allowed to fly through the mach loop as a civilian

that looks like a civilian owned plane

[dark hare]

abbotsford 2025

[brisk hinge]

i haven’t had a chance to dig into it…I don’t think so as it’s a Low Flying Area (not quite sure what that means but oh well)

i think he’s some sort of government contractor though

[dark hare]

ah

[brisk hinge]

it is a privately owned aircraft, but he’s involved with the military

probably similar to Polaris

[dark hare]

i see

that explains it

[brisk hinge]

let me know if you dig into it, i’m curious

[dark hare]

ill have a quick look rn

@brisk hinge after looking a lil bit i think it seems like civilians CAN fly through there but its not advised?

[brisk hinge]

could be

[dark hare]

💀

[brisk hinge]

no way 💀

[dark hare]

i gotta check out the mach loop some day

[brisk hinge]

is that real

[dark hare]

its all the way in the uk though

[brisk hinge]

i have to go back

[dark hare]

yeah theres more photos

[brisk hinge]

it was incredible

[dark hare]

same plane

[brisk hinge]

amazing

what a beast

[dark hare]

i remember someone got this really cool photo of the rcaf 2024 cf18 in the loop

[brisk hinge]

i’ve seen that

[dark hare]

i loved seeing this livery perform at abbotsford

[brisk hinge]

would kill to see that

[brisk hinge]

it’s so good

[dark hare]

just happened to be unlucky that day

2 days prior to the airshow i was attending the arrivals

and my autofocus broke

[brisk hinge]

nooo

[dark hare]

so it was really messy and i had baaaaddd ca in my photos

still got the livery though

[dark hare]

hot damn

[brisk hinge]

i got to see him fly twice, once with the snowbirds

[dark hare]

i wish they did that at abbotsford

abby last year was diabloical

there was wildfire smoke and crazy backlit

[brisk hinge]

oh no that’s rough

[dark hare]

look at this 💀

[brisk hinge]

you should come down to OSH next year

[brisk hinge]

YIKES

[dark hare]

it was such a good formation too

the cf18 demo team still exists as a "TAC" demo team

tactical air combat demonstration

[dark hare]

damn are they good

[brisk hinge]

got a similar formation

[dark hare]

they are basically like the growlers

but canadian

[brisk hinge]

yeah

[dark hare]

woah

i wanna pull up to osh next year

in theory i could

[brisk hinge]

note the canadian p-51

[dark hare]

but i graduate hs next yr and im prob going on a europe trip with freinds

[brisk hinge]

rip

[dark hare]

who knows maybe i can attend like

riat 🤑

[brisk hinge]

oshkosh is better 🥱

[dark hare]

cuz its near the end of july next year

[brisk hinge]

(i’ve never been to riat)

[dark hare]

so i could pull up

riat is sck

i think last yr was the f16s anniversary or smth

they had a bunch of f16s there

[brisk hinge]

neat

[dark hare]

they got a whole bunch of cool performers

i wnaana go to paris, eaa and riat some day

[brisk hinge]

would be fun

[uneven fog]

checkerboards?

[uneven fog]

Ah gotcha. We were hearing some navy static was gonna be inbound, didn’t know if that was from today

it ended up being a Rhino out of Oceana

[dark hare]

ah i see

[dusk spindle]

No

[uneven fog]

I am so back

[dusk spindle]

Back lit💔

[wary wren]

and?

light that from the front and you don't get the vapor effect

[brisk hinge]

yeah, there’s no problem with backlighting in situations like this

in fact here i’d prefer it

not everything has to be perfectly front lit

[wary wren]

none of this is going on flightradar

it can have artistic merit

[brisk hinge]

thank god

jetphotos crop is an abomination

[wary wren]

what the fuck is a composition

[brisk hinge]

[dark hare]

jetphotos sucks imo

like theres good photos on it

but i feel like u cant really be too creative with ur photos

they do have something called "artistic effect photos"

[delicate silo]

W

[delicate silo]

Osh??

[delicate silo]

Fire

[dark hare]

Quite the improvement in my photos over 2 years :)

Why did i make my watermark so small in my old photos wtf

[sage cape]

Polaris don’t have anything to do with the military?

