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Posted: **Mon Aug 15, 2005 11:42 pm**

I missed VP day in Canberra on the weekend but i saw some choppers parked in a park by the lake on late on Sunday night. I was on my way home from Sydney. I had been in Sydney hoping to take some shots of the city to surf (long story) so luckily i had my camera in the car.

Here are my results. Most are long exposures, working on contrasting shots and silhouettes. What do you think? Too noisy?

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Posted: **Tue Aug 16, 2005 12:20 am**

wow.

WW, amazing stuff.

Walked straight past those choppers on the way home, had hired security wandering around them (and being all rent-a-cop painful).

Noise - hardly worth worrying about. Looks fine to me. If anything, it adds to the images.

D.

Posted: **Tue Aug 16, 2005 12:23 am**

Certainly a different take to the rest of our images. I especially like 5 & 7.

Good Job! I didn't even think to see if they stayed overnight.

Tristan

Posted: **Tue Aug 16, 2005 12:29 am**

Glad to hear you liked them Daniel.

The rent a cop was a classic. I was leaning right up against one of the smaller helicopters at one stage trying to take a shot and he was busy rumaging through his lunch box. It was pretty late though. You cant be alert and alarmed 100% of the time. :lol:

Posted: **Tue Aug 16, 2005 12:31 am**

ozonejunkie wrote:Certainly a different take to the rest of our images. I especially like 5 & 7.

Good Job! I didn't even think to see if they stayed overnight.

Tristan

He he - i never have much say in the shots i could take Tristan. To tell you the truth - I was stoked to see something there left to photograph. Im very impressed by some of the other more classic VP shots on offer on the forum.

Posted: **Tue Aug 16, 2005 12:36 am**

Those shots are amazing, I too didnt think to have a looksy later on that evening.. I guess with the Canberra residents so "sensitive" about noise they had to stay put.

I think a few people would have had the shock of they're life with 2 f-111's running around hehe

Chris

Posted: **Tue Aug 16, 2005 10:35 am**

G'day WW,
I really like the feel of the first image, has a very foreboding, moody feel... Might be worth cloning out the wires and the lights (from buildings?) on the right hand side...

One question, why ISO640?

Posted: **Tue Aug 16, 2005 10:50 am**

love the first shot for its backlighting and the 4th for the abstractness. The rivets are..um..err...rivetting. Sorry.

Andy

Posted: **Tue Aug 16, 2005 11:52 am**

Great collection of shots, and provides a very different perspective to the daytime shots else where.

I liked shot 1, and 4 the most not exactly sure why.

Posted: **Tue Aug 16, 2005 11:35 pm**

mudder wrote:G'day WW,
I really like the feel of the first image, has a very foreboding, moody feel... Might be worth cloning out the wires and the lights (from buildings?) on the right hand side...

One question, why ISO640?

Andrew - ISO was up that high because im a bit of a duffer and pushed it up a little because it was "dark". I think something around 400 would have been sufficient.

Glad you liked the first shot. Here is another one in a similar vein.

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Posted: **Tue Aug 16, 2005 11:38 pm**

atencati wrote:love the first shot for its backlighting and the 4th for the abstractness. The rivets are..um..err...rivetting. Sorry.

Andy

Andy - You pun with the best of them.

Do you like the rivets in this shot?

[img]http://www.fototime.com/{6584879B-A80D-41F8-8CD6-2DECDC0BC82E}/picture.JPG[/img]

Posted: **Tue Aug 16, 2005 11:43 pm**

Willy wombat
These are seriously wonderful images. Excellent composition and you have handled the exposure/lighting spot on. Very dramatic and creative. Go to the top of the class!

Posted: **Tue Aug 16, 2005 11:47 pm**

atencati wrote:love the first shot for its backlighting and the 4th for the abstractness. The rivets are..um..err...rivetting. Sorry.

Andy

Yep, good old "Made in the USA" rivets :lol:

Last time I checked we were still getting our military hardware from you guys (as well as our foreign policy :lol:

) BTW, The Chinook in the first pic is my favourite...

Posted: **Tue Aug 16, 2005 11:48 pm**

Matt. K wrote:Willy wombat
These are seriously wonderful images. Excellent composition and you have handled the exposure/lighting spot on. Very dramatic and creative. Go to the top of the class!

Cheers Matt. I had a whole lot of creativity left over after my less than spectacular city to surf experience in Sydney that morning. I had also consumed one of those horrible sickly sweet energy cans during the drive back to Canberra - which i must admit had me buzzing.

Posted: **Wed Aug 17, 2005 6:40 pm**

Willy
Is that the energy drink that turns a cockroach into a leopard tank? Maybe it can turn photographers into Richard Avedons and Bob Cappa's? :lol:

Posted: **Wed Aug 17, 2005 6:47 pm**

Great shots... but I find the frame quite distracting...

Posted: **Wed Aug 17, 2005 7:59 pm**

MHD wrote:Great shots... but I find the frame quite distracting...

MHD - would you please expand on why it is distracting to you?

Posted: **Wed Aug 17, 2005 8:03 pm**

Matt. K wrote:Willy
Is that the energy drink that turns a cockroach into a leopard tank? Maybe it can turn photographers into Richard Avedons and Bob Cappa's?

If only - That would be very cool Matt. :wink:

Perhaps i will have to start a thread on stimulants prefered by forum members?

Posted: **Wed Aug 17, 2005 8:27 pm**

Tremendous images 'Willy'. You have mangaed to create great mood and interest using tight cropping and impressive backlighting.
marco

Posted: **Wed Aug 17, 2005 8:31 pm**

All of these shots look great as far as I'm converned, as somebody mentioend above, I think the slight noise adds to the shots. Favourite shots #3 & #4.

Sihouettes have something very specail about them. Great work mate.

Cyrus

Posted: **Wed Aug 17, 2005 10:03 pm**

MHD wrote:Great shots... but I find the frame quite distracting...

I was actually thinking what a great idea the frames were... also thinking about stealing the idea :wink:

All the shots have such a great feel to them... Pity about the fence in some of them but what can you do

Cheers,
W00DY

Posted: **Wed Aug 17, 2005 10:40 pm**

W00DY wrote:
MHD wrote:Great shots... but I find the frame quite distracting...

I was actually thinking what a great idea the frames were... also thinking about stealing the idea

All the shots have such a great feel to them... Pity about the fence in some of them but what can you do

Cheers,
W00DY

HA - the security guard may have snapped out of his relaxed recline if I had started mucking around with the fences surrounding the expensive helicopters :lol:

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Thanks for the feedback Woody

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