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CH 47 jump Sicily DZ Fort Bragg Sept 26 2018

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

Originally Posted by LouisB

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.

Had to crop this one a little odd for reasons, but thought it was neat to catch the shock wave of 1,600 pounds of C4 explosive going off.

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

Yeah, Im still standing.

Glad you are around.

Lawson Alcock preps for the round one bell in the second match at Sports USA on Fort Bragg.

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.

Air Assault School Aircraft rappelling day June 20 2018

Artist Ivan Pineiro in his studio Oct 15 2018

Maj. Gen. James J. Mingus. Takes Command of the 82nd Airborne Division

Lt. Gen. Paul J. LaCamera, Commanding General, XVIII Abn. Corps,

Mott Lake

Fort Bragg aerial gunnery range

Iron Mike, at the Airborne and Special Operations Museum, Dawn March 25 2018

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.

Originally Posted by Bob_B257

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

100 year old Veteran Hubert Edwards visits 2-319th Airborne Field Artillery Regiment at Fort Bragg. With the 17th Field Artillery Battalion in WWII he was overseas for 37 months. He had over 660 combat days.

Jukari Davis former Air Force captain and member of the Navajo Nation preforms at the Fort Bragg National Native American Indian Heritage Month

You might have seen this one on the news.

A Humvee from a C-17 fell short into a rural area in Harnett County during a routine heavy drop exercise. There were no injuries nor damage to residential property.
Thanks to all those who worked with us to recover the equipment.
Watch the video for on the scene coverage

BOSS Thanksgiving meal, Iron Mike Center 11 14 2018

Artist Ivan Pinelro in his studio Oct 15 2018

Herschel Walker visits the Heavy drop rigging facility Feb 20 2018

Tom Watson gives golf lessons at Ryder golf course Fort Bragg April 28 2017

Chase Rice performs at the Fort Bragg July 4th 2017 Celebration

Jay Cutler, four times MR. Olympia, visits fans at the Fort Brag

Gary Sinise and the Lt. Dan Band at Fort Bragg March 4 2017.

Billy Currington 15 May 2015

Jimmie Johnson visits the 5th Squadron, 73rd Cavalry Regiment, Fort Bragg.

Darius Rucker on Fort Bragg Oct. 11

Lou Ferrigno HULK South Post Commissary Oct 20 2017

98-year-old retired Navy chief warrant officer, Roy “Swede” Boreen, was on the USS Oklahoma On Dec 7 1941. He lost 141 of his shipmates. We interviewed him last week.

He’s Dead Jim.

After 6 years and about 200,000 shutter actuations, the D800 has given up.
This was one of the last frames.

I have taken it up in C-130 cargo aircraft and Blackhawk helicopters, it has been slightly dunked in the Atlantic, several rivers and lakes. Water sprayed while in boats at Special Forces water jumps, or on charity event fishing boats on Jordan Lake.Been out in three hurricanes,and sandblasted by prop wash. It has been rattled while standing near a firing 155mm Howitzer, 105mm Howitzer, live fire ranges, Carl Gustavs, and 1600 pounds of C4 plastic explosive. Walked for miles and miles, dropped a few times, photographed countless sporting events and cute little kids.
It gave it’s all.

Nikon you build a good camera.

The First Lady of the United States, The Second Lady of the United States, and The Secretary of the Army Visit Fort Bragg April 15 2019.

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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.

Originally Posted by ChrisF

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!!

The First Lady of the United States...the Army Visit Fort Bragg April 15 2019. by .com/photos/fortbraggparaglide/]Fort Bragg, NC Paraglide, on [bleep]

Dr. Zev Harel, Holocaust survivor of Auschwitz, Mauthausen and Edensee camps,
and keynote speaker at the USAJFKSWCS Special Observance Tuesday, reflected on
events that occurred before and during the time he was imprisoned in the camps.