Top Aces are probably a better example

[sage cape]

gulp

[lavish loom]

oh wow

More Somme international airshow

[delicate silo]

I got that effect on the f22 it was great

[brisk hinge]

yeah, last year

[brisk hinge]

huh, i had it in my head that they contract as aggressors

ah, Draken is probably what i’m thinking of

another of jared’s companies

[delicate silo]

ooooo I really want to see cf18 livery

[dark hare]

They dont do them anymore

From what i remember the 2024 jet still existed in like may 2025

[brisk hinge]

yeah

but they're not demoing it any more

it's a shame, it's the best looking hornet out there

[raven turtle]

thoughts?

https://www.instagram.com/p/DORNLS6ET6z/?igsh=MWNvamI3NHJlbnF3OQ==

Instagram

[brisk hinge]

they're fine, nothing wrong with those, but they're yet another "airplane on blank blue sky" picture

!cars

[mental ore]

https://cdn.discordapp.com/attachments/728905379274162180/1261715727874920661/Screenshot_2024-07-13_at_18.07.30.png

[brisk hinge]

you start to run into things like this with aviation photography

cool photo from a subject standpoint, but purely from the standpoint of composition and photography it's a bit boring

not to say that's a bad thing, plenty of my pictures are just that

[raven turtle]

i agree, its just i was shooting from the ground straight up because it was from an airshow

so i couldnt really incorporate anything else in it

[brisk hinge]

don't take what I said as saying that it's garbage, that's not what i'm meaning at all

[raven turtle]

no ik what you mean

[brisk hinge]

shooting airshows when there's not a cloud in the sky is frustrating for me

especially military jets, with prop planes or aerobatics you have prop blur or smoke, things that indicate movement

but for being a jet in a clear blue sky, there's nothing wrong with your photos

now i feel like i went too hard in bashing your photos, that's not what i was trying to do!

[raven turtle]

all good broski

it was my first time anyways

[delicate silo]

[delicate silo]

You can get really good pics at an airshow you just gotta be creative and have some things align

[delicate silo]

You'll learn and get better

My first few times shooting jets i didnt get anything good either

Example of some luck and some creativity

I looked for the moon before the demo started and if I hadnt I would've missed this because it was super high in the sky something I wouldn't normally shoot

[brisk hinge]

the watermark on the subject almost ruins it

defeatcry

[delicate silo]

lol

Major crop like .00001 mp fr

[brisk hinge]

fr

[delicate silo]

I was shooting with the z8 at 600mm just to get an idea of how far away it was

[brisk hinge]

makes sense

[pure flax]

Thank god I didn’t go today

[delicate silo]

Rip

Kinda like my blue angels weather

It was literally raining

[brittle bridge]

@delicate silo Cooked

[brisk hinge]

stop looking at new

[delicate silo]

bro does NOT need a third camera

[brittle bridge]

yes I do

smh my head

[delicate silo]

shaking my head my head?

[brittle bridge]

yeah

[brittle bridge]

Bet

[delicate silo]

even better option:

perfect

[wary wren]

save $1000, buy a Z6iii

[wary wren]

spend that $1000 on a nice standard zoom for ground shots

nice vapor day

[uneven fog]

Rain picked up right during the mrt

Put my camera away after the takeoff, knew it was about to get bad and didn’t wanna risk it

[brittle bridge]

😩😩

[raven turtle]

yeah i just need a better angle

[uneven fog]

If all you care about is blue angels than yes

f-35 demo was sick, VTANG and the Blackhawk was cool

Jack Aces

And I got a bunch of shirts

[delicate silo]

At least you get vapor

[uneven fog]

Camera was way away by that point

No way I’m risking it

[delicate silo]

I have wayy too many a10 demo shirts

[delicate silo]

Rain cover??

I always have one in my bag

[uneven fog]

nah

[delicate silo]

Why not

[uneven fog]

I don’t even own one

[delicate silo]

Plastic bags work

[flint smelt]

I risked my camera once during like a thunderstorm, never again.

[uneven fog]

yup

[thorny warren]

Got my second airshow next weekend 😛

[uneven fog]

Got my break weekend next weekend, then I’m off to Oceana

thought t tmr there is absolutely zero flying I’m going to see

[brisk hinge]

i’m very excited for oceana

[uneven fog]

absolutely nothing.

