*** July 2024 Image and Video Thread ***

[PJD]

Someday soon (this Friday I hope), when it's not 104F here, I plan to shoot photos & video of picturesque landscapes, etc. In the meantime, here's my video from 2016 which gives an idea of some of the subjects I enjoy shooting, including locations recently posted here by very talented folks.

 

[Oíche]

Wow fantastic video and even the music is good.

 

[Pete_W]

Someday soon (this Friday I hope), when it's not 104F here, I plan to shoot photos & video of picturesque landscapes, etc. In the meantime, here's my video from 2016 which gives an idea of some of the subjects I enjoy shooting, including locations recently posted here by very talented folks.

Wow, really great Peter! You covered a bit of geography there! Loved the steam locomotive too.

 

[CharlesH]

Someday soon (this Friday I hope), when it's not 104F here, I plan to shoot photos & video of picturesque landscapes, etc.

Good stuff Peter. I saw somewhere in Oregon, NYC, DC, Sydney, Blue Mountains, Cairns, and I don't know what they were picking, and a train I don't know where. The five seconds per clip and music are about right.

 

[PJD]

Good stuff Peter. I saw somewhere in Oregon, NYC, DC, Sydney, Blue Mountains, Cairns, and I don't know what they were picking, and a train I don't know where. The five seconds per clip and music are about right.

Thanks everyone. Glad you like my video. It was shot over the course of a few years using various cameras. Charles correctly identified most of the locations.

Specifically, the opening scene with the close-ups of masonry & large trees is in hilly Washington Park in Portland, OR (camera: Blackmagic "Production Camera 4K"). The waterfalls are just a few of the giant falls in Silver Falls State Park (one of my favorite places), about a 30 minute drive east of Salem, OR (BMPC4K). Then Haystack Rock on the coast at Cannon Beach, OR, and the crashing surf & rocky shoreline near Depoe Bay, OR (BMPC4K). Then of course Times Square and other NYC sights (BMPC4K). Followed by landmarks in Washington, DC (BMPC4K). Then a "quick" cruise to Sydney, Australia and nearby Blue Mtns., the train from Cairns to Kuranda & the aerial tram (Panasonic GH3). Then a berry fruit farm in Pasco, WA (BMPC4K). And ending with the Christmastime "Holiday Train" in Portland, OR (BMPC4K).

It's an admittedly odd collection of clips. It came about because, on a whim, in 2016 I attended a video class at a local community college. They used Adobe Premiere, which I hadn't used for many years. We could either use "canned" clips provided by the instructor, or our own. So I grabbed a bunch of clips I'd shot the previous few years and this was the result. I would have much preferred editing it in Davinci Resolve, my usual software, but the course didn't allow it, and we had to do the edit in 1080p regardless of the source material.

Since most of footage was shot in 4K with the BMPC4K, I really should do a new edit in 4K with more of that footage; there's a lot more cool 4K footage in my archive from those excursions. For example, a bit more of the NYC footage can be seen in 4K here: https://vimeo.com/user157457723

 

[Travis Butler]

Someday soon (this Friday I hope), when it's not 104F here, I plan to shoot photos & video of picturesque landscapes, etc. In the meantime, here's my video from 2016 which gives an idea of some of the subjects I enjoy shooting, including locations recently posted here by very talented folks.

Some really nice segments in there! I especially liked the waterfalls and the steam engines, the NYC sights and Sydney Harbor.

 

[Travis Butler]

20240623-SDIM1920 by Travis Butler, on Flickr

Last major stop, National Air & Space Museum. Lots of stuff I love, but very hard to shoot.


20240623-SDIM1677 by Travis Butler, on Flickr

Love that they put the Enterprise shooting model in the lobby; unfortunately, lighting caused lots of reflections when trying to shoot the 'primary' side of the model. This is the side that never got shown in full, so it's where they ran all the lighting wiring. They only turn the lights on for 5 minutes every hour; I'm guessing to keep the light bulbs lasting longer? Half the museum is currently under renovation, and you can see some of the plastic tarps in the background.


20240623-SDIM1819 by Travis Butler, on Flickr

The main hall, or at least the one that's currently open. I admit, I don't get some of the presentation choices. Having so many planes hanging there is more of a problem for photographers than viewers... but why, in Ghu's name, would you silhouette them against the all-window wall? That's bad for both photographers and viewers. They should have put the second-floor viewing walkway along the glass wall, so you're looking at the planes with the light coming from behind and illuminating them, instead of trying to see the planes while staring into the light.


20240623-SDIM1820 by Travis Butler, on Flickr

The Boeing 247, arguably the first "true" airliner, with a streamlined fuselage and sealed/furnished cabin. It was quickly overshadowed by the famous DC-3 (above/below), but it was the trailblazer.


