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Photo of the day: November 2011
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zagato beat me to the punch. Please forgive me for a double post. I had just posted the picture of the geese at one of the ponds in the National Mall in Washington DC when it dawned on me what today was (and me a veteran!). This is in memory of my father who fought in the Philippines during WWII and for all of those who serve or who have served to help keep us free. My father was at Leyte securing the beach for MacArthur's return. This photo was taken from the WWII Memorial in the Mall. Happy Veteran's Day. "Lest we forget."
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Lest we forget.
W.H.Norman. Great Uncle. KIA France WW1 Royal Newfoundland Regiment. Photo likely taken somewhere in Scotland.
W.H.Norman. Great Uncle. KIA France WW1 Royal Newfoundland Regiment. Photo likely taken somewhere in Scotland.
I really enjoy your village pictures at this time of year... it's what inspired me to get back into photography when I first saw them a couple of years ago.
Thank you...
The new baby...
Thank you...
The new baby...
Very nice. I like how you framed the people to the side instead of putting them in the center (centre
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Last night was my daughter's school dance recital. This is not my daughter, but it was one of the first that stood out to me.
Did you do any post production work here? Last time I tried to do something similar, the backlighting wasn't bright enough, and I couldn't get the dancer black while maintaining a background color.
I did some, but not a lot. The original JPEG from the camera doesn't look much different. The biggest post work I did was noise reduction, since I was shooting at ISO 6400. I did a bit of sharpening, contrast and levels adjustment, but that was the extent of it. Oh, and I cropped the bottom of a little bit to get rid of audience heads. Here's the original jpeg (resized to max size of 1200) if you want to compare.
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Phrasikleia: Great shot - love the colours!
Here is photo I took last night. This freight B747 is almost never leaving at scheduled time - so the only time to photograph it leaving is at night, meaning a tricky high speed panning shot with the plane doing about 180kts and rotating:
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Manual exposure, ISO20,000, 1/13sec, F/4.0, 350mm, 8:19PM.
The lights in the background are from Port Botany. Very little post processing applied, just a little bit of noise reduction and some sharpening, white balance correction. There is some vignetting, which I left because it gives the feeling of darkness.
Here is photo I took last night. This freight B747 is almost never leaving at scheduled time - so the only time to photograph it leaving is at night, meaning a tricky high speed panning shot with the plane doing about 180kts and rotating:
Manual exposure, ISO20,000, 1/13sec, F/4.0, 350mm, 8:19PM.
The lights in the background are from Port Botany. Very little post processing applied, just a little bit of noise reduction and some sharpening, white balance correction. There is some vignetting, which I left because it gives the feeling of darkness.
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That is awesome! Do you have any photos on airliners.net or jetphotos.net??Phrasikleia: Great shot - love the colours!
Here is photo I took last night. This freight B747 is almost never leaving at scheduled time - so the only time to photograph it leaving is at night, meaning a tricky high speed panning shot with the plane doing about 180kts and rotating:
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Manual exposure, ISO20,000, 1/13sec, F/4.0, 350mm, 8:19PM.
The lights in the background are from Port Botany. Very little post processing applied, just a little bit of noise reduction and some sharpening, white balance correction.
(nitpick)
The 1986 strike was the F-111F, not the C version (48th TFW, RAF Lakenheath, UK.) The C variant was an export model produced for Australia. The F versions all had Pave Tack laser guidance systems by that time. I went through High School at RAF Lakenheath and did a summer hire job one year at a maintenance hanger for the 492nd FS, and remember seeing one of the first-deployed Pave Tack systems on a bird in the hanger prior to the US acknowledging the system in-country. We had one of the capsules from an ejection in a corner of the hanger that we played around in when we were bored. The RAAF also had Pave Tack on almost half of their C models at the time.
The La Belle night club bombing happened just under a week before I left West Germany prior to my White House assignment in the Army. The attack on Libya was primarily in retaliation for that bombing. It was ordered due to intercepted communications from Libyan agents in East Germany.
I'm pretty-sure that there was a Squadron's worth of F-111F's on the mission, though I believe all three Squadrons in the Wing participated.
I'm not sure I'd call the Aardvark good-looking (it was the only aircraft in the US inventory without an official nickname.) The best that could be said was at least its not an F-4 or A-10!
Alerts during the summer months were fun, we'd sit out at the sand pits overlooking the base and watch the elephant walk as they lined them all up nose-to-tail and scrambled them all. During school months they were even better, because *no* teacher could talk over the sound of both afterburners lit up. and when the entire Wing launched it took a while!
Finally, I doubt that the Libyan's were menaced by the planes, as the ground attack profile of the F-111 was to "throw" the bombs at the target, they'd go in low guided by terrain following radar (TFR) and pull up sharply, then release the bombs. This allowed the aircraft to be turning away from the target immediately and meant that they didn't have to actually fly over the target to bomb it- avoiding gun-based anti-aircraft fire over the target. I still remember watching the Pave Tack propaganda film in JR ROTC in HS.
(/nitpick)
Paul
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