[uneven fog]

Looking like a great show. Rumor is they’re going to pop flares during the AirPower demo

[brisk hinge]

probably. Razz did last year

[delicate silo]

Thats fire

[wary wren]

Did they already call it?

[uneven fog]

no but I have

2sm vis or less all day

I have tickets so I’ll atleast go and get some free shit, talk to some crews and stuff but not expecting any flying

[delicate silo]

Worth going to? Only statics

F35
VMFT 401 (F5s)
P3
MH60S
P8
F18
V22
Navy gulfstream
Chinook
Blackhawk
Kc135
C130
VC-121

Also a really really long drive

[lavish loom]

depends on if youre there to take photos or not

if so, check if you actually can do so properly without 10 quadrillion things in the way

selection is great though

[brisk hinge]

meh, statics don’t thrill me personally

[lavish loom]

sitting in them is cool though

if they allow that

but it being all statics i dont see what else they could offer

[brittle bridge]

ooooo a parked c172

[brisk hinge]

i have one of those in my family's hangar

[delicate silo]

Id go before or after

To watch them fly

Apparently the vc121 hasn't flown it landed there after oshkosh and has just sat

I really want to see the f5s tho

[uneven fog]

Bro says VMFAT 401 and “worth it?” In the same sentence 💔

[delicate silo]

lol

I really want to see them

They come extremely often to that airport its just super far away

We get a ton of navy action lol at all of are airports

[uneven fog]

Watching em come and go is the fun part. And it’s nice when the crew stays with the jet and are selling stuff and chatting with people

[delicate silo]

Yeah that's what I hopebbut I cant go for the show

If I want to see them leave

[uneven fog]

They had the Cherokee that I fly at the local show this weekend and I was standing up on the wing and was just waiting for someone to yell at me

[delicate silo]

lol

[uneven fog]

My old cfi ended up coming over and fake yelling at me to get down 😭

[delicate silo]

W

[brittle bridge]

Lmao

[delicate silo]

Not to mention this airport has a super sick background

[uneven fog]

Is it only statics

Or flying too?

[delicate silo]

Statics

Id go when they arrive or leave tho

Not driving for only static

[uneven fog]

Smart

[delicate silo]

Yeah f5s I want to see so badly

[flint smelt]

@uneven fog

[rocky coyote]

Could be worse

[delicate silo]

There's worse places to be stuck

[flint smelt]

Fr

[dark hare]

could get some cool loot

[delicate silo]

yeah

I dont think I can go during the show though

[dark hare]

o

[delicate silo]

maybe but then I wouldnt see departures

[rocky coyote]

I’d go for the merch alone the aircraft a bonus

[dark hare]

fr

[delicate silo]

The problem is I have an event scheduled on sunday and it's a sunday Saturday thing

[dark hare]

A

[brittle bridge]

B

[delicate silo]

C

[rocky coyote]

F

[uneven fog]

I heard they kicked everyone out 😭

We had a rhino static display that was roped off, once the rain came everyone just ducked the rope and hid under the f18

[uneven fog]

Canceled for low ceiling today, but Franz gave us a couple high speeds after he did the weather check

Mach and the F-35 also put on a crazy show. 2 extra high speeds, extra dedication pass, extra tac pitch

[brittle bridge]

holy vapes 😩

[uneven fog]

MUSTARDDDDD

[delicate silo]

Did you get the shot

Dif you lock in

[delicate silo]

Thats fire

[uneven fog]

The 35 burner is so damn bright

[brisk hinge]

so cool

so on the 22nd in Hagerstown, is that the last flight of the A-10 period, or just that MD wing’s last flight?

can’t find a clear answer

if it’s the last A-10 flight period, I’ll probably run up there

[brittle bridge]

holy fuck

[uneven fog]

MD

[brisk hinge]

gotcha

who else flies them still?

[uneven fog]

Hagerstown might be worth it regardless, the ISR stuff there is really interesting

[brisk hinge]

ISR?

[uneven fog]

Whiteman in Kansas City, Moody in Valdosta (?) GA, and then I think DM in Phoenix still has em

[brisk hinge]

trying to decide if I’ll make it up there, I’ll be getting back from Oceana that day and then leaving for New Mexico thursday

[uneven fog]

Bunch of classified government stuff

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[brisk hinge]

neat

[uneven fog]

If you ever throw the mil filter on Adsb at like 12am they’re usually up flying circuits over Hagerstown

Testing stuff that we’d probably have fbi agents on our doors if we figured out

[brisk hinge]

hahaha

anyone else coming to oceana?

