Too close for comfort! (photo attached)

[craichead 0]

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The neat thing about this photo is the low timer / whuffo will have NO IDEA why we've put so much thought into what appears to simply be "a cool shot".

Hey now, just because someone doesn't have that many jumps (like me, a student) doesn't mean they're totally clueless to the significance of this shot. Totally clueless whuffo...yeah, more likely.
-P

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[dterrick 0]

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Common sayings at WFFC are "Whats a Cesnna?" The smallest plane there was Mullins King Air then an SDA Super Otter

...ah-huyk yuk yuk, whass a King Air?

Now that you mention it, makes sense to me. In the middle of nowhere with a 1- 182 DZ there is NO SUCH thing as 'air traffic' ... except when a 1/2 dozen Air Cadet gliders and 2 tow planes are up circling the airfield and the water bombers (CL-215's) are off to fire fight somewhere.

Yet ANOTHER skill I'll learn when I make my Beer jumps from a non-182 in NoCal this winter.
Dave

Life is very short and there's no time for fussing and fighting my friend (Lennon/McCartney)

[hookitt 1]

[reply? The cameraman would've been hit by the bag only... Hardly enough to kill IMO.

[smooth 0]

The pictures are from "The Best Boogie Contines..." video. - Quincy '99. The whole sequence is shown. The jumper in question tracks towards the cameraman and dumps while tracking under him. The cameraman does a frontloop, I guess, and gets the shot as he's doing it. It still seemed pretty close however!

[koune 0]

Still no answer PhreeZone?

[PhreeZone 20]

Tom wrote me back today.

<< Its an image of a woman deploying and you can see the bag just starting to
lift off her back and the bridle is in the picture too. How was this image
captured? Were you really as close to the deploying rig as it seems or was
this a specially mounted camera or lens setup? >>

If this is a photo looking level at the jumper, yes it was taken that close,
even closer than it appears because I almost always use a wide angle lense
which actually makes things look farther away so you have to get even closer
to the subject.

If the shot was taken looking straight down towards an opening container it
was taken again even slightly closer to the subject than it appears and off
to the side slightly so as not to hit the jumper as the deplyong parachute
slows him/her down.

I did not have time to go look at exactly what photo you were talking about -
hope this helps.


Aloha,


Tom

Yesterday is history
And tomorrow is a mystery

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[f1freak 0]

Cool, mystery solved.....

HAVE FUN...
...JUST DONT DIE

[dterrick 0]

...Geez, all that speculation and it turns out that the photo was exactly was it appeared to be

Dave

Life is very short and there's no time for fussing and fighting my friend (Lennon/McCartney)

[Staso 0]

i saw the video from this jump on WFFC 2001 (2000 ?) tape. the guy on the picture was
in track and below the camera guy. he was tracking towards him and pull right below him.
he was slightly behind him when bag came out.

stan.

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