{"id":7808,"date":"2013-03-19T17:45:58","date_gmt":"2013-03-19T17:45:58","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/billfortney.com\/?p=7808"},"modified":"2013-03-20T00:23:37","modified_gmt":"2013-03-20T00:23:37","slug":"practice-practice-practice","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/billfortney.com\/?p=7808","title":{"rendered":"Practice, Practice, Practice!!!!!"},"content":{"rendered":"

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I’m learning a lot from the aviation shooters on St. Maarten!! \u00a0Shooting landing planes over the beach is just like shooting all action shots, it’s about; light, vantage point, focal length, and most of all, timing!!! \u00a0The light has been great, I’m learning from the locals the best vantage points, with the 14-24 and 80-400 (120-600 in DX), focal length is covered. \u00a0Now the hard part, timing!! \u00a0I’ve been practicing and I’m starting to get in the zone. \u00a0Below are some practice shots that are getting close!<\/span><\/p>\n

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Next assignment is to be on the beach looking up with the 14-24 when the KLM 747 comes in again Thursday. \u00a0Even landing these guys come in pretty fast, you have to be ready and work on your timing. \u00a0Below are some examples of beach work and practice sessions.<\/span><\/p>\n

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I had a great thing happen yesterday, one of the contestants, a lady about my age came over to the Gazebo to talk photography and she shared about her cancer experience, \u00a0and how it led her to a deeper walk in her faith, and made photography a lot more of a stress relieving outlet or her. \u00a0We were able to pray together, it was \u00a0precious moment! \u00a0When God is in charge ministry can happen every day, everywhere!!!<\/span><\/p>\n

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Blessings,<\/span><\/p>\n

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the pilgrim<\/span><\/p>\n

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Equipment notes: \u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

Top Shot of the 747 right over the beach, Nikon D7100 and 80-400 lens at 600mm, <\/span><\/p>\n

1\/200th of a second at f 8.<\/span><\/p>\n

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The last four shots are all with the D800 and Nikkor 14-24 wide angle zoom. \u00a0Most are at 1\/1,500th of a second at F11.<\/span><\/p>\n

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The Last Shot…….. \u00a0 no people, but a cool angle.<\/p>\n

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One more for Nick Coury, this is the beautiful bokeh I was telling you about, shot during dinner tonight:<\/p>\n

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I’m learning a lot from the aviation shooters on St. Maarten!! \u00a0Shooting landing planes over the beach is just like shooting all action shots, it’s about; light, vantage point, focal length, and most of all, timing!!! \u00a0The light has been great, I’m learning from the locals the best vantage points, with the 14-24 and 80-400 […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[3,10],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-7808","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-chronicles","category-learning"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/billfortney.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7808","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/billfortney.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/billfortney.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/billfortney.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/billfortney.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=7808"}],"version-history":[{"count":9,"href":"https:\/\/billfortney.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7808\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":7817,"href":"https:\/\/billfortney.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7808\/revisions\/7817"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/billfortney.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=7808"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/billfortney.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=7808"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/billfortney.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=7808"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}