Lev what days will you be there?

[uneven fog]

Sat and Sunday definitely

I’m there Thursday Friday but am thinking maybe Langley on Thursday

[brisk hinge]

fair

i’ll be there from thursday, heading home monday morning

[uneven fog]

same here

I have like most of the day Thursday to do sum

[brisk hinge]

do you have a hotel nearby?

[uneven fog]

On the beach

[brisk hinge]

nice

i’m looking forward to seeing a wing walker

been years since i have, the last time i did was probably at a culpeper show years ago

[uneven fog]

Saw one today

Tbh I don’t find it very exciting

[brisk hinge]

sure, but it’s something very much out of the ordinary

[uneven fog]

yea

[brisk hinge]

one of my favorite things about working airshows is getting to be in the briefings

[uneven fog]

Yea

For Oceana it’s gotta be special too

So many mil guys

I really enjoy listening to the Airboss freq

[brisk hinge]

yeah

i forget who’s bossing this show

[uneven fog]

Probably Wayne Boggs

Somehow he bosses every show ever

it’s impressive

[vital island]

what midwest states have good airshows?

[brisk hinge]

real

he’s cool, i like him

[rocky coyote]

Fuckin ay that’s hectic

[dark hare]

zamn

i love the f35 burner

[dark hare]

mmm

why does urs look so yellowish

[brittle bridge]

Great question

[dark hare]

id ont think bro knows

[vital island]

lol bad pic

[dark hare]

How to get access to these?

[lunar spade]

what are your thought on CPL filter for airshow pics ?

[rare vector]

Why is it so dark

[uneven fog]

No sun

[sage cape]

What’s the point

An ND I can understand if your shooting props and want to lower the shutter but there’s like zero reason to have a CPL

[lunar spade]

I saw that it could give a better sky définition (color and clouds)

I may have a bad understanding in filter as i'm starting with them

[brisk hinge]

your angle is always changing so you’d always be spinning it

[brisk hinge]

lots of times fb groups will post, or you can google it

[uneven fog]

If you have the close call mode on ur scanner u can usually pick it up that way

if it’s a towered airport a lot of times the Airboss will call on the tower freq and tell them to monitor the Airboss freq and that they are taking the field

That’s how I got it this weekend

[wary wren]

Cleveland always has a good one

[uneven fog]

F-35 demo inbound to Madison WI if anyone cares

Probably a gas n go

[dark hare]

Ah

Abbotsford airshow merch is crazy ngl

Dont think ive seen other airshows giving out free lego sets

I have 2 of the flair ones

Ik they srent the worlds best sets but free loot is free lot aint it

Then theres these squishies from last year but im missing 1

I like the f35 obe

[brittle bridge]

@rocky coyote

[sage cape]

probably such a minimal effect tbh. All it would really do is force ypu to increase iso or use a slower shutter by taking light so not really worth it

[delicate silo]

A few people cant name em tho

We get them flying through to bone yard or other sqaudrons

Loved the last a10 demo

[uneven fog]

I named em already dw

[dark hare]

mig :>

[delicate silo]

Kk

[rocky coyote]

Where are you putting them?

I’ve got an F35 patch on my camera bag

[brittle bridge]

Probably just in my room

[uneven fog]

Craziest thing I’ve ever witnessed

Low approach gear up to 200 feet

At probably 300 kts

[brittle bridge]

America rahhhhh

[uneven fog]

also some other jets

F-35 demo team kept it LOW

[brisk hinge]

bri ish rahhh

[brittle bridge]

America better than bri ish

[brisk hinge]

but american doesn't have typhies

[uneven fog]

Don’t need em

We have the eagle

[wary wren]

typhoon trainers look so small lol

nice pans

[delicate silo]

That f15 is fire

Loterally

[delicate silo]

Thats really funny loll

[rocky coyote]

Get the molle velcro things and put one on your camera bag

[rare vector]

that crop tho

Could be a sick pic

[sage cape]

The hell’s wrong with that

Maybe the planes like five pixels low in frame if I’m being super nitpicky but it’s fine?

