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How does this new chute design handle compared to old round one?

Cant say, I don't jump them, I just take photos.

That day every guy I talked to said it was the best jump he ever made. Walk out of back and float down. There was no wind, just perfect.

Well there was the one guy who landed in the new 12 inch lake the hurricane left on the DZ.

The legend lives on......nice to see ya Lewis!

Yeah, Im still standing.

Glad you are around.

SGT Aaron Geer, right, of the 1 508th Airborne had “Rock” Merritt autograph a commemorative bayonet engraved with the 508th Airborne insignia. Corporal Merritt jumped in on D Day and again in operation Market Garden.

Mott Lake




Fort Bragg aerial gunnery range

Great Shots,
the low light boxing photos are very well done. What set up did you use to capture and freeze the movement of that in the low light.
Thanks for posting.

Bob part of that is 4 years of hounding the event location, Sports USA on Fort Bragg to fix the lights.

On my end down in the weeds,
Nikon D 800, 24-70 2.8 Nikon lens
f/5.0
1/250
ISO 2500.

The D800 is not the best low light camera, but the colors and tones are so good I use it over the D4s I also had with me.
settings are always a balancing act to get what you want. Luck on the timing helps as well.


if you want to see all the photos from that bout,

https://www.flickr.com/photos/fortbraggparaglide/albums/72157697272448762


Lewis

Those are great shots of the Event. Never would have thought 1/250 would stop the Jaw like that in a direct hit. It just shows that you have to get in the ring and take the photo to see what works.
Thanks for the reply and the link.

Bob

We had some rough weather this year.

From the Air,

Thanks for sharing.
Lewis Perkins, when I grow up I wanna be just like you. Great job on the color management! Are you doing anything special there? Expodisc? Gray Card? Please don't tell me AWB!

The D800 is really good on colors out of the camera.
I am limited on what corrections I can ethically make in photojournalism. Yeas some of us still have ethics.

Color correction I do in photoshop curves numerically. By using the numbers in the info block to read the color temperature of a neutral color on the photo I find one within a range and that is not more than 10 points different between R G B. then I zero out on that color, and it corrects everything.

That reads like voodoo but it takes me about a minute per photo to do, and I could show it to you in five minutes. Gannett once trained their photographers to correct like that. I dont know if they still do.

Second Lady of the U.S. Karen Pence

Very nice thanks for sharing

Sorry to hear the final curtain went down (pardon the pun) on your D800. Looks like you resisted the pull to go Sony. How's the D810 working out? Canon just d/c'd support for my 1D MkIV so I'm doubling down on trying to get a back up (don't need FF for everything). Did go through the mental process of switching to Sony (and Fuji) though.

The 800 was mine, the 810 belongs to the paper. I picked it up when the 800 died to go along with the D4.
I will have to buy another camera for myself. I still have not ruled out fixing the 800. Finances being what they are and the real threat that I may be out of work in a few weeks are keeping me reeled in.
If and when I start over with camera buying I may just jump into the mirrorless world.

Having that vet sign the bayonet-- too cool!
Well done!!

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