20240623-SDIM1690 by Travis Butler, on Flickr


20240623-SDIM1698 by Travis Butler, on Flickr

Took a lot of pics of the 247 because it's pretty hard to find. DC-3's aren't that hard to find - I've even seen a couple sitting in the field by a small airport - but there's only 4 247's remaining in the world, according to Wikipedia.


20240623-SDIM1711 by Travis Butler, on Flickr


20240623-SDIM1727 by Travis Butler, on Flickr

This one was fun; I remember when these insurance kiosks were still fairly common at airports, but this is a pretty primitive ancestor of the ones I knew.


20240623-SDIM1756 by Travis Butler, on Flickr

What Air & Space Museum would be complete without an X-Wing?


20240623-SDIM1740 by Travis Butler, on Flickr


20240623-SDIM1763 by Travis Butler, on Flickr


20240623-SDIM1768 by Travis Butler, on Flickr


20240623-SDIM1775 by Travis Butler, on Flickr

Columbia, the Command Module for Apollo 11


20240623-SDIM1787 by Travis Butler, on Flickr


20240623-SDIM1799 by Travis Butler, on Flickr

Voyager, arguably the most successful pair of space probes ever made. This is the second time I've seen a model, and each time it surprises me just how big it is, compared to my mental image.


20240623-SDIM1805 by Travis Butler, on Flickr


20240623-SDIM1834 by Travis Butler, on Flickr


20240623-SDIM1821 by Travis Butler, on Flickr

Another look at the main hall, to finish out this post; a few more coming in the last post.

 

[Pete_W]

Thanks Travis, some very cool stuff there! I love the Enterprise!

 

[xaviergut]

here's my video from 2016 which gives an idea of some of the subjects I enjoy shooting

Excellent, Peter, you nailed the composición in all the clips. And the dinamic music works very well. Very inspiring!!

 

[PJD]

Travis: Great to see your photos from inside the Air & Space Museum in Washington, DC! I've never seen it; spouses (plural) had divergent interests when we were in town, and spouses usually prevail. I might post a few of my photos taken inside the much smaller Evergreen Aviation & Space Museum in McMinnville, OR. Exhibits include Howard Hughes' "Spruce Goose" and other very cool air/space craft. https://www.evergreenmuseum.org/

 

[Markuswelder]

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20240619-SDIM1042 by Travis Butler, on Flickr

There's actually a really interesting story behind those Tucker cars. Very very advanced and innovative for their time, unfortunately killed before proper production began. Worth Googling and having a bit of a read up on.

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20240619-SDIM0943 by Travis Butler, on Flickr

My dear old Grandad actually worked for His Masters Voice, in New Zealand. Pretty sure he had a fair bit to do with recording in stereo, and the tooling for pressing the Vinyl records. I should have talked to him more about it while he was still alive, but when you're younger, these things don't seem as important as they do when you get on in years a bit yourself.
Just thought I'd mention it, after seeing that photo

 

[PJD]

Travis: Great to see your photos from inside the Air & Space Museum in Washington, DC! I've never seen it; spouses (plural) had divergent interests when we were in town, and spouses usually prevail. I might post a few of my photos taken inside the much smaller Evergreen Aviation & Space Museum in McMinnville, OR. Exhibits include Howard Hughes' "Spruce Goose" and other very cool air/space craft. https://www.evergreenmuseum.org/

These are very compressed frame grabs from 4K video shot at the Evergreen museum in 2014 with my Blackmagic "Production Camera 4K". It's difficult to compose an image in a museum like this because the exhibits tend to be "layered" on top/in front/behind each other. And, in the case of the gigantic Spruce Goose, I didn't have a wide enough lens! But very fun to be there.

 

[Travis Butler]

My dear old Grandad actually worked for His Masters Voice, in New Zealand. Pretty sure he had a fair bit to do with recording in stereo, and the tooling for pressing the Vinyl records. I should have talked to him more about it while he was still alive, but when you're younger, these things don't seem as important as they do when you get on in years a bit yourself.
Just thought I'd mention it, after seeing that photo

Yeah, I know how that goes. ;_; Still a cool bit of family history; both my grandparents were farmers, so nothing really exciting there.

That story reminds me, one pic I didn't post from the Museum of American History:


20240619-SDIM1004 by Travis Butler, on Flickr

The workshop of Ralph Baer -


20240619-SDIM1006 by Travis Butler, on Flickr

- inventor of the first home video game.

 

[Travis Butler]

These are very compressed frame grabs from 4K video shot at the Evergreen museum in 2014 with my Blackmagic "Production Camera 4K". It's difficult to compose an image in a museum like this because the exhibits tend to be "layered" on top/in front/behind each other. And, in the case of the gigantic Spruce Goose, I didn't have a wide enough lens! But very fun to be there.