[rare vector]

It sucks ass

[rare vector]

Not about centering, why is it cropped right on the wings lol

[rare vector]

Those are good crops

[rare vector]

That one too

[rare vector]

This doesnt look good

Like I said, pic is sick af but crop sucks

[sage cape]

this must be ragebait

[hollow halo]

has to be

this bloke can’t be serious

[velvet nexus]

2/10 joybait

[rare vector]

Bro that crop is horrendous

Wait whats the command

!cars

[mental ore]

https://cdn.discordapp.com/attachments/728905379274162180/1261715727874920661/Screenshot_2024-07-13_at_18.07.30.png

[rare vector]

Exactly

Same thing just Planes instead of cars

[sage cape]

not letting ts ragebait get to me bro

[sage cape]

this doesnt even remotely apply

the photo you called a "cool crop" is off centre, has a ridiculous amoutn of negative space, and actually might just be an uncropped photo

[rare vector]

even if its uncropped its still so much better than the other composition wise lol

Not everything has to be centered

Matter of fact, centering the subject might just be the most boring composition there is

[sage cape]

yeh mint yep

[rare vector]

Lol

cope I guess?

[sage cape]

i guess so!

[brisk hinge]

thanks! any input on aspect ratio? so far i tend to leave it, but i’d like to get into messing with that sometime

[brisk hinge]

it’s not an uncropped photo lol. it’s off center because things that are at speed typically look better when there’s leading room, and there’s “negative space” to give context and balance

cropping in to the very edges of your subject almost never looks good

the “jetphotos crop” is pretty terrible from a photography/composition aspect

[velvet nexus]

I don't mind negative space in front of a subject but you don't need that much, for me when I'm doing a pan I'll crop in

[velvet nexus]

I don't mind the crop for this because of the background

[brisk hinge]

i don’t mind admitting that there might be too much leading space in some of those, i was shooting wider than normal because i didn’t want to miss anything. But i’d much rather slightly too much space than not enough

[velvet nexus]

Yeah defo when I'm shooting I'd go a bit wider as well

[brisk hinge]

and for this one ^, sure there’s a ton of negative space but i think that helps convey that it’s a small plane, whereas if i cropped to the wingtips it wouldn’t look that different than the C-130 Hercules that is a few pictures up

[brisk hinge]

normally i shoot planes slightly tighter, but this was almost a once in a lifetime experience so i was extra cautious

[velvet nexus]

Yeah I guess this would apply if you're gonna show people that don't know the aircraft

[wary wren]

Zero space for the plane to live in

It’s moving left to right at 500MPH so of course the correct crop is one that boxes it into a shitty square

Anyone who says the square crop works better than the wider one is wrong

[dark hare]

Yum

[rare vector]

Wider aspect ratios like the one praetor sent can look sick af, 1:1 can look good but thats kinda rare

[brisk hinge]

makes sense. for a wide crop, are there go-to ratios, or just whatever looks good?

[rare vector]

Uhhh

I got some saved in my lightroom but I'm not home rn

21:9, 5:2

[brisk hinge]

no worries, i can spend some time looking things up instead of bugging you about it!

[wary wren]

if i can get to 6:17 i'm very happy

[dusk spindle]

Luckily mine wasn’t a square crop😬

[wary wren]

No it was worse

[brisk hinge]

i fear your crop was worse than a square crop 😭

[dusk spindle]

We got 4:5 hate before gta6 💔🥀

[brisk hinge]

it’s not 4:5 hate, it’s hate for a crop that doesn’t fit the subject

[wary wren]

It doesn’t fit the aspect ratio at all

[brisk hinge]

nothing inherently wrong with 4:5

but for this, it’s terrible

[wary wren]

I have vertical Hornet shit lol

Notice the direction in which the plane is facing

[dusk spindle]

😭🙏

Will not be engaging with rage this early in the morning

[brisk hinge]

this is not rage 😭

it’s a cool picture from a subject standpoint, but pretty bad from a composition standpoint

and none of this is personal attacks

what does the uncropped picture look like?

[dusk spindle]

Bro idk how you are talking about composition, no offense but you’re posting raws😭

Simply cropped 4:5 for instagram

[brisk hinge]

?

[wary wren]

Are we on instagram?

[brisk hinge]

instagram supports multiple ratios too

that’s simply a bad crop for that image

[dusk spindle]

7/10 icl getting good

[wary wren]

Seriously though, what does the uncropped look like?

[dark hare]

4:5 crop has the least compression iirc

[calm reef]

Raw photo

Thoughts? I shoot on a eos r 100-400 btw

[brisk hinge]

it's fine

there's pretty much no motion, but helicopters are hard

pretty meh background but it's a cool helo

[calm reef]

Ye

Its so cool how they can hover and carry out missions

[wary wren]

someone brought an expeditor to the local field

[uneven fog]

Do you go out onto the ramp when stuff is there

[wary wren]

yeah, if someone lets me in

[uneven fog]

Yea they seem pretty chill over there

[delicate silo]

People are usally pretty nice, I've never been turned down when asking to go out for a quick photo

[delicate silo]

rotated?

[sage cape]

no they just did that

[lavish ember]

i miss having easy access to the ramp

now i'm a "security risk"

[uneven fog]

maybe at the echo airfields

And like the small deltas

Try that and a Charlie and they’re prolly calling the cops

[delicate silo]

Delta too

[brittle bridge]

I just walk out on the ramp at my local airport teehee

[lavish ember]

untowered, unfenced, unbothered

[brittle bridge]

it’s got a tiny fence

but yeah uncontrolled

[lavish ember]

my old local was "fenced" where it mattered

which was just wherever the usfs wanted it

[brittle bridge]

Gate by the small terminal building is wide open

not even locked

I could go walk on the ramp rn at 8:30pm

[lavish ember]

at least you had a gate

all i had to deal with was one slightly smaller than average curb

i miss the access dearly lol

[wary wren]

what happened

[lavish ember]

i moved

[wary wren]

that'll do it

[lavish ember]

BJC gets kinda close but only in proximity not access

its almost airside but there's still a low fence so oh well

[delicate silo]

Does bjc get much cool stuff?

[lavish ember]

it can

sometimes

it'll get the odd transit military jet every couple weeks or so

its also sometimes the staging point for cu boulder football game flyovers

and its also the big northern ish colorado tanker base for firefighting

but most days its just "poor" rich people who couldnt afford to fly into downtown denver

[delicate silo]

Yeah

[delicate silo]

Lol

[lavish ember]

JSX just ended their service at bjc and moved to apa so its basically just ga now

oh and it's ass for spotting

[delicate silo]

I heard

[lavish ember]

and for better we haven't had a bad fire season in eastern co so no tankers here

the springs got a ton but thats the springs and i'm not driving down there

[delicate silo]

Real

[lavish ember]

i got one good fire season out of bjc tho so i'm happy enough

[dusk spindle]

Lower the shutter dont be scared

[delicate silo]

Im scared

[dusk spindle]

Dont be

Practice

[delicate silo]

https://tenor.com/view/nail-biter-nervous-anxious-nervoso-gif-4628770

[lavish ember]

boo 1/40

[delicate silo]

P- pa- ppaar- practice?

[dusk spindle]

Coulson livery are unmatched

[delicate silo]

P2W > Practice

[brisk hinge]

is that fire?

[lavish ember]

no thats a plane

yeah it is

[lavish ember]

old coulson was peak, idk why

but thats just

so good

[delicate silo]

Fire

Livery

[lavish ember]

the new livery is great but not as good

[delicate silo]

Meh

[lavish ember]

now the coulson leads

in black?

thats good

exceptional

[calm reef]

Am scared

[dark hare]

this fr

not real yet

[calm reef]

Nice pictid

Pic

[dark hare]

saskatchewan ordered those thingies

conair livery but greeen

oh damn nvm

they do exist now

[lavish ember]

oh thats so much worse

i like the green but not that far

[dark hare]

does everyone just use this livery

i think the french have it too

[lavish ember]

aren't those conair leases

[dark hare]

probably

[lavish ember]

the other securite civile livery is better

and original

i think

[dark hare]

im most likely gonna be airside ish at abbotsford on oct 12 for cadets gliding again

[dark hare]

yum

[delicate silo]

