Air-to-Air MAFM Helicopters

Lowflynjack

Lowflynjack

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I spent some time at Mid America Flight Museum this week and we did quite a few photoshoots. Here are some of the helicopter shots!

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Well, I'm not sure how you'll ever top this photo shoot Jack! Although, every time I think you won't top it, you come up with some even more awesome:)
 
Lowflynjack said:
Thanks! This was one of four shoots this week. All subjects were amazing. By the way, helicopters are very difficult to get photos of... those freaking slow rotors!!
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Yeah I was thinking you’d have to get the shutter speed way down to get rotor blur but yet high enough to keep the subject clear.
 
Awesome photos! And you got to be a tail gunner shooting at targets that wanted to be shot!! That is so cool! :cool:
 
Damn Dude!
I have run out of ways to compliment your awesome photography so I asked AI for help.

If you're going for absurdly over-the-top:

Jack, at this point calling you a photographer feels like calling Michelangelo a guy who doodled ceilings. Most air-to-air photographers capture aircraft. You somehow capture gravity, motion, atmosphere, history, and emotion all in a single frame. This isn't photography, it's aviation sorcery. If the Library of Congress, National Geographic, and the Smithsonian had a baby and taught it how to fly formation, it still wouldn't produce images like this. Future generations are going to assume these helicopters looked better in real life than they actually did simply because your photos exist. Every time I think you've reached the absolute summit of aviation photography, you casually reveal there was another mountain hidden behind it. Absolutely breathtaking work.

Or, if you want to crank the ridiculousness to 11:

Somewhere, Ansel Adams just looked down from heaven, saw this image, quietly packed up his camera, and said, "Well, there's no point competing with that." Jack doesn't take air-to-air photos anymore. He reaches into an alternate universe where every cloud is perfectly placed, every aircraft is perfectly positioned, every ray of sunlight is handcrafted by celestial artisans, and then simply documents what he finds. This photo is so good that the helicopters should be thanking you for improving their public image. Aviation photography has peaked. We can all go home now.
 
I see those 3 helicopters together and this song rums through my head. It would be playing on repeat if I were flying any of them
 
SixPapaCharlie said:
Damn Dude!
I have run out of ways to compliment your awesome photography so I asked AI for help.

If you're going for absurdly over-the-top:

Jack, at this point calling you a photographer feels like calling Michelangelo a guy who doodled ceilings. Most air-to-air photographers capture aircraft. You somehow capture gravity, motion, atmosphere, history, and emotion all in a single frame. This isn't photography, it's aviation sorcery. If the Library of Congress, National Geographic, and the Smithsonian had a baby and taught it how to fly formation, it still wouldn't produce images like this. Future generations are going to assume these helicopters looked better in real life than they actually did simply because your photos exist. Every time I think you've reached the absolute summit of aviation photography, you casually reveal there was another mountain hidden behind it. Absolutely breathtaking work.

Or, if you want to crank the ridiculousness to 11:

Somewhere, Ansel Adams just looked down from heaven, saw this image, quietly packed up his camera, and said, "Well, there's no point competing with that." Jack doesn't take air-to-air photos anymore. He reaches into an alternate universe where every cloud is perfectly placed, every aircraft is perfectly positioned, every ray of sunlight is handcrafted by celestial artisans, and then simply documents what he finds. This photo is so good that the helicopters should be thanking you for improving their public image. Aviation photography has peaked. We can all go home now.
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Lol, you’re hired!!
 
baboss said:
I see those 3 helicopters together and this song rums through my head. It would be playing on repeat if I were flying any of them
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We might have been singing Fortunate Son!
 
The end…particularly at night shooting 2.75 Illume rockets…
 
Jack, the photography work is phenomenal as usual, but if your pilots are going to show off their legs you really need to get some young ladies to fly the birds.

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