Oh, very nice! I'd love to see the Spruce Goose someday. It's one of those planes that seems too big to be real.

The worst one I've ever run into that way is the B-36 at the Strategic Air & Space Museum near Omaha, NE.

 

[CharlesH]

In the "small world" category, about the Brown Box invention of Ralph Baer, the text says it was licensed to Sanders Associates Inc. I knew the founder of Sanders Associates, Royden C. Sanders. Roy was a prolific inventor, mostly around national defense technology, and the company was well regarded in that field. I didn't know he had licensed the Brown Box, but it is very much like Roy, and I spent quite a bit of time with him discussing other non-defense related technologies. He passed away in 2007, one of America's great minds.

 

[Travis Butler]

Last set of pics from National Air & Space:


20240623-SDIM1857 by Travis Butler, on Flickr

The astronaut's ride! During the Apollo program, at least, the T-38 Talon was like the 'company car' for NASA's astronaut crew; in addition to giving them a quick and easy way to shuttle between NASA HQ in Houston, Kennedy Space Center, and other NASA centers, they were also a way for them to keep their flight hours up and stay in practice.

(The Kansas Cosmosphere also has one in their main lobby, this one actually in NASA colors:


20230709-P1011552 by Travis Butler, on Flickr )


20240623-SDIM1859 by Travis Butler, on Flickr

The one that set the pattern. The LearJet 23 created the market for small, fast jet transports; I love the original's lines most of all, and it doesn't hurt that they're headquartered in Wichita.


20240623-SDIM1865 by Travis Butler, on Flickr

...for an aircraft lauded as built for safety, maybe showing it diving into the ground isn't reinforcing that message? ^^;;


20240623-SDIM1871 by Travis Butler, on Flickr

Loved seeing this one - two out of the three are Wichita's favorite sons, showing the long and deep history it has with aviation. Unfortunately, while the Kansas Aviation Museum in Wichita has a lot more information on them, they can't match the Smithsonian's production values.


20240623-SDIM1873 by Travis Butler, on Flickr

One of the classic personal airplanes of all time, the Cessna 180.


20240623-SDIM1879 by Travis Butler, on Flickr

If you've been to an airshow from 2010-2018, there's a good chance you've seen the Challenger III; I've seen it at least three times before now.


20150822-P1270707.jpg by Travis Butler, on Flickr (From the 2015 airshow at the Downtown Airport, Kansas City.)


20240623-SDIM1882 by Travis Butler, on Flickr

While the main hall had the big planes; things like the Apollo artifacts, planetary probes, communications satellites, the Wright Flyer, etc. had their own galleries. This one, "We All Fly", is dedicated to personal/individual aviation.


20240623-SDIM1885 by Travis Butler, on Flickr


20240623-SDIM1886 by Travis Butler, on Flickr

Which brings us to Ultralights - planes that can be flown in the US without a pilot's license, although with pretty strict limits on performance and altitude.


20240623-SDIM1893 by Travis Butler, on Flickr

The Air & Space goes all-out on the Wright Brothers, the Wright Flyer, and the development of the first powered flight.


20240623-SDIM1895 by Travis Butler, on Flickr


20240623-SDIM1905 by Travis Butler, on Flickr


20240623-SDIM1907 by Travis Butler, on Flickr


20240623-SDIM1910 by Travis Butler, on Flickr

And we'll close with another look at the sculpture outside NASM:


20240623-SDIM1921 by Travis Butler, on Flickr

Hope everyone's enjoyed the DC tour! (The full set of pics is up at https://flic.kr/s/aHBqjBvJm4 .)

 

[Oíche]

Sorry from June... Automatic exclusion but I haven't been out.

An unslaughtered lamb suckling but surely not from this year? The lambs further up were smaller. Photography can make us slow down and consider such things you might not think about.

• Panasonic - DC-S5M2
• LUMIX S 24-105/F4
• 105.0 mm
• ƒ/9
• 1/50 sec
• Other
• ISO 100

 

[Oíche]

This may appeal to RuleOfThirds?

• Panasonic - DC-S5M2
• LUMIX S 24-105/F4
• 105.0 mm
• ƒ/16
• 1/200 sec
• Other
• ISO 400

• Panasonic - DC-S5M2
• LUMIX S 24-105/F4
• 105.0 mm
• ƒ/16
• 1/200 sec
• Other
• ISO 400

 

[Oíche]

I was thinking of dividing these into 3 then selling as a limited set of canvas, maybe 10,000 or so? Only joking

 

[Oíche]

24mm on FF, IMO this is really pushing it on UWA, only closer subjects need wider. For landscapes is it almost too wide but hats off to the 24-105 which is fantastic.

• Panasonic - DC-S5M2
• LUMIX S 24-105/F4
• 24.0 mm
• ƒ/11
• 1/60 sec
• Other
• 1
• ISO 400