Mcdonalds

[dark hare]

so maybe i can see the conairs

dunno if i should bring the z or the 5200

[lavish ember]

5ii

[dark hare]

fr

[lavish ember]

i need to go get some gliders

[uneven fog]

Flying the citation for them would be so sick

Basically doing low levels all day without the rapidly changing cg

Vape vape vape vape vape

Nice special jump for Rob

[lavish ember]

i need more vape in my collection

don't have enough

[dark hare]

[delicate silo]

Vape? I don't know what that is

Lol

[lavish ember]

i think thats about the best i've done lmao

[uneven fog]

of all the shows I’ve had with my camera, I’ve probably seen more vape shows than regular

I just want a shockwave shot 💔

[lavish ember]

i've got commercial vape tho

[uneven fog]

love commercial vape

[uneven fog]

That’s nuts

when it’s moist out is usually the only time I’ll go to the airport when there’s nothing special coming

That or super strong winds

[calm reef]

Mmm mcdownlaods

[delicate silo]

I have one lol just not very sharp cause I was new

[delicate silo]

LUCKY

I was on a plane when we got vape but didnt have wjndow seat and the guy next to me was weird

Didn't want to ask

[lavish ember]

also colorado is just too hot and high for good vape

[dense totem]

i never ended up finishing the edit on this one but whatever

🔥

very real afterburner

[lavish ember]

oh actually ig the show in GJT was good enough for some vape

[sage cape]

Don’t they use king airs for that more

And the citations are firescan

[dark hare]

i think citations are air attack command or something

idk what plane this photo was taken from

the best aerial firefighting planes though

the mars!!

[delicate silo]

Firee

[delicate silo]

Why is it white

[calm reef]

idk tbh

first time using lightroom

and am poor so I use mobile version

[uneven fog]

Mobile version can still fix that one

[calm reef]

ok

this my first day of using lightroom and figuring out stuff any tips?

[uneven fog]

@brittle bridge

Wait who tf is the Aussie in this chat

@sage cape

[brittle bridge]

What

[rocky coyote]

What about me?

[sage cape]

yeh it should be mint I can’t wait for them to do it at Richmond Airshow later this month

[delicate silo]

🤑 🤑

[dark hare]

Aint this that guy that does a bunch of cgi flypasts in blender

[dense totem]

It's in blender

I saw that too lmao

[raven turtle]

https://www.instagram.com/p/DOcG2hQEbR9/?img_index=2&igsh=Z3N3bmtqYnNwcHN0

Instagram

thoughts on these?

[uneven fog]

Lmao is it

I saw another angle

[delicate silo]

Thats what I assumed it was once i realized it wasn't real

AI isn't that good yet

[dense totem]

Pretty sure

[calm reef]

is this better llama bannana

[brisk hinge]

a little

[delicate silo]

Now plane dark

Use masks

[brisk hinge]

C17 demo east and thunderbirds are flying over(?) DC today

[uneven fog]

Andrews

airshow is this weekend

probably just a regular practice

[brisk hinge]

yeah

[thorny warren]

Been traveling about 3 hours half way across my country for an airshow im still not even there 😭

[dark hare]

What show

[thorny warren]

Sanicole

Left at 6:20am

Currently 10:28

30 minutes to go

[dusk spindle]

And you’re complaining?

Yikes

[thorny warren]

Yes i am 💔

Waking up at 5:40 isnt fun gng

[dusk spindle]

I’d kill for an airshow 3 hours away from me

[thorny warren]

Then traveling for 5 hours totally

[thorny warren]

Oh but its not from my house itself its 6 hours away

[dusk spindle]

5:40 isnt even that bad..😭

[thorny warren]

Im staying at a friends which makes it 4h

[thorny warren]

💔😭

[dusk spindle]

I drove 11 hours for an airshow back in May

[dark hare]

guh what

Ive got a bunch of airshows that are like within 4 hours of me

Comox, Abbotsford, Boundary Bay, Chllliwack,

then theres the festival of lights where theres an airshow performance too

Last year we got the redbull plane

This year we got the snowbirds

Then theres other events like airport day at pitt meadows or air fair at langley airport

Air fair is running for the first time and its today but i cant go

[thorny warren]

Theres a difference in driving and having to hop between 6 busses

[dusk spindle]

Id prefer the buses ngl

Cant doom scroll while driving legally

[uneven fog]

Idk I have lane assist and cruise control

Is it legal

No

Is it safe

Almost.

@dusk spindle @flint smelt and any other 100-500 users, what stabilizer mode is best for just regular shooting and maybe some pans. Also which focus limiter setting should I be running? Probably not full?

[delicate silo]

I usally wake up earlier for airshows that are closer lol

[flint smelt]

Mode 2 is best for panning I believe, and for regular I use mode 1

[dusk spindle]

What he said

[uneven fog]

Thanks fellas

[dense totem]

Depends on how close you are but def not full

Cause then it's racking the entire focus system if it starts hunting

[sage cape]

7 hours public transport up to an airbase only for ops to be cancelled for literally zero reason and to get two trainer jets 💔💔

[brisk hinge]

going to do a bit of promotion, i mentioned this a week or so ago but someone close to me has written a book about the people that run the flight deck on US aircraft carriers. It’s a coffee table book, with lots of stories and information but also so many incredible pictures. It’s available to order online, but he’ll also be at Oceana next weekend with copies for sale there!

https://lifeontheflightdeck.com/

[uneven fog]

Oceana can’t come soon enough

[brisk hinge]

real

i’m excited

[uneven fog]

Yup

I haven’t even been waiting that long either

Booked my trip in Feb

[brisk hinge]

been waiting since i left the base last year

[uneven fog]

I’m sure that’ll be my case at the end of this year

[brisk hinge]

yep

[uneven fog]

hoping for a cod static

might go to chambers on Thursday and just pray I get one

[brisk hinge]

can we petition adobe to remove the texture, clarity, and dehaze sliders

[viscid elbow]

Why?

[wary wren]

Because people abuse them

I have a better idea

The sliders are put behind a wall that you have to breach by sending Adobe some photos to prove you don’t molest your images in their editor

[brisk hinge]

yes

[brisk hinge]

because of the above example

it’s actually gross

[dusk spindle]

should i go

[brisk hinge]

yes

absolutely

[dark hare]

i miss demo cf18

the liveries were so nice

[brisk hinge]

yeah

got to see tango twice last year

[dark hare]

woa

[dusk spindle]

Hmm maybe

[brisk hinge]

yes

do it

[delicate silo]

Agreed

[delicate silo]

Limit them to 50 texthrr
20 dehaze and 15 clarity

[uneven fog]

Cross off smoke n thunder jet truck and it’s an insane show

So excited for the AirPower demo

[delicate silo]

Corsair?

[uneven fog]

All of the navy legacy flights got cut for this year

[delicate silo]

Fr??

Y

[uneven fog]

Funding

[delicate silo]

Bruh

Glad I saw em

[uneven fog]

Pretty sure they will be back for 26

[brisk hinge]

i’m so excited

[uneven fog]

iPod touch 4

[brisk hinge]

yes

[uneven fog]

Are you in the briefs for Oceana

[brittle bridge]

Oh god

fire pic from this guy

[brisk hinge]

yep

[brittle bridge]

why do these pics look straight off an iphone

[delicate silo]

Which

[brittle bridge]

They just look so unbelievably soft

[delicate silo]

I agree

Could be export settings or just user error

[brittle bridge]

Or both

[delicate silo]

Yeah

[brittle bridge]

Lowk think this guy uses t7 and 75-300 and crops really tight

[delicate silo]

Is t7 mirroless?

I know nothing about other brands

[dark hare]

Dslr

[delicate silo]

Ah

[brittle bridge]

Bro

[delicate silo]

Definitely user error then

[brittle bridge]

How do you not know what a t7 is

[dark hare]

Funny canon dslr that like every modern spotter starts with

[brittle bridge]

[delicate silo]

Bro i know nothing about other brands

Like literally zero

[brittle bridge]

💀

[delicate silo]

Less than I know about commercial aviation which is nearly zero

[brittle bridge]

Most brainwashed d750 user

[delicate silo]

I researched some other top brands cameras quickly reqlized they suck compared to z8 and didnt care about em

[dark hare]

I see this guy in Facebook who uses the z5ii and his shots are lwk like

What the guh am i witnessing

[brittle bridge]

Just get a Z6iii

[delicate silo]

I